The Pursuit of Greatness

When I talk about the pursuit of greatness, I don't mean it in a selfish sort of way or some kind of self-glorification...I'm referring to being able to make a difference in this world and service to others, which glorifies God.

I'm a person who sees things beyond myself...my mindset is one that is with a broader sense of the world. I see everything on a big scale, everything in my life that I aspire to do and be is with the hopes that my life can make a difference much bigger than myself and bigger than this tiny dot on the map.

People say that I'm being way too ambitious, but like deep in my heart and in every one of us is a desire to be great. I can't accept it if I don't make a difference in this world before my life is over...The time in this life we are given is so precious, wouldn't it be such a waste to not make something out of our lives.

I believe many people at my age start to ask themselves what if any significance will their lives have and even question what they have already done with their lives. This feeling comes also as we see a rise in younger people making a name for themselves and make a difference in this world.

However, there is really nothing wrong with ambition it is neither good nor bad, the question is really the motive. God did not create us to be mediocre, he created us with a natural drive to be ambitious. He has a purpose for our lives that goes beyond ourselves.

For me personally, I feel kind of jealous in a way of people who have made difference in this world, it's like their lives seem to have so much more worth. It's sort of like if these people can make a difference in this world, why can't I?

But, I don't know maybe I'm equating worth to the wrong things???

In the book God's Answers To Life's Difficult Questions, there is the mention of Jabez who wanted God to bless him, he wanted something big, he wanted do something significant with my life. He didn't want to be ordinary or common, he deeply wanted God's blessing. There is actually nothing wrong with asking God to bless us, we can never out ask God, in fact He wants us to ask him to bless us. And, really if we do not ask how can we expect to receive.

In my life, there are many things that I can be grateful to God for blessing me with and there are also things that have been taken away from me. But, I admit that sometimes I feel like I want God to bless me more in the sense that I want to achieve my dreams and reaching out to people, to be able to make something of this life, make a difference in this world and live a fulfilling life.

Many people drift through life with no goals, no plan, no purpose or no ambition. But having no dream is drifting, to stop dreaming is to lose direction and to stop setting goals is stop growing. Growing is essential in being an emotionally healthy human. God wants us to stretch and develop and dream God has purpose for your life. The key to success is to discover the purpose and cooperate with it. Life is not intended to be half-hearted, God wants us to have ambitions.

The three misconception when it comes to having ambitions are that:

We often confuse fear with humility. Some people say that they could never do this and that, thinking they are humble, but that is fear and fear is a lack of faith. True humility is saying that with God's help I can do it, with God's blessing I will do it, I may not be able to do it on my own but with God's help I will do it. We may not have the talent but with God nothing is impossible.

Also. contentment does not mean we no goals, no desire or ambition. Contentment is enjoying each day to the fullest even though our goals have not been fulfilled yet.

People tend to equate small thinking with spirituality but why don't we serve God in a bigger way.

Well, the kind of greatness in life I'm talking about achieving in my life is like that of the lives of people such as Nick Vujicic and Joni Eareckson. I face similar situation to them in the fact that I have a disability like them, but both have made such an impact in peoples' lives and inspired so many people. If they can achieve so much in their lives, I feel the desperate need to be able to do the same. And, on the other hand, there are example of young celebrities who have achieved so much in a huge variety of fields at a young age and they make use of their position to give back to the communities round the world. It's easy to question my motives, but it is the position that they are in to be able to make a difference that I envy.

I want to be able to do design, make music, reach out to people and have my own organization to support important causes.

The lyrics of the song I Was Here by Lady Antebellum really express my feelings so aptly:

I wanna do something that matters, say something different

Something that sets the whole world on its ear

I wanna do something better with the time I've been given

I wanna try to touch a few hearts in this life

Leave nothing less than something that says "I was here"

God's Prevailing Plan

I really need to finally put my doubts and fears to rest, coz this whole about not being sure if I made the right decision to pursue my dreams which seems to be beyond what I'm capable of.

I read this article called Whose Dream Is It, which was exactly what I needed...coz it was about the exact same issue I have been having as to whether I'm chasing my own dream or if God put that dream in my heart.

#1 If God is for it, then its of Him.

We are a culture in need of an accurate view of what God is for.

