Posts Tagged ‘God’
{ March 10, 2010 @ 7:49 pm }
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{ Christianity, Church, Faith, Health, Hospital, Personal, Religion, Testimony }
{ Tags: Academics, Blogs, Cell Group, Christ, Christian Fellowship, Christianity, Exams, Faith, God, Medicine, Personal, Relationships, Religion, Spiritual Life, Testimony } · { }
Have you become totally impatient with yourself? I have heard even the strongest Christians cry in utter frustration, “What’s wrong? I’m supposed to be a ‘new creation’ in Christ, but nothing seems to be changing. It’s the same old me!”
You may spend wakeful nights, feeling you can’t possibly measure up to God’s expectations of you, but put your mind to rest. Realize that spiritual growth is a process; sometimes a long process. Genuine maturity does not happen overnight.
The following Scripture, with which you may be very familiar, offers some helpful insights: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17, NKJV). In the original language the full meaning is that old things are in the process of passing away; behold, all things are in the process of becoming new.
This refers directly to your life. What God is telling you is that all things in your soul and your innermost being are in the process of being transformed in and through His Life!
Don’t be impatient. Don’t be frustrated with yourself when progress doesn’t come as quickly as you’d like. You aren’t failing God. In His time He will complete a work in you that far exceeds what you could ever imagine or believe!
{ March 8, 2010 @ 6:53 pm }
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{ Christianity, Church, Faith, Health }
{ Tags: Blogs, Christ, Christianity, Faith, God, Jesus, Personal, Relationships, Religion, Spiritual Life, Testimony } · { }
As you prepare for bed tonight, consider what is troubling you the most at this point in your life. What (or whom) have you been calling on to help you with this problem?
How easy it is, in moments of panic, to call on everything we can think of (except the Lord) to relieve an uncomfortable situation. Maybe we call on the refrigerator, an aspirin or a coke. Anything to give us relief.
Or there are other alternatives, too…like complaining, venting our feelings on others, sleeping to escape, or just giving up.
Yet all these temporary means of relieving discomfort do little to help us cope any better the next time. Only the Lord can do that. That is why He urgently tells us over and over again to call on him. He wants us to get into the habit of letting Him come to our rescue, day and night. He promises us, “He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him…the LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth” (Psalms 91:15; 145:18, NIV).
{ March 6, 2010 @ 11:04 pm }
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{ CF, Christianity, Church, Faith, Health }
{ Tags: Blogs, Christ, Christian Fellowship, Christianity, Faith, Forgiveness, God, Jesus, Life, Medicine, Personal, Relationships, Religion, Spiritual Life, Trials } · { }
Hidden unforgiveness is the root cause of many sleepless nights – yet how many of you are aware of it? Sometimes our negative hold on others keeps our own spirits in a vise far below our conscious thoughts. Unforgiveness can be a tormentor.
One very powerful testimony is from a man named Bob who didn’t believe God wanted him to forgive his neighbor for molesting his child, yet ever since the incident he had been plagued with many tormenting physical ailments. A clergyman convinced him to go to his neighbor and freely forgive him. The impact of this meeting was so powerful that the neighbor accepted the Lord several weeks before he died. Meanwhile, every one of Bob’s symptoms was healed.
Jesus once told Peter to forgive his brother “seventy times seven.” Why? I think it may have taken Peter that many times to deal with unforgiveness in himself! Forgiveness is a very serious matter for God says: “…if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses” (Matthew 6:14-15, NKJV).
Ask the Lord to search your heart tonight and reveal any buried resentments of which you may not even be aware. Once they are purged, you will have sweet dreams.
{ March 6, 2010 @ 1:29 pm }
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{ Christianity, Church, Faith, Health, Medicine }
{ Tags: Blogs, CF, Christ, Christian Fellowship, Christianity, Faith, God, Jesus, Medicine, Personal, Religion, Spiritual Life } · { }
Are you fretting tonight about someone who is almost driving you crazy by rationalizing everything to his own advantage? Most of us, at one time or another, have been almost driven to the end of our ropes by people who hide behind their own carnal or twisted reasoning in order to avoid the truth and manipulate others.
“Don’t worry about the bills,” one man told his wife. “Just live one day at a time.” “I don’t know why you fuss over taxes,” another one said, “When they want my money, they’ll come get it.” It can be maddening! But it’s comforting to know that Jesus, too, had to deal with folks like this. Perhaps one key to His serenity was that He didn’t let their distorted thinking get to Him. He took them all with a grain of salt.
“‘What can I say about such men?’ Jesus asked. ‘With what shall I compare them? They are like a group of children’…John the Baptist used to go without food and never took a drop of liquor all his life, and you said, ‘He must be crazy!’ But I eat my food and drink my wine and you say, ‘What a glutton Jesus is!’…I am sure you can always justify your inconsistencies” (Luke 7:31-35, TLB).
If someone’s mental gymnastics are irritating you tonight, try taking the same attitude Jesus did. Pray that his darkened mind will one day be enlightened by another Source and hold fast to the serenity He has promised you.
