Creative Cell

Sempurna?

2009-10-15T17:47:00.001+08:00

Sering denger kalimat: "orang kristen kok kayak begitu" ?

Saya pernah mengatakan itu, saya juga pernah dikatakan seperti itu.
Memang maunya jadi yang high standard, tp ngerasa ga bahwa kita masih punya banyak kekurangan. banyak.
Siapa yg bs jadi judge.. orang laen?
Ga perlu orang laen, kalo kita jujur dan mengoreksi diri, pasti kita bisa berkata "saya sebagai orang Kristen kok begitu ya?"

Jadi... siapa sih yang bs dijadiin standard, ni begini loh orang kristen mesti hidup.
Kalo hukum yg terutama itu hukum kasih. Jadi intinya orang Kristen adalah orang yang mengasihi Tuhan dan sesama.
So, sampe batas mana definisi kasih itu?

I kor 13:12
Karena sekarang kita melihat dalam cermin suatu gambaran yang samar-samar, tetapi nanti kita akan melihat muka dengan muka. Sekarang aku hanya mengenal dengan tidak sempurna, tetapi nanti aku akan mengenal dengan sempurna, seperti aku sendiri dikenal.

:)

2009-07-26T22:26:00.001+08:00

Hari ini aku sadar, ada yang telah berubah dalam diriku beberapa minggu ini.
Dan itu adalah suatu hal yang positif, memikirkannya saja sudah membuatku bahagia.
Sejak hari itu hal yang seharusnya negatif terbalik jadi memberikan impact yang positif buat hidupku.
Setidaknya otak dan hatiku sudah mulai bisa bekerjasama dengan baik.
Hatiku sudah tenang dengan mengetahui keberadaanku, menerima aku apa adanya meskipun aku orang yang cukup rumit; menerima lingkunganku, orang2 disekitarku.
Setidaknya dengan menerima hal itu pikiranku akan lebih simple.
Dalam setiap keadaan tidak ada yang perlu disalahkan apakah itu masa lalu, diri sendiri maupun orang lain, yang penting berusaha lebih baik.
Kalau masalah kemampuanku dan ketidakmampuanku aku masih belajar menerima. ^^

Mari kita sama sama jadi diri kita sendiri. hasilnya bener2 puas di hati - bahagia - tenang ... lebih optimis ^^

GBU all

Bersyukurlah Dalam Setiap Keadaan

2009-07-22T10:03:00.000+08:00

Rumput tetangga memang sering kelihatan lebih hijau dari rumput di pekarangan sendiri. Hidup akan lebih bahagia kalau kita dapat menikmati apa yang kita miliki. Karena itu bersyukur merupakan kualitas hati yang tertinggi.

Bersyukurlah! Bersyukurlah bahwa kamu belum siap memiliki segala sesuatu yang kamu inginkan. Seandainya sudah, apalagi yang harus diinginkan?

Bersyukurlah! Bersyukurlah apabila kamu tidak tahu sesuatu. Karena itu memberimu kesempatan untuk belajar.

Bersyukurlah! Bersyukurlah untuk masa-masa sulit. Karena Di masa itulah kamu tumbuh.

Bersyukurlah! Bersyukurlah untuk keterbatasanmu. Karena itu memberimu kesempatan untuk berkembang.

Bersyukurlah untuk setiap tantangan baru. Karena itu akan membangun kekuatan dan karaktermu.

Bersyukurlah untuk kesalahan yang kamu buat. Itu akan mengajarkan pelajaran yang berharga.

Bersyukurlah bila kamu lelah dan letih. Karena itu kamu telah membuat suatu perbedaan.

Mungkin mudah untuk kita bersyukur akan hal-hal baik. Hidup yang berkelimpahan datang pada mereka yang juga bersyukur akan masa surut. Rasa syukur dapat mengubah hal yang negatif menjadi positif.

Temukan cara bersyukur akan masalah-masalahmu dan semua itu akan menjadi berkah bagimu.

diambil dari:
- Jawaban.com -

MIMPI

2009-07-16T00:01:00.002+08:00

Mazmur 37:33
Tuhan menetapkan langkah langkah orang yang hidupnya berkenan kepadaNya.

Coba bayangkan, jika Allah memberitahu kepada kita seluruh perjalanan kehidupan kita dari A-Z, iniloh jalan yang bakal kamu tempuh. Luar biasa bukan? Namun apa yang terjadi, kita tidak lagi perlu berjalan dengan iman. Dan itu bukan yang Tuhan inginkan.
Allah tidak memberitahukan kepada kita seluruh rencanaNya secara langsung tetapi Ia menyingkapkannya secara bertahap, setiap bagian dihubungkan dengan bagian yang laen akan membentuk suatu gambaran yang makin disempurnakan. Namun bagian bagian tersebut harus dihubungkan dengan iman atas dasar firman Tuhan.
Dalam ibrani 11:9-10 dikatakan bahwa Abraham menanti nantikan janji Allah. Ia tidak tahu kemana ia pergi tetapi ia tetap percaya pada Allah. Mari periksa apakah saat ini kita sedang menantikan janji Allah, apa kita sudah mengesampingkan keragu raguan kita? Allah sedang bekerja dalam kehidupan kita, tugas kita adalah mencari apa
yang telah dibangun dan dibuat oleh Allah dan menciptakan keadaan yang tepat dan menolak untuk merasa gentar dan takut akan kegagalan.

Tuhan Yesus memberkati

dari buku: Jika Iblis tidak dapat mencuri impian anda - Jerry Savelle

to love is to life

2009-05-12T00:59:00.007+08:00

After so long absence from this blog, I crawl back from my corner to share an article and my opinion n experience about it to u.. :) its kinda long.. so, read it if u have time :P

THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD IS LOVE
by Henry Drummond 1884
Taken from www.sermonindex.net which has over 20,000 TEXT sermons and articles and 15,000 AUDIO sermons and 25,000 VIDEO clips.

“THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not LOVE I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not Love, it profiteth me nothing.

Love suffereth long, and is kind;
Love envieth not;
Love vaunteth not itself is not puffed up,
Doth not behave itself unseemly,
Seeketh not her own,
Is not easily provoked,
Thinketh no evil;
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things,
endureth all things.

“Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly;but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, Love, these three; but the greatest of these is Love” (1 Corinthians 13 KJV).

EVERY one has asked himself the great question of antiquity as of the modern world: What is the summum bonum---the supreme good? You have life before you. Once only you can live it. What is the noblest object of desire, the supreme gift to covet?

We have been accustomed to be told that the greatest thing in the religious world is Faith. That great word has been the key-note for centuries of the popular religion; and we have easily learned to look upon it as the greatest thing in the world. Well, we are wrong. If we have been told that, we may miss the mark. I have taken you, in the chapter which I have just read, to Christianity at its source; and there we have seen, "The greatest of these is love." It is not an oversight. Paul was speaking of faith just a moment before. He says, "If I have all faith, so that I can remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. "So far from forgetting, he deliberately contrasts them, "Now abideth Faith, Hope, Love," and without a moment's hesitation, the decision falls, "The greatest of these is Love."

And it is not prejudice. A man is apt to recommend to others his own strong point. Love was not Paul's strong point. The observing student can detect a beautiful tenderness growing and ripening all through his character as Paul gets old; but the hand that wrote, "The greatest of these is love," when we meet it first, is stained with blood.

Nor is this letter to the Corinthians peculiar in singling out love as the summum bonum. The masterpieces of Christianity are agreed about it. Peter says, "Above all things have fervent love among yourselves." Above all things. And John goes farther, "God is love." And you remember the profound remark which Paul makes elsewhere, "Love is the fulfilling of the law." Did you ever think what he meant by that? In those days men were working their passage to Heaven by keeping the Ten Commandments, and the hundred and ten other commandments which they had manufactured out of them. Christ said, I will show you a more simple way. If you do one thing, you will do these hundred and ten things, without ever thinking about them. If you love, you will unconsciously fulfil the whole law.

And you can readily see for yourselves how that must be so. Take any of the commandments. "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." If a man love God, you will not require to tell him that. Love is the fulfilling of that law. "Take not His name in vain." Would he ever dream of taking His name in vain if he loved Him? "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." Would he not be too glad to have one day in seven to dedicate more exclusively to the object of his affection? Love would fulfil all these laws regarding God. And so, if he loved Man, you would never think of telling him to honour his father and mother. He could not do anything else. It would be preposterous to tell him not to kill. You could only insult him if you suggested that he should not steal---how could he steal from those he loved? It would be superfluous to beg him not to bear false witness against his neighbour. If he loved him it would be the last thing he would do. And you would never dream of urging him not to covet what his neighbours had. He would rather they possessed it than himself. In this way "Love is the fulfilling of the law." It is the rule for fulfilling all rules, the new commandment for keeping all the old commandments, Christ's one secret of the Christian life.

Now Paul had learned that; and in this noble eulogy he has given us the most wonderful and original account extant of the summum bonum. We may divide it into three parts. In the beginning of the short chapter, we have Love contrasted; in the heart of it, we have Love analysed; towards the end we have Love defended as the supreme gift.

Ok, ampe sini dlu.. God Tuhan selalu ngingeting gw yg plg penting dr sgala hal itu love, since I know Him, until this second.. and He used non-Christian people to remind me bout this.. I remember once my mom told me, “itu cici kamu, buat apa ke grj n aktif di grj kalo sehari2nya di rumah ngga sayang ortu”.. kata2 nyokap gw wktu itu lgsg nancep di hati gw, bahkan ampe skrg gw masih mikir org2 kristen yg aktif di grj, apa dlm kehidupan sehari2nya emang menomer1kan Tuhan., soalny slama ini udah banyak banget liat org2 yg munafik.. n itu slh 1 yg jd batu sandungan… bahkan ampe org yg terdeket didlm hidup gw ternyata adlh batu sandungan buat keluarganya sendiri T_T

THE CONTRAST

PAUL begins by contrasting Love with other things that men in those days thought much of. I shall not attempt to go over those things in detail. Their inferiority is already obvious.

He contrasts it with eloquence. And what a noble gift it is, the power of playing upon the souls and wills of men, and rousing them to lofty purposes and holy deeds. Paul says, "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." And we all know why. We have all felt the brazenness of words without emotion, the hollowness, the unaccountable unpersuasiveness, of eloquence behind which lies no Love.

He contrasts it with prophecy. He contrasts it with mysteries. He
contrasts it with faith. He contrasts it with charity. Why is Love greater than faith? Because the end is greater than the means. And why is it greater than charity? Because the whole is greater than the part.

Love is greater than faith, because the end is greater than the
means. What is the use of having faith? It is to connect the soul with God. And what is the object of connecting man with God? That he may become like God. But God is Love. Hence Faith, the means, is in order to Love, the end. Love, therefore, obviously is greater than faith. It is greater than charity, again, because the whole is greater than a part. Charity is only a little bit of Love, one of the innumerable avenues of Love, and there may even be, and there is, a great deal of charity without Love. It is a very easy thing to toss a copper to a beggar on the street; it is generally an easier thing than not to do it. Yet Love is just as often in the withholding. We purchase relief from the sympathetic feelings roused by the spectacle of misery, at the copper's cost. It is too cheap---too cheap for us, and often too dear for the beggar. If we really loved him we would either do more
for him, or less.

Then Paul contrasts it with sacrifice and martyrdom. And I beg the little band of would-be missionaries and I have the honour to call some of you by this name for the first time---to remember that though you give your bodies to be burned, and have not Love, it profits nothing---nothing! You can take nothing greater to the heathen world than the impress and reflection of the Love of God upon your own character. That is the universal language. It will take you years to speak in Chinese, or in the dialects of India. From the day you land, that language of Love, understood by all, will be pouring forth its unconscious eloquence. It is the man who is the missionary, it is not his words. His character is his message. In the heart of Africa, among the great Lakes, I have come across black men and women who remembered the only white man they ever saw before---David Livingstone; and as you cross his footsteps in that dark continent, men's faces light up as they speak of the kind Doctor who passed there years ago. They could not understand him; but they felt the Love that beat in his heart.

Take into your new sphere of labour, where you also mean to lay down your life, that simple love, and your lifework must succeed. You can take nothing greater, you need take nothing less. It is not worth while going if you take anything less. You may take every accomplishment; you may be braced for every sacrifice; but if you give your body to be burned, and have not Love, it will profit you and the cause of Christ nothing.

