A Time for Everything

Title: A Time for Everything

Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Content:

It is so interesting that the wisest king in the history would write this.

The 8 verses simply emphasizes that everything has it's time and it's season. It seems so cool to acknowledge that each season, we need to do different things and to take our approach differently.

King Solomon said: 'There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.' (v1) To think about it, this is so true. Simply look out into the world and we witness the nature and the beautiful world that God has created. He made it so beautiful and pretty that each quarter of the year, so part in the world will experience each season of Summer, Spring, Autumn and Winter. Thinking about this further, at any same time, each part of the world would experience all the different seasons concurrently! How amazing is this!

I guess the important lesson that we can take away from here is that we must prepare ourselves for each different seasons. We ought to seek His will to know what is our next course of action in each phase of our spiritual life.

For instance, there will be times when we work extra hard to serve the Lord. This may be the time when He wants us to share what He has given us unselfishly. Then of course there is time when the Lord wants us to sit back and relax. This may be the times when He wants us to nourish ourselves with the Word of God or even attending some bible training course. This means a time when we spend more time to learn and strengthen our relationship with Him.

Think about this: if we keep giving away generously from our possession, even while we may be the richest person, we will eventually run out of possession if we don't find any means to replenish our possession. It is the same with spiritual blessings. We may teach and tell and do plenty of things in His ministry, BUT more importantly, God wants us to spend time with Him.

The time of retreating away from the business of the world to spend quiet, intimate and quality time with Him is very much essential. If we don't spend time with Him seeking His will, how do we know if He wants us to serve Him in which ministry at all? Moreover, importantly we seek God because God calls us to have a close relationship with Him, it is not just mainly because of His ministry, but rather that is our calling in life.

There is a time for everything... what is His will in your life at this time? Reflect and think in what season are you now? Are you

1) Still searching for His will?

2) Knowing His will but struggling to obey Him?

3) Persevering in His will and being encouraged while u are at it?

Whatever season we are in, it is so important to keep our eyes fixated onto Jesus the Author and Perfector of our Faith, when your eyes are on the right focus, your heart will also be focusing the right things. Also take heart and know that there are brothers and sisters as we journeyed along in life.

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in His love,

louis

Thank God for Mazda RX-8

Hmm..how should I describe this experience? It is at first thought appetizing, considering the fact that I could ever get the chance to drive a sports car. On second thoughts, slight disappointment and abeit impractical to own a RX-8. Disappointment because my hsemates and I initially had planned a wonderful day out with this new 'baby' of ours. We planned to go to Scarborough for seafood lunch, drive along the stretch of Logan Road since it is a long stretch to explore and go to Wellington Point & Cleveland to take pictures. At dusk, have dinner at this shabu shabu place called 'Antartic Circle' at Logan before starting the long night drive to Byron Bay to catch the sunrise before heading back in the early morning to Brisbane and return the car.

But atlas, the rental contract states that we only get 200 free kilometres on this RX-8 and any extra kilometres driven would cost 30 cents/km. Considering the fact that to and fro Byron Bay would take abt 500 kms, we decided not to go..Hence the impracticality of a sports car if anyone of you decide to rent one for a day trip like ours. A sedan would be more useful. :)

Our plan then switched to Springbrook National Park to see the 'Best of All Lookout' since Mark and Dave have not been there before. After lunch at Scarborough and lots of pictures taken with the RX-8, we headed for Springbrook. It was my turn to drive from Redcliffe to Springbrook. It was quite cool and awesome to be behind the wheel...to be honest..esp when 3rd gear can get you through the sharp mountain bends up to the national park.

Roughly around 6.30pm, we left Springbrook back for Brisbane. I was wondering where to go for dinner when Jonathan called me..Haha..call it good timing or what, in the end, Mark, Jon, Darren and me headed to Sunnybank's Melaya Corner for dinner. It was good fellowship as Mark got along quite well with the both of them. :) It was later to La Dolce Vita for some Italian Hot Chocolate (on Jon's recommendation) with George.

After the coffee session, Jon suggested that we go to a stretch of long road behind Indooroopilly to 'test run' the power of the car. Mark was behind the wheel first..Whoo..on first gear, the RX-8 could get you up to 64km/hr at 9000 revolutions/min. Second gear was abt 82km/hr plus if I am not wrong. The gist to obtain high speed for this car is to get it to maximum speed limit at each gear before shifting to the next gear.

When it was my turn, George took over from Jon on the front passenger seat and Darren behind the back seat. Hmm..somehow, knowing myself, I wasn't really that keen to drive since I know I can get carried away when adrenaline comes. But anyway, with some persuasion I took over the wheel. Looking back, I gave George quite a bit of a scare when I drove very fast along that road. As I went into the roundabout, I accelerated inside the bend. It was really a bad mistake as the car started to skid and I could see the car heading straight towards the signpost. By God's grace, I managed to pull the steering wheel back and avoided a potential costly accident. Of coz, I was shaken and shocked by that near incident. But thank God, nothing happened, no damage or whatsoever. And yeah, I have learnt a good lesson, that is never to accelerate inside a roundabout and will remember it. :)

All in all, it was a good experience to have driven a sports car at least once in my life. But hee, I would not recommend anyone to buy it for family purposes. It is better to get a proper sedan car which comes with a bigger boot to store your baby stroller and also a more spacious backseat to strap your toddler onto the safety seat. And what's more, it can seat more people comfortably. :P

P.S. Jon, no offence with the last paragraph. I wasn't meaning anything. :P

Mark, Dave & Me..


Posing in front of Morgan's Seafood at Scarborough Harbour


This picture of the sea behind the background can only be taken at Redcliffe

The RX-8 by itself.



Another view from the 'Best of All Lookout'


Monkeying around at Purling Brooks Fall Lookout Point


Purling Brooks Fall..



The exhilarating front view from the Best of All Lookout point


Mt Warning at the far background folks...Familiar??

A Good Holiday

Hello!

Yeah! Me am the first guest blogger here!

Me back in SG for nearly a week already. And I just came back from Bintan. My colleagues booked our company bungalow at the Bintan Lagoon Resort. Woah....when I checked the internet, the villa we stayed in costs $1200++ per night! Haha...never thought my company's bungalow is so nice one....and after 6 years, it's my first time there. Wasted lah! See the photos here.

I'm enjoying all the SG food...hokkien prawn mee, satay, curry puffs, kueh chap...just to name a few of the cravings I've fulfilled. More to come for sure..but must spread out the goodies, or else will put on alot of weight! Haha...

And it's been raining for the entire week (nearly)...Missed the rain back in QLD? Hee.....

(Eileen)

Lawn Bowl with the New & Ex-President

Today, a couple of us managed to try out the "ah pek" game of lawn bowling. hee... it’s actually pretty fun and requires certain level of skill in precision bowling. It's really not as easy as you thought it would be cos the bowl doesn't travel in a straight line . Both presidents love it. For $6 you actually get to bowl the entire day but we kinda started only in the late evening.

Makan at Hawken Drive

a quick lesson on lawn bowling

Demonstrations

Ready for a go...

We shall return.

Organizers

The 2 brains behind the beach farewell beach party.

Don Macsween Park/Beach

Yahoo we've arrived

Freezbie Challenge