Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Sink,Swim or Walk?

We've all heard the saying when the going gets tough.... you'll either sink or swim! Right now I'm about to drown.

I have a Chemistry Exam this Friday. Next Tuesday I have a Biology Exam. The next day I have a 1000 word plus essay on Abortion for English. To put me icing on the cake, I have a Calculus Exam next week Friday. Not, to mention all the lab work that is during the course of next week.

Yet there is hope for me. My life belongs to Jesus. He tells me, drop your anxiety and stress on Me, because I care for you (1 Peter 5:7). My world may begin to spiral out of control but I have nothing to fear. Jesus loves me.

He will help me when I drop my anxiety on Him.It doesn't matter if I'm about to drown. Putting my faith and trust in Jesus is the option. Instead of crashing onto the ocean floor, I will be walking hand in hand with Jesus, just like Peter .

-Lloyd

Friday, October 20, 2006

"God's Work-God's Way"

It is hard to do things God's way because I want to do things my way! How often do I find, time after time that by doing things my way brings dissapointment. Not only that... things could have been better had I chosen God's way. Instead being the stubborn child I am at times, he has to "rock my world a little" so that I'm on my knees, putting him in the center of my life serving his purpose and not my own.

This week was no different. By now after, all the lessons God has taught I still did things my way. If I was obediant, the past two weeks of university world have been great. Instead, doing things my way has brought me despair. Yet he still persists with me and that His Will will be done. Listening to a sermon of Dr. Jeremiah "God's Work-God's Way" rebuked me in many ways but it was truly a blessing. One of the questions he posed: "Do you raise Jesus up in the center of your life?" If you have time, listen to his sermon over the internet http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/Turning_Point/archives.asp?bcd=10/6/2006 (really awesome)!

-Lloyd

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

The Great Divorce

It has been a while since my Last post. During that time, the University shot me and I had time to recover because of a long weekend (that took forever to arrive)! The occasion was Thanksgiving. Spending dinner with a church family was truly a blessing. Amongst the trauma of university, the beauty of thankgiving dinner, I finally found some time to Read the "Great Divorce" by C.S. Lewis.

The book is awesome and if you have time to spare, this is a must read. Lewis's magnitude as a writer shines through.Most importantly his comprehension of Christianity and of what's to come shines through even brighter. Its like I witnessed that light everyone tells you about, that one light, that shines at the end of the tunnel. (I guess if you are living in Cape Town you'll never see the light as their is always some problem with the generators at the Nuclear Power Plant in Koeberg). Only kidding!

Here's a taste of what you can expect, this excerpt comes from a character in the book teaching Lewis about time with respect to eternity:

"For every attempt to see eternity through the lens of Time destroys your knowledge of Freedom. Witness the doctrine of Predestination which shows (truly enough) that eternal reality is not waiting for a future to be real, but at the price of removing Freedom which is the deeper truth of the two?"

The character later annecdotes, "Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all acts and events that fill Time, are the definition, and it must be lived. The Lord sayed we were gods. How long could ye bear to look (without Time's lens) on the greatness of your own soul and the eternal reality of her choice?"

-Lloyd