THE ANALYSIS

AFTER contrasting Love with these things, Paul, in three verses, very short, gives us an amazing analysis of what this supreme thing is. I ask you to look at it. It is a compound thing, he tells us. It is like light. As you have seen a man of science take a beam of light and pass it through a crystal prism, as you have seen it come out on the other side of the prism broken up into its component colours---red, and blue, and yellow, and violet, and orange, and all the colours of the rainbow---so Paul passes this thing, Love, through the magnificent prism of his inspired intellect, and it comes out on the other side broken up into its elements. And in these few words we have what one
might call the Spectrum of Love, the analysis of Love. Will you
observe what its elements are? Will you notice that they have common names; that they are virtues which we hear about every day; that they are things which can be practised by every man in every place in life; and how, by a multitude of small things and ordinary virtues, the supreme thing, the summum bonum, is made up?

The Spectrum of Love has nine ingredients:--

Patience . . . . ."Love suffereth long."
Kindness . . . . ."And is kind."
Generosity . . . ."Love envieth not."
Humility . . . . ."Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up."
Courtesy . . . . ."Doth not behave itself unseemly."
Unselfishness . . "Seeketh not her own."
Good Temper . . . "Is not easily provoked."
Guilelessness . . ."Thinketh no evil."
Sincerity . . . . ."Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth."

Patience; kindness; generosity; humility; courtesy; unselfishness; good temper; guilelessness; sincerity---these make up the supreme gift, the stature of the perfect man.

You will observe that all are in relation to men, in relation to life, in relation to the known today and the near tomorrow, and not to the unknown eternity. We hear much of love to God; Christ spoke much of love to man. We make a great deal of peace with heaven; Christ made much of peace on earth. Religion is not a strange or added thing, but the inspiration of the secular life, the breathing of an eternal spirit through this temporal world. The supreme thing, in short, is not a thing at all, but the giving of a further finish to the multitudinous words and acts which make up the sum of every common day.

There is no time to do more than make a passing note upon each of
these ingredients.

Love is Patience. This is the normal attitude of Love; Love passive, Love waiting to begin; not in a hurry; calm; ready to do its work when the summons comes, but meantime wearing the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. Love suffers long; beareth all things; believeth all things; hopeth all things. For Love understands, and therefore waits.

Patience,, do I have it? Nope, it’s not whole yet.. gw msh srg ga sabaran ma org lain, ntah yg kerjanya lambat, ato yg ngga frenli ma gw gt… n gw sa sk suffering… sedangkan “love suffers long”

Kindness. Love active. Have you ever noticed how much of Christ's life was spent in doing kind things---in merely doing kind things? Run over it with that in view and you will find that He spent a great proportion of His time simply in making people happy, in doing good turns to people. There is only one thing greater than happiness in the world, and that is holiness; and it is not in our keeping; but what God has put in our power is the happiness of those about us, and that is largely to be secured by our being kind to them.

"The greatest thing," says someone, "a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of His other children." I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder than we are? How much the world needs it. How easily it is done. How instantaneously it acts. How infallibly it is remembered. How superabundantly it pays itself back---for there is no debtor in the world so honourable, so superbly honourable, as Love. "Love never faileth". Love is success, Love is happiness, Love is life. "Love, I say, "with Browning, "is energy of Life."

"For life, with all it yields of joy and woe
And hope and fear,
Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love--
How love might be, hath been indeed, and is."

Where Love is, God is. He that dwelleth in Love dwelleth in God. God is love. Therefore love. Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the poor, where it is very easy; especially upon the rich, who often need it most; most of all upon our equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we each do least of all. There is a difference between trying to please and giving pleasure. Give pleasure. Lose no chance of giving pleasure, for that is the ceaseless and anonymous triumph of a truly loving spirit. "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."

Skrg kindness.., apa gw dah cukup baik? Klo gw punya kasih seharusnya gw hepi dong? Knp kdg2 gw masih sering down ato bad mood gt? Berate kasih did lm hati gw kadang ngga cukup, bahkan untuk diri ndiri…

Generosity. "Love envieth not" This is Love in competition with others. Whenever you attempt a good work you will find other men doing the same kind of work, and probably doing it better. Envy them not. Envy is a feeling of ill-will to those who are in the same line as ourselves, a spirit of covetousness and detraction. How little Christian work even is a protection against un-Christian feeling. Envy, that most despicable of all the unworthy moods which cloud a Christian's soul assuredly waits for us on the threshold of every work, unless we are fortified with this grace of magnanimity. Only one thing truly need the Christian envy, the large, rich, generous soul which "envieth not."

Menurut gw, bagian ni rada susah.. krn prasaan envy itu yg kdg2 jd motivasi gw buat ngerjain sgl sesuatunya lbh baik… tpi kykny gw punya motivasi yg salah, krn seharusnya gw kerja buat Tuhan, bukan untuk melampaui manusia > <

And then, after having learned all that, you have to learn this further thing, Humility---to put a seal upon your lips and forget what you have done. After you have been kind, after Love has stolen forth into the world and done its beautiful work, go back into the shade again and say nothing about it Love hides even from itself. Love waives even self-satisfaction. "Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up."

Yg ini jg, seringkali gw seneng kalo org lain muji hal2 baik yg udah gw lakukan, ntah sengaja gw lakukan di dpn org lain ato ngga, tpi klo ada yg miju kykny jd seneng bngt.. but its not love, coz love vaunteth not itself, isn’t puffed up.. stlh coba practice bbrp kali, trnyata giving love to others itu enak, dr dlm hati sendiri rasanya ada kelegaan…

The fifth ingredient is a somewhat strange one to find in this summum bonum: Courtesy. This is Love in society, Love in relation to etiquette. "Love doth not behave itself unseemly." Politeness has been defined as love in trifles. Courtesy is said to be love in little things. And the one secret of politeness is to love. Love cannot behave itself unseemly. You can put the most untutored person into the highest society, and if they have a reservoir of love in their heart, they will not behave themselves unseemly. They simply cannot do it. Carlyle said of Robert Burns that there was no truer gentleman in Europe than the ploughman-poet. It was because he loved everything---the mouse, and the daisy, and all the things, great and small, that God had made. So with this simple passport he could mingle with any society, and enter courts and palaces from his little cottage on the banks of the Ayr.

You know the meaning of the word "gentleman." It means a gentle man---a man who does things gently, with love. And that is the whole art and mystery of it. The gentleman cannot in the nature of things do an ungentle, an ungentlemanly thing. The ungentle soul, the inconsiderate, unsympathetic nature cannot do anything else. "Love doth not behave itself unseemly."

Buat org yg didlm hatinya ada kasih, mereka dg sendirinya bakal mengasihi org lain.. krn kasih itu mengalir.. :D

Unselfishness. "Love seeketh not her own." Observe: Seeketh not even that which is her own. In Britain the Englishman is devoted, and rightly, to his rights. But there come times when a man may exercise even the higher right of giving up his rights. Yet Paul does not summon us to give up our rights. Love strikes much deeper. It would have us not seek them at all, ignore them, eliminate the personal element altogether from our calculations.

It is not hard to give up our rights. They are often external. The difficult thing is to give up ourselves. The more difficult thing still is not to seek things for ourselves at all. After we have sought them, bought them, won them, deserved them, we have taken the cream off them for ourselves already. Little cross then, perhaps, to give them up. But not to seek them, to look every man not on his own things, but on the things of others---that is the difficulty. "Seekest thou great things for thyself?" said the prophet; "seek them not." Why? Because there is no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love. Even self-denial in itself is nothing, is almost a mistake. Only a great purpose or a mightier love can justify the waste.

It is more difficult, I have said, not to seek our own at all, than, having sought it, to give it up. I must take that back. It is only true of a partly selfish heart. Nothing is a hardship to Love, and nothing is hard. I believe that Christ's yoke is easy. Christ's "yoke" is just His way of taking life. And I believe it is an easier way than any other. I believe it is a happier way than any other. The most obvious lesson in Christ's teaching is that there is no happiness in having and getting anything, but only in giving. I repeat, there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. And half the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. They think it consists in having and getting, and in being served by others. It consists in giving, and in serving others. He that would be great among you, said Christ, let him serve. He that would be happy, let him
remember that there is but one way---it is more blessed, it is more happy, to give than to receive.

Hmm.. tanya lagi k diri ndiri, udah punya ingredient yg ini blom yah? Apa gw lbh banyak member ato menerima? Di dlm hati lbh seneng kalo member ato menerima? Kalo member sgl sesuatu tulus ato ngga c? gw sejujur2nya maseh blom.. lagi2, n ini membuktikan klo gw masih lemah dlm hal mengasihi… gw masih lh sering menerima kasih dr org lain drpd mengasihi org lain….

The next ingredient is a very remarkable one: Good Temper. "Love is not easily provoked." Nothing could be more striking than to find this here. We are inclined to look upon bad temper as a very harmless weakness. We speak of it as a mere infirmity of nature, a family failing, a matter of temperament, not a thing to take into very serious account in estimating a man's character. And yet here, right in the heart of this analysis of love, it finds a place; and the Bible again and again returns to condemn it as one of the most destructive elements in human nature.

The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the vice of the virtuous. It is often the one blot on an otherwise noble character. You know men who are all but perfect, and women who would be entirely perfect, but for an easily ruffled, quick-tempered, or "touchy" disposition. This compatibility of ill temper with high moral character is one of the strangest and saddest problems of ethics.

The truth is there are two great classes of sins---sins of the Body, and sins of the Disposition. The Prodigal Son may be taken as a type of the first, the Elder Brother of the second. Now society has no doubt whatever as to which of these is the worse. Its brand falls, without a challenge, upon the Prodigal. But are we right? We have no balance to weigh one another's sins, and coarser and finer are but human words; but faults in the higher nature may be less venial than those in the lower, and to the eye of Him who is Love, a sin against Love may seem a hundred times more base. No form of vice, not worldliness, not greed of gold, not drunkenness itself, does more to unChristianise society than evil temper. For embittering life, for breaking up communities, for destroying the most sacred relationships, for devastating homes, for withering up men and women, for taking the bloom off childhood; in short, for sheer gratuitous misery-producing power, this influence stands alone.

Look at the Elder Brother, moral, hard-working, patient, dutiful---let him get all credit for his virtues---look at this man, this baby, sulking outside his own father's door. "He was angry," we read, "and would not go in." Look at the effect upon the father, upon the servants, upon the happiness of the guests. Judge of the effect upon the Prodigal---and how many prodigals are kept out of the Kingdom of God by the unlovely characters of those who profess to be inside?

Analyse, as a study in Temper, the thunder-cloud itself as it gathers upon the Elder Brother's brow. What is it made of? Jealousy, anger, pride, uncharity, cruelty, self-righteousness, touchiness, doggedness, sullenness---these are the ingredients of this dark and loveless soul. In varying proportions, also, these are the ingredients of all ill temper. Judge if such sins of the disposition are not worse to live in, and for others to live with, than sins of the body. Did Christ indeed not answer the question Himself when He said, "I say unto you, that the publicans and the harlots go into the Kingdom of Heaven
before you." There is really no place in Heaven for a disposition like this. A man with such a mood could only make Heaven miserable for all the people in it. Except, therefore, such a man be born again, he cannot, he simply cannot, enter the Kingdom of Heaven. For it is perfectly certain---and you will not misunderstand me---that to enter Heaven a man must take it with him.

You will see then why Temper is significant. It is not in what it is alone, but in what it reveals. This is why I take the liberty now of speaking of it with such unusual plainness. It is a test for love, a symptom, a revelation of an unloving nature at bottom. It is the intermittent fever which bespeaks unintermittent disease within; the occasional bubble escaping to the surface which betrays some rottenness underneath; a sample of the most hidden products of the soul dropped involuntarily when off one's guard; in a word, the lightning form of a hundred hideous and unChristian sins. For a want of patience, a want of kindness, a want of generosity, a want of courtesy, a want of unselfishness, are all instantaneously symbolised in one flash of Temper.

Hence it is not enough to deal with the temper. We must go to the
source, and change the inmost nature, and the angry humours will die away of themselves. Souls are made sweet not by taking the acid fluids out, but by putting something in---a great Love, a new Spirit, the Spirit of Christ. Christ, the Spirit of Christ, interpenetrating ours, sweetens, purifies, transforms all. This only can eradicate what is wrong, work a chemical change, renovate and regenerate, and rehabilitate the inner man. Will-power does not change men. Time does not change men. Christ does. Therefore "Let that mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus."

Temperamen manusia sering menjatuhkan nih.. temperamen yg baik mesti dijadikan kebiasaan.. bad temper sering bikin org ngerasa bersalah jg, krn apa yg udah diucapkan ngga bisa ditarik lagi. Lidah berkuasa bngt, klo misalkan kita kehilangan temper usahain utk tetep diem, krn kata2 yg diucapkan lidah kita bisa menyakiti org lain n bisa ngubah hidup org lain ntah jd lbh buruk ato lbh baik…. Itu baru salah satu contohnya.. be careful of those ingredients of ill-temper mentioned above…

Some of us have not much time to lose. Remember, once more, that this is a matter of life or death. I cannot help speaking urgently, for myself, for yourselves. "Whoso shall offend one of these little ones, which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." That is to say, it is the deliberate verdict of the Lord Jesus that it is better not to live than not to love. It is better not to live than not to love.