God is not for greed, hate, jealousy, anger, bitterness, pride, selfish gain or deceit. So if any of the dreams in our hearts bring out these attributes in us, most likely…it is not of God.

God is for love, goodness, generosity, mercy, forgiveness, kindness and the expansion of the gospel. No matter how big, crazy sounding or wild our dreams are…if these things are represented, God is in it.

“What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?” -Romans 8:31

#2 God dreams are engaged, not isolated. 

Every day God dreams are on the verge of ending.

Shocking statistics tell us that 90% of people who begin following God’s purpose for their lives will give up before they complete the tasks. As much as I don’t want to ever be apart of that percentage, I’m sure I already have been.

I’ve given up on God before He’s even had a chance to work because I needed to have things my way. My dreams were isolated. I’ve learned the hard way, I cannot bring my agenda to God and ask Him to bless it.

Maybe it would help to remember how much is at stake because we need things our way?

“My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. -Isaiah 55:8

#3 You may feel alone at first, but God will build a community around you.

As we pursue God dreams in our hearts people will discourage us. They may not do this intentionally but Satan needs us discouraged and will sometimes use those closest to us to bring us down.

You may have people that you thought would be friends forever with leave your side as you walk towards your dream. God created us with a need for community and when we feel alone, we will feel discouraged.

God always starts a movement of Him with one person but it always ends up with a community built around it. Know that your season of loneliness won’t stay forever. Be open to those God is bringing to you. He just may use the most unlikely person in your life.

 “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” -Isaiah 41:1

I guess this has made me consider more accurately whether what I'm pursuing a God dream, but I can't say I know now if my dreams are what God wants me to do. However, I think it's important for me to know that even if it is a wrong decisions, God is there for me and is in control, I can turn any our bad choices around for good.

The whole reason I think that I've had such a struggle with this issue about whether I made the right decision to pursue my dreams, was because I failed to see that God is always there for me and even when I fall or lose my way or make wrong decisions. Therefore, I don't have to be afraid of making bad decisions because God will be there to pick me up again when I fall and guide me back to the right path.

It's sort of like a father being there for a child, giving the child room to make mistakes and learn from them, but providing the child with guidance and support, and picking the child when he/she falls down. And, the child knows that whatever situation he finds himself in, the father is there to help the child get through it and take control of the situation.

Well, no earthly father can really be in control of everything. However, we do have a heavenly father who is in control of everything. He is able to truly be there for us always and he can turn any situation around for good. There is really no mess God cannot get one out of. We can have all the plans in the world for our lives, but at the end of the day God takes all of it, good and bad, and achieves His purpose. God knows best and has ultimate control, so He is able to use our mistakes to achieve something good out of it or He directs us back to the path He wants for us.

God has given us freedom of choice, we can choose to ignore what is right God does not force his will on us. It is often the case that when we bring a problem on ourselves, we blame god as if it were his fault. When an accident, tragedy problem or crisis occurs we say it's God's will.

But the truth is that God's will is not always done, God has a will for our lives but he has given us a free will too. So when we choose to go our own way, he chooses to limit himself. He will allow us the freedom of choice to make mistakes and cause problems in our own lives. And, because everyone else has free choice, the mistakes and decisions of others can hurt us too.

However, God is in ultimate control of the final outcome. He can take all our mistakes and all the sins then turn them around and bring good out of bad. God sees what is going on, but he also has given us free choice and he does not intervene against our free will. He has limited himself. But he will use our bad choices, and even the bad things that happen to us to turn things around and bring good out of them in the final outcome if we let him.

Besides, God opens the door for us where He wants us to go through, and He shuts the doors to where He does not plan us to be. So if it's meant to be, it will work out perfectly...

Proverbs 19:21

New International Version (NIV)

 ²¹ Many are the plans in a person’s heart,

   but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.

Chasing Life

It almost feels like I've lost a piece of myself, for the way I used chronicle my life so regularly to be reduced to a rare once in a few months update...and right now i just don't know how to describe how my life has changed so much in the time that i've been away from here.


On one hand I wish I had grown up in my thinking and view of life earlier so that I could have been on the track i wanted to earlier, yet on the other hand there are so many things about me that I have lost as I've grown up that I wish i had back. If only there was way to combine my simple old self with my new found understanding of life and maturity.


