Thursday, April 29, 2010

Tools.

I learned a new word today, nihilism, the belief that life is meaningless. Can a Christian be nihilistic? Maybe.

A man perched far away from God, a man who can only look back at times once glorious but nevermore, he has lost all hope in sanctification. His idea of God gradually became warped and tainted. He reeked of indifference but yet he still stubbornly holds on to the fact that God still exist. He is one very weary soul, no longer aware of his purpose nor calling and life to him becomes meaningless once again.

Like a broken tool sitting in the dusty corner of the blacksmith's workshop, once upon a time useful to the master but nevermore. It got tired of the molding, the pounding, the sharpening, into the fire and out of the fire, it just couldn't see the master's intentions. It then snapped, cracked and never saw action anymore. It now sits useless, oblivious to the potential it once had, watching as the master works through his other tools.

*Now after a run and much pondering about what i've just blogged, i finally reasoned over myself if God's the one chucking people aside.

Well it isn't really God who's chucking us aside. When it comes to Christianity, it always takes two hands to clap and it happens that God's hand is always there, it's usually our hands which isn't in place. The weary soul can become a wealthy soul if it is a willing one, willing to re-realize that God has indeed come to seek and save the lost ( which includes those who were found but are lost again).

Sunday, April 25, 2010

1 Timothy 1:5

But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

Just some thoughts.

Love from a pure heart is a pure love, a love free from selfish motives, free from obligations (duty), free from immorality. In relation to who? To God, love from a pure heart is to love Him for who He is, untainted view of His character. Did not the Beatitude say that only the pure in heart shall see Him? To love others is to do so unconditionally, automatically, unbiased, not out to get something (recognition? Mr-nice-guy status, etc), not bound by oh-the-bible-said-so and definitely not for show.

Good conscience. What makes it bad? Sin. A unconfessed sin taints the conscience. A bad conscience paralyzes faith. To be without faith is to live without God. Staying too long this way degenerates my relationship with God. Backsliding is then imminent. To have good conscience is to be right with God, to be right means to be blameless. To confess sin and receive forgiveness leads to good conscience, if still stuck with a bad conscience, check heart, check attitude, pray and be brutally honest with God.

Sincere faith. A faith that is genuine in God, one that is not for show. Motive for showmanship may include, attracting holy girls, garner praise and respect from men, avoid grilling sessions from leaders, etc. A genuine faith can only come from a genuine relationship with God and a genuine relationship can only bloom out of time spent with Him.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Lessons Learned: Attitude.

Do you know? During each day's debrief, some of us would have to go out to the front and share with everyone our lesson(s) learned that day. May it be safety issues like leaving stuff back in the plane or not looking out for other aircrafts on the ground, we'd have to share what we've learned from the mistakes we made. So this is it, an after course lessons learned.

ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING. (well almost.) In flying, attitude refers to the orientation of the aircraft in respect to the horizon. Being able to fly straight and level is of utmost importance and attitude plays a major part in that. In other words, if your aircraft is traveling at a particular speed, you have to adopt a certain attitude to maintain straight and level flight. If you are too close to the horizon, your aircraft would probably gain height, if you're too far, you'd probably go on descend, so your attitude must be perfectly right in accordance with your speed.

Isn't that how it goes in life? The success of the things we do usually depends on our attitude towards them. If i go like, oh bummer it's maths again, chances are i'm going to under-perform for this subject. However if i tell myself to give everything my best shot, it'd be highly likely that things would turn out fine, well even if a desired outcome is not achieved, there is still much consolation in knowing that i've done my best. So it's kind of a win-win situation there.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Day 25.

HAHAHA my course commander says my personality and character suits to be a pastor and i have this air of spirituality around me. Prophetic? HAHAHAHA

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Day 24.

GO HOME LOH! :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Monday, April 19, 2010

Day 23.

TOMORROW IS MY 解脱!

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Day 22.

Sigh. like how the hokkien saying goes, "eh siu jiu si eh siu, bei siu jiu si bei siu" (can swim means can swim cannot swim means cannot swim). No stress! No stress! Indifference is the way to go!

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Day 21.

