this life under the sun

I was in the middle of browsing seek.com.au when my phone ringing few hrs ago. Btw, in case you haven’t read my previous note, browsing seek.com.au is my full time day-and-night activity for the last 5-6months :p Browsing literally thousands of job descriptions at seek.com, saving potential jobs into my account, writing cover letters, addressing selection criteria, sending applications, collecting rejection letters (yes, I kept them in separate folder labeled “job unsuccessful”).
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I woke up this morning fully realise that today is the last day of June 2009.  Why is it so significant? because I quit St.George Bank in June 2008. Meaning I have been out of paid  job for 1 year!  How time flies..

I’ve not been writing as often as I used to. Due to many different reasons.  Somehow today I felt the urge to write again :p  how has my previous years gone by.  And boy,  what a ride it was!

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I went to city this arvo.  My routine half-yearly eyes check up.   I couldn’t remember who said that our eyes won’t get worse after we turn 25. That is a big fat lie!   my eyes still get worse year by year :(    Anyway, as predicted it is worse again. Quite a jump this time,  and it’s advisable to get another pair of glasses. With my level prescription, the lenses alone would cost over $300.  And it’s just a normal high-index lens. If it’s multicoated like what I currently have, must throw another $50-100 aaarghh!!!   Maybe it’s time to change to soft-lenses. They’re much cheaper these days.  Good news is this time both eyes have the same power.  

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This is the continuation from my previous note of The Jesus we need.   As previously mentioned,  ppl tend to think of Jesus as wimpy, but look at what Mark recorded about Jesus.  From the very beginning, straight after announcing that “this is Jesus the Christ, the Messiah whom God sent to help you out”,  Mark shows off Jesus’ power/authority: over people (He -a total stranger- calls them and they left everything and follow just like that!),  teaching with authority (which is different from their the Scribes, the experts on God’s teachings),  authority over sickness (He heals many) and even authority over evil spirit!

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For the last 5 weeks we (GKP - Gereja Kristen Pelita) are having a series on Mark 1-8 : The Jesus we need.  This is my summary note (or perhaps notes, depends on how long it’s gonna be :p).  If you want to hear the original talks, you can get them freely at GKP website. Thx to our tech-guys.  Btw, they’re in English, not Indonesian. I was planning to write the summary  in Indonesian but I gave up :(   Believe it or not, writing in Indonesian is not an easy task. Writing in English is easier. Shame on me?…  Anyway, moving on!

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I was planning to write this yesterday (after church) but it was delayed until today. And Cika already beats me to it heheh :p Such a great truth we just can not just keep it for ourselves! Must spread it to you out there :p :)

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Fink2 asked me last nite: “are you going to church tomorrow?“. And I said: “hah! tomorrow is Thursday!“. She said: “tomorrow is the Ascension of of Christ“.

Aaahh… ic. I didn’t realize it because my calender here doesn’t say anything about it. In Indonesia it is “red date” meaning public holiday. Kinda funny (or ironic?) I think… Australia, which majority of ppl of the world think is a Christian country, doesn’t recognize this big event of Christianity as a public holiday. Whereas Indonesia, which ppl think is a Muslim country, does recognize the Ascension of Christ as public holiday. There is church service everywhere in Indonesia for Christians to celebrate and remembering this event.

Anyway, that isn’t the focus of this note. Focus of this note is an excerpt about Ascension from the page of My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers. Since today is the Ascension day, I’d like to put more thoughts into what he’s written about Christ’s ascension.
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I was reading 2 Samuel 11 last night. You know the story of David and Bathsheba. The man got some else’s wife pregnant then plotting to clean up his act and ended up murdering the husband (like in a tv drama :)

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I’m currently (re)reading I Believe by Helmut Thielicke. It’s a book on the Apostle’s Creed, He explains the meaning of each of the Creed’s statements and what does it mean to believe in it. Now and then I will post an excerpt from the book. If you find it helpful, good. If not, no problemo, this note is mainly for my brain to digest more thoroughly.

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Time to wrap up this issue (for now).  It may come up again in the future.  Because as long as the Earth keeps revolving around the Sun,  as long as men are interested to marry women,  and men & women of God are willing and wanting to know how to address this issue in godliness,  this topic will always come back.

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