But, i kinda like the way taylor swift puts it in on her official website that growing up  "doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list." So i guess there's a way to grow up without losing any part of who you are, I just really need to find the parts of me I lost back again.


I don't really know how to say how I feel like I've matured in my thinking but I just feel like I've a better understanding of who i am and who i want to be, and I feel like I'm seeing the world in a broader and clearer way. i also feel like I've learned how to be a better person and deal with what life throws at me in a better way. Just in every way, mentally and emotionally i've grown. 


But, one negative thing about my life nowadays is that the busyness of my life has coz me to suffer spiritually and to have less time to reflect about life, which helps to keep my life centered. As for how my busy life has been since my last post before the start of the last semester to now the holiday after the first half of year 2...yea, it's just been completely about studying. And, yet my results for the last sem is 3.2 but thank God my overall gpa is still at 3.5. This however means that for the next half of year 2 I have to get slightly more 3.5 to maintain an overall gpa of 3.5.


As my course has gotten tougher and as I've struggled to get my drawing up to scratch, I've began to face doubts about my choice for my life. That was basically the biggest issue that plagued me in the last sem. I always kinda felt that my passion for my course would help me overcome any obstacles but my struggles with drawing has really caused me to question if I have what it takes. But, I've just got to trust the Lord and never give up, and hopefully if I'm doing the will of God, things will definitely work out. 


Well, my life for the last sem was basically mostly school but I've also continued to be involved in singing. But, during the last sem i did become so busy that i barely attended choir and I stopped singing lessons during the whole month of August. And, yea i continue to stay away from playing chess, even though I've been asked to represent the country. But, now that it's the holiday I've returned to my singing lessons, and this up coming sem I intend to keep singing. And, i do admit that I had been so busy that I have not really gone for young adults class at church and I've not really been following my bible reading plan. But, i intend to continue these things regardless. And, the holiday has been good time for me to catch up on everything. I hope to ensure i'm well-prepared for the new sem especially in getting my drawing up to standard.


Sometimes I just can't understand about how the things that I seem to be chasing after seem to always get away from me and the things that i'm not after seems to present itself to me. Like how all this time playing chess wasn't really something I chose, it just happened that it was what i had access to. But it's only in recent years that I have begun to live on purpose, making deliberate decision on what i want in my life. So I've finally brought my life closer to the way i want it and closer to who i am and I couldn't be happier. I'm just really concern that I'm doing what i want kinda selfishly and not following what God wants me to do. 


The way i came to the conclusion on what I want to do was because God has a calling for each and every one of us and  he wants us to do something we are passionate about to serve him and glorify him and so i found out what i have a passion for and am pursuing these things. But, truth is that what I want to do isn't exactly what I seem to be good at. So I'm just not sure if I'm doing the right thing but I'm hoping that in doing that which I may not seem suited to it, God will help me to achieve what I can only do through him and the process point to how nothing is impossible with God.


And choosing the path i've chosen has been a huge sacrifice in the sense that I feel kinda left behind by my peers. Like while everyone else is either starting or finishing their university be it locally or abroad and starting to venture out into the world and experiencing life, here i am still trying to get a diploma and hopefully make it to university, mixing with people about 3 years younger. Somehow i feel like I'm missing out on the experience of getting through university together with my peers, but then again it's not like I've been able to ever hold down a proper group of friends or been able to actively participate in anything. 


It's kinda of frustrating to have never been able to truly experience life in it's entirety, I mean aren't we all supposed to have great memories of when we were in school, the things we did and the experiences we shared with our friends. Truthfully speaking, I can't say I've had an eventful school life or the memories of school i can look back on because my life used to just revolve around finishing my homework, taking examinations, playing chess as my only co-curricular activity, playing computer games and watching tv as my only leisure activity, going to church and occasional family outings. 


And even after I've made improvements in my life by finally making decisions on what I like to do with my life with the design and singing, I'm still missing out a lot. But I really wish that I had made those decisions early in my life so I could put myself in a better position to do design. Like I should have totally taken art earlier on, then again, i don't know if i would have done well enough in the exams for a subject like art. Just like how my maths used to be really crappy but now that I'm like in poly I breezed through maths. So now starting over has been tough but i guess i can take comfort that I'm doing what I love, just hope that I can make up for my lack of talent in it. 