{ March 6, 2010 @ 12:44 am }
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{ CF, Christianity, Church, Faith, Health }
{ Tags: Blogs, Christ, Christian Fellowship, Christianity, Christmas, Faith, God, Hospital, Houseman, Malaysia, Medicine, Personal, Religion, Spiritual Life, Testimony } · { }
This song ‘Who am I’ by Casting Crown caught my heart. A song that speaks of our human weaknesses and meakness, which also speaks of God’s wondrous grace and might. The lower and humbler we get, the greater the God in us. Grace comes when there is repentance. His strength comes when we are weak. He is the Alpha and Omega of our faith. A tower of shield in times of trouble…
As a house officer, I owiz aware of my limitations and incapabilities. But God is there, and He is owiz there. As long as we empty ourselves, He will fill us up back again…
Who am I – Casting Crowns
Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth
Would care to know my name
Would care to feel my hurt
Who am I, that the bright and morning star
Would choose to light the way
For my ever wandering heart
Not because of who I am
But because of what You’ve done
Not because of what I’ve done
But because of who You are
CHORUS:
I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
Vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I’m calling
Lord, You catch me when I’m falling
And You’ve told me who I am
I am Yours, I am Yours
Who am I, that The Eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love
And watch me rise again
Who am I, that The Voice that calmed the sea
Would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me
{ March 3, 2010 @ 11:05 pm }
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{ Christianity, Church, Faith, Health }
{ Tags: Campus Life, Cell Group, Christ, Christian Fellowship, Christianity, Desire, Dreams, God, Hope, Jesus, Personal, Relationships, Religion, Trials } · { }
As a child, did you ever wish upon a star? What did you wish for then? What would you wish for now? Some of you might want a spouse; some a bigger house; some a sense of happiness, and some would just hope to make the next car payment.
King David had his own way of “wishing upon a star.” He wrote psalms to the Lord expressing his hopes and dreams. In this psalm he told God exactly what he would want if he could have but one desire fulfilled: “One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD And to inquire in His temple” (Psalm 27:4, NKJV).
What an incredible testimony this is to the love David had for His God! How many of us would ever have thought of that?
Yet that is exactly what God is hoping we’ll desire! Over and over again He exhorts us to dwell in Him; to abide in Him; to come to the “secret place.” Where is this secret place? It’s in your heart. It is the place where you will truly experience His beauty and receive His counsel in all things.
Seek the Lord and ask Him to help you dwell there, as David did. As you do, may you enjoy a bountiful rest.
{ February 26, 2010 @ 2:06 pm }
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{ Hospital, Housemanship }
{ Tags: Blogs, God, HO, Job, Love, Passion, Pressure, Relationships, Religion, Work } · { }
Pressures from work can weigh on your soul in the middle of the night like a wet blanket. Has your work become dreary? Is it taking you twice as long to do things than it used to? Has the striving to get somewhere become too much?
One dark, stormy night, the twelve apostles were together in the same boat. There they were, out on the sea of Galilee trying to get to Capernaum, but Jesus was not with them. They were left to struggle with the storms of nature on their own, and quite frankly, they were not getting very far.
Suddenly an amazing thing happened: “…they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near the boat; and they were afraid. But He said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.” Then they willingly received Him into the boat,, and immediately the boat was at the land where they were going” (John 6:19-21, NKJV).
When Jesus, the God of love, joined the endeavor, they immediately got to their destination! This story gives us a major insight as to what love can do for any project. When love is involved, time flies; work is accomplished with grace and ease. Pray for love of your work! Pray for Jesus, the power of Love Himself, to get into your “boat” and lead you through.
{ February 3, 2010 @ 5:08 am }
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{ Hospital, Housemanship, Medical studies, Medicine, Personal }
{ Tags: Academics, Blogs, God, HO, Hospital, Houseman, Life, Malaysia, Medical studies, Medicine, Personal, Testimony } · { }
Its kinda getting late, almost 11pm already. I better finish up this post and go to sleep fast. In this depart, we need to sleep early, in order to wake up in time and start our morn rounds at 6am. I began to feel ‘old’ recently. Sleeping early….
The condition in really challenging our patience. Imagine, its already almost 1 week, there was not a single pink branulla or opsite in the whole ward. I wonder what is the sisters doing. Is it the whole hospital is running low of branulla stock or is it plain laziness??? I dont understand. But this problem of low stock of equipments in the ward is really really making our job difficult and stressful.
Imagine, a patient came in with high grade fever associated with cough and SOB… We need to take blood C&S before starting antibiotics. If we start antibiotics without taking any culture, boss is gonna give us a ‘piece of his/her mind!’. But the whole ward, bottle for blood C&S NOT AVAILABLE! Geram betul…. Sometimes I just feel like knocking my head on the wall.
