What More Could You Ask For?

When you ask for a friend,
His hand is always raised;
Ready to care and defend,
And wipe that tear off your face.

When you walk along the road,
With danger in every corner.
You are safe in his sight.
He's a friend like no other.

What more can you ask for?
What more can you seek?
A friend as precious as the gems
No one else can compare
What more can you ask for?
Don't ask for any less
I wish you could know him
A friend you can depend.

When you want to be heard
He's always there to listen.
When you want to be understood,
He knows how you're feeling.

If you're searching for answers,
He already had them all
For he knows all of them
All you need is to listen.

What more can you ask for?
What more can you seek?
A friend who always listens
While others only hear
What more can you ask for?
Don't ask for any less
I wish you would seek him
For in him you shall live.

Break in a Song

Sure-footed as a deer
Nothing can hold me back
For Your word I hold dear
No matter how my enemies attack
Even if the mighty falls below.
Your mercy is my heart's only cry.
But my strength will surely fail.
Without yours I would die.
You took me from the depths.
Held me up with your hands,
Tucked me closed in
Your tender loving chest.
What I want you may withold.
What I need is what you've told
My life is in your hands,
Though my heart goes cold.
I love the way you call.
I want to walk that place
That Beautiful Land of grace
To see you face to face
I want to be free!
Free from this cursed world.
Cursed!
Cursed is this world!
Flee from its shackles all you people.
Don't turn back.
For this place is going in ruins.
Run to the Rock.
The City of Refuge.
The Truth will set us free.
Oh Mother of the brave, Zion.
Break in a song.
"Holy is the Lord."

A Message

Dear child,

I know your struggles and your hardships. You have been searching for a place of your own. Happiness was something you desperately look for but you are looking for it in the wrong places. You long for love but you are doing more of the asking than with the doing. And you do not know where you are heading and what your sins can do to you.

Child, though you barely know me, I know you very well. I knit you together in your mother’s womb. I have heard your prayers before you have uttered them. I have written your life in the palm of my hands. And I have kept your tears in my heart.

I came down to you to take the punishment that is meant to be yours. I endured the cross so I may have you for eternity.

See, I have done everything for you. My grace is sufficient. Come; let me guide you to the path of righteousness. I have not left you any pictures of myself but I left you my words of eternal life.

May you find your way back to me dear child. Though you have been unfaithful, I am faithful and my arms are wide open to accept you in my dwelling.

Love,
Jesus Christ

My Culture Shock Experience

All my life, though I have never been to other places but Leyte, Samar and Cebu, it still seems that I have never had left the very place I once was born. Every place in this world is the same for me. That is why I thought I would be immune to what they call a 'culture shock'.

It remained true until I left the world to die and raised up again.

It all started when my life went crazy. Though I was used to extreme struggles, my efforts were no more than futile. Then I figured out to call a timeout.

I decided to inquire of the Maker my purpose in life. I read His words which now currently compiled into the worldwide best-selling book. It's the only information I needed.

I left home. I left everything—my family, my studies, my life—everything just to know where I really belong.

For almost three months, I spent my life in a place where God is the most important treasure. And in that period of time, I greatly changed.

The culture in that place was very different that any other culture. Contrary to the idea of cultural relativism, I finally found the culture that is above any other—the culture of being holy.

Who wouldn't be culture shocked? Everything in that place is just so brand new. The air we breathed was the presence of the Lord. The clothes we wore were the righteousness of Christ. The food we ate was the Word of God. The language we spoke were the language of angels. Our religion was taking care of the orphans and widows in their suffering and preserving ourselves from being corrupted by the world. The water we drank was the Spirit of God. There was no night in that place. There was no sun because the light in that place was Jesus Christ. We went to school were the Teacher was Jesus and we were graded according to our humility. No other wisdom can equal the wisdom that was taught to us. Everything in that place was the opposite of all the cultures of the world combined.

In a span of almost four months, I became a different person, a different creation, a different being.

When I went back to my previous home where everything was not how it was before, it seemed that I was away for centuries—longer than the eighteen years of my existence. The reverse culture shock was greater than the previous. It felt like I was in another world when I came back.

Then I was sent again to school—where everything taught has already become useless in my eyes--having given the wisdom it takes for man to live. My eagerness to learn in a worldly school suddenly faded as though it had never sprang up.

In the world I had returned to, those who were smart were given high grades; those who want to be great make others inferior to themselves; beauty is only skin deep and people are living by sight and not by faith. Everything in this world is corrupted.

My desire to return to the place I belong burned in me like fire in the furnace. I wanted to escape the world once again. I don't live in this place.

As the song goes: Comparisons are easily done once you've had a taste of perfection, and perfection is found only in the Lord Jesus who is forever to be praised. Amen.

And that was my culture shock experience.

Who Am I?

Men ought to regard me as servant of Christ and as am entrusted with the secret things of God. Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. I care very little if I am judged by others or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me.

