Beyond Blessedness

Ok... This is way overdue but i wanna use this space to thank God for my results for Semester 2...

SSA1202 Southeast Asia: A Changing Region: A+
HY2247 Sport and History: A
EN2113 Reading Film and Cultural Text: A-
TS1101E Introduction to Theatre and Drama: A-
SC1101E Making Sense of Society: B-
CAP: 4.4

Guess wad... they were basically the same set of results i got last Sem... and i praise and thank God for them cos it was really by His grace that i got these results... for one, i hardly touched some of my textbooks.. i dunno why i even bought them cos they were just gathering dust... really... For Southeast Asia, I thought that we'd lose marks for our rice project cos i felt that it was kinda hastily done and like so many ppl are doing on rice... but we got an A and it pulled us up.. i expected to do worse for my Theatre Studies cos we got a lot of negative coments from the judges regarding our performance.. i also failed the class test (which fell on a really busy week going for Ignite Conference and all that)... Many times i was also really late for lecture cos it was the first lecture of the day and i didn't wake up earlier... and on some occasions i missed the lecture altogether cos i was late... for those of you reading this, you know better than to follow all my negative examples... For the final paper, didn't really get to study much and i thought that i should have seriously attempted a different essay question... BUT God is on my side.. and by His grace, an A- is really great... I seriously hoped to do better with my SC1101E though... but nvm... if it's something that God has ordained then let it be... lest i grow cocky and take His grace for granted... But He's really a God who supplies all my needs according to His riches in glory... and despite all the committments i have and how much time i spend in ministry, He never fails to show Himself faithful.. All my grades are in His hands... i can study much and i can work hard (really, not that i did...) but ultimately, He's still the One who gives the reward! :D

I thank God for this year, for His abundant blessing and favour upon my life... and i wish that all around me may enter into such a blessedness... I told Auntie Lee Noi last week "Blessed is an understatement"... you see the abundant life is the normal life.. cos that's what Christ has provided for us.. But being blessed is beyond normal... blessedness is beyond abundance! But the Bible says in Eph 3 "now unto him who is able to do exceedingly and abundantly beyond all you can ask or imagine"... It means there's a place in God and a place in knowing God where we can know this Scripture to be reality... and that is beyond blessedness! Cos blessedness is measured by human standards but a place of beyond blessedness is measured by God's standards- beyond what we can ask or think.. a place where no eye has seen or ear has heard or mind has conceived... It's a place of God-sized proportions! The thing is, many times, we are all contented to live below abundance... but there's so much more of God to know and to experience...

I will boast in the Lord my God
I will boast in the One who's worthy...

I'm not content... are you? ;)