We Are That Light. (Repost)

"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will." ~ Romans 12:2

At these times, peer pressure is everywhere, they're are totally unavoidable. Most of the time, just the sake of impressing our friends, we follow what they say and what they do. Sometimes, they're even teenagers that get into drugs, alcohol, pornography, smoking, masturbating, pre-marital sex etc. Just because their friends are doing it. As simple as this, this way, teenager's lives are being destroyed. This is how Satan is trying to destroy us, he's preventing us from rising for our generation.

The Lord said,"You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by man.''~ Matthew 5:13

We are the salt of the world, Satan is right now, using everything and anything that means neccesary to damage thrising generation. But, nevertheless, the prophecy of God ruling over all things is going to be fulfilled. Satan is working harder than ever to stop us, and are we just going to let Lucifer poison our minds, and just lead us to eternal burning in Hell?

Stop being deceived! You see, whatever it maybe, Satan's strongest in his arsenal, is actually 'deception'. Even from the time of man, we were already deceived by Satan. Remember, how Satan lied to Eve so she'll eat the fruit? and then later giving it to Adam so their purity will be compromised? You see, even teenagers these days, are just full with life responsibilities. And some teenagers, even resort to suicide to solve their problems. Believe me, everyone who commits suicide will go to hell.

This is because, by simply taking out our own lives away, we're rejecting the salvation that our wonderful God has given to us. When someone commits suicide, he's also 'expediting' his journey to Hell. I'll give an example, your examination is coming, and you did not study, and when exam time came, you simply gave up, not even trying, thus the result would mean that you'll fail, no? If we look it at a different way, it'll mean exactly as not putting up our armor of God which is God's word, and then later in life, we reject the "exam", and we'll go to Hell. Life is like an exam(well sort of), if we reject the exam, it'll also mean that we're rejecting life and God's salvation. Then, we'll be more than worthy to go to Hell.

Stop being decieved! in Romans 12:2, it also tells us that our mind CAN be disciplined. Negative thoughts can be changed to positive thoughts, and tempting thoughts can be erased. Now, that'll make life so much better, isn't it? We should be the trendsetter in living for Jesus, instead of a follower who lives like the world.

We are the rising generation of this world, we are the salt of the world, we are the light of the world, the Rising generation WILL rise up to stand up for God and his word. When the world perishes, only 2 things will remain, the souls of men and God's word.



Let me tell you the story of Gideon.....



The land of Israel was full of sinful and cowardice people, and God allowed Israel to be conquered by the Midianites for 7 years. And then there was a famer by the name of Gideon, one day, while he was beating wheats, an angel of God suddenly, appeared to him and said : "The Lord is with you, mighty warrior." Gideon was a weak and poor farmer nevertheless, and his clan is the weakest in Mannesseh, therefore it'll be natural for him to think that God choose the wrong person, and he did. But God said: "I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites together." and please note that Gideon from there on, became a one-man army. "strike down all the Midianites TOGETHER.".....



"Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, and he blew the trumpet, summoning the Abiezrites to follow him." ~ Judges 6:34


When the Lord fills us with the Holy Spirit, we can do many wonderful and great things. For instance, just as the Lord commanded Gideon, he commanded Martin Luther King Jr. to lead the black people in America to demand equal civil rights in the country. And so he did....



Gideon was ready of the uprising against the Midianites... And then God commanded Gideon to gather 22,000 men (for the army), but God felt that was too many, and so God commanded Gideon to tell the men which were scared, uninterested and unwilling to lay down their lives to leave.

And 2,000 men were left. And God still felt unsatisfied with the number, so he told Gideon to command the soldiers to go to the lake to drink water, then God kept an watchful eye, many soldiers put down their swords and spears and many were lapping water like a dog at the creek, while a small number knelt down while holding their spears and gently cupping the water into their mouths like civilized men. And these men, came up to the number of 300, and God choose these men for the war, and the rest packed up their bags, and went home to drink tea.

When the time of war came (night), Gideon gave every each of the 300 men, a torch to put inside a pitcher, and a trumpet. And in the middle of the war, God commanded Gideon to tell the soldiers to shatter the pitcher, and then blow the trumpet. And then shouting: "A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!". And as the uncountable amounts of bright light suddenly emerging from the battlefield, and the very powerful power of the sound of the trumpets. Then, all the Midianites ran to and forth, crying out in confusion, and killed each other with their swords in the turmoil. And the vast number of the Midianites warriors was reduced to almost nil, and they fled far away.


You see, my friends, that light emerging from the darkness, that light that suddenly caused all the Midianites to kill themselves is our faith for our God, and that powerful power of the trumpet is our will to Stand up for God's word, and rise up against Satan.

We're the rising generation of this world, and our sole duty is to obey God and stand up for God and fight against sin. That light can be also imagined as our faith in the middle of darkness, which is sin.

Imagine a gargantuan crowd of mixed people from all sorts of nations, and every faithful Christian were to be given a torch, and when you turn off the 'lights', suddenly there's darkness, but out of nowhere a vast number of lights suddenly emerge from the darkness, and then slowly the darkness itself is being consumed by the blinding light. And then the darkness is no more, but what remains is just the Word of God and the souls of Men.

