Our Daily Journey

The topic for today talks about "what matters most".
Readings took from YMIBlogging.

What is your priority in life? What do you treasure most in this lifetime? What you wish you could have more than anything else? What is the one thing that without it, it would drive you crazy?

It could anything from like maybe a job, a spouse, children, a house, the usuals.
Then there are those more severe one such as drug addiction, alcohol, sex, pornography, etc.
Or those little things such as that engagement ring, that teddy bear that had been with us since we were four.

Whatever it is, people always perceive earthly possession as what to value most.
However the world always tries to purport our thought to what it wants us to purports.
And what matters most should be what makes you happiest and bring you most satisfaction.

But that is completely out of the point of what we should actually be focusing on.
We should put Jesus as what matters most and whether He would approve of what we are doing. Focusing on what would Jesus do in such a scenario.

So the question for today is:
What matters most to you in life? How does the brevity of life affect your relationship with God? With others? 


Honestly, God, what matters most to me is just passing through each day, knowing that I made good and full use of that day, which I keep failing every time. So I am kind of a hypocrite. Apart from that, family and friends are pretty important to me. And then comes my obsession with shopping. I just cannot help myself. It is like you like the day you bought it and after that, you get tired of it. Sometimes I loathe myself for that trait I possess.

I wanna make Jesus the centre of my life. I need to pray more. I need to read more of God's word. So I can feel that immense love that God has for all of us and this will encourage us to focus on God and put him at the top of our list and everything else seems so insignificant in comparison. That's how I want my life to reflect. Whereby what matters most is God and no one else. Glorifying Him. Having a real relationship with Him. Expanding His kingdom. Ministering at the marketplace. Excelling in all that He has blessed me with.

The brevity of life is apparent to some whereas some people are oblivious to it. To me, I feel that life here in Australia passes so fast. Next year I will be going back to Malaysia for good. Just leaving Compass, Student Life. I just cannot imagine how will my life be back in Malaysia. I don't want this life I have in Australia to end. Life is too short. Life is too short for me to stop being around such awesome people such as Jo, Pastor Phill, Chris Teo, Caleb, Caroline, the list is endless. God has been nothing but generous in His blessings that He keep pouring onto me. I learnt so much from each and every person I come to meet and know and now became good friends. Through the grace of God, I have grown so much in my relationship with God as well with my relationship with people.

I may only be 21 now, but you don't know when will you rejoin with God in the heavens above. So life is fragile in every way, yet it is so precious. Sometimes I do take life for granted. I just need to remind myself that this life of mine does not belong to me, but belong to God. So be always wary in everything we do.

I just want to know God more every single day.
I just want to know the people of God more and more as well.
Like the cross, the vertical line represents our relationship with God and the horizontal line represents our relationship with people of God.

Through the Holy Spirit living within me, I want to represent Jesus to the world that through God's grace, only we can be saved. I want to be the best Ian that God wants me to be in this short journey on earth we all called life.