Showing posts with label God's love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God's love. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

We rejoice because He first rejoiced over us

The LORD your God in your midst... He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. (Zephaniah 3:17)

See the Lord's love in your midst - casting out fear and granting you peace, and love courageously.

See His joy surrounding you - putting a song in your heart and giving you strength, and live joyfully.

We love because He first loved us.

We rejoice because He first rejoiced over us.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

A Big and Beautiful Rainbow for My Birthday on 25 February 2009

24 February:

After two full weeks away from Singapore, on the eve of my birthday, I finally got to enjoy a restful sleep at home.

I was happy. Happy to be home. Happy to have had my caregroup celebrate my birthday with me.

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Photo taken by 69eFan69 from www.clubsnap.com

25 February 2009:

I found it really cool that the table calendar in my room should, on this very day, be turned to the page with the following verses:

"To all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God - children born not of natural descent...but born of God" (John 1:12-13 NIV).

It was as if my Heavenly Daddy could not wait to remind on my birthday that I am His child. :-)

And I found it really really cool that before the day (which was cool and peaceful, the way I wanted it to be) ended, I got to see the biggest rainbow I had ever seen in my life.

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Photo taken by Qazwer from www.clubsnap.com

I could have so easily missed the rainbow.

It was around 7.10pm in the evening, I was in Ang Mo Kio Center, just had my dinner, and was walking down the street toward the MRT station, when I saw a friend's text on my mobile phone telling me about the sighting of a double rainbow.

I looked up, and there, in front of me, was a huge brilliant rainbow in the canvas of the evening sky.

I gasped. It was an awesome sight to behold. "This must be the biggest rainbow I've ever seen in my entire life," I said to myself.

Because of its sheer size, I had to turned my head from left to right (as if I was watching a tennis match) to see it in its entirety.

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Photo taken by Hidden3 from www.clubsnap.com

The rainbow was so big and so beautiful - so big and so beautiful that it felt unreal to me. I blinked my eyes several times to make sure what I was seeing was real. It was.

And within a minute or so, the rainbow disappeared.
I was reminded of God's everlasting covenant of peace.

I was awed. I felt so blessed and so loved.

To me, the rainbow was a big and beautiful birthday gift for me from heaven. :-)

For more photos of the magnificent rainbow captured all around Singapore on 25 Feb 2009, do visit the following webpage: http://www.clubsnap.com/forums/showthread.php?t=481342&page=3

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Photo taken by FortyNine from www.clubsnap.com