 I admit that many others are less fortunate than me, with just surviving a day being the only thing they hope for. I just feel that there's just so much more I can do with what I've been given. So while I feel that I'm making positive progress with my life in trying to do the things I feel express who I am, I feel I'm losing out on the experiences I would have had in terms of uni life, and to experience life. But anyway, there are still so many other barriers I would have to break through even if I did make it to university and do a course in product design as planned thru A levels. To sum up really how I'm feeling about my life right now is that I feel like I'm making progress but I'm still being left behind...


That's basically how my life's been in my time away from here and how I'm feeing in all of this, but you know while some of my feelings here are not completely rational, I feel like these are legitimate concerns that we face at some point in our lives...but i guess it's a process we have to go through growing up and trying to find our place in this world, and in time I'm sure I'll see how some of these things didn't really matter and I'll come to terms with my decisions for my life...

Beginning of the Dream...

If there's anything for me to blog about regarding the slightly more than one month of holiday that are coming to an end, it would be this...the highlight of my holiday, the musical event by msm at the esplanade, the Musical Rendezvous, that I was a part of.

I must say that it was really a dream come true for me, just to be able to perform and sing on stage at a venue like the esplanade, even if it's just as a choir member. I know that I'm not that great a singer coz I'm pretty new to this whole thing, so it's been such an honour to have performed at this event.

So much has changed in such a short time, from sitting at home with only thoughts of being able to sing for an audience, to starting singing lessons and then to my first time ever singing for an event. It's just so amazing.

This holiday may not have been very eventful apart from this, but I wouldn't trade it for anything in this world. This event alone will be a awesome and unforgettable memory for me and the great thing about this is that this is only the beginning of my journey of my pursuit of one of my greatest passions, singing. Well, product design is my other passion of course.

About the experience of performing at the esplanade, it was both exciting and nerve wrecking at the same time. However, now I truly understand, what performers mean by the 'high' of perofrming on stage, the feeling is really surreal, it's like you're on top of the world, and the feeling is addictive. And, yea it was great to get to know a group of like-minded performers, in terms of that passion for singing. And, being in front of the audience singing was great and I really hope that my appearance has inspired others, that no matter what circumstances we face, we all can live our dreams...

A Quick Update

“Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” - Psalm 139:23-24
I've been feeling lately like I really want to be a better person, for the Lord to mould me into what He wants me to be...

 Somehow, blogging is no longer a regular habit for me anymore, just feel like I never have the time to anymore these days. Yea, it's kind of the holidays for me right now, so you'd think I should have the time to, which is true but like nowadays it's like I wanna do so many things that I end up doing very little and stuff like my blogging have ended up taking a backseat. On the other hand, I do find that blogging does not have the same kind of appeal to me anymore, coz like things have just been going like crazy fast for me, that I can't even stop to take note of all the interesting stuff that happens, not that I've encountered much of interest to me in awhile.

Just looking back at my old blog posts, and how religiously I wrote blog post after blog post...I'm almost amazed at how I could have sustained it. It's like I feel like I kind of miss parts of that time, when I was so free to blog...haha. Yet, I'm also quite amazed to see how much I've changed and I realise now that I didn't know that the way I used to live was kind of blessed in it's own way.

Anyway, so there is alot of cool stuff going on in my life nowadays, like coz I'm finally more certain than ever about what I want in life and finally express my heart in many ways in my life, although yea I'm still pretty isolated these days...especially also that my siblings are all overseas. Yea, and you know the whole friends thing has always kind of eluded me. However, I shall talk about all the good stuff in my life nowadays.

Basically, i made some decisions in my life and I feel I've grown up alot in my thinking. So, I decided to cut down the number of things I've been doing to focus on what matters most to me. I have actually decided to quit chess. And, I'm focussing on my product design, singing and online stuff. Yea, and I know I haven't invested myself spiritually. I've decided to spent time learning singing by practising more and getting all the recording stuff to a higher level. Coz yea, I finally got myself a recording microphone and have since used that to create videos with better vocals and backing tracks using software I downloaded and it's awesome. I'm going to practise drawing more too. And, I'm going to be setting up a blogshop soon. I'm also taking song writing classes. And, yea I'm reading my bible according to where I stopped in my reading plan, so I intend to finish that soon.  Also, the concert I'm going to be singing in is coming up real soon.

