today's devotion title is My Great Big Daddy. as i read through the devotions what really struck me was Nehemiah's love for God and his patience in God. when he faced troubles, tho i could imagine those guys hurling insults at him, his people and God, he would have every reason to feel real angry and flare up at those guys. but however he was patient in God, he knew all he had to do, was to do what he had to do, and then ask God for help in the rest that he could not do.

and that in my view, is the wisest thing he could ever have done, to be patient. and being patient requires love, love for the people whom you get impatient with, and ultimately to get that, you first have to get that love from God, the source of love. and that so happened to be what God reminded me in the morning.


and today at the start of the day, i had quite a bad fall from running for my bus who was stationed and picking up passengers. okay normally, this would get me in quite a frustrated mood, and when im frustrated, worse things do happen to worsen my frustration haha. but anyhow, thank God He kept me calm and cool, after i fell, i picked myself up and boarded the bus. as i sat thru the bus ride, i was thinking, God what exactly do You want to tell me thru that incident that just happened!

i fell because i couldn't stop my legs from running even tho i tried to stop, and i've never experienced that before as i always run for my buses this way haha. so why so special this time round to include the fall? and as i think thru, God reminded me of just how impatient i always get when such lousy stuffs happen to me. i get all frustrated and easily irritated.

and this really reminded me of how i really need to love ppl around me more, learn to keep my calm and cool knowing that God IS in control. so i won't say / do whatever i want to them when im impatient, that may hurt them or like how the devotions put it "win the argument, but lose the soul."


really wanna thank God that i wasn't injured in any other way that im injured right now, like running into the bus or smth. and also really wanna thank God for all His timely reminders of the need to love, the needs in my life.

1 Thess 5:18. we truly are able to thank God in all circumstance, if we really sit down and think through how God may have really blessed us through all kind of situations, injuries or whatever not. God does have everything in plan afterall and your blessing may just be in disguise, and may pass you by if you just focus on the problems and situations=)


[impatience show a lack of trust in God's control over certain situations.]