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Hey guys! :D Haha yay Gwen Tan's here to post! Hee.
It's Saturday again. Time really really really flies! Gonna have cell group meeting in about three hours plus later. I'm eggcited siazxs!

Today I wanna share with y'all about one of the biggest revelations God's ever placed in my life. And just as I was reading the bible yesterday, God reminded me of it. I was really touched to tears.
This revelation says: To give what we can never keep, to gain what we can never lose.
I remember everytime I heard this sentence in the past, I wouldn't understand what it means. Until one day I realized it meant to let go and let God.

I think this is one of the most important things we have to master in our walk with God. For me, I want to reach a point when I totally put down and give up my own ways and let God's hand of might move in my life. Sometimes we try too hard. Try too hard to get our lives right. We try too hard to be the person God wants us to be. We try too hard to prove to the world that our God is true and real. We try too hard. But if we would just stop trying, and let God's will be done naturally in us. Wouldn't the results be better? Jesus didn't try hard to prove to the world He was the Messiah, even when He was insulted again and again. Instead He lets God work His ways and miracles began to happen. (e.g. When Jesus was on the cross, others shouted at Him and told Him, if He was the son of God, get down from the cross. Jesus did not try to prove anything. He bore the cross and at the end the bible said "Now when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, saying, "Truly this was the Son of God!")
Jesus did not try to prove anything. Jesus did not try to save Himself from shame. Instead, Jesus hung on and trusted God.

Sometimes, we may think "but Jesus IS the Son of God, of course He'd know what to do. Of course He could hang on and trust God. Of course He know God's hand will move cos God was always with Him". But Jesus was a human being like any of us. He went through temptations like we did. When He was hung on the cross, Jesus shouted "My God, My God, why have You forsaken me?" Jesus had his own period of dryness, when God would step back to test Him. When God would test His confidence as well. But Jesus chose to hang on. Until the very end. He did not try too hard to prove that He was the Messiah the prophets talked about, whether to others or to Himself. When He felt upset, He did not try to get things His way, He had confidence in that God He had walked with all this while.

Well, I guess that all links back to confidence. n317, let's live in confidence this 2008. Confidence in ourselves, confidence in God :) And with confidence, we will know how to let go and let God.

Love,
Gwen!