Thursday, December 2, 2010

The whole nine months



WooHoooooo!!
TWEET TWEETTTT!
I have survived 9 months of SBS (School of Biblical Studies).

IT has really been tough for me but it was worth every single pain! :)
For those who do not understand, i am the kind who can't sit still for more than an hour, i gotta keep moving coz i'm a kinesthetic learner. But this SBS is the kinda school whereyou gotta sit and study all day. it is beyond what i could imagine. It was really my DAD up there that has been giving me strength and hope. He is indeed the treasure worth going through 9 months.
After all, the whole nine moths has birthed within me a new person who knows what discipline and self control really means and the greatest treasure is to have a deeper intimacy with DAD through His words like never before. I used to treat the Bible like sleeping pills but now i have a better understanding about it.

9 months are too short to know Him so i believe this is not the end, it is just the beginning of everything coz after knowing, it's time to live it out then we'll figure out that it's the truth not just some nice words.

I got to experience many things in the school. Conflicts, both inner and outer. Inner in terms of battling with myself and questions that i had in my mind, and telling myself to press on when i felt like letting go. Outer conflict would challenges like choosing to show love to others when i feel that they don't deserve it (so conflict with others but it is an opportunity to practice love) Discipline, in terms of telling myself to do something i don't feel like doing but i know it's gonna do good to me. Financial challenge like school fees where i had to pay $2150 per each semester (total 3 semester, you do the math) not to mention the daily expenses.
The 1st semester fee came from someone i don't know through someone that said a donor just wanted to share blessings and i got to be one of the chosen ones to receive it. The 2nd semester fee came from up above (refer to my post below entitled "A LOVE LETTER"). The 3rd fee was quite a story too. I decided to put my camera, the Kenny (refer to prev posts) on ebay so that i could pay up some of the fees. As i was dealing with some potential customers on ebay, sending the current pics of the camera to one of them in the morning, later in the evening one couple texted me saying that they were sending my schoolfee. I broke down and cried because i was so ready to say g'bye to my camera. That was really amazing.

On top of that, one of my great friends came to SIngapore struggling and fighting cancer. I was helping her and saw how God worked in her and through her. I got to learn so much from her and God in the situations. She passed away. But God is amazing and her life was a testimony coz she said (refer to the word in english on the botttom part of the pic):

That was one heck of experience too.

So, the whole nine months have taught me tons!
If I turned back time, i still would do it all over again...

"Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but i press on to take hold od that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the foal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Jesus Christ Jesus. Let us live up to what we have already attained" -Philippians 3:12-14,16

1 comment:

Chantel Tuckert said...

Lydia you never stop amazing me. Thank you for being the obedient child of God you are.
Your life is a testimony to me and every time I feel down and seek strength I read your blog. You have helped me to seek God do often I cant count anymore. Continue on the path ahead God is doing a great work in and through you!
Thank you Lyd! God Bless!