In 2 days times, we will celebrate our girls’ 3rd birthday. This year we will celebrate it bigger and hopefully better (by inviting her friends, and some our friends). My wife has been working very hard to ensure that everything is catered for. May the Lord bless her.<\/p>\n
The last few days, my big girl has been behaving very badly. She challenged authority and purposefully did all the opposites that we asked of her. Our patience was running thin and both of us felt the strains. Last nite, she woke up in the middle of the nite, run outside the room and insisted that it was morning and hence she wanted to play.<\/p>\n
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So I lectured her on God made the morning and nite. I brought God into the picture. And very tired and sleepy, prayed hard that God worked in her heart (for she refused me to pray for her…ultimate rebellions i thought).<\/p>\n
Today as I reflected on her, I prayed that God destroyed the work of the evil one (rebellions come from the devil and not God’s design)…and actually Jesus had done so on the cross. That he destroyed the work of the devil (1 Peter 3:8 –\u00a0The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the\u00a0<\/span>devil<\/strong>). And hence, I prayed for God’s mercy and grace to be upon her. Since Jesus loves us and has died for us even when we were still sinners, how much more he does not condemn us, but rather to vindicate us. So not on the basis of my piety, or my righteousness, or my earnestness and prayers…but solely on His sovereign grace & purpose in redeeming us and died for us. That His grace would have the last words and not Satan.<\/p>\n I don’t know when my girl will turn good. But I have hope in God. And I know that one of the most beautiful days in my life is not to witness her getting marriage, but to witness her turning to the Lord and be saved. How true it is 3 John 1:4<\/strong> – “that I’ve no greater joy than to hear and see that my children are walking in the truth \/ in the Lord.<\/em>”<\/p>\n So that is my prayer for my two girls. That I could witness them turn to the Lord. For only in Him is salvation and life everlasting, the true happiness and fulfillment.<\/p>\n I must say big thank you to all her ARPC teachers. They wrote her a very nice birthday card with special prayers. May the Lord bless them and their families too.<\/p>\n So, 3 years, how it runs so fast.<\/em> Well, all are in God’s hands.<\/em> What is\u00a0it these last 3 years?<\/em> How many more years to come?<\/em> I have no greater joy than to hear that\u00a0<\/span>my children are walking in the truth. ~3 John 1:4<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2 days times, we will celebrate our girls’ 3rd birthday. This year we will celebrate it bigger and hopefully better (by inviting her friends, and some our friends). My wife has been working very hard to ensure that everything … Continue reading
\nWhat have I done?<\/em>
\nWhat have I accomplished?<\/em>
\nI have not achieved much these last 3 years.<\/em>
\nI could not remember anything big these last three years.<\/em>
\nExcept my days spent taking care the girls and hoping they turn out well.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAnd I have resolved that I can’t and won’t take any credits in it.<\/em>
\n\u00a0I believed they will turn out well.<\/em>
\nAnd my only prayer is that I could see it and rejoice in it.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe days are short, and the nights are long.<\/em>
\nI don’t know what I had done.<\/em>
\nOnly God knows.<\/em>
\nAnd I have kept the faith and run the race.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI don’t know, but only God knows.<\/em>
\nAnd I pray that I might be faithful and continue in the faith.<\/em>
\nLord, I thank you for seeing me through these 3 years.<\/em><\/p>\n