being in weird confusing plights don't lend much comfort.
especially when the areas seem so grey and nothing can be done.
saying pushing it further is NOT the way is probably my way of saying i'm too chicken and backtracking is well.. N.A.
but then if there's anything i've learnt at all this year, it's faith and strength.

faith - "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see."
Hebrews 11:1
faith in the Father who has taken me out of every sticky situation possible.
it's a little strange, but He hasn't taken me out of every sticky situation possible, but through faith, i know He will.
does that make sense?

"These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. God has planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect."
Hebrews 11:39
Moses was a man for God, he obeyed, listened and took the Israelites out of Egypt. He challenged the pharoah, wandered through the desert for 40 years, was jeered at and given near-impossible tasks of controlling masses of people, which is evidently very VERY hard because no huge mass is like-minded at all.

so anyway, moses was promised the promise land that was to be given to the Israelites and he slogged for.. well he died when he was 120, so he must have slogged for a good 80-100 years!
and in the end?
HE ONLY GOT A GLIMPSE OF THE PROMISE LAND!
unfair isn't it?
slogging and suffering for 80-100 years of your life, waiting for the promise, but only given a glimpse of it.

so why then wasn't moses allowed to step onto the promise land?
for many reasons i'd presume.
1. because he disobeyed God
2. because he's old
okay let's concentrate on 2 first.
to enter the promise land, they had to fight kings, cross rivers and all these grisly things that require muscle.
and moses was a HUNDRED AND TWENTY years old.
realistically speaking, it is hard to be brimming with confidence when your leader is a hundred and twenty year-old man leading you to war.
and the israelites were prone to fear and often rebelled against God.
imagine if hundred and twenty year old moses told them, "PEOPLE, i will take you to fight this war and we will win."

so, following the death of Moses, Joshua was put in charge.
and through the death of Moses, the Israelites grieved and were obedient.
it was almost as though moses's death was a wakeup call for them.
so under God's mighty hand and Joshua's leadership, the Israelites finally resided in their promise land.

anyway what i'm trying to say is that sometimes things don't work out the way we want them to be.
we confuse what we want as what God should give us.
but then, through faith, we believe that God will answer our prayers and that He will be there.
does that mean immediately?
NOO, of course not.
moses was promised the promise land (actually it was abraham for his descendants and moses is a descendant), but he never got to step on it.
but because of what God had done through him, the Israelites made it to the promiseland.
THE PROMISE WAS FULFILLED!
and even though moses never got to step on the promise land and suffered, God was good to him.
He was a leader, he knew God "face to face" and "no prophet has risen in Israel like moses".
and when he died, "his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone".

so yeah, basically what im trying to say is that, confusion will pass.
sticky situations will dilute.
because God is there and He's perfect and we should always trust that what He does is right.

anyway, the past few days..


laura's christmas party :)
the food was awesome beyond awesome and the company fantastic.


kren's birthday


28th dec - OUR DAY WITH JAY!


our cooking


i love you michellee :)

so a very nice day it was today.
tuition (okay maybe not this), JAAAY, cooking and michelle :)
btw, new pics under christmas with family and christmas with friends