God has put me on display at the end of the procession, like a man condemned to die in the arena. I have been made a spectacle to the whole universe, to angels as well as to men. I am a fool for Christ. To this very hour I go hungry and thirsty, I am in rags, I am brutally treated, I am homeless. I work hard with my own hands. When I am cursed, I bless; when I am persecuted, I endure it; when I am slandered, I answer kindly. Up to this moment I have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.

I am a minister of the Gospel of Christ. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ. I am a witness am not my own. I am not of this world. I am not under the law. I am not a slave. I am not inferior. I am not alone. I am bold. I am not ashamed of who I am. I am an ambassador for Christ. I am jealous for the saints with a godly jealousy. I am an intercessor who stands in the gap. I am Christ's. I am the friend of God. I am a servant of God. I am a part of the Body of Christ. I am one of the saints in Christ Jesus. I am the Bride of Jesus Christ. I am a fellow citizen with all the saints in the Kingdom of God. I am the temple of the Lord and the Holy Spirit dwells within me. I am redeemed. I am bought with a price. I am Blood bought. I am valuable to God. I am one in which God has an inheritance. I am reconciled to God. I am made clean. I am saved by the Gospel. I am born again of incorruptible seed. I am a new creation. I am in Christ Jesus. I am complete in Him. I am free from the control of man. I am free from sin. I am free from the law of sin and death. I am free from the curse of the law. I am free indeed. I am called according to His purpose. I am called into the fellowship of His Son. I am called to peace. I am called to liberty. I am called to His eternal glory. I am God's field. I am God's building. I am a branch connected into the Vine Jesus Christ and His life flows through me. I am healed from my infirmities. I am immune from every sickness and disease. I am an epistle of Christ, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God. I am Abraham's seed. I am an heir according to the promises made to Abraham.. I am part of a chosen generation. I am a member of a royal priesthood. I am a citizen of a holy nation. I am one of His own special people. I am an heir of God a joint heir with Jesus Christ. I am member of the household of God. I am nothing without God, but because of Jesus Christ, I have become a co-inheritor with Christ, partaker of His Divine Nature, co-equal with believers at the foot of the cross, a cell in the Bride's body, part of Christ's body, and Christ is part of the Trinity

That's just who I am, for this life is not about ME; it's about JESUS.

Trinity Unveiled

So many have tried to solve it.

So many have failed.

They knew it was a mystery--

A mystery so hard to explain

A mystery forever

But who knows the mind of the Lord

Than the Lord himself?

The Trinity--One God, Three persona.

The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

God in three forms.

The Holy Trinity

Creation's point of view.

The nature of the Creator can always be determined in His creations in the same way we recognize the fingerprints of the potter in his art.

The universe encompasses all the creations. It actually is composed of two different words--'uni' means 'one', and 'verse' means 'sentence'. It also indicates that God actually created the universe in one sentence.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 

Notice that it covered the three major trinity of the creation namely time (beginning), space (heavens), and matter (earth). The three are not independent on one another. Each one cannot exist without the other two.  

Space is the container of matter and no matter can occupy the same space in the same time.

The same trend goes with God Himself.

The Father is the thought behind everything.  

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14

The Son is the manifestation and the image of the invisible Father.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. Colossians 1:15

I and the Father are one. John 10:30

 Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. John 14:9b

And the Holy Spirit is the experience driven by the Son.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. John 14:26

Faith, Hope and Love

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13

God can also be related to the three gifts that will remain. Since God will never fade away, the three can stand as a trinity same with God.

The Father.                    Faith begins from hearing the Word.

Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ. Romans 10:17

The Son.                        Love is the manifestation of faith.
The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. Galatians 5:6b

The Holy Spirit.            Hope is what you get because you received the faith.

But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for which we hope. Galatians 5:5

The three will always stand as one.

The faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard about in the word of truth, the gospel. Colossians 1:5 

We continually remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 1:3 

But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. 1 Thessalonians 5:8

As If

Yeah. It's been i long time since I wrote something in my page. I've been so troubled lately and my budget for internet surfing is tight on its neck.

I suffered a bit of a writer's block since I wasn't myself these past few days. Lately, I couldn't find my place in anything that comes my way. I have some companions but I still feel that I am alone. I don't know. I'm not supposed to.

It's strange though. I'm not used to writing in this kind of way. I have so many ideas in my mind that I badly want to blurt out. But something's blocking me. It's not the computer. It's me.

I don't know what's happening to me now. It seems like everything is not so sure. Maybe I'm just afraid. Afraid of myself.

Not sure eh? As long as I breathe, I will always know that in the midst of all uncertainty, the existence of my Father and my true identity remain as the eternal truth of which I can hold on.

I won't lie to myself. Up to this time, only few really read my blog. I'm not fooling myself. Well, as long as I am able to express my deepest thoughts not to mention the shallowest of them.

Dear reader, bear it with me. God is not yet done with me. I'm still under construction as long as I am in this body.