Are we going to let the greater future, be endangered by Satan's pathetic lies? Are we just going to sit on our arses, while the world is being engulfed over sin and poverty? Are we going to let Satan rule over the world?

Then let's together, as the rising generation of this world, stand up for God's word and send Satan back to HELL! Let's do our part to welcome Jesus back, lay out the red carpet for Jesus!

Leon Lim

p.s. This is a repost.

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch, in this lecture, he describes he has pancreatic cancer, and the doctors said he only had a few months left of good health. Hence, the titled lecture, "The Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". Randy Pausch died of the age of 47 in 25th July 2008.

In this lecture, he talked about:

1. Achieving own childhood dreams

2. Enabling other people's dreams

3. Lessons learned in life

Here are some good lines highlighted from the lecture:

Arrogance can limit what you can achieve in life.

Brick walls are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.

Don't bail; the best gold is at the bottom of the barrels of crap.

Don't complain, just work harder.

"Head fake":

If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, and the dreams will come to you.

End Times

These are easily the most exciting days to be alive, not just because of breathtaking advances in technology and science, but because we twenty-first-century Christians have more reason than any generation before us to believe that Christ will return to take us to His Father's house.

We are not the first generation to think like this, of course, for history reveals that many interpreted the events of their day as fulfillments of end-time prophecies. In some cases their date setting and speculation turned off more people than it inspired , but at least they were studying the Scriptures in an attempt to properly discern the times. Many of them sincerely longed for Christ to end the moral corruption and deterioration of their age by ushering in His kingdom of righteousness. All Christians consider such a possibility an infinite improvement on this war-weary and sin-cursed world.

We should not be surprised that those of past generation were confused about end-time events, for events, for even Daniel, one of the greatest of the Hebrew prophets, was commanded to "shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end" (Daniel 12:4;the "time of the end" refers to the days just before the beginning of the Tribulation, up to and including the seconds coming of Christ).

One reason for their confusion is that the sealing of end-time events made it more difficult to understand the "signs of the times." The "unsealing" or ability to understand end-time prophecy, according to Daniel, would wait until " many shall run to and fro, and the knowledge shall be increased" ~Daniel 12:4. Hardly anyone doubts that ours is a day when people are "running to and fro" and knowledge has increased. Both secular knowledge and the knowledge of prophetic truth have increased tremendously in this century alone. We believe we are on the verge of obtaining even greater prophetic insights than at any other time in the last two millennium.

That others before us were wrong about the nearness of the Lord's return should not deter us from searching the Scriptures, now that some of the end-time prophecies are being unsealed. The ability to rightly evaluate the signs in our times increasing almost daily, from the Israel by Russia and her Arab allies, to the emergence of China, many other events - all part of the end-time prophetic tapestry.

The technological capabilities of this generation permit us to see the fulfillment of events that were impossible just one generation ago. Christ could come today, and no prophecy of the end times necessary for His coming would go unfulfilled.


Soon enough, I will do a post regarding the Mayan Calendar, and about the people who are taking advantage of its existing popularity in order to gain money. Same concept as the Da Vinci Code. The Mass Media is very powerful, and it'll brainwash you.

Leon Lim
credits to "Left Behind" novel.

爱

How can you say you love God, but you don't love your neighbor as you would love yourself?

Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' ~ Matthew 22:37-39

Picture this.

Dear readers, just wanted to post up some beautiful pictures which I have taken from this past year or so during some memorable trips around the Peninsular Malaysia. (Pulau Tioman and Melaka) To give thanks to God's creations. And these are some of my favorites. Enjoy. Feel free to comment.

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The Zhou Dynasty Emperor conferred the surname “Lim” or “Lin” in Mandarin to one of his subjects in 1122 BC in Hebei Province, Central China. Over the years, his descendants migrated to various parts of china, especially to the south. Years later, during the Soong Dynasty, a member of the 117^th generation of the Lim clan was sent from Fujian (Hokkien) Province to Hainan Island to serve as the governor. The first descendant of the Lims in Hainan Island that settled down in our present village (Ooi Siang Sui) comes out of the 121^st generation. I belong to the 136^th generation.

Great Great Grandfather became the District Governor of the Lui Chew Peninsular, just north of Hainan Island. He returned to Hainan Island after his term there. Before this, he worked as a school teacher and post master. Most of the Ooi Siang villagers were farmers and were illiterate. They addressed Grandfather as “Kwa Kong” or “Grand Officer” in respect of his position as the district governor.

The name of our village “Ooi Siang” originally meant “the village of the Ooi’s”. Great Great Grandfather changed the written text to mean “Grand or Great Village” – same intonation but different text meaning. The village was founded by Ooi’s but they had been overwhelmed by the Lim’s. Other settlers in the village carried various other surnames that included “Han”, “Foo”, “Tan”, and “Goh”.

What's your family history?

Leon Lim