Guilelessness and Sincerity may be dismissed almost with a word.
Guilelessness is the grace for suspicious people. And the possession of it is the great secret of personal influence. You will find, if you think for a moment, that the people who influence you are people who believe in you. In an atmosphere of suspicion men shrivel up; but in that atmosphere they expand, and find encouragement and educative fellowship.

Klo mnrt gw, kita bisa encourage org lain dg mempercayai org itu.. ini c tjd di diri gw sendiri,, setiap kali org2 percaya ama gw, rasanya jadi berapi-api,, secara ngga sadar jd pengen membuktikan kalo rasa percayanya ngga salah diletakin di atas gw.. ntah hal kecil ato yg besar… kalian gitu jg ngga?

It is a wonderful thing that here and there in this hard, uncharitable world there should still be left a few rare souls who think no evil. This is the great unworldliness. Love "thinketh no evil," imputes no motive, sees the bright side, puts the best construction on every action. What a delightful state of mind to live in! What a stimulus and benediction even to meet with it for a day! To be trusted is to be saved. And if we try to influence or elevate others, we shall soon see that success is in proportion to their belief of our belief in them. For the respect of another is the first restoration of the self-respect a man has lost; our ideal of what he is becomes to him the hope and pattern of what he may become.

"Love rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth." I have called this Sincerity from the words rendered in the Authorised Version by "rejoiceth in the truth." And, certainly, were this the real translation, nothing could be more just. For he who loves will love Truth not less than men. He will rejoice in the Truth---rejoice not in what he has been taught to believe; not in this Church's doctrine or in that; not in this ism or in that ism; but "in the Truth." He will accept only what is real; he will strive to get at facts; he will search for Truth with a humble and unbiased mind, and cherish whatever he finds at any sacrifice. But the more literal translation of the Revised Version calls for just such a sacrifice for truth's sake here. For what Paul really meant is, as we there read, "Rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth," a
quality which probably no one English word---and certainly not
Sincerity---adequately defines. It includes, perhaps more strictly, the self-restraint which refuses to make capital out of others' faults; the charity which delights not in exposing the weakness of others, but "covereth all things"; the sincerity of purpose which endeavours to see things as they are, and rejoices to find them better than suspicion feared or calumny denounced.

Ini ingredients yg terakhir, bagi gw, awal2nya kliatan gampang, tapi stlh diperhatiin detailnya, ternyata ngga gampang… pikiran gw ngga sepositif itu, kdg2 gw jahat jg.. (nyadar nih :P) contoh simpelnya, pas lagi nyebrang jln, klo ada yg melanggar lampu lalu lintasnya, gw bisa mikir, “idih,. Kok ni org udah ada lampu merah gede2 gt ga berenti c??” dgn nada kesel… padahal gw jalannya aja belom nyampe sana, jd klopun dia jalan mestinya ga ada hubungannya ama gw.. n to cherish whatever I finds at any sacrifice isn’t as easy as I thought…

So much for the analysis of Love. Now the business of our lives is to have these things fitted into our characters. That is the supreme work to which we need to address ourselves in this world, to learn Love. Is life not full of opportunities for learning Love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a play-ground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how we can love better.

What makes a man a good cricketer? Practice. What makes a man a good artist, a good sculptor, a good musician? Practice. What makes a man a good linguist, a good stenographer? Practice. What makes a man a good man? Practice. Nothing else. There is nothing capricious about religion. We do not get the soul in different ways, under different laws, from those in which we get the body and the mind. If a man does not exercise his arm he develops no biceps muscle; and if a man does not exercise his soul, he acquires no muscle in his soul, no strength of character, no vigour of moral fibre, nor beauty of spiritual growth. Love is not a thing of enthusiastic emotion. It is a rich, strong, manly, vigorous expression of the whole round Christian character---the Christlike nature in its fullest development. And the constituents of this great character are only to be built up by ceaseless practice.

What was Christ doing in the carpenter's shop? Practising. Though
perfect, we read that He learned obedience, He increased in wisdom and in favour with God and man. Do not quarrel therefore with your lot in life. Do not complain of its never-ceasing cares, its petty environment, the vexations you have to stand, the small and sordid souls you have to live and work with. Above all, do not resent temptation; do not be perplexed because it seems to thicken round you more and more, and ceases neither for effort nor for agony nor prayer. That is the practice which God appoints you; and it is having its work in making you patient, and humble, and generous, and unselfish, and kind, and courteous. Do not grudge the hand that is moulding the still too shapeless image within you. It is growing more beautiful though you see it not, and every touch of temptation may add to its perfection. Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men, and among things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles. You remember Goethe's words: Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, Doch ein Character in dem Strom der Welt. "Talent develops itself in solitude; character in the stream of life." Talent develops itself in solitude---the talent of prayer, of faith, of meditation, of seeing the unseen; Character grows in the stream of the world's life. That chiefly is where men are to learn love.

How? Now, how? To make it easier, I have named a few of the elements of love. But these are only elements. Love itself can never be defined. Light is a something more than the sum of its ingredients---a glowing, dazzling, tremulous ether. And love is something more than all its elements---a palpitating, quivering, sensitive, living thing. By synthesis of all the colours, men can make whiteness, they cannot make light. By synthesis of all the virtues, men can make virtue, they cannot make love. How then are we to have this transcendent living whole conveyed into our souls? We brace our wills to secure it. We try to copy those who have it. We lay down rules about it. We watch. We pray. But these things alone will not bring Love into our nature. Love is an effect. And only as we fulfil the right condition can we have
the effect produced. Shall I tell you what the cause is?

If you turn to the Revised Version of the First Epistle of John you will find these words: "We love, because He first loved us." "We love," not "We love Him" That is the way the old Version has it, and it is quite wrong. "We love---because He first loved us." Look at that word "because." It is the cause of which I have spoken. "Because He first loved us," the effect follows that we love, we love Him, we love all men. We cannot help it. Because He loved us, we love, we love everybody. Our heart is slowly changed.

Contemplate the love of Christ, and you will love. Stand before that mirror, reflect Christ's character, and you will be changed into the same image from tenderness to tenderness. There is no other way. You cannot love to order. You can only look at the lovely object, and fall in love with it, and grow into likeness to it. And so look at this Perfect Character, this Perfect Life. Look at the great Sacrifice as He laid down Himself, all through life, and upon the Cross of Calvary; and you must love Him. And loving Him, you must become like Him. Love begets love. It is a process of induction. Put a piece of iron in the presence of a magnetised body, and that piece of iron for a time becomes magnetised. It is charged with an attractive force in the mere presence of the original force, and as long as you leave the two side by side, they are both magnets alike. Remain side by side with Him who loved us, and gave Himself for us, and you too will become a centre of power, a permanently attractive force; and like Him you will draw all men unto you, like Him you will be drawn unto all men. That is the inevitable effect of Love. Any man who fulfils that cause must have that effect produced in him.

Try to give up the idea that religion comes to us by chance, or by mystery, or by caprice. It comes to us by natural law, or by supernatural law, for all law is Divine.

Edward Irving went to see a dying boy once, and when he entered the room he just put his hand on the sufferer's head, and said, "My boy, God loves you," and went away. And the boy started from his bed, and called out to the people in the house, "God loves me! God loves me!" It changed that boy. The sense that God loved him overpowered him, melted him down, and began the creating of a new heart in him. And that is how the love of God melts down the unlovely heart in man, and begets in him the new creature, who is patient and humble and gentle and unselfish. And there is no other way to get it. There is no mystery about it. We love others, we love everybody, we love our enemies, because He first loved us.

THE DEFENCE

Now I have a closing sentence or two to add about Paul's reason for singling out love as the supreme possession. It is a very remarkable reason. In a single word it is this: it lasts. "Love," urges Paul, "never faileth." Then he begins again one of his marvellous lists of the great things of the day, and exposes them one by one. He runs over the things that men thought were going to last, and shows that they are all fleeting, temporary, passing away.

"Whether there be prophecies, they shall fail" It was the mother's ambition for her boy in those days that he should become a prophet. For hundreds of years God had never spoken by means of any prophet, and at that time the prophet was greater than the king. Men waited wistfully for another messenger to come, and hung upon his lips when he appeared as upon the very voice of God. Paul says, "Whether there be prophecies, they shall fail" This Book is full of prophecies. One by one they have "failed"; that is, having been fulfilled their work is finished; they have nothing more to do now in the world except to feed a devout man's faith.

Then Paul talks about tongues. That was another thing that was greatly coveted. "Whether there be tongues, they shall cease." As we all know, many, many centuries have passed since tongues have been known in this world. They have ceased. Take it in any sense you like. Take it, for illustration merely, as languages in general---a sense which was not in Paul's mind at all, and which though it cannot give us the specific lesson will point the general truth. Consider the words in which these chapters were written---Greek. It has gone. Take the Latin---the other great tongue of those days. It ceased long ago. Look at the Indian
language. It is ceasing. The language of Wales, of Ireland, of the Scottish Highlands is dying before our eyes. The most popular book in the English tongue at the present time, except the Bible, is one of Dickens's works, his Pickwick Papers. It is largely written in the language of London street-life; and experts assure us that in fifty years it will be unintelligible to the average English reader.

Then Paul goes farther, and with even greater boldness adds, "Whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away." The wisdom of the ancients, where is it? It is wholly gone. A schoolboy today knows more than Sir Isaac Newton knew. His knowledge has vanished away. You put yesterday's newspaper in the fire. Its knowledge has vanished away. You buy the old editions of the great encyclopaedias for a few pence. Their knowledge has vanished away. Look how the coach has been superseded by the use of steam. Look how electricity has superseded that, and swept a hundred almost new inventions into oblivion. One of the greatest living authorities, Sir William Thomson, said the other day, "The steam-engine is passing away." "Whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away." At every workshop you will see, in the back
yard, a heap of old iron, a few wheels, a few levers, a few cranks, broken and eaten with rust. Twenty years ago that was the pride of the city. Men flocked in from the country to see the great invention; now it is superseded, its day is done. And all the boasted science and philosophy of this day will soon be old. But yesterday, in the University of Edinburgh, the greatest figure in the faculty was Sir James Simpson, the discoverer of chloroform. The other day his successor and nephew, Professor Simpson, was asked by the librarian of the University to go to the library and pick out the books on his subject that were no longer needed. And his reply to the librarian was this: "Take every text-book that is more than ten years old, and put it down in the cellar." Sir James Simpson was a great authority only a
few years ago: men came from all parts of the earth to consult him; and almost the whole teaching of that time is consigned by the science of today to oblivion. And in every branch of science it is the same. "Now we know in part. We see through a glass darkly."

Can you tell me anything that is going to last? Many things Paul did not condescend to name. He did not mention money, fortune, fame; but he picked out the great things of his time, the things the best men thought had something in them, and brushed them peremptorily aside. Paul had no charge against these things in themselves. All he said about them was that they would not last. They were great things, but not supreme things. There were things beyond them.

What we are stretches past what we do, beyond what we possess. Many things that men denounce as sins are not sins; but they are temporary. And that is a favourite argument of the New Testament. John says of the world, not that it is wrong, but simply that it "passeth away." There is a great deal in the world that is delightful and beautiful; there is a great deal in it that is great and engrossing; but it will not last. All that is in the world, the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life, are but for a little while. Love not the world therefore. Nothing that it contains is worth the life and consecration of an immortal soul. The immortal soul must give itself to something that is immortal. And the only immortal things are these: "Now abideth faith, hope, love, but the greatest of these is love."

Some think the time may come when two of these three things will also pass away---faith into sight, hope into fruition. Paul does not say so. We know but little now about the conditions of the life that is to come. But what is certain is that Love must last. God, the Eternal God, is Love. Covet therefore that everlasting gift, that one thing which it is certain is going to stand, that one coinage which will be current in the Universe when all the other coinages of all the nations of the world shall be useless and unhonoured. You will give yourselves to many things, give yourselves first to Love. Hold things in their proportion. Hold things in their proportion. Let at least the first great object of our lives be to achieve the character defended in these words, the character,---and it is the character of Christ---which is built around Love.

I have said this thing is eternal. Did you ever notice how continually John associates love and faith with eternal life? I was not told when I was a boy that "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should have everlasting life." What I was told, I remember, was, that God so loved the world that, if I trusted in Him, I was to have a thing called peace, or I was to have rest, or I was to have joy, or I was to have safety. But I had to find out for myself that whosoever trusteth in Him---that is, whosoever loveth Him, for trust is only the avenue to Love---hath everlasting life.

