Anthony

Praiseworthy, or priceless ” Latin “

Honest, dependable and practical you tend to have a fairly conservative but determined approach to life. Your intelligence and wisdom means that you are sought out for guidance and advice. Gifted in communication you are philosophical and intuitive and are usually a traveller both mentally and physically. People respect you for your patience, discretion and integrity.

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting them back together.

No preguntes lo que el mundo necesita. Pregunte lo que te hace sentir vivo, y hazlo. Porque lo que el mundo necesita es gente que se sienta viva ”.

At some point, we all surrender our lives to God. Some of us choose to do it voluntarily, while we walk the earth. Others surrender involuntarily, when their physical body dies. Surrendering while physically alive goes beyond recognizing and acknowledging the reality that we each belong to God. Similar to salvation, surrender is a gift we receive from God; we can’t will it for ourselves. But also like salvation, the gift of surrender requires a response from us: acceptance. And there must be fruit: a changed life. It’s not something we accept and then do nothing about. Any work we do will never get us salvation or surrender. But our work starts after we accept the gifts from God.

       There is plenty of talk about submitting to God’s will. In fact, submit and surrender are often used interchangeably. But beyond semantics, there are subtle yet critically important differences between submission and surrender.

      Brennan Manning, in The Importance of Being Foolish, put it this way:

“But there is an essential difference between submission and surrender. The former is the conscious acceptance of reality. There is a superficial yielding, but tension continues…It is halfhearted acceptance. It is described by words such as resignation, compliance,acknowledgement, concession. There remains a feeling of reservation, a tug in the direction of non-acceptance. Surrender, on the other hand, is the moment when my forces of resistance cease to function, when I cannot help but respond to the call of the Spirit.

The ability to surrender is a gift of God. However eagerly we may desire it, however diligently we may strive to acquire it, surrender cannot be attained by personal endeavor.”

Submission is something we can do, something we control. In surrender, we make the conscious choice to let go of that control, but the actual surrender is something only God can do. Another gift from the Father to His children.

        When we submit, we “give in,” keeping the focus on ourselves.

        When we surrender, we “give up,” putting the focus where it belongs: on God. But it isn’t giving up in the way we normally define it. The action is more like “giving over.” In love. It is offered to us in love, by Love, for love. And we accept it the same way: in love, for love, out of love.

        Our best example is Jesus. While here on earth, He didn’t just submit, He surrendered. He handed Himself over to others, He emptied Himself completely. Out of the same motivation He came to Earth in the first place: love.

Hey there my name is Anthony Lim Kean aun and I’m 16 ,Sometimes when I look back at those dark days I realize that God allowed me to fall into a pit filled with depressions, despair and gloom only to pull me out so He could rebuild me and make me the spiritual man that He requires. He knows the final outcome of any difficult circumstance. There are times we as christ follower forget about the providence of God (the hidden hand of God). We spend too much time trying to figure out why things happen when we should start living our lives day by day. God has not promised us tomorrow. We may never know the full extent of God’s will all the time, but we must continue to serve Him unconditionally with honor, glory and praise.

Tough as life may get, this is what I have learnt; there is a GOD. He sustains me otherwise I would have passed on long ago or got really messed up. My testimony is one of having hope no matter what the problem may be. I have learnt that even through the fire or deep waters, God is with me. I have been short of love, money and fulfillment plenty of times. But God has been there to jump-start my life, in moments when betrayal has pierced my heart and when people I hoped to trust and love turned against me. When I feel ill and see my plans not forthcoming, I know I have a shoulder to cry on - A GOD WHO HAS PLANS FOR MY PROSPERITY AND PLANS TO FULFILL MY HOPES AND FUTURE. God is my resting place - I would hate to fail him or ever be apart from him. Life may turn cold but knowing God brings the warmth back. Just as the grass burnt to ashes is restored in the fields, To me when trouble come i always thinks that it is pass by to buy a cup of coffce ,LOL i know it sound so weird , but that is the truth . trouble that we haved now it just for a moments it is not permanent.Thanks you For reading just wanna encourage others to just Believe in God in everything you face and you do. Love Anthony