"YOU ARE MY STRENGTH.
YOU ARE MY JOY.
YOU ARE MY LOVER.
YOU ARE MY BEST FRIEND.
AND BEST OF ALL....
YOU ARE MINE."
the title for today's post refers to God okay, and not who everyone probably thinks it is. hahahah :) it's not everyday that i talk about God in this explicitness, not because i don't love Him or i'm not "feeling" Christianly, but i see no point in preaching on my blog. then who would read it?
this serves as a public announcement that i am a Christian, i love my God, and i have loads of fun being a Christian although it often results in hard work.
so anyway, this post is pretty much inspired by jacky :) haha i <3 you! and this is not preaching or whatever, but it is only today that i realize how rarely people see me as a Christian girl, and it makes want to tell the world my true identity.
SO.
1) i am a Christian. and i am a holy moley Christian girl.
-i am a leader in church, i have a cell group of 16 littler ones, and they are going strong and well and i praise God for that, and i love them mighty major.
-i also play the piano in the worship team, but it isn't and never was a performance.
-i go to church very often, and i love it. i love every single moment of my life i am in church, but my Christian life never stops when i leave the building.
-my father is a Chinese pastor and co-assistant pastor of Emmanuel AG, and i love him tremendously. contrary to what some might think, i am NOT in my leadership position because of my daddy.
-and i am also not holding on to the title of "leader" because of its prestige or whatever. i am doing this because i love God, and because i love my kids.
-when i worship or praise God (whether on or off the piano) i look really retarded cos i cry alot, dance alot, jump alot, scream alot, sing out of tune alot. and i am not ashamed. but i am proud to say that i will become even more undignified than this for God. there are people who love God more extravagantly than i, and i salute them. and i will worship Him like that too--in Spirit and in Truth.
2) things about me (what people see, and what i used to be)-it is true, that i am physically affectionate. i am verbally affectionate.
-i am loud, noisy, sometimes a little imbecilic, and people like Eugene call me "slut" with no base or proof that i am one. (i am not one, by the way.)
-i try to crack jokes cos everyone likes to laugh, sometimes my jokes are funny, sometimes my jokes are not. i laugh at random people, and i'm sure that they laugh at me too. i make alot of noise and i am not afraid to let myself be heard.
-i stand up for what i believe in and i pursue what i am passionate about, till the point that i become stubborn, so this strength is also my weakness.
-i am in love with a certain someone (and we all know who so what's the point of typing out his name).
-and i have been in previous relationships which have pretty much meant nothing to me. i used to be a "player" and i have lost a lot of myself to boys. but you know what? that's in the past and my God has restored me, He still loves me, and i am forgiven and made new in Him. and now i want to marry my next boyfriend (whom i
really hope is you, hunnie) and people think i'm too serious too soon, but i have my reasons. and anyway we were not created to boy-hop
-i use words like bitch, shit, hell, bloody, ass, crap
-i used to skip class alot
-i was a "bad ass" (as compared to my goody two shoes classmates la)
-i wear sleeveless tops and short stuff, on i-dont-feel-fat days i wear tight stuff too (but rarely cos i mostly feel fat) and yes, i wear a bikini to the beach or the pool, and i am not shy about it. (the only times i'm shy about it is when i'm feeling fat)
-i am very weight and self conscious
-i get mood swings too.
-i shop alot
-i giggle and ogle with people about cute boys and we swoon and make up stupid pick up lines we'll never use.
-i roll my eyes at people whom i'm annoyed at
-i get angry, i get sad, i get annoyed
-i smile alot, have an irritatingly high pitched laugh, am a little bimbotic
i am not perfect, although perfection is what i strive for. cos after all, before the fall of man, we were all created to be perfect.
Christianity is not boring and rigid, and it sometimes gets creepy when people speak in gibberish loudly and start doing weird stuff like lying on the floor and crying. but that is when you do not understand. when you finally understand why we do what we do, you'll come to realize that this "religion" is not so strange anymore. and that although there is no logic in our actions, there is reason. and there is purpose.
3) what is Christianity to me?in the first place, it is NOT a religion.
you hear Christians saying it alot, and then they call Christianity a relationship. and many do not understand. and i am sorry if you have bad Christian friends who bitch and gossip alot and curse and swear and get drunk and high and pregnant. and i'm sorry if you have Christian friends who are really mean and sometimes are so extreme that they discriminate people who are "against" Christianity. i apologize on their behalf. we are not all like that.
okay anyway, being a Christian is more than a label. to me it is a title. an identity. Christianity is the secular equivalent of "boyfriend" or "girlfriend". not that we're dating God, but it is a relationship, in every sense of the word.
God is my joy, He makes me happy, He helps me through the tough times. He talks to me (not in a creepy OMG ITS A GHOST way). He loves me, He is crazy about me, He lived for me, He died for me. He is real, SO VERY REAL and He watches over me. He is my best friend, He is my lover, He is my Father too! it is confusing when i put it this way......but the bottomline is, God and I.. we are PERSONAL. which is the main point, really.
4) Christians have fun too!-okay so i have never clubbed (but that's cos i am not even 17 YET i will when i'm legal)
-my parents are relatively strict (but there are non-Christian parents who are even more strict on their kids, so yes, being Christian does not mean you'll be like my daddy and mum)
-i have never gotten drunk (and never will, why would i want to?)
-i have never smoked. because it kills. it killed my grandpa.
-i have never had sex. and i won't until i'm married.
-i don't swear and curse and spew vulgarities. (i used to when i was younger, then i realized that i've been missing the whole point)
-i don't go out on saturdays and i miss alot of saturday activities because i am in church from 9am-12am
-i am in church very often and i have church work to do besides schoolwork
-i spend time with God daily in what we call Quiet Time
-i don't use msn (personal preference)
but i still have tonnes of fun in my life!
i guess the whole point of this post is simply to tell everyone that YOOHOO I AM A CHRISTIAN!! IF YOU SEE ME SCREWING UP MY LIFE, PLEASE HIT ME ON THE HEAD WITH A SHOVEL SO I WILL STOP WHAT I'M DOING AND BE THE GOOD CHRISTIAN GIRL I'M SUPPOSED TO ME!!! and also, that we really are not boring, creepy, intent on converting everyone to our religion, rigid, bo-liao, pointless.
i cannot put down in words what God really means to me, and only because when i put it down in words, it is not enough! and when i put it all down in words, it seems alot less precious than it really is.
okay this post is damn long. i will stop here, and i repeat, i am NOT preaching, i am merely stating that: i love Jesus, that's a fact. and there ain't no turning back.