Thursday, June 28th, 2007
I love life. I love love. I love everyone! I’m mad.
I honestly can’t believe it..another year has gone by,and I’m halfway through to getting my degree! All through this year I was wondering if I would be able to pass the subjects, and amazingly I have! I don’t need to come back a month earlier to resit!!! Woohooooo!! So many things have happened in these past 9 months. I still remember clearly some of the things that took place on the day we got to Birmingham!! There were times when it just seemed that time stood still and the day I’m going back to Malaysia will never ever come, but here we are, all of us have passed our second year as engineers,and life just seems so beautiful. I must say it wasn’t easy at all going through these 9 months, but the Lord has preserved me! =)
I realised that it was only these past 3 weeks after exams that I started to realise that Birmingham has become home. Not home, home. But home. I belong to it. WE belong to Birmingham. It’s sort of a trademark which brings us together. Just like how engineering has brought us together. My friends here have become FAMILY. I feel as if they are my brothers, and hopefully they think of me as a good sister too! Haha.
I have been really really enjoying these past 3 weeks. I don’t think I have ever felt so happy in my entire life. It’s as if I had no burdens whatsoever, and there were only good things to look forward to. We need to cherish such times. Most people would have been bored to death if they had been in my place. I think we’re all so used to complaining before exams start, during exams, and after exams. Everyday, there is something to complain about. But life IS beautiful after exams. Just think how hard you worked before your exams, and pulling through the exam period, and you will love your holidays more than ever.
Life is wonderful!! I do realise that this is only for now. Pretty soon I’ll be back here complaining about this that and the other. Yeah, I know that. Which is why I’m cherishing TODAY. Time to go to city~! Busy busy day today.
I just chatted with my secondary school friend on MSN, and I received a wonderful wonderful news! She told me that she has accepted Jesus Christ as her Saviour!!!! I was so happy for her that my tears nearly flowed out! From the way that she talks, I really can feel the difference in her, and the happiness that she feels now.Let me tell you something.. and that is that anyone who believes in Jesus Christ will surely feel a sort of joy which nothing else in this world can give you. Its a sort of feeling that you would never understand or believe until you feel it yourself.
I have friends who have heard of Jesus Christ, but they have never really taken the step of really finding out about Him. If you are someone like that, why not find out about Him today? I mean, there’s nothing wrong in knowing, am I right? It won’t do you any harm..and it might even change your life!
The reason why Christians have a special irreplaceable joy is because we know what would happen to us in eternity. Have you never wondered, what is going to happen to you when you pass away? Some people think that is the end, but is that really the truth? I can assure you that death is not the end. Do you really think that after your life, you just disappear and nothing happens after that?After death, there is eternity. And you would spend eternity either in heaven or hell. There are only 2 choices. And if someone offered you a free pass to heaven, would you still rather choose the opposite and to go to hell? I mean, its free! Just take it! I’m sure you knew ever since you were little that hell is not a nice place. That ‘person’ who is offering you the free pass to heaven now is Jesus Christ. The reason why I say its FREE is because you don’t need to DO anything, you don’t have to PAY for anything, and all you need to do is to BELIEVE.
You might ask, "How would you know that I’m going to hell? I’ve never done anything wrong, like killing someone, or stealing stuff, or anything like that!". But think about it, can you say that throughout your life, you have been PERFECT? That you have never once told a lie, that you have never had any bad thoughts about anyone? If you have, even small things like that, it is a flaw, it is a sin. And no matter what you do, you cannot do things to take that away from your ‘record’. And as it is written in the Bible, the punishment for sin is death. Not just death as in physically, but spiritual death. Which means eternity in hell. That’s how serious it is. Yes, even a small lie makes you imperfect.
And that is why God sent His Son Jesus Christ to die for us, to ’substitute’ us. That the punishment of death was passed from us to Him. The Son of God, died. But He rose again. He has the power to lay down His life, and He has the power to take it up again. Imagine, He chose to die for us, when He could easily have chosen NOT TO. However, if you do not believe in this, then you will still not be substituted, and you will have to take the responsibility of your sins when you die.
Just believe this.
That God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, Jesus Christ, to come into the world and to take the form of a human, to die on the cross of Calvary and to take our sins away.
Once you believe that, you will have the assurance that you will have a place in heaven. It’s that simple.
For all my friends who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, I’m sure you agree, right?