there is hope

All my tutorials for this term is finally over, what's left are my mid-sems next wk. And of course, it's time to START studying. AA project should not exist! Takes away the joy of the 2 wk break. Someone even said today that becoz of the proj, can't have class bbq during the break?? lol. I'm so gonna die for fot and cra ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Went for physio on monday and it was heat treatment, literally felt my back being bbq-ed! Took a long bus ride back on 100 to Serangoon interchange. Managed to catch up on my reading! Hmm just realised that I've been eating by myself in coffeeshops more often lately because i'm either to lazy to da-pao home, or too hungry, or too sick of the food at my hse coffeeshop already. But tat is about to change when my mom comes back next wk! Yay!

I'm going to the airport at least 5 times next month, tats really alot! When i was younger, going to the airport was super rare and like a big occasion. Nowadays, its normal... lol.

Oh i saw this ad at the bus stop a few weeks ago, and it left an impression on me...

Maggi Mee - Best enjoyed without guilt.

Isn't this so true when it comes to sin also? Everytime we sin, we don't want to feel guilty until it is over. Pleasure in sin is short lived. And what happens after we sin? How does God feel towards us? Let's take a look at the time when man first sinned..

Genesis 3
The Fall of Man
1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' "

4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?"

10 He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid."

11 And he said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"

12 The man said, "The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it."

13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?"
The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

14 So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this,
"Cursed are you above all the livestock
and all the wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.

15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring [a] and hers;
he will crush [b] your head,
and you will strike his heel."

16 To the woman he said,
"I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing;
with pain you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you."

17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,'
"Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat of it
all the days of your life.

18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.

19 By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return."

20 Adam [c] named his wife Eve, [d] because she would become the mother of all the living.

21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22 And the LORD God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." 23 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side [e] of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

"But even in that moment of separation in the garden, there was hope, as God the eternal Lover took the initiative to restore the estranged couple to fellowship. By means of a sacrifice, He tenderly, lovingly clothed them in the skins of animals and set in motion the events whereby man might ultimately be reunited with Him. And all the time, God never stopped loving, communicating, seeking, and initiating. Just as He never stops loving and seeking you and me." -taken from our journey May 27 Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Isn't that so true? So what should our response be? Every time we sin, think about how God feels, and how much He loves us to even pursue us back. God doesn't need us, He WANTS us. Thus, let us all work towards loving this King of mercy even more each day. Afterall, God our Creator desires our fellowship.