The Gospel offers a man life. Never offer men a thimbleful of Gospel. Do not offer them merely joy, or merely peace, or merely rest, or merely safety; tell them how Christ came to give men a more abundant life than they have, a life abundant in love, and therefore abundant in salvation for themselves, and large in enterprise for the alleviation and redemption of the world. Then only can the Gospel take hold of the whole of a man, body, soul, and spirit, and give to each part of his nature its exercise and reward.

Many of the current Gospels are addressed only to a part of man's
nature. They offer peace, not life; faith, not Love; justification, not regeneration. And men slip back again from such religion because it has never really held them. Their nature was not all in it. It offered no deeper and gladder life current than the life that was lived before. Surely it stands to reason that only a fuller love can compete with the love of the world.

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever. Hence, eternal life is inextricably bound up with love. We want to live forever for the same reason that we want to live tomorrow. Why do you want to live tomorrow? It is because there is someone who loves you, and whom you want to see tomorrow, and be with, and love back. There is no other reason why we should live on than that we love and are beloved. It is when a man has no one to love him that he commits suicide. So long as he has friends, those who love him and whom he loves, he will live; because to live is to love. Be it but the love of a dog, it will keep him in life; but let that go and he has no contact with life, no reason to live. The "energy of life"
has failed.

Eternal life also is to know God, and God is love. This is
Christ's own definition. Ponder it. "This is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent." Love must be eternal. It is what God is. On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth, and life never faileth, so long as there is love. That is the philosophy of what Paul is showing us; the reason why in the nature of things Love should be the supreme thing---because it is going to last; because in the nature of things it is an Eternal Life. That Life is a thing that we are living now, not that we get when we die; that we shall have a poor chance of getting when we die unless we are living now. No worse fate can befall a man in this world than to live and grow old alone, unloving, and unloved. To be lost is to live in an unregenerate condition, loveless and unloved; and to be saved is to love; and he that dwelleth in love
dwelleth already in God. For God is love.

Now I have all but finished. How many of you will join me in reading this chapter once a week for the next three months? A man did that once and it changed his whole life. Will you do it? It is for the greatest thing in the world. You might begin by reading it every day, especially the verses which describe the perfect character. "Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself." Get these ingredients into your life. Then everything that you do is eternal. It is worth doing. It is worth giving time to. No man can become a saint in his sleep; and to fulfil the condition required demands a certain amount of prayer and meditation and time, just as improvement in any direction, bodily or mental, requires preparation and care. Address yourselves to that one thing; at any cost have this transcendent character exchanged for yours.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. As memory scans the past, above and beyond all the transitory pleasures of life, there leap forward those supreme hours when you have been enabled to do unnoticed kindnesses to those round about you, things too trifling to speak about, but which you feel have entered into your eternal life. I have seen almost all the beautiful things God has made; I have enjoyed almost every pleasure that He has planned for man; and yet as I look back I see standing out above all the life that has gone four or five short experiences when the love of God reflected itself in some poor imitation, some small act of love of mine, and these seem to be the things which alone of all one's life abide. Everything else in all our lives is transitory. Every other good is visionary. But the acts of love which no man knows about, or can ever know about---they never fail.

In the Book of Matthew, where the Judgment Day is depicted for us in the imagery of One seated upon a throne and dividing the sheep from the goats, the test of a man then is not, "How have I believed?" but "How have I loved?" The test of religion, the final test of religion, is not religiousness, but Love. I say the final test of religion at that great Day is not religiousness, but Love; not what I have done, not what I have believed, not what I have achieved, but how I have discharged the common charities of life. Sins of commission in that awful indictment are not even referred to. By what we have not done, by sins of omission, we are judged. It could not be otherwise. For the
withholding of love is the negation of the spirit of Christ, the proof that we never knew Him, that for us He lived in vain. It means that He suggested nothing in all our thoughts, that He inspired nothing in all our lives, that we were not once near enough to Him to be seized with the spell of His compassion for the world. It means that---

"I lived for myself, I thought for myself,
For myself, and none beside--
Just as if Jesus had never lived,
As if He had never died."

It is the Son of Man before whom the nations of the world shall be gathered. It is in the presence of Humanity that we shall be charged.
And the spectacle itself, the mere sight of it, will silently judge each one. Those will be there whom we have met and helped: or there, the unpitied multitude whom we neglected or despised. No other witness need be summoned. No other charge than lovelessness shall be preferred.

Be not deceived. The words which all of us shall one Day hear, sound not of theology but of life, not of churches and saints but of the hungry and the poor, not of creeds and doctrines but of shelter and clothing, not of Bibles and prayer-books but of cups of cold water in the name of Christ. Thank God the Christianity of today is coming nearer the world's need. Live to help that on. Thank God men know better, by a hair’s breadth, what religion is, what God is, who Christ is, where Christ is.

Who is Christ? He who fed the hungry, clothed the naked, visited the sick. And where is Christ? Where?---whoso shall receive a little child in My name receiveth Me. And who are Christ's? Every one that loveth is born of God.

walao, stlh dibaca lg, ternyata gw masih kurang bngt dlm hal mengasihi > <..

Now, im still practicing, everyday.. to be a better lover.. ;) coz the life is a lesson.. ^^, drawing myself closer to God as He is Love…. So I can love… for He 1^st loved us…

sama2 bljr mengasihi yuk, biar nanti Tuhan liat kita sbg org2 yg penuh kasih :D

God with us~

The Great Sin by C.S Lewis

2009-05-02T22:41:00.002+08:00

According to a Christian teacher, the essential vice, the most evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are that, are mere flea-bites in comparison. It was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice : it is
the complete anti- God state of mind. Does this seems to you exaggerate? If so, think it over. I pointed out a moment ago that the more pride one had, the more one disliked pride in others. In fact, If you want to find out how proud you are the easiest way is to ask yourself, " How much do I dislike it when other people snub me, or refuse to take any notice of me, or shove their oar in, or patronise me, or show off ? The point is that each person's pride is in competition with every one else's pride. It is because
I wanted be the big noise at the party that I am so annoyed at someone else being the big noise. Two of the trade never agree.
Now what you want to get clear is that Pride is essentially competitive is competitive only, so to speak, by accident. Pride gets no
pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. We say that people are proud of being rich, or clever, or good looking, but they are not. They are proud of being richer,or cleverer, or better looking than others. If everyone else become equally rich, or clever, or good-looking there would be nothing to be proud about. It is the comparison that makes you
proud : the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone. That is why I say that Pride is essentially competitive in a way the other vices are not. The sexual impulse may drive two man into competition if they both want the same girl. But that is only by accident; they might just as likely have wanted two different girls. But a proud man will take your girl from you, not because he wants her, but just to prove to himself that he is better man than you. Greed may drive man into competition if there is not enough to go round; but the proud man, even when he has got more than he can possibly want, will try to get still more just to assert his power. Nearly all those evils in the world which people put down to greed or selfishness are really far more the result of Pride

To be continued.....

blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed

2009-03-17T00:18:00.002+08:00

A young adult was struggling with his faith. After growing up in a home where he was loved and nurtured in a godly way, he allowed bad decisions and circumstances to turn him away from the Lord. Although as a child he had claimed to know Jesus, he now struggled with unbelief.

One day while talking to him I said, “I know that you walked with the Lord for a long time, but right now you’re not so sure about Jesus and faith. Can I suggest to you that you are in the ‘Thomas Time’ of your life?”

He knew that Thomas was one of Jesus’ 12 apostles and that he had trusted Christ openly for several years. I reminded this young man that after Jesus’ death Thomas doubted that He had really risen from the tomb. But after 8 days the Lord appeared to Thomas, showed him His scars, and told him to stop doubting and believe. Finally ready to abandon his doubts, Thomas said, “My Lord and my God!” (John 20:24-28).

I told this young man, “Jesus patiently waited, and Thomas came back. I think you will too. I’m praying that someday you will again say to Jesus, ‘My Lord and my God!’?”

Could you be in a “Thomas Time”—finding it hard to feel close to Jesus, perhaps even doubting Him? Jesus is waiting for you. Reach out for His nail-scarred hand. — Dave Branon

There can be times when our minds are in doubt,
Times when we ask what our faith is about;
But we can believe Him, we know that He cares—
Our God is real, as the Bible declares. —Fitzhugh

Huaaa renungan ini kena banget k aku blakangan dah hopeless rasanya gak tau kenapa.
Seperti susah banget untuk jd dewasa. Truss kadang aku dah capek melihat kenyataan
dan susah untuk percaya akanjanji2 Tuhan and tetep setia mengikuti pimpinan Tuhan
Tp melalui renungan hr ini aku d ingatkan kembali untuk selalu percaya sm Tuhan meskipun
qt blon melihat. Memang susah banget namanya percaya sm sesuatu yang tidak kelihatan atau pun blon kliatan.

2009-03-12T19:19:00.003+08:00

Hii all

Ada satu renungan yg aq baca sebelumnya,
Ada seorang gadis kecil yg sangat suka menari, dia bercita cita jadi seorang penari terkenal kelas dunia. dia berlatih dengan keras, dan pada suatu hari ia membuat janji dengan seorang pelatih tari handal untuk menunjukan tariannya dan berharap kalau orang tersebut bisa membantunya menjadi penari terkenal. Setelah 5 menit ia menari, ia melihat bahwa pelatih itu pergi meninggalkan tempat duduknya dan gadis itu menjadi kecewa lalu pulang ke rumah dan kesal. Sejak saat itu ia tidak melanjutkan impiannya dan hanya menjadi ibu rumah tangga. 15 tahun kemudian, ia pergi menonton konser tari. Saat itu ia bertemu lagi dengan pelatih tari yang dulu, pelatih tersebut masih mengenali dia. Dengan curiga ibu itu bertanya, 'pak, mengapa dulu saat saya menari 5 menit anda langsung meninggalkan ruangan tanpa berkata apa-apa ataupun menunggu sampai saya menyelesaikan tarian saya, apakah tarian saya begitu jeleknya sampai tidak layak anda tonton?"
Pelatih tersebut menjawab:
"Jujur itu adalah tarian terindah yang pernah saya lihat, saya hanya letih karena baru menyelesikan beberapa rapat hari itu, saya keluar sebentar untuk mengambil kartu nama saya dan ingin memberikannya kepadamu, tapi setelah saya kembali kau sudah menghilang, jadi bagaimana kabarmu sekarang apakah kamu melanjutkan dalam bidang tarian? "
...... jawaban bisa ditebak

dari sini mari kita belajar untuk tidak cepat tersinggung dengan apa yang menjadi respon orang lain terhadap apa yg menjadi passion kita. Terus berusaha dan maju, pasti suatu saat akan berbuah hasil.
Tuhan mau kita berusaha, bukan hanya berdoa. dan ingat apapun yang kita lakukan biarlah semuanya demi kemuliaan Tuhan. Talenta dan kemampuan yang Tuhan berikan hendaknya dipergunakan dengan semaksimal mungkin karena Dia menciptakan kita unik.