Finally, just a note about spiritually and my walk with God. I know that as I have began to opened myself up to the world, it's hard to stay focussed on the Lord and what our purpose is and I admit that I've strayed abit at  times nowadays. But, I just sincerely pray that I'll find back the parts of me that I've lost a little of from in the past, so that I can get back to the heart of worship and closer to God again. I need and want to realise again that what matters is a live lived for God. That will always be my goal first and foremost. I just want to not care about the success that the world believes in coz I keep looking at how I've not gone the conventional route in life since missing out on a place in university. Coz, in truth it's a blessing in disguise coz now I'm where I'm supposed to be. I know the route I'm taking is competitive with alot riding on talent but the Lord must have put the passion in my heart for what I'm doing now for a reason. So yea, just hope things in my life continue getting better.

Remember September

This is a post I was going to post on Jan 7 2011...but I only finished it today which is the 1st of March 2011.

So in the first month of 2011, while I was sick at home. The movie A Walk to Remember was on HBO, and so since I was too sick to do much else apart from rest and feeling bored, I decided to watch it. Of course, not that I didn't really want to watch coz it has been one of those movies that I did enjoy before, but I was like thinking it was going to be no fun since I watched it before. But anyway, i decided to watch it.

And, somehow having watched the movie many times before, it still touched me the way it did when I watched it some years ago. I just felt more than ever that I felt a connection with the movie. I read that the movie was based on a true story of a girl who was sick but met a guy who was willing to marry her even though she might not make it. This is the kind of love I've been writing about...not too long ago I mentioned in a status of mine on facebook that...

If we would live and see beyond circumstances only when we face circumstances in our lives, then we have to seriously question why we can't live like that in the first place, coz by doing so, we live life in its most purest sense...

What I meant was that people tend to live their lives a certain way but only when something happens do they change the way they live. Well, let's say for example someone gets married with someone and one party meets with an accident that disables that person. Are we still willing to accept this person? Well, it is easy to walk out but it would be too cruel to do that and I'm not saying it is a by any means a easy decision to stay on and I respect anyone who has such love that is unconditional. But, my question is if that person had already been in that condition before meeting the other person, would we still accept that person?

My opinion is that too often people tend to have certain boundaries on what they are willing to accept. But, the fact that there are certain things and people we are not willing to accept show that we are looking at life through tinted glasses. We are prejudiced against certain people and things. Of course, when it comes to right and wrong, it is clear that wrong cannot be accepted and right is what should be accepted. So my focus is on accepting differences not pertaining to right and wrong. So how can anyone be truly living or truly loving until we can live in a way that is beyond circumstances. My view is that there needs to be consistency in the way we live our lives, something seems fundamentally wrong if we change ourselves until we face difficult circumstances. But, then again, maybe that just the way we learn and become better people. That's why we face this life that is so difficult, it is like the training to become the people God wants us to be.

So what is living life in it's purest sense? I believe it is living life with an open heart and placing no conditions to the way we love and way we work. We should do everything, not for the sake of it but out of an honest and sincere place. And, i think that should be out of the love of God that overflows from within us and the passion and talents God has bestowed upon us. This is because the moment we place conditions for the person we like to be with then we are not truly loving, coz to love someone is to love because you love. And, in life we do not have to meet certain requirements for us to be happy and successful. It is about facing whatever life throws at us and everything we do is only for the goal of bringing glory to God. And, as long as we have given our best to serve the Lord be it for the church and in the secular world, that is the best we can ask for.

So how is this relevant to me? Well, the movie talks about the fulfillment of the girl's dying wishes and about unconditional love. I know that we never know how long we will live in this life here on earth but the truth is that in the condition I have, I will probably have a shorter life span than an average person and on top of that I face huge challenges in life. I just sometimes wish that one day I can experience this kind of love. And, really there is so much in this life I want to do before the end of my life...maybe it is selfish, but really don't we all have a right to find our own happiness. I mean like life would be perfect if everyone could live in such a pure sense...but I don't know if it's possible in such an imperfect world, I like to believe so...

