Light of the world,

You stepped down into darkness

Opened my eyes, let me see

Beauty that made this heart adore You

Hope of my life spent with You


And here I am to worship

Here I am to bow down

Here I am to say that You're my God

You're altogether lovely

Altogether worthy

Altogether wonderful to me


King of all days

Oh, so highly exalted

Glorious in heaven above

Humbly You came to the earth You created

All for love's sake became poor


I'll never know how much it cost

To see my sin upon that cross




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Friday, December 4, 2009

*.* Of guitar strings, stillborns and people who never died *.*

I was re-stringing my guitar thanks to Siew Ho for the awesome preeze of a new string set. THANK YOU :D

As I was stringing my guitar I got pricked here and there, and I pretty much spent all the night fixing it up. But it was really worth the while and yes, it sounds great compared to my previous strings! Bright and resonant :)

It was when I had all the strings tuned right that God revealed to me, how the Christian life is JUST like stringing the guitar.

Think of the guitar as a whole, as the Body of Christ. The different ministries and people that make up the Body are all good in different things. Some feature more prominently than others, some are more resonant in effect and some are supporting in nature. But the truth really is that, the Body of Christ will only function as it should if every ministry/person is in tune to his/her/its role in the Maestro's grand scheme of things. While the low E string might want to shine aurally like its cousin of higher key (non-musicians pardon me), it's clear that guitars can't do without it as a bass string. And the A, D, G and B strings give the guitar its variety of scales and harmonics (as well as tonal quality) that distinguishes the final sound from other string instruments.

Yes, it's true. Sometimes God will stretch us and put us under tension in order to shape us and help us find our optimal 'key' - just like tuning the guitar. But fret not for he won't stretch you beyond what you can bear (as is so for tuning strings!) He'll stretch you that little, test the sound, and stretch you further, test the sound again and further and further...
All the way till He can present you mature in Christ - ringing with the tone he meant you to.
And don't worry because He doesn't make mistakes like ordinary guitarists do, breaking strings (or am I the only one? :P)

Love,
Jerome

By the way, check out this cool site on stillborns in Christ (remember Jiahui's question last cell? :D)
http://www.cradledinheaven.com/

Also, please be informed that I now know of three people in the Bible who never died:
Elijah, Enoch and Stephen (Acts).
The Apostle John is also suspect but unconfirmed.

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