God bless ^^

Happy Valentine

2009-02-14T10:56:00.001+08:00

Menyambut Hari Valentine
Mengingat Keabadian Kasih
Oleh Martina Susanti

Setiap kali merayakan hari kasih sayang sedunia yang dikenal sebagai Valentine’s Day, kita kembali disadarkan bahwa dunia ini membutuhkan kasih sayang, dunia ini membutuhkan cinta kasih sejati, yang akhir-akhir ini cenderung semakin hilang. Sebab, dunia yang kita huni sekarang ini sudah dipenuhi dengan dosa, kebencian dan permusuhan antarberbagai kelompok etnik dan bangsa. Sekalipun para pemimpin bangsa telah mengerahkan segenap tenaga dan upaya, virus mematikan yang namanya kebencian terus saja beranak pinak.
Siklus kebencian terus saja berputar makin cepat dan kuat, didorong oleh kurangnya pengetahuan, fanatisme dan propaganda yang tidak bertanggung jawab.
Para pemimpin bangsa, sudah berupaya mencari solusi terbaik atas fenomena kebencian dan permusuhan, namun masih terjebak dengan cara-cara dunia yang serba rasional.
Padahal, sebenarnya sudah tersedia solusi-solusi yang baru, inovatif, serta terampuh untuk menyelesaikan berbagai pertikaian yang berkecamuk. Solusi itu sudah ada di depan mata, kita tinggal mencomot dan mengadopsinya.
Mahatma Gandhi, seorang tokoh di India yang sangat terkenal dengan ajaran ahimsa (tidak menggunakan kekerasan), tampaknya sudah menggunakan rumusan tersebut. Meski berbeda agama dan ideologi, Gandhi toh belajar banyak dari figur sang profesor ”Kasih”, yakni Yesus.
Gandhi banyak mempelajari kehidupan dan ajaran Yesus, melalui ajarannya yang terkenal ”Khotbah di Bukit” dan kemudian mencoba merefleksikan dalam realitas keseharian.
Fenomena ini membuktikan, bahwa kekuatan ajaran kasih sudah melintas batas agama, ras, suku, dan golongan serta bersifat universal. Banyak buku yang kemudian mengulas, bahwa ajaran ahimsa sebenarnya bertolak dari ajaran kasih, yang merupakan ajaran tertinggi yang sifatnya universal.
Membalikkan suasana
Dalam kotbah fenomenal yang dikenal sebagai ajaran ”Khotbah di Bukit” itu, Yesus menghimbau para pendengarnya untuk tunduk kepada cara-cara Allah. Dalam uraiannya, Yesus mengeluarkan statement yang luar biasa: ”Kasihilah musuhmu dan berdoalah bagi mereka yang menganiaya kamu” (Matius 5: 44).
Anjuran itu bukan hanya merupakan solusi yang terbaik untuk mengatasi masalah kebencian dan prasangka, melainkan juga satu-satunya solusi yang sangat praktis. Meski demikian, ada sementara golongan yang menentangnya. Golongan skeptis misalnya menganggap gagasan mengasihi sebagai sesuatu yang terlalu muluk dan tidak praktis. Ajaran semacam ini tidak aplikabel dan sulit diterapkan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari.
Namun, jika kita mau berpikir jernih, maka logikanya adalah apabila orang-orang bisa belajar membenci –-karena terus-menerus diprovokasi dan diagitasi dengan ajaran kebencian setiap hari-- maka bukankah masuk akal untuk berasumsi bahwa mereka juga bisa belajar untuk tidak membeci alias mengasihi. Suasana semacam ini harus terus dikondisikan dan didengungkan setiap hari, sehingga terjadi internalisasi nilai-nilai kasih dalam kehidupan seseorang. Intinya adalah ajaran kasih mesti dipraktikkan, bukan hanya sekadar teori di atas kertas. Kita-kita harus menjadi praktisi ajaran kasih yang melampaui segala batas-batas dan sekat-sekat yang diciptakan manusia itu sendiri. Kita harus membalikkan suasana dari dunia yang penuh taburan kebencian, menjadi dunia yang luber bahkan banjir dengan aliran-aliran ”air bah” kasih.
Untuk itu, yang pertama kali harus dipahami adalah arti kasih itu sendiri. Istilah Yunani yang dipergunakan dalam Matius 5: 44 berasal dari kata agape. Kata ini mengandung makna kasih yang dibimbing dan dikendalikan oleh prinsip illahi.
Kasih tersebut tidak selalu harus disertai kasih sayang yang sangat hangat.
Karena dibimbing oleh prinsip-prinsip yang adil dan benar, kasih demikian akan menggerakkan orang untuk berupaya memperhatikan kepentingan orang lain, tanpa mempersoalkan bagaimana kelakuan mereka, bagaimana latar belakang mereka serta sederetan alasan untuk tidak mengasihi lainnya.
Dengan demikian, kasih agape dapat mengalahkan permusuhan pribadi maupun golongan. Ketika Yesus menghadapi prajurit-prajurit Roma yang memantek dan menyalibkannya, ia mempertunjukkan kasih seperti itu dengan tidak mengecam mereka, namun justru mendoakan, yakni: Bapa, ampunilah mereka, karena mereka tidak tahu apa yang mereka lakukan (Lukas 23: 34).
Memang untuk mengubah suasana kebencian seketika, tidaklah mudah. Namun, ada banyak pribadi-peibadi yang sudah belajar kasih agape ”Allah” dan berubah menjadi pribadi yang hangat, dan penuh kasih.
Sebut di antaranya Ibu Theresa di Calcuta India, serta pahlawan-pahlawan kasih lainnya. Mereka adalah sosok-sosok pribadi yang lugu, sederhana, tanpa pamrih, yang jauh dari publisitas, namun memiliki kasih yang sempurna itu.
Mengapa dunia penuh dengan kebencian dan sumpah serapah? Menurut Alkitab, penyebab utama kebencian di antaranya adalah berasal dari adanya hawa nafsu.
Kitab Yakobus 4: 1 dengan jernih menjelaskan alasannya: ”Dari manakah datangnya sengketa dan pertengkaran di antara kamu? Bukankah datangnya dari hawa nafsumu yang saling berjuang di dalam tubuhmu?” Ya, semua bentuk kebencian berakar dari munculnya hawa nafsu yang dituruti keinginannya.
Hawa nafsu manusialah yang sering membuat munculnya virus kebencian, karena terus-menerus dipelihara oleh yang bersangkutan. Oleh sebab itu, kasih agape adalah suasana batin yang menyembuhkan hawa nafsu yang tumbuh dalam hati dan pikiran kita.

Jalan keluar
Bagaimanapun juga, kebencian yang menjadi akar segala kejahatan, harus segera diakhiri. Kasih agape, menutup segala akar kebencian itu.
Meskipun demikian, tidak ada salahnya apabila orang-orang belajar untuk mempraktikkan kasih agape ini secara perlahan, sedemikian rupa sehingga nantinya segala macam bentuk kebencian tidak akan mendapatkan tempat lagi, khususnya di bumi Indonesia ini.
Untuk itu, ada beberapa hal yang perlu direnungkan sehubungan dengan perayaan dan peringatan hari Valentine sedunia yang jatuh pada tanggal 14 Februari 2004 ini.
Ada beberapa langkah yang perlu dilakukan, di antaranya: Pertama, kita semua harus belajar mengendalikan diri serta memangkas hasrat-hasrat yang mementingkan diri sendiri. Kedua, menempatkan kepentingan orang lain di atas kepentingan pribadi (diri sendiri) adalah cara lain untuk memadamkan konflik yang tidak perlu terjadi.
Ketiga, berhentilah marah dan tinggalkanlah panas hati. Keempat, dengan rendah hati menganggap orang lain lebih penting (tinggi) dibandingkan dengan diri kita sendiri.
Dan kelima, selagi ada waktu dan kesempatan, marilah berbuat baik bagi semua orang, tanpa ada batas dan sekat primordial dan sekat-sekat duniawi lainnya.
Semua itu, adalah dalam rangka menuju kasih agape yang diajarkan secara langsung melalui kehidupan Yesus. Belajar dari keteladanan kehidupan Yesus ”sang profesor kasih”, merupakan sesuatu yang sangat pas.
Nah, di sinilah makna peringatan Valentine’s Day menjadi sempurna. Percuma hari Valentine diperingati setiap tahun, tanpa membawa perubahan yang berarti terhadap kehidupan berbangsa dan bernegara.
Valentine’s Day harus bermakna, dan hari itu berarti momentum untuk menabur kasih dan kepedulian bagi kehidupan sesama.
Valentine berarti berakhirnya rasa saling benci di antara anak bangsa. Valentine’s Day harus segera mengakhiri berbagai konflik yang terjadi di negeri ini, dan juga di belahan bumi lainnya.

waktu vs kemauan

2009-02-01T13:47:00.002+08:00

hallo semua, dah lama nih.

Mau sharing aja, tadi pas denger Audrie ngomong 'namanya juga kalo ada kemauan pasti ada waktu, pasti coba luangin waktu'
Sering banget qt bikin alasan, ah nanti aja deh renungannya ato nolongin temen ato olah raga atau belajar bt nambah ilmu yg laen dengan alasan blm ada waktu. memang kadang ada benernya tapi kebanyakan itu karena kemauan kita kurang kuat.
Ma kasih Audrie buat ngingetin lagi tentang hal itu ^^

Met hari minggu. Gbu

love

2009-01-03T14:52:00.000+08:00

Everyone that ever lived in this world, that able to think had passed through one exactly the same question; what is the meaning of Love?

No one has ever satisfied to describe what does Love means, what’s wrong with the word? How can those billions of people deceived by that one word with one syllabus.

Lost without understanding. Deceived. Tricked. Still at the end of their life realized that all they need is love. Do we need to understand it then?

I love my family.

I love my job.

I love my husband/ wife.

I love to sing.

So? What’s the meaning of love then.

In the eyes of love the wise looks silly.

The rich looks dispossessed. The old look childish.

The great looks nothing.

Yet,

A slave can be seen as the king.

A beggar seen as an angel.

A little kid seen as the richest, the wisest of all.

So? Love seeks from within, neither the look, nor the ownership.

Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth. As described by M.Scott Peck.

I can’t agree more to this.

If you love your kids, you won’t give everything they want. You give them according what is good for them. Good doesn’t mean good in one personal account but more to the right thing. You give selectively.

When you love yourself, you won’t accept everything that other people say about you. You accept it selectively, according to what’s the right thing for you to hear.

When you say, love is always a sacrifice. Then it must be a selective one.

Love is greater than any other thing exist. Everyone needs that to be fully living, even one denies it.

Sometimes, with the presence of love

One feels happy

One feels sad

What’s the real form of love? Is that a power, energy or just a feeling?

Or it’s everything, the life itself?

Angry love, sad love, laugh love, disappointed love?

May a real loving person do all their life with love.

So, do you understand what life means?

*withlove, 3jan08

Tahun baru 2009

2009-01-01T10:30:00.003+08:00

"Karena itu saudara-saudara, demi kemurahan Allah aku menasihatkan kamu, supaya kamu mempersembahkan tubuhmu sebagai persembahan yang hidup, yang kudus dan yang berkenan kepada Allah; itu adalah ibadahmu yang sejati. Janganlah kamu menjadi serupa dengan dunia ini, tetapi berubahlah demi pembaharuan budimu, sehingga kamu dapat membedakan manakah kehendak Allah; apa yang baik, yang berkenan kepada Allah dan yang sempurna"

(Roma 12:1-2)

Di tahun yang baru ini, mari kita berdoa supaya terus diperbaharui dan lebih mengerti kehendak Allah dan yang benar, yang terbaik dan yang sempurna. Dan yang terlebih lagi, setelah tau kita lebih berani menjalankannya. Itu sih pesan yang kudapetin akhir2 ini.
bagaimana dengan kalian ?

Selamat tahun baru ! enjoy d holiday ^^

dun gv up ur religion, n ur God

2008-12-30T06:29:00.003+08:00

*crawls back from my grave*
hohoho.....

Merry Christmas n Happy New Year everyone......... \(^O^)/

mo sharing ni... (wuahaha... tumben skali cheezy sharing.....) sharing terakhir di taun 2008

barusan bolak balik alkitab.., krn belom bisa tidur jg ampe jem segini... trs ketemu ama Ibrani 10:35-39,, ceritanya ttg ketekunan....

klo uda menguji hati kita,, seharusnya ngga susah buat jd org yg tekun.. tp, spt relationship yg lain jg, hubungan ama Tuhan jg ada naik turunnya.. byasanya berapi2 abis keluar dr grj,, ato mungkin habis dr retret trs bbrp minggu kemudian uda jd org kristen yg byasa2 lg.. n ada kalanya kita bosen....
bisa dikaitkan jg sama topik berjaga2.. kita ngga boleh ngebiarin hubungan kita ama Tuhan jd renggang, barang sehari aja... rohani kita ngga bole istirahat.. soalny pas kita lg ngga liat Tuhan, dlm sedetik aja, bisa jd kesempatan buat setan bisa narik kita.. n setan itu kuat, jauh lbh kuat dr kita lo.....
selain itu,, jd org Kristen itu susah.... ngga sama kyk apa yg org2 kasi tau, org Kristen itu enak lah, percaya aja cukup buat masuk Surga... ngikut Tuhan tu ngga sembarangan,, kita mesti mikul salib (n salib tyap org beda2, ngga bisa nyontek org lain buat mikul salib kita masing2).. trs ada bnyk org yg benci ama org Kristen., yg sengaja nyusahin org2 Kristen.. trus ada jg hal yg buat bbrp org susah,, memperlakukan org lain spt diri kita ingin diperlakukan oleh org lain, ato mengasihi musuh kita....
nah..., makanya kita mesti ngejaga hubungan kita ama Tuhan.. jgn ngebiarin rohani kita tidur (spt yg uda dibahas Novi di post Berjaga-jagalah), n apalagi,, DO NOT giving up our Religion n our God.... kita mesti tekun ama Tuhan,, jgn bosen ama Tuhan, jgn menjauh dr Dia, jgn menyangkal Dia, jgn tinggalin Dia..
inget,, Tuhan uda begitu baiknya mau dilahirin ke bumi, ngejalanin idup ngga enak, mati disiksa n dipermalukan begitu buat kita., trus masi nyiapin tpt buat kita di Surga,.. its lk, all the reasons are given for us to giving our best for Him....