On that note, I must say that the recent story on american idol of Chris Medina and how he showed such love for his fiance to stay with her even in the face of the condition she was in after her accident. And, recently I watched a show on TV called breakthrough, where a man who became paralysed on his wedding night and his wife continued to take care of him...so the show helped them to regained their lives and find intimacy in the relationship again despite the challenges. So perhaps, there is truly a love like that...

If only we could live like that from the very start...

As a side note, the show a walk to remember also reminded of some of the music that was really nice at that time. From the movie itself, my two favourite songs are Cry by Mandy Moore and Dare You To Move by Switchfoot.

The Simple Truth

This post was to be posted on the 16 of Jan, but I only finished it today on the 1st of March. Alot has happened between that time to now...I fully recovered from my flu, a week after the 16th of January.

Ok, I know I said I was well already last week, i.e. the 7th of January. And, I said I was feeling so great. Well, it really didn't last...I finally went back to school on the 10th, after feeling slightly better during the weekend, although I still was not fully recovered. So yea, I was pretty stressed about missing the whole week and worried I was not getting better. However, though I did continue to feel sick for most of the week, with my on and off coughing episodes, I made it through the week and yea I'm almost completely recovered already. This time it's for real, so thank God I'm really finally ok again.

But, really, I don't know why but during last week being back in school and all. I just felt so like upset with everything and everything just seem to be going wrong. So yea, that's why i just like said I was disappointed with everything, this world, people, my life and everyone. I don't know why I said those things, just felt really depressed, I didn't think at first it was coz I was sick but certainly it was part of the reason. Just recently, my life has been very different, from my jc days to the gap year, to studying in poly. And, I'm changing as a person as I grow up. Somehow, my simple mindset has started to be clouded by worldly pressures. I just have put so much pressure on myself to do well in school coz, I didn't go to university and I really want to make it there again. And, I'm like behind all my peers, well, the guys would be overtaking me soon by mid this year and of course the rest of the gals are like finishing.

You know, everyday i still ask myself if I made the right decision going to poly, coz I could have gone to the uni for other courses, but to pursue product design, I'm taking a longer route, coz there would have been another option of retaking a's and truth is I would have made it in perhaps another country. I was like questioning myself, like why am i not so smart, like I've always been slower than many of my other classmates or peers perhaps, and like it's only now that I'm in poly that I'm finally understanding what I'm actually learning. So it gives me pressure when I feel like I'm starting to face difficulties in catching my subjects as quickly again. And, i feel that my whole social issue, having trouble fitting in with people seems to be back, just when I thought I was doing better with my current classmates. I just sometimes feel like this world is cruel coz i've always found it hard to fit being different. So like my flu, probably just made me tired and so suddenly feel so negative. But, all that is now over, and I'm feeling positive and well again.

This Sunday's message at church kind of reminded me about something important relating to my feeling the pressure to be successful in the way the world perceives it. The message was about obeying God and doing  what is right, to surrender to God, and do what He wants us to do, to reach out and love others. That, this should be a natural outpouring of God's love in us. And, the speaker mentioned about, living a simple life and avoiding the pitfalls of materialsim. And, I realised that why am I so hung up about going to university anyway and wanting to do well, not that it is a bad thing but sometimes it can become too important. I needed to bring myself back to what really matters, that really I should be content with doing what the Lord wants me to do and it's not about how smart I am, how good I am or how successful in life, like life is only about doing what God wants me to do and that is the best life possible.

And one other thing I learned from the message is about service to God, to reach out to others, to help others in need just as in this verse:

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, ³⁶ I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
Matthew 25:35 


And, the significance for me is what it says at the end of the chapter that the righteous, referring to those who did these things as above will have eternal life. So, what it means is not that we need to do these things to have eternal life but it is that when we put our faith in Jesus Christ, we are forgiven of our sins and the holy spirit is in us. And, in experiencing this love that the Lord has shown us, we experience a natural out pouring of love that is expressed by service to God through helping and loving others. So it reminds us that as Christians of te importance of service.


In this world today, where everyone is chasing success, be it the american dream, the singapore dream or whatever dream, it is important to remind ourselves that what truly makes a difference in life is not how intelligent we are or how successful, it is a life lived in service to God. It is alright to chase our dreams, and be successful and in doesn't matter whether as a full time missionary or in the secular world, the most important thing is that we have a heart of service toward God and Man, and that we live soley for the glory of God in all these things.