Monthly Archive for June, 2007

first thing I’m gonna save up for

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David
on June 28, 2007
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… is a guitar.

I distinctively remember telling a lot of my close friends, especially those who play the guitar. More accurately, the sentence goes like this:

The first thing I am going to save up for when I start working is a semi-acoustic guitar.

Of course, as humans .. our priorities sometimes take a back seat when you begin to realize that you can do more than you think you can, with your money, looks, abilities. In other words, when our head gets bigger than our body.

I was scheduled to purchase a car, sometime in May or .. June, I can’t remember. Well, guess what? I’m still with my old car, and the purchase just couldn’t come through. I was ready to purchase the car already, with that little extra for me to plonk in a sound system that I’ve always dreamt of having. I justified the sound system by the amount of time I spend travelling in the car, ready to spend about RM2,XXX on a good head unit, component speakers, and a woofer. Nick gave me an amp, so that’ll be something that I needn’t spend on. But the deal just couldn’t come through! Reasons were of the funniest circumstances! So right now, my teenage dreams of owning a Satria GTi is taking a huge back seat, but there is a reason for it.

God remembers our words, and He holds it to us. But not only that, He helps us fulfill it! That one step beyond our human comprehension makes Him such an awesome God.

I was back in Penang to celebrate my mother’s birthday. I took her out to the shopping mall, just to spend some time with her but I ended up in the music shop trying out guitars. And .. after about an hour, I decided to buy a guitar of a totally unknown brand, though in which I got a whopping RM540 discount, still came up to a price of high RM2,XXX.

“My savings.“, I thought. Gone.

I doubted my purchase, even after that. Oh ye of little faith.

But God assured me.

Sometimes, it’s not always the peace of God that has to come PRIOR to a decision that determines whether it’s God’s will for you or not because our flesh will always be fighting with out faith. RM2,XXX is not a small amount of money, by my own measure of finance .. and it’s my savings for the past 7 months.

After spending time playing and using the guitar .. the revelation of God’s intention, finally came to realization.

Wait, that’s not right. :p

The revelation of God’s intention became evident.

Waiiit .. it’s not just the guitar! What about the car? No more YUPEDAC2DC?

Oh, that stands for “Young Urban Professional Executive Driving A Cool 2 Door Car“.

God will be blessing me with a 4 door, 3 mirror, 2 litre, 1 owner, car. With no financing from a financial institution. Unless you consider my dad as a financial institution .. hmm!

I’d rather not.

But yeah, I’m buying the car off my dad. The Perdana V6. I’ve always loved the car. I grew in love of the car after my dad made me clean it as many times as I went back to Penang. Not often .. but it’s quite the chore, as it’s such a big car.

Financially, it’s a better move. But more importantly, my parents get to travel around proudly in a new, safer, more comfy Honda City!

So, I was not supposed to buy a car first. I was supposed to keep to my words. And God has helped.

God’s plans are so much better, don’t ya think? So trust God. But remember words you have spoken when you were young.

God remembers.

imitate their faith

Published
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David
on June 26, 2007
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Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith.

- Hebrews 13:7 (NASB)

I thought I’d set the pace for this blog on the first entry.

When we were young, we used to imitate the older kor kors and che ches, do what they do, monkey see monkey do .. but as we grow older that trait somehow takes a back seat.

Yes, there are those who still follow what others do, like smoke and what other bad habits there be in the world, but where are the imitators of the examplary men and women today? The degeneration of values certainly has got something, if not everything to do with the lack of godly role models in our world today. While it is easy to look at the world and point out its shortcomings, I take a back seat and see how I, a mere mortal can help strengthen the value-system of the world.

I look back not-too-distant into my life from now, where my decisions were major ones that would determine my future such as what course I should take in college, uni, where I should find a job, what car to buy, what to spend my money on, where should I stay … were in one way or another, helped by the consultation of a more godly and mature Christian.

When I was in college, my Christian Fellowship advisor that has a fat cat told me to decide on a course, close my eyes .. and run on it until I was at the finish line.

When I was in university, I kept focus on the completion of my tertiary education through the consultation of a spiritual father who later, which I will share about in detail.

When I started work, I had spiritual brothers and sisters that walked beside me, teaching me values that I should keep at the workplace, encouraged me to be excellent at everything that I do for a living.

Even between the major junctures, I’ve had the priviledge to encounter great older friends who are willing to listen to my childish rants, and after, give me a greater perspective of their life for me to look forward to.

Mostly male, they’re either attached, or married. I suppose, at this moment in my life .. things seem to be moving in that direction where guidance is essential to ensure that things get off on the right foot.

God’s foot.

Coming back to my spiritual father. He is my spiritual father, because my earthly father made him to be. See, he and my dad used to work in the same bank, and my dad used to say to him,

“James, can you talk to my son?”
“About what?”
“His studies, and how much time he’s spending in church ..”
“Why can’t YOU talk to him?”
*pause
“*tsk* Just talk to him la.”

As I evaluate my own life, I begin to see traits that I have adopted [some even to the extent of their facial expressions, cause they do it so much when I talk to them that I also find myself doing it] from them. Some I pick up principles, some values, some attitudes .. you get my point. Why? Because I see the results of their conduct. And God’s blessings are obviously upon them.

And evidently, upon me too .. as I imitate them. That’s another story, for another day.

I thank God for the people He has placed in my life. Not only James, but the many that have attracted me to imitiate their faith.

So, consider the result of the conduct of the those that lead you, and imitate them.

Why bigboyalready.com?

Published
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David
on June 23, 2007
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You know how when you were younger, your parents bring you out for company dinners, social pot-luck events, Tupperware clubs .. and you meet a whole bunch of aunties and uncles who when they see you, the first thing they say is …

Big boy already ah!

The irony is that .. they never really know how much you’ve grown.

Unless they’ve read your blog.

Here’s one of a boy who’s learning to be the man that God has called him to be.