so,, ayo.. kita sama2 berusaha buat jd lebih n lebih serupa ama Tuhan!

btw,, denger2 kmrn ada 1 cewek yg commited suicide di Berjaya Times Square... loncat gt dr atas, ngga tau c dr lante brp.... gw ngebayangin jd org2 yg liat, palagi yg ada di bwhnya.. pasti kaget bngt d.. malah denger2 ada yg komen, "kok matinya disini c, knp gag cari tpt laen aja?".. trs, ngebayangin jd si cewek yg loncat.., pasti dia pas lg terbang dr atas ke bawah gt ngeri deh, trs sedih n nyesel.., tp uda telat krn ngga nyampe bbrp detik abis itu uda nyampe ke bawah n mati..
kita ngga boleh quit dr hidup dgn cr kyk gt... kita ada disini bukan untuk jd tertekan n jd korban dr keadaan hidup kita, tp untuk sama2jd pemenang,, bahkan lebih drpd pemenang (spt kata Paulus,, lupa dimana ayatnya).... xD

lets break a leg~~
may Gbua

n yea.. about my current situation...
^^ pas baca Ibrani 10 ttg ketekunan ini, dr ayat 19 ampe selese, mgkn ada yg bilang ni cheezy lg ditegur (sebenernya c gw sendiri yg bilang.. wahahaha).. = 3 = apalagi pas baca ayat 25... gw ngga k grj krn bbrp alesan.. hehe.. yg ngga gw kasi tau (kecuali ttg fakta klo waktu tidur gw kebalik n ampe skrg ngga bisa dibalikin lg T_T)... wlopun gw uda lama bngt ngga k grj n ikut komsel, bukan berati gw ninggalin Tuhan gw.. gw ngga bener2 ilang.... hehe =D
gw masi punya komunitas buat sama2 bertumbuh.., n masi belajar n berusaha buat jd lbih spt Yesus.., n masi baca Alkitab.., n masi berdoa.... ^^

Ujilah dirimu!

2008-12-12T14:39:00.001+08:00

Hari ini gw lagi merenung ttg suatu hal:

2 Kor 13:5
Ujilah dirimu sendiri, apakah kamu tetap tegak dalam iman. Selidikilah dirimu! Apakah kamu tidak yakin akan dirimu, bahwa Kristus Yesus ada di dalam diri kamu? Sebab jika demikian, kamu tidak tahan uji.

Re-examine ourself daily,
Saat ini gw lagi berfikir apa gw berani menguji diri sendiri dan jujur sama hasilnya, apa gw berani diuji orang lain lewat perbuatan gw. Apa gw berani diuji sm 'Yang Diatas' tentang iman gw, tentang kasih gw kepada Allah dan kepada sesama.
Yah, banyak hal yang gw masih belom mengerti di dunia ini, apa gw berani terima kalo ternyata pemahaman yg selama ini gw pegang salah dan mulai dari awal menerima sesuatu yg baru (kalo itu ternyata mmg yg benar) dan merubah segala sesuatu yg bergantung pada pemahaman yang lama. Pasti sulit yah. pasti sakit.
Well, gw mesti berani - buka segala kemungkinan - dengan begitu gw ga bias dalam menilai sesuatu. Karena gw yakin, Tuhan ga mau iman kita buta.
Tuhan mau kita buka mata selebar lebarnya dan tetap memilih Dia, dengan begitu kita mempergunakan hakikat 'free will' yang memang suatu privilege yang udh di design untuk manusia.
Dan satu hal yang gw percaya, kalo kebenaran bisa membela dirinya sendiri, karena memang ya dia udh benar.
Kalo kita percaya bahwa Yesus adalah Tuhan dan juruselamat kita, dan kita rindu mengenal dia lebih lagi, kita akan dibawa terus naik dan bukan turun (dalam mengenal kebenaran) meskipun sekarang kt masih jauh dari sempurna.

Bukannya maksud gw ngejar kesempurnaan gmn, karena sempurna itu relatif, maksudnya jadi full seperti yg Tuhan mau, yang tak bercacat. wah bayangin itu aja udh susah banget. tapi memang tuntutan kita jadi serupa seperti Kristus kan?
mikirin itu lagi, jadi kepikiran satu quote:
" in unperfectness, the perfectness shows "
ditengah2 ketidak sempurnaan manusia, dangan segala cacat celanya,
saat itulah kasih Allah yang sempurna teruji dan nyata. Kasih yang tak bersyarat, hummph ... makin dipikir makin kagum.

Mazmur 26:2
Ujilah aku, ya Tuhan, dan cobalah aku; selidikilah batinku dan hatiku.

Hummph, kedengerannya sih serem yah, tapi mungkin ini saatnya kita berani melangkah.
Challenge ourself to be better day by day.
To move on from our level.
Untuk belajar mengerti bersama, bertumbuh bersama, belajar untuk tidak gampang menghakimi saudara kita tapi bersama-sama menanggung beban, menasihati dan mengasihi...tanpa syarat.

Sudahkah kita berani berkata, 'Ujilah aku'

Tuhan memberkati.

8 dec 08

2008-12-08T13:16:00.001+08:00

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. Martin Luther

Then, why dont we spare our time and read it sometimes.

God bless!

Berjaga jagalah!

2008-11-24T11:01:00.001+08:00

Yeah be back after sometime...^^
I hope we gonna keep it touch more often by using this facility, yeah..hoho
anyway, when r u guys leaving for holiday ? I'll be going from 5 to 11 January 2009.
So, gonna be here for desember. anyone?
Cizi, gmn kabarnya ... lama ga ketemu... lama banget. ^^

Mau sharing renungan hari ini nih.

Markus 13:33
"hati hatilah dan berjaga-jagalah! Sebab kamu tidak tahu bilamanakah waktunya tiba"

Pernah di suatu tempat dijalankan sistem ronda malam, dari tengah malam sampai jam 4, jadi penduduk digilir buat menjaga keamanan lingkungan. Eh suatu hari terjadi pencurian sepeda motor pada jam 4.30 am. Nah sejak itu diberlakukan ronda malam dari tengah malam dan untuk keamanan rumah masing masing penduduk diminta terjaga di pagi harinya.

Orang kristen tidak boleh tertidur rohaninya.
Yang tertidur rohaninya,
adalah orang Kristen yang tidak ke gereja, tidak berdoa, tdk membaca firman, tidak melayani Tuhan dan sesama.
Ada juga yg tidak senantiasa terjaga rohaninya,
adalah orang yang merasa cukup hanya dengan berbakti di gereja selama 2 jam dalam seminggu.
Ada juga yg merasa terjaga padahal dia sedang tertidur,
orang yang melakukan kegiatan keKristenannya hanya sebagai rutinitas belaka tanpa menghayati maknanya. ketika ada pilihan lain yg menguntungkan mrk akan lari kesana.

Jgn buang waktu melakukan hal hal yang bertentangan dengan kehendakNya, pakai setiap waktu untuk melakukan segala sesuatu seperti untuk Tuhan dan bukan untuk manusia.
Kol 3:23
"Apa pun juga yang kamu perbuat, perbuatlah dengan segenap hatimu seperti untuk Tuhan dan bukan untuk manusia"
Maksudnya termasuk, layanilah sesama seperti untuk Tuhan.

Tuhan memberkati!

pictures

2008-11-23T17:31:00.000+08:00

Under His Shadow

2008-11-23T17:05:00.001+08:00

"I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste."
Song of Solomon 2:4, NKJ

Fruit grows in our lives when we sit under the Lord’s shadow, in a position to receive. It’s fruit from a relationship with Him. It’s for others to enjoy but it’s the fruit of His love to us. His love brings joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control (Galatians 5:22). He makes our lives sweet. Taste and see that the Lord is good.

Do you delight in being under the Lord’s shadow? Or are you sometimes too busy. I know I am. Yet when I come and sit in that place and I don’t rush away, I wonder why on earth I didn’t come sooner because the fruit is so sweet.

The Lord always gives me something fresh when I sit there. His mercies are new every morning and He makes ‘all things new’. He gives me that childlike awe of discovering something beautiful that He’s revealing in my life or in His Word.

well,, yea.. it's been a hard day... (more to a hard month, actually)

Jia you for everyone~!

Gbua

There are two kind of people in this world

2008-11-20T23:24:00.001+08:00

Some lines from The Man Nobody Knows by Bruce Barton

There are two seas in Palestine. One is fresh, and fish are in it. Splashes of green adorn it banks. Trees spread their branches over it and stretch out their thirsty roots to sip of its healing water.
.... The River of Jordan makes this sea with sparkling water from the hills. So it laughs in the sunshine. And men build their houses near to it, and birds their nest; and every kind of life is happier because it is there. The River Jordan flows on south into another sea . Here is no splash of fish, no fluttering leaf, no song of birds, no children laughter. Traveller choose another route, unless on urgent business. The air hangs heavy above its water, and neither man nor beast nor fowl will drink.
What makes this mighty difference in this neighbor seas? Not River Jordan. It empties the same good water into both. Not soil
This is the difference . The Sea of Galilee receives but does not keep the Jordan. For ever drop that flows into it another drop flows out. The giving and receiving go on in equal measure.
The other sea is shrewder, hoarding its income jealousy. It will not be attempted into any generous impulse. Every drop it gets, It keeps. The Sea of Galilee gives and lives. The other sea gives nothing. It is named the Dead.
There are two kinds of people in the world. There are two seas in Palestine

2008-11-13T21:44:00.000+08:00

Hallo para coi coi sekalian...gimana kabar anda akhir2 ini?
baek2 saja kah?saya disini juga baek2 aja...
tp uda jarang berenung...
makin juah la saya,nth gimana ini.gak bole.ga bole.buat yg uda jarang renungan kemabali ke renungan lagi ya,okok.hehehhee
jadi pengen ke gereja lo saya..ga tau kenapa,tiba2..aja..keknya di gereja lebih enak ya,hehehehe.
kalian ada berita baru apa?
hehe..ok la..lama da ga update blog.hahaha

Sharing , sunday 26 Oct 2008

2008-10-28T09:42:00.001+08:00

“Mengembang” – yesaya 54:3
Sebab engkau akan mengembang ke kanan dan ke kiri, …

Syarat untuk kita bs dikembangkan yaitu kita setia pada hal2 yang kecil.
Matius 25: 21
Kalau kita setia pada perkara kecil, Ia akan memberikan tanggung jawab pada perkara yang lebih besar.
Illustrasi:
Ada pelajar yg bercita-cita mau jadi pebisnis besar suatu hari nanti, tapi dalam sehari hari-nya dia ga telaten beresin tugas tugas sendiri, suka nyontek, kalau hutang sama temen ga bayar. Gimana mau cari pebisnis besar yang dipercaya orang kalau teman -temannya sendiri aja yang bisa jadi calon partner dimasa mendatang ga percaya karena
dari dulu dia ga jujur, ga bayar hutang dan ga ada usaha buat ngerjain tugas.

Bagaimana ciri2 orang yang dikembangkan Tuhan?
Dimulai dari diri sendiri.
Buat Tuhan, mempromosikan kita naek itu gampang, cuma Tuhan mau mengembangkan karakter kita dulu supaya kita bener bener siap dan layak menerima kepercayaan yang lebih besar, dengan begitu kita menjadi teladan buat orang lain.

Tdk penting seberapa besar gunung yang ingin ditaklukan tapi seberapa besar kapasitas yang dikembangkan Tuhan dalam diri kita.
Satu lagi, perbesar kapasitas!
Tuhan mau kasih kita berkatNya, bagian kita adalah menyiapkan tempat untuk menampung. Seberapa besar kapasitas ruang yang kita siapkan, sebesar itulah yang akan dipenuhi Tuhan.

Menembus keterbatasan.
Bangsa Israel sdh keluar dari Mesir tapi Mesir tdk pernah pergi dari hati bangsa Israel. Mereka menggerutu, bersungut-sungut, kuatir Tuhan tdk sanggup memelihara hidup mereka.

Dlm bahasa ibrani , mesir artinya ”limitation”
Overcome limitation!
Ironisnya, satu2nya yang membatasi Tuhan adalah diri kita sendiri, seringkali kita seperti bangsa Israel, ragu mentaati perintahNya, itulah yang menghalangi kita menerima berkatNya.
Apa hasilnya? perjalanan ke tanah perjanjian yg seharusnya bs ditempuh beberapa hari harus perlu waktu 40 tahun, dan Tuhan membersihkan generasi yang dalam hatinya terdapat Mesir. Generasi setelah itulah yang bisa masuk dan menerima tanah perjanjian.

Ke kanan dan ke kiri.
Sebab engkau AKAN mengembang ke kanan dan ke kiri,
Kalau Tuhan sudah berkata AKAN, tidak ada seorangpun yang sanggup menaruh kata TIDAK didepannya. Kalau Tuhan sudah berjanji, Ia pasti menepati.