But what to do, this is part and parcel of being a houseman. Getting frustrated and irritated for things that are within our control… I seriously need the grace of God to keep me steady and cool in the midst of all this nonsense…
{ January 28, 2010 @ 10:31 pm }
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{ Academics, Faith, Hospital, Housemanship, Medicine, Personal, Testimony }
{ Tags: Academics, Blogs, Faith, God, HO, Hospital, Houseman, Malaysia, Medical studies, Medicine, Personal, Testimony } · { }
I was oncall last 2 days. Tat was an eventful call, cuz i oncall with a ‘Jonah’ MO. That was this patient, referred from a peripheral hospital. 60 year old malay lady, known case of diabetes melitus, hypertension, congestive cardiac failure and chronic kidney disease. She complain of right abdominal pain with vomiting and diarrhea. The working diagnosis was, 1) Sepsis secondary to ? source, TRO Pneumonia, 2) Acute kidney injury on chronic kidney disease, 3) Underlying DM, HPT, Chronic kidney disease, Congestive Cardiac Failure. She was having spiking temperature with urea about 44.0 and ABG of metabolic acidosis.
Patient was attended by MO oncall in A&E. He then call me thru the ward and asked me to trace the PT/INR and then to do a Peritoneal Dialysis(PD) for this patient after reviewing the PT/INR. PT/INR results came back normal and I was requested to PD this patient.
So then I did the PD for this patient. I inserted the PD cathether into her abdomen. She complain of abdominal pain. Managed to run in 1 litre of hypertonic fluid. But when I tried the outflow, initially came out clear fluid, but then came out about 50-100cc of turbid, yellowish fluid with some whitish material. Being afraid of perforating her bowel, I quickly alerted the MO oncall.
MO came and see this patient. After looking at the PD fluid, he said ‘Its shit!!! And U r in deep shit!!!’ Then he said ‘Initially we planned this patient for maximum medical management, but now that u have perforated her bowels, we have to HD this patient!!!’ Now that he has tonnes of work to do, he was kinda irritated with wat I has done.
We then referred this patient to surgical, TRO Perforated viscus. Also refer to GA for Haemodialysis via femoral catheter. I got myself into writing referral the referral letters.
The following day, the surgical team came to review this patient, their impression was, TRO perforated viscua. They then planned this patient for exploratory laparotomy. Patient’s condition was optimised and then she went for exploratory laparotomy.
But, thanks to God’s wondrous grace. Post op diagnosis was appendicular abscess and pus collection over right illiac fossa. Bowel was normal!!! Patient was actually having sepsis secondary to appendicular abscess. and the turbid yellow fluid during my PD insertion was the pus discharge from the appendicular abscess.
I dunno whether I will be requested to present a morbidity review on this. But Im glad that, my so-called ‘Traumatic PD’ lead to the correct diagnosis. She is currently in ICU. Pray that she will walk out healthy….
{ February 16, 2009 @ 12:42 pm }
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{ Faith, Personal, Sports, Testimony, University }
{ Tags: Archery, Athlete, Blogs, Campus, Campus Life, Faith, God, Murni Nurani, Sports, Sukad, Testimony, University } · { }
It’s been some time since I last posted a blog here. Very much ‘distracted’ by many things. After losing badly in SUKAD Squash few months back, I started playing archery. With Julian as the coach, and my 2 brothers as teammate, Alex and Arvind, we started training way back 3 months ago. I know I’m taking a big risk, cause by doing this, I will have less time in studies. But I really wanna try this last opportunity to glorify God in sports. Age is catching up with me, so does time. Archery was my last shot to get a gold in SUKAD. After this, I will ‘officially’ retired from competitive sports. No more intensive training after this. Just as the bible says in 1 Corinthians 9: 24-25, “Do you know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.”
The crown that athletes won in sport is a crown that will not last. Somehow, someday, they will be beaten or their records broken. But the crown that will last forever is the crown of our personal relationship with Jesus. We live a life that glorify God, that’s the crown that last forever. That’s why in sports, we give glory to God when we win.
Our training wasn’t an easy one. It was really a strenuous time. We shot arrows everyday except when it was raining, starting around 4.30pm till around 7pm. On weekends, we trained in the morning and evenings. And most of time, especially in the mornings, I go knocking on Arvind’s door. He will show his sleepy face, opening the door. Then after a few weeks, there come the raining season for about 1-2 months. During that period, I went to district hospital, Hospital Pasir Mas for 3 weeks.
Sometimes our training was fun, all those kutuk-mengutuk and gurau-bergurau between me, Alex and Arvind was hilarious. We used to joke, saying to Arvind, ‘If he hits the bullseye, Lynn will fall in love with him.’ Hahaha! Through this hard but fun training, I develop a bonding with Alex and Arvind.:-)
Came back from district hospital in the early January, we continue our intensive training for 2 weeks before we depart to USM Main Campus together with the female team. My family prayed for me and Im very happy that my dad owiz support my course and struggle in university. Many friends sms me encouraging messages, I was very touched.:-)
We prayed together before we go for each competition. The archery competition in Penang was eventful, we leads both events, 20m and 30m,winning the gold. The women team also got gold. This is my 1st gold won in USM, an unforgettable memory.
Gold medalist
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