Mobile Number Portability. Faith too?

Switch to DiGi

Mobile Number Portability has just hit Malaysia. Officially launched just last Wednesday now Malaysians everywhere can switch from one provider to another and keep their existing mobile number. That's a HUGE boon to consumers everywhere and honestly I am leaning towards switching to DiGi but will probably wait till their 3G services are launched.

The Uber Cool HTC Touch Pro

I'll most likely be buying over my bud J-son's new HTC Touch Pro (as he can't send emails out through it) and looking at how things are at work; getting an unlimited data line to access email and the web would be quite cool. I am heading out for meetings a little more these days and quite possibly I'd see an increase in that as I start liaising with clients more. Emailing them on the go is pretty good too cos' sometimes I'm at church or somewhere else and taking some time in-between activities to answer emails would help pace things for me at work. There's just a tonne to do in the office and sometimes it's just quite overwhelming.

Convenience is something that all of us look for but that's not true when it comes to God. Sometimes it seems as if God can be a convenience in life for some of us. I'm learning a lot more that God is NOT a convenience. He has good plans for us yes and I believe that how we feel and what we go through is on His mind too BUT our comfort & happiness is NOT the most important thing to Him. His relationship with me is what it's all about. It's about BEING not about striving. That seems so contradictory ... how can I be if I do not first get there? I'm still figuring this out about God but I'm glad that I have Him.

As much as I struggle in my faith to make it real and to rest in Him; I have that deep assurance that He is the constant in my life. And I can be 100% honest with Him about the way I feel and the things I go through because He is the ONLY one who does not judge me. In Him there is true acceptance. Unlike Mobile Number Portability where we can switch from one provider to another; there is only one provider in life; God. I can't explain it 100% but believing in God is not just about knowing it in our heads and hearts; it's also about stepping out and putting a measure of faith in Him. I believe that's what the Bible talks about when some of the authors in there write about how blessed are those who believe even though they have not seen.

I'm off to Bentong today. An old classmate from school just got married today and the dinner is on tonight. I have mixed emotions about seeing my old friends; I just hope they don't egg me about whether or not I'm seeing someone. That question is always hard to take ... especially at weddings.

Ta!

Doing What's in Our Hearts ... and Iron Man?

I've been continuing my reading of "Celebration of Discipline" and there was a part in Chapter 2 that caught me about the doubts we have in our heart when we commune with God. I have made a lot of difficult decisions in life based on a feeling of what God is saying to me and I suppose I wouldn't have it any other way. Sometimes I wonder if it's just me but there are many times when I find myself obeying the nudging in me to do things that I wouldn't do ordinarily. Right now I guess I'm learning how to find balance in between my thoughts and in obeying the nudging I feel in my heart & spirit at the times when I feel it.

Eastern religion sees meditation as an emptying of one self but Christianity goes a step further to fill that emptiness with God. I wouldn't say we need to empty ourselves but more so we need to tune in and shut out the world and all its distractions. Meditating on God means being filled with so much of Him that we cannot help but change. We human beings don't like that do we? Change. Because secretly we like being flawed ... we like being imperfect because it gives us an excuse to continue living our lives the way we want to live them. Without Him. Now that's a scary thought; life with God.

Anyways, I digress ... There are far worse ways to make decisions and as I grow older I learn how to balance going with an impression from God to also making educated decisions with the faculties that God has given me. I am learning that it's all about balancing both. On one extreme we can just make calculated decisions based on facts and on the other extreme we can also just make decisions based on feeling & promptings too. To balance it out I suppose that's where knowing God's purpose and will comes in. God never changes. Not one single bit. He's the same yesterday, today and forevermore. Now that's an awesome thing ... that we work with what we have and at the same time to be guided by Him.

The Invincible Iron Man on Blu-ray!

Anyways, I am somewhat inspired by Iron Man. I just watched it again this evening and it's a great movie. There's one bit in the movie where Stark is talkin' to Pepper Potts about doing what's right and knowing deep down in his heart that he's doing the right thing. I guess that's what I feel most times when I am just doing what God is wanting me to do. I'm still learning a whole lot to do that. I heard somewhere once that the problem with us hearing from God is this:

"If we were to truly hear from Him would we obey Him?"

Now that's something to ponder about. There are many things in our lives that we want God in but as I read in "Celebration of Discipline" today; God is not interested in partial Lordship. He wants it all. All of us. That may sound awfully harsh to some people but the fact is that after living on planet Earth for the past 30 years; there is no other person I'd rather be surrendered to than God. I have made a mess of my own life through my own inadequacies so the best thing to do would be to learn how to listen to Him and to obey Him. Granted, that the path isn't always the easiest in following God; but would we have it any other way?

Think about it.

P.S. Incidentally, Iron Man has just been released on Blu-ray & DVD and I am gonna get my very first Blu-ray movie soon! My regular DVD shop in Cineleisure ran out of stock 2 weeks ago and I've asked them to reserve me a copy when the new shipment arrives next week. No HDTV yet tho' ... all the power of my PS3 is currently being cramped by my Panasonic Tau at 480p. Ha ha ... the evils of materialism!