Ke kanan dan ke kiri ???
Amsal 3:16
”Umur panjang ada di tangan kanannya, di tangan kirinya kekayaan dan kehormatan”

Jika karakter kita sudah dikembangkan, kita percaya akan janjiNya, maka Tuhan akan memberkati kita dengan umur panjang, kekayaan dan hormat dan kita akan menjadi berkat dimanapun dan kapanpun kita berada.

HIDUPLAH DALAM SETIAP KEPUTUSAN YANG MEMULIAKAN NAMA TUHAN.

source: Philip mantofa

komsel minggu 26oct

2008-10-25T18:05:00.000+08:00

hola, im back here again ^^
gimana nih kabarnya sekarang ...
rencana besok ada komsel habis dr kebaktian, kita sambil lunch di pyramid gt. pada bisa kan ? soalnya mgkn besok ada edvent sm peggy mau ikutan ke gereja.
gimana2 ?

what is ur future?

2008-10-23T23:11:00.001+08:00

God Has Seen Your Future And It Is Good!

Isaiah 54:2
2“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; do not spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.

At the end of 2004, during one of our services, the Lord told our church this: “I your God have gone ahead of you and I have already been to your future. I have seen it. And I declare that it is good.”

Although this word was given through me to our church, I believe that it is not only for our church, but also for every member of the body of Christ.

I tell you, when God declares your future good, it will be good! It will be filled with many wonderfully good days!

So what do you do when the Lord tells you that you are going to have a good future loaded with His blessings? You prepare for it! In other words, before the blessings come, before the increase comes, He wants you to enlarge the place of your tent and stretch forth the curtains of your dwellings.

For example, if you are believing God for a child, start reading books on babies and preparing the baby’s room. In fact, prepare to have more than one child. Start looking for a bigger place for your family for God says, “Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; do not spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.” Get ready for expansion!

My friend, God wants you to get ready, and expect such favor and increase in the days ahead that “you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants will inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited”. (Isaiah 54:3)

Because God has declared your future good, know that you stand on favor ground today. Expect good things to happen to you. Expect to see the favor of God on you and your family. Expect the blessings and increase of the Lord. Expect many good days to show up in your life!

Gelisah dan khawatir

2008-10-23T02:25:00.000+08:00

Gelisah sama khawatir sama ga?skrg w lagi khawatir x la...merasa banyak x berbuat dosa...cemana ini?
sudah beberapa hari ini kan..ga bisa tidur...ada tidur tp cuman bbrp jam..da itu terbangun, hbs itu ga bisa tdr lagi..nth kenapa...aneh...

gelisah ??

2008-10-21T07:09:00.001+08:00

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and i will give you rest.
Matt 11:28

Minggu lalu aq lagi ngalamin yang namanya gelisah dan takut dan sedih. memang hari sebelumnya renungan dapet ayat yang bilang kalo kekuatiran itu ga menambah sehasta saja dalam jalan hidup. udah ulang berulang-ulang dalam hati tapi tetep aja gelisah. Aq tanya sm Tuhan, kenapa kok kayaknya ga ada dampak, kenapa aq tetep gelisah.
Memang pas kita ngalamin kita sulit merasakan tangan Tuhan, tapi kalo dipikir balik lagi, Tuhan bener-bener memberikan kelegaan, kalo dengan kekuatan sendiri ga akan bisa balik normal secepet itu, itu aja udah anugrah yang bener2 aq rasain. God is so good.
Pokoknya serahin segala kekuatiran sama Tuhan, Dia tahu kok yang terbaik buat kita...
Jia you semua !!

renungan 16 oct 2008

2008-10-16T04:57:00.002+08:00

Malachi 3:17
They will be mine, says the Lord almighty, in the day i make up my jewel.

God's people are his jewel. they're jewel for their sparkling quality and holiness, shine and sparkle in God's eyes.
The godly are precious for their scarcity. The diamond are not common, so does godly people. Few true christians among the millions that tell that believe in God, the godly are jewel for their price.
The diamond are precious for their adorning quality. Jewel adorns those who wear them. Godly people adorn the world, honors the gospel.
While hypocrites eclipse through religion and make it badly spoken of, the saints as jewel render it lustrious by their sanctity

Bless God that he has paid the price to change you from the lumps of dirt and sin , He has made you into his jewel.

Audrie: Haaadir.... ( Setelah absen sekian lama ;p )

2008-10-14T23:28:00.001+08:00

Maaf yah teman2 setelah sekian lama tidak berkunjung hahaha. Lucu banget tes golongan darahnya haha. Ini ada share sedikit cara berdoa y effective yang ditulis sama penulis buku purpose driven life.

How to Pray Effectively by Rick Warren  Please remember what you told your servant Moses: “If you sin, I will scatter you among the nations.” Nehemiah 1:8 (NLT)   *** *** *** ***  Here are four secrets to answered prayer from the life of Nehemiah:  1. Base your request on God’s character. Pray like you know God will answer you: “I’m expecting you to answer this prayer because of who you are. You are a faithful God. You are a great God. You are a loving God. You are a wonderful God. You can handle this problem, God!"   2. Confess the sins of which you’re aware. After Nehemiah bases his prayer on who God is, he confesses his sins. He says, “We’ve sinned.” He says “I confess . . . myself . . . my father’s house . . . we have acted wickedly . . . we have not obeyed.” It wasn’t Nehemiah’s fault that Israel went into captivity. He wasn’t even born when it happened and he was most likely born in captivity. Yet, he’s including himself in the national sins. He says, “I’ve been a part of the problem.”   3. Claim the promises of God. Nehemiah prays to the Lord, saying, “I want you to remember what you told your servant Moses.” Can you imagine saying “remember” to God? Nehemiah reminds God of a promise he made to the nation of Israel. In effect, he prays, “God, you warned through Moses that if we were unfaithful, we would lose the land of Israel. But you also promised that if we repent, you’d give it back to us.”   Does God have to be reminded? No. Does he forget what he’s promised? No. Then why do we do this? Because it helps us remember what God has promised.  4. Be very specific in what you ask for. If you want specific answers to prayer, then make specific requests. If your prayers consist of general requests, how will you know if they’re answered?   Nehemiah is not hesitant to pray for success. He’s very bold in his praying. Have you ever prayed, “Lord, make me successful?” If you haven’t, why haven’t you? What is the alternative? A failure?   Is it okay to ask God to make you successful? It all depends on your definition of success! I believe a good definition of success is: “Fulfilling God’s purpose for my life in faith, love, and the power of the Holy Spirit, and expecting the results from God.” That is a worthy life objective that you should be able to pray for with confidence.  Consider this: If you can’t ask God to make you a success at what you’re doing, you should be doing something else. God doesn’t want you to waste your life.

Renungan 13 oct 2008

2008-10-14T07:40:00.001+08:00

Habakkuk 3:17-18
Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.

Gw suka banget sama ayat yg dikasih hari ini sm blog kt...
terkadang kita give thanks sm Tuhan kalo cuma kita berkecukupan, kalo semuanya ga ada masalah.dan kalo ada masalah, kita mulai bersungut sungut dan meragukan kasih Tuhan.
Tapi Habakuk menekankan disini walaupun segala sesuatu tidak berjalan dengan baik, ia tetap setia rejoice in the Lord, mengucap syukur karena ia sudah menjadi Tuhan kita.
Bagaimana dengan kita ....

Have a nice day.. jia you buat yang banyak tugas.. .keep your spirit on. and. TETEP REJOICE IN THE LORD ^^

Blood type

2008-10-10T18:10:00.000+08:00

Oh ya.ini mau share ke sini tentang blood type kita..hehehe lucu sekali ceritanya hehehe..
w dapat dari blog teman serumah saya..jadi kita semua juga tau..hahahahaahaha...
blood typenya menunjukan sifat kita gimana..hehhe kalian liat d..betul ga sama yg dibilang..hehehe

saya type o..hahahhhaa lucu sekali..kalo kalian da pernah liat..hhehehe gpp d..cuman lucu aja...
heeheheheh

Hahahahahaahahahhahaha

2008-10-10T18:02:00.001+08:00

Halllo coi coi..hahahahahahahaah selamat sore saya ucapkan..hehehehehe
sebenarnya sih ga tau mau post apa..hehehee...
cuman pengen bilang...hehehehehehehehehehehehehe pengen foto2 lagi..hehehe kapan mau foto2 lagi nih...?tp kan uda mulai sibuk...
jadi ya di undurkan sampe 2 bulan lagi...bulan 12..aja..okok..hehehehe sesi foto kita...
persiapkan hati kalian ya buat foto2 nanti..hehehehe
oh ya..cerita profile kita belum saya buat nih...heheheh
kalian juga cepat2 buat ya..hahaha (padahal w juga belum buat) hehehehe
kalian bulan 12 pulang indo ga?saya tidak pulang....hehaiahahahahaahha

uda a..ga tau mau tulis apa lagi..ok la...daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
semangat...

comic

2008-10-09T20:44:00.000+08:00

White lie vs Hard Truth

2008-10-06T13:04:00.001+08:00

Komsel, 5 oktober 08

'Speaking the right truth to the right person at the right time in the right way for the right reason'

RIGHT TRUTH
not every truth is mine to tell.
A truth shared in confidence or a truth that would needlessly hurt anyone is not mine to tell.

RIGHT PERSON
Not every person has a right to know the truth.
Some willfully distort what they hear; some use facts to attack the life of larger; some have hard and harsh tongues.

RIGHT TIME
Not everytime is appropriate for the truth.
Some seasons call for tactful silence.

RIGHT WAY
Not every way of communication honors the truth.
Sometimes the manner in which something get conveyed corrode reality.

RIGHT REASON
Some motives for telling the truth are simply too destructive to be clothed in respectability.

When it's the wrong truth or wrong person or wrong time or wrong way or wrong reason,
A white lie may have more integrity than an insensitive honesty.
But when white lie begin to turn slightly shade of gray, when does it cross over and become immoral?
A question need to be asked : does this lie protect the other person or myself.

Carlyle Marney said:
you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you flinch before it makes you free.

Less clearly we see the reality, more our minds befuddle by misconceptions and illusion, less able to determine correct action and make wise decisions.
Our view of reality is a map to negotiate the terrain of life.
By speaking the truth, we enable one another to chart accurate maps, to get from here to wherever we're going with integrity and grater wholeness.

Two Guidelines of telling truth:
1. Truth must be relevant to the situation.
2. Truth must be used to build up and not to tear down.

Dedicate ourself to speaking the truth with pertinent and LOVE even when it's difficult. By doing this we'd help one another chart maps that correspond to reality and we just might even have an easier time finding our way in life.

Drawn from article by Donald W McCullogh.

2008-10-04T05:05:00.000+08:00

Halllloo coi2..gimana kabar kalian akhir2 ini?
apakah baik2 aja?

good night..

Bohong putih ???

2008-10-01T23:27:00.001+08:00

Hii all ,
saya lagi liburan sampe 13 Oktober nih, kalaupun ada kelas paling cuma trip ke gallery atau workshop. Jadi, mungkin bisa tiba-tiba aq ngabur jalan2 kemana gitu.. hehe
Oh ya, selamat hari raya - maap lahir batin ^^

Mau share nih, kelanjutan tentang hari minggu lalu
(buat cizi yg ga dateng - gini nih, kita lagi bahas tentang "bohong untuk kebaikan". ceritanya pake contoh kejadian Abraham dan Abimelekh - kej 20)
trs aq ngajak kita semua buat berfikir, menurut kalian gimana sih bohong untuk kebaikan itu ?
contohnya apalagi di alkitab atau contoh real sehari-hari.
atau , pernah ga sih kita melakukannya?
Trs sebenernya gimana pandangan Tuhan tentang itu.
Pokoknya pikirin aja menurut kalian apa tentang topic ini.
Nanti kita bahas dan sharing bareng ya pas komsel selanjutnya, minggu ini habis kebaktian pagi. ^^

Ok deh , sampe disini dulu kali ini.
Happy Holiday ^^

He Ain't Heavy.. He's My Brother

2008-09-29T23:17:00.001+08:00

A poem that i got from my friend last time..

I think it's good...

for us to just share with others, who needs our help, whether we know the person or not, for they are still our brothers..

and it cost nothing for us to share.

so, y dun we help each other and help those who needs it?

The road is long with many winding turn

That leads us to who knows where

But I'm strong, strong enough to carry him

He ain't heavy, he is my brother

So on we go, his welfare is my concern

No burden is he to bear, we'll get there

For I know he would not encumber me

He ain't heavy, he is my brother

If I'm laden at all, I'm laden with sadness

that everyone's heart isn't filled with gladness

of love for one another

It's a long, long road, from which there is no return

While we're on the way to there, why not share?

