The bus ride

Dec 26

Dear Amazing God,

Praises to Your Holy Name LORD! It's 11am on Dec 27 as I'm writing this. No sleep but feeling pretty good. The weather is snowy and cold—just how You created nature to be :) During one stop over, when our bus driver swapped with another, one said, “I'm going back to Canada where it's warmer!”

During this bus ride, I sat beside my coworker Wai and she shared her testimony and I was amazed at how You O God works—how we must die to self daily, how You already work behind the scenes, (ex: how You supplied the Urbana fundraising—your grace was more than enough). Dear Jesus, You also have convicted me regarding prayer, I haven't been consistently and faithfully been doing that as I used to. As well, I sensed that You were wanting to deal with a struggle of mine before I went to Urbana. The following 3 verses convicted me:

“Be devoted to one another in brotherly love” Rom 12:10
“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer” Rom 12:12
“We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up” Rom 15:1-2

The word 'hope' has popped up several times. Help me God to hope when my struggles seem hard. Thank You God for how You loved us on the cross, For “very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die, But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Rom 5:7-8. I pray for Your sufficient grace today, that I may continually die to self daily, to always fix my mind on Christ, and to live as 'Christ in me' wants me to live. In Jesus name, Amen.

Okay, so Wai beside me is sleeping and this time I woke her up so she could proof read this blog like she wanted to. but she just said, “give me 5 minutes”--see! Had I woke her up for McDonald's it would have been useless!


Wai; I would have woken up for food!