3rd week already. It's been a brutally draining week, still alive nonetheless. 2 more sorties to go before my test and chances are this might be my last week. Sigh, i'm gonna be so sad when a couple of my buddies leave this tuesday, don't know why cant they wait and let everyone go back together. Oh wells.

So i guess this is it then, it being fun and all. Certainly was tough but it's still a really cool experience. Can't wait to get back to home. 好想家man!

Day 20.

WOW chicken rice! Nom Nom Nom.

Friday, April 16, 2010

My Cups of Comfort.


Totally essential for the weary-hearted.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Day 19.

MMmm much better than yesterday! What a good flight to round up the week's work. Time to unwind and chilllllllllllax. :D

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Day 18.

Whoa really bad flight, totally lost my composure. Sigh, i guess any actions without motivation are just dead actions. :|

Day 17.

Mom always says the sweetest things. <3 my parents for being so encouraging and understanding.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Day 16.

Nose blocked. No flying allowed. Good thing it's only for today. :] More mental flying!

Monday, April 12, 2010

Day 15.

WAH STRESS LEVEL JITAU MAX. x_x

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Day 14. Two Weeks Already!

Time flies. I've been two weeks here in Tamworth, Aussieland already. It's sunday today, 0930 am right now and i've just finished studying my area orientation and instrument gauges, and no i did not stay up all night to study those lol. Woke up at 7, lazed a bit and headed for breakfast, did a bit of QT and hit the books. Oh ain't i industrious? Sleeping is such a waste of time.

It's funny. It's sunday and i'm not heading to church. My course has like 50% christians and they went off to a church in town not too long ago, all cept for this bad boy here in front of the screen. Sigh. If there's a time i detest being called a christian it'd be certainly right now. Not so much of renouncing my faith, i just kinda hate coming under the label of christian (meaning: someone who goes to church). Why? Because the christians are generally despised in this group. Nope not because they uphold the name of God and exercise their faith but because of their hypocrisy and bad behavior. Sigh, what bad testimony we're showing to the others.

Good thing I'm independent, i dont find church to be mandatory at this point of time (here, far away from home.) and need no reliance on men to feed me the word, i'm content with attending my Bedside Baptist Church(BBC, lol). Yea, my pride would be my downfall someday but hey, as of right now it's serving me well. Please pray that i'd stay strong in God and continue to be different and yet be at peace with all men.

2 weeks. That's like the longest time i'm away from home. I'm glad to hear my parents' voices every time i call because they sound so jovial whenever i call. Ha, i'm sure they miss me as much as i miss them. And i've gotta thank my buddies for their encouragements! Thanks James, Samuel and Sing Hwa for all your timely encouragements. They're much needed and appreciated as it could get pretty lonesome here some times.

Stress levels will certainly be up this week. Just finished most of my theory and now moving on to practicals. It's a complete different story up in the air, reactions are expected to be at lightning speeds and errors are totally unaffordable. Nevertheless it's a UBER unique experience taking controls of a plane and immersing in the freedom only birds enjoy.

Day 13.

Oh Saturday please don't go awayyyyy. =(

Friday, April 9, 2010

Day 12.

FIRST FLIGHT TODAY. Whoa, super exhilarating please but forgot so much theory on the plane! CUI man.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Sigh.

Day 11.

Bad weather again but the heavy down pours today sure cleared up the skies a lot. Tomorrow shall be a better day.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Day 10.

Booooooo. Flight cancelled due to bad weather. Oh well, just have to settle for tomorrow.

Day 9.

Lava Cake FTW. And it's time to don the flight suit and fly the first sortie tomorrow!

Monday, April 5, 2010

Day 8.

Back to work! First flight in a couple day's time! Very excited. Very.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Day 7.

One week and counting. Oh and Nundle is a bundle of fun.

:O, taken @ Mount Misery, nope not a torture chamber, but a GOLD MINE.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Day 6.

Thanks for singing me to sleep every night, Corrinne May.

Everything in Its Time.


sighs.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Day 5.

Thank You Abba Father, for giving us Your Son.

Day 4.

Being an ass and playin' a little basketball.