Man’s disappointment, God’s appointment


The posting results just came out on Saturday. I don’t think everyone was that happy about where they got posted. This year, AC and SA were especially hard to get into and I think maybe NJC as well (it’s all those market spoilers as Shawn calls them who are pple who got 6 points and are going to these schools and making it harder for 13 and 14 pointers to get in. But I have to say well done to these “market spoilers” because I’m sure you guys worked really hard to get where you wanted). I’m going to Singapore Poly, btw, gonna do interior design which was my second choice. Anyway most of my friends didn’t get into their first two to three choices. A pal was really disappointed.


Sometimes what we want to happen doesn’t happen. In fact sometimes, the opposite happens instead. I was just sharing with a friend today. The most important thing to realise that what may be considered the best in the world may not necessarily be the best thing for you. They just bring out whatever’s in your heart. Like a million dollars could bring out the bad side or the good in a person (you don’t need me to tell you what a million dollars could be used for). Sometimes what we want to happen doesn’t match what God has planned for you. Even in the bible, Jesus said in the garden of Gethsemane, “… yet not my will, but yours be done.” (Luke 22:42). To me I believe that though Father and Son are one, their wills were different. Jesus was so stressed that He perspired blood. He even said, “if this cup could be taken away from me.” But He followed God’s will and hung on the tree for us. The result: you and I can be sin-conscious free now. Our sins are forgiven and forgotten and all we have to do is to receive Christ and heaven is our home eternally. Matthew 20 gives a really good example of what goes on between God and us. It’s about a vineyard owner who went out to hire people to work for him. The first batch of men bargained with the vineyard owner and settled on being paid a denarius for a full day’s work. A denarius is a full day’s pay basically. Then the owner went out during the 3rd, 6th, 9th and 11th hour and hired more men telling them he would pay them WHAT EVER IS RIGHT. Firstly, these men agreed to work without even knowing how much they were going to get paid. They went by faith (there isn’t another word to describe it). So the time came where all of them were going to get paid. Let’s just focus on the first and last batch. Realise: the last batch of people who were hired worked for only one hour. They were paid one denarius. So were the first batch of people who worked a full day. Again one denarius is a full day’s pay for one hour’s work! That’s our God. Maybe at times the 11th hr people thought they were going to get paid with bottles of wine or an hour’s wages (which is a pathetic $5/hr for us now haha) but in the end they got a full day’s wages. What we want in life could probably be incomparable to what God wants to give us. He’ll never give us less.


This isn’t the easiest thing to grasp. Even I’m still trying to understand this simple statement and the power it’ll bring. I also had another revelation today as I was taking the bus and pondering on this. There are times where we really get something we really don’t want right? And for the rest of the time while we are in that something, we keep harping and wishing we got what we wanted. What if we just appreciated what we had? We would really be having quality life! It’s just about enjoying what we have to the max. And having a spirit of Excellence in everything we do causes things to turn out better. I mean just think! Gets exciting right? I got excited thinking about it. Oh well haha… yeah… Be blessed