And the load doesn't weigh me down at all

He ain't heavy, he is my brother

A Walk In The Park

2008-09-27T23:54:00.000+08:00

Read: Ephesians 5:1-14

Our house in Boise, Idaho, backs up to a park with a walking track. You can see most of the path from our kitchen window, and because of that I've learned to recognize people by their walk.

There's a lawyer from down the street who's always in a hurry, an elderly man who trudges slowly by, a woman who strides with purposeful steps. Each has a characteristic gait.

The Bible instructs us: "Walk in love, as Christ also has loved us" -Eph 5:2- and "Walk in wisdom: -Col 4:5-. I ask myself, "Does my walk reflect God's love and wisdom?" Am I "pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy"? -James 3:17-. Do I have love, joy, and peace? Am I tranquil and strong? What do others see as I walk by?

George MacDonald said, :If you who set yourselves to (theorize about) Christianity had set yourselves instead to do the will of the Master, the one object for which the gospel was preached to you, how different would be the condition of that part of the world with which you come into contact." How different indeed!

Is your life making difference in the lives around you? Do others see Jesus in what you say and do?

Walk in love, as Christ also has loved us. -Ephesians 5:2

taken from ODB Annual Edition by David Roper

Photo

2008-09-27T01:49:00.000+08:00

Halloo..ini photo yg terakhir..hehe...

btw, kalian ga update..hehehe

moments in life

2008-09-25T16:00:00.001+08:00

Hallo coiii cooii sekalian,

ini aye upload moment moment special - Selvi and Audrie's Bday ...

selamat bernostalgia.. hoho

novi

Renungan Malam....

2008-09-25T02:59:00.001+08:00

Hallo semuanya lagi..ini saya lagi..hehehe
hari ini mau share firman lagi..hehhe renungan kmrn bagus..jadi mesti kasi tau ke kalian semuanya....begini lah

Ada orang- orang yang tidak menerima jawaban atas doa- doanya, karena isi doanya tidak sesuai dengan firman Tuhan.mereka minta saya mendoakannya supaya merasa lega dan tidak kuatir.saya katakan bahwa Tuhan tidak akan melakukan hal itu, karena ia sudah memberitahu kepadamu apa yang harus dilakukan, yaitu Serahkanlah.
supaya anda tidak kuatir dan cemas, serahkanlah kepada Tuhan

bagus ya......
kena sekali ke saya...T-T
jadia kalian serahkan juga ya.....kepada Tuhan..okok...

kalian juga da pada bobo ya.....?enak sekali...saya masi belum bisa bobo..tp uda ngantok sih..tp saya masi mau buat project...buat game saya...

oh ya nov..mari kita foto lagi..hahaha..tp kapan?dan dimana?
oh ya, gimana kalo di depan pintu masuk sunway lagoon..?disana ada rumah kek western2 gt...bgs menurut saya kalo foto disana..jadi tema nya...kek bangasawan ...wakakaaka..mau pake baju apa ya?cowboy?keknya rumahnya lbh ke zaman2 cowboy..wakaakakka...
gimana kalian coi coi?
ok d..good night..
gbu..

Sad Story

2008-09-24T02:37:00.000+08:00

Halllo coi2..ini saya lagi..
kalian tau ga, w tadi kan lagi browsing gt kan..ketemu cerita sedih lo..ini saya share ke sini..okok

Dads Blessings
A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.

As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his private study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautifully wrapped gift box. Curious, but somewhat disappointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible, with the young man's name embossed in gold. Angry, he raised his voice to his father and said "With all your money, you give me a Bible?" and stormed out of the house, leaving the Bible.

Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but realized his father was very old, and thought perhaps he should go to him. He had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could make arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son. He needed to come home immediately and take care of things.

When he arrived at his father's house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart. He began to search through his father's important papers and saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. And as he did, a car key dropped from the back of the Bible. It had a tag with the dealer's name, the same dealer who had the sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words PAID IN FULL.

How many times do we miss Spirit's blessings and answers to our prayers because they do not arrive exactly as we have expected?
sedih amat sangat menurut w...
kalian da bobo ya semuanya??
btw, audrie bsk ke melaka ya....hati2 ya kesana..dan gud luck ya buat projectnya..

ini ada poto kalian..heheh

yg ini yg ber3 kek iklan aja ya..tp warnanya ok ga?cuman coba2 main sama photoshop action..hehe..

udah, sejauh ini ...ini yg bgs..hahahha..mau foto lagi?jadi ketagihan...hahaha...
kalo mau foto lagi..ganti temanya..mau ga?hahahaahha
w da jam segini blm bobo.....huaaaaaaaaa...
ya uda d..daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
good night....

KOMSEL CC

2008-09-23T23:19:00.000+08:00

Hr ini Novi n Audrie ke pertemuan pks dan pelantikan ,
pertamanya sungkan juga sih tapi thanks Audrie udh temenin .. hehe.
Hasil dari sana, kita jadi mikir,

Komsel qt unik lho. ya kan?
Pertama pas disuruh sebutin jumlah anggota, berat juga sih bilang cm 4.
Meskipun baru 4 orang cm bangga juga, bukan cuma pentingin quantitas tp dimulai dr 4 orang mari tingkatkan kualitas komsel pelan-pelan ^^
Trs tadi kita bernostalgia, ttg ci Juwi yg dulu berpatroli keliling The One buat nyari junior2 baru. Sekarang gmn ya caranya kita cari junior ?? haha. any idea? apa perlu cari Mr. nelson spt yang audrie bilang... ? hahaaha.
humm anyway,
Ko ed ngumumin system baru buat menyambut anak baru. Bukan cuma tim inti yang nyambut, tapi tiap minggunya akan digilir tim inti dari komsel-komsel buat bertugas jadi penyambut newcomers.
So, wait n see ^^
Sekian . Gbu

Gud nite coiii :)

Renungan Malam - Malam Buta

2008-09-23T03:32:00.000+08:00

Halllo para coi2..ini saya....
malam ini renungan saya adalah..... 1 tesalonika 5:18.
menurut w ayatnya cukup memberi semangat lho dari Tuhan..bahwa kita mesti sabar dan semangat terus gt..bersukacitalah senantiasa, tetap lah berdoa. mengucap syukurlah dalam segala hal, sebab itulah yg di kehendaki Allah di dalam kristus Yesus bagi kamu.janganlah padamkan roh...
jadi kan kita harus tetap bersyukur kapan pun dan dimana pun..
aduh maafkan saya, saya tidak pande menyusun kata2..wakakakakaka
trus kan w ga bisa tidur..lapar..jadi pesan mc d..
kalian da bobo semuanya ya?
ya uda d..w juga da mau bobo
besok presentasi lho..takutnya 1/2 mati..hahaahahaha
novi ujian ya?gud luck ya...daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Sharing, sunday 21st sept 2008

2008-09-21T22:30:00.000+08:00

The power of dream - dikutip dr Pst Robert Lie

Milikilah sebuah impian dlm hidup anda, karena untuk memilikinya anda tidak perlu membayar tetapi jika tidak memilikinya anda harus membayar mahal dalam hidup

What is definition of vision?
Conceptually:
Proses melihat lebih dari apa yang anda lihat sekarang (tanpa mimpi seseorang adalah mayat hidup, yang walaupun penguburan baru dilakukan 50 tahun ke depan)

Practically:
Proses mewujudkan masa depan yang anda inginkan
(untuk melakukan hal yang kecil, kita ga perlu Tuhan, but since God is with us why dont we think big)

Dalam sebuah studi terhadap orang' sukses, ditemukan hal yang sama yaitu mereka memiliki mimpi yang besar dan bertindak untuk mencapai mimpi mereka.
contoh :
Martin Luther King, bermimpi untuk kesetaraan ras.
Robert Schuller, bermimpi mendirikan gereja seluruhnya dari kaca
http://z.about.com/d/gocalifornia/1/0/g/r/500xcathedral.jpg
A Morita, bermimpi ia bisa bermain golf sambil mendengarkan lagu kesayangannya.
terciptalah sony walkman.
other dreamers:
http://www.ufodigest.com/images/undersea.jpg (Undersea hotel)
http://www.geekologie.com/2007/08/17/space-hotel-1.jpg (Hotel outer space)

TIDAK ADA SEORANGPUN YANG BISA BUNUH MIMPI ANDA KECUALI DIRI ANDA SENDIRI

{NO sacrifice, No revival}
Kalau mau berhasil jangan punya mental minta sama Tuhan, tetapi milikilah mental sacrifice.

Hidup ini seperti sebuah argo. Anda berjalan atau berhenti di suatu temoat argo tetap berjalan - Robert Lie

Hidup kita 5/ 10 tahun mendatang tergantung dari 3 hal:
- Keputusan yang kita ambil (daily)
- Dengan siapa kita bergaul.
(temenan sama siapa saja Ok, tapi gaul sama siapa mesti milih)
- Buku apa yang anda baca (input mempengaruhi output)

Mengerti bagaimana masa depan seseorang menentukan bagaimana ia bersika dan menjalani hidupnya.

Bagaimana menjadi pemimpi yang professional?
1. Miliki sasaran yang jelas
(mengerti apa yang harus dipersiapkan)

2. Penuh dengan keyakinan
(diantara 12 pengintai, Kaleb dan Joshua berkeyakinan menang bersama Tuhan)

3. Cara pandang yang berbeda.
Pemenang melihat kesempatan dalam kesulitan, bukan melihat kesulitan dalam kesempatan

4. Berani bayar harga / berani mati buat impian kita.
Visi dan kita harus berpelukan (dimanapun anda, visi anda ada disana. saat visi abda berjalan ,
anda juga didalamnya.

5. Tidak mudah menyerah

SUKSES = GAGAL + BANGKIT
GAGAL + BANGKIT = SUKSES

Orang yang sekses bukanlah orang yang tidak pernah gagal tapi mereka adalah orang yang berani mencoba.

Setiap kita adalah pemenang,
tiap kita telah melewati tahap perlombaan dan penyeleksian dari sekitar 4 juta competitor (sperma) dan hanya 1 yang mampu menembus dinding sel telur, itulah anda dan saya.
Bagaimana mungkin kita menganggap kita adalah org yang kalah.

kita diciptakan spesial:
5 hari Tuhan menciptakan semesta hanya dengan berkata kata tapi hari ke6 Allah membentuk manusia dengan tanganNya sendiri. bahkan Ia menghembuskan nafasNya ke dalam manusia.
Bagaimana mungkin kita menganggap diri biasa2.

Cek ricek:
- Apakah anda punya mimpi?
- Seberapa besar mimpi anda?
- Apakah mimpi2 kita memiliki makna?

Tuhan memberkati

BLOG PROJECT ^^

2008-09-21T21:54:00.000+08:00

Novi here ...

According to CC meeting on 21st sept,
some decision has made: (hahaha)

1. For introduction or member profile, we will make it in roll

Selvia ---> Audrie ----> Chezzy ----> Novi ----> Selvia

ex: Selvia talk about Audrie , then cont ---

2. What to put in blog :

Sharing
Devotion
Moments in daily life
Jadwal komsel
Assigment + comment + ask idea
Jadwal nonton and hang out and makan2
Movie review
Prayer request
Foto2
Etc etc...

Enjoy blogging :)

Have a nice week friends !! ^^

Gbu

drama videos..

2008-09-21T19:06:00.000+08:00

ohoho....

cheese here.. in our cell group's blog \(^O^)/ yey....

and yeah *agree with Audrie*, let us keep in touch :)

just wna share some videos with u guys.. if u haven't watch these...

Hallo audrie d sini....^0^

2008-09-21T18:37:00.001+08:00

Shallom.. semuaaa hahaha.

Pertama kalinya nih mengepost d blog komsel. Hopefully semua bisa saling share yah melalui blog ini. Terutama klo udah balik indo ato further study nantinya ato y d singapore seperti ci ju. Jadi semuanya bisa tetep keep intouch yah .

GWU

Photo

2008-09-21T17:26:00.000+08:00

Hallo para coi2...hehehe fotonya da siap 3 lembar..hahaahhahha
yg lain ntr w edit lagi ya..yg siap cuman 3 dulu..tp nth bagus ato ga...
kalo kurang atau apa bilang aja ya..okok..trus kalo mau file nya bilang ya..okok...

Hello

2008-09-19T15:05:00.001+08:00

^^ What a genius idea to have this blog... lets join together - to share and get to know each other better :)
lophe you all ^^

New Blog

2008-09-19T14:58:00.002+08:00

Hallllo...ini blog baru kita lho..hehehehe..ntr disini kita bisa share apa aja..hahahaha