God's miracle for today

It is so simple one might not even take notice of it but for me it was so obvious. Even nonbelievers agreed that what happened just now in the afternoon was a miracle.

And I praise God for what he has done!!!

It started yesterday when I was rigorously working on my project's PCB implementation. Each individual PCB works except for my biggest PCB because I had no means to test it. I tried assembling the whole subsystem in my PIC (programmable IC chip with 40 pins). To my despair it did not work. Kept working on it until both my body and heart were down. I haven't given up then. It is just that was too upset to go on. Worked so hard for it but nothing came, i say nothing because even if nearly each PCB has a correct design but with the PIC nothing happened.So, I decided to sleep. Whispering a little prayer. Saying "God there is only so much I can do, please help me."

Sunday afternoon, in church. I was given the task to teach little children along with Missy. The topic was, asking Jesus for help. The story is found in Matthew 20:29-34 where 2 blind men asked help from Jesus even if the crowd around Jesus did not want them to bother Him. But they kept on asking despite the block, and Jesus heard them and restored their sight. After teaching the kids, I realized for myself that you know the lesson I taught to kids was somehow been impressed on me. It was more like a lesson taught to me. I have to be more confident in my God! Like those two blind men who were confident that Jesus WOULD DEFINITELY restore their sight if only He wills. =)

Same Sunday afternoon, the youth had a meeting after the church service and oh how I enjoyed that youth meeting. Maybe we should have that kind of thing once in a while. I so love WYLDFIRE! But anyway, before getting too overwhelmed with that, we had a group prayer. We prayed for everyone's concerns for the week. For example, mine was that to have my project presentation on Tuesday (TODAY!) be fine. On my mind it was rather a hard one just to do it on my own. Also considering my groups' pace it was highly likely that we will have our presentation postponed on Friday, we always had a postponed presentation just like before. Then I snapped back from that pragmatism and decided to believe that if God hears this prayer and my prayers and my friends' prayers then it is highly possible that we will have a presentation on Tuesday itself! I have to believe that it will happen. =)

Sunday night, Monday I continued working. After that dreary Monday night, I greeted Tuesday with a renewed hope. I did some programming but to no avail. I was discouraged again in the morning. But I can't give up! I whispered another prayer, thanking God through Jesus that He will make it work this afternoon no matter how impossible things may seem. He is the God over the flood! How little is my subsystem compared to that flood!!! He's so BIG!!!

Then I continued to just work as I know I have a big God. Not stopping on other nonessentials except of course greeting Rohit a good morning -- had to wake him up :D for his midterm mugging (but this is not a none essential but an optional lucrative task =D). Then I left for the lab and continued working there.

If I was not confident of my God I would have been further discouraged by what I have learned at noon time. That is, the other subsystems in my group have not been checked (with the PIC) and my group mates are still assembling and soldering them. Of course errors came when they tried using the PIC just