New SH*T On The Blog
Opening of New SH*T On The Blog
This place is created through an inspiration from my Bro Merv who had some SH*TTY friendships recently. Well, I guess everyone got their SH*TTY stories to tell, and I have mine too! So let's block out those SH*Tsss in here!
MY FIRST SH*T
A friend asked me recently "Are you willing to die for me"? As a staunch believer of Christ who was saved from my own grave 10 months ago, I told him YES! Well if we believe that everything that we have belong to God, then what is life to us right?
This friend is a "business partner" who shares the same office space with me (Ops, you roughly know who by now!). We are occupying the same office space because our business compliments each other. He is providing advertising services and mine-imaging services. So as a new setup, I trust him as a provider to my business, in turn giving him my full support. This partnership is wonderful as we have worked well for a few projects. His clients had tight budgets and I was hungry for jobs... so everybody benefitted!
Things beginning to change recently as they took on more high profile jobs... One day, he came to me saying, "Jon, we have this big project and we cannot screwed it up. So we are asking 1 professional to handle it."
??? "What the F**K!!?", this was the first thing that came to me. I realised that the trust and integrity that we talked about were just pieces of SH*T! Hey didn't relationships strengthen through thick and thin? Didn't love flourish through hardships? Didn't BROTHERHOOD survive through extreme conditions? Didn't SYNERYGY evolved through numerous spining?
I was totally blown off by his comment... I'm struggling now. I have "preached" the WORD of loving your enemy. I have "shared" the WORD that when someone slapped you on the left, we showed our right to him... I have prayed about forgiving all your debtors so that ours sins can be forgiven... Now here I am facing this piece of SH*T... I need GOD's guidance to the EXTREME! I'm experiencing the same situations our forefathers faced when they were persecuted by people they preached to... I suddenly see Jesus on the cross breathing his last breathe and said, "Eloi, Eloi, (Father, Father) please forgive them..." I realised that my trouble is just a breeze in life...
Ok ok, enough of the holy words. Friends, I realised that whatever relationships out there are just plain SH*T! If anyone's life is not evolved around GOD, they are living a life of their own philosophies, theories, believes, rights and wrongs. They are like dangerous animals who pounce on their preys when hunger strike, then claimed "Thanks bro, your sacrifice has saved me". Their words are their truth as Black becomes White...
So dear Bro/Sis, spend your time wisely building relationships for ETERNITY. Bring those animals to GOD so that they can too be saved... A broken glass can be stick back together but the cracks will always be there forever. However that same LOVE that held Jesus on the cross is the element to ensure the cracks do not leak anymore; so that the glass can be reused for its potential.
May you find the real TRUTH!
posted by Jon Tan @ 4/09/2005 01:11:00 PM
7 Comments:
Yo Bro!
I always feel encouraged reading your testimony, despite hardship, you still chose to glorify God by living a righteous life --- kudos!
---- Mermaid
Yup, agree with Mermaid! And cos u chose to glorify Him still at tough times, He will def help you thru this..cos the Lord is good and faithful.. He is watching over us, bro!
hi mermaid! wonder who u r, but thanks for your encouragment.
hi pris, thanks for reading my post too! yup He is Good!
anyway like i said before, this would be a place to dump my SH*T, so dun be too surprise of a different jon here ya? hehe...
ok, its almost 10pm, got to take a break now. sometimes really needs a helper! God give me a partner!!! its really frustrating to do everything alone... handling SH*T alone... entertaining people alone... think of concepts alone... doing proposal alone... taking mrt alone... haiz...
ok ok, i grumbled too much! forgotten i still have my hillsongs in my laptop! haha...
Jon... hint on who is mermaid.. ink's other half. ;) Anyway, it's ur blog... no worries.. you're still our bro come what may..
ok ok, nice nick Mermaid, or mrs ink? ke ke... heard that mr ink also started blogging recently? is this a virus or what?! =)
guess sooner or later, u will see most hope guys will be in here soon... then can consider organise future CG in blogs instead... haha...
Yup.. but a good virus.. I dun mind if its being spread among Hope members.. interesting! Anyway, hope ur rest of the week is good!
hi pris, thanx for your blessing. in fact today is a wonderful day! I want to write a new journal on it actually... =)
i had a caucasian model (age: 17) who came for casting. she was a german, studying in united world college. after casting, we were sitting in my office and chatted.
as u know we have a heart for european outreach, so i asked her if she is a christian. she replied "yes". knowing that most ang mohs are only christians by name, so i teased her saying that she is only borned christian without a personal relationship.
to my surprise, she said that she attended church frequently in the past, but her parents had stopped attending because her brothers (got 3 younger bros aged: 11, 8 & 5) are very noisy in church.
upon hearing this, i asked her if she still have a personal relationship with God, and she said "yes". then i asked her if she is keen to attend our church and she said "would love to!"
praise god for using me to reach out to her! i hope this is god arrangement and hopefully she would be coming to church with me this sun... (fyi i challenged her to wake up early to have breakfast on sun at 8am and she gladfully accepted my challenge! keen to join me at centrepoint mac?)
PS: Reina can testify as she is sitting in the room as well! =)
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