Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Higher Higher!

God calls us higher! Higher I say!

Psalm 61:2
"From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock (prophesied of Christ) that is higher than I."

But tsk tsk, speaking of "higher". The songs sung in church services are getting averagely higher and higher over time. I imagine that every worshipper who gives their guts for God's glory weekly, in singing, should attain a singing range about 1/2 an octave higher in 10 years' time. Awesome exchange I would say. :)))

So give your highest jump, widest clap, loudest shout, and greatest outburst of singing to God! After all, who wants to lose to proud lofty mountains and ugly moulding treants? :))

Isaiah 55:12
"You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands."

Monday, April 07, 2008

Quotable quotes

"This is the true joy in life - that being used for a purposed recognized by yourself as a mighty one. That being a force of nature, instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up wen I die. For the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."

- George Bernard Shaw


"Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth."

- N. Eldon Tanner


"And the whole world will know that there is a God in Daniel Yan."

- Daniel Yan, adapted from
Chronicles of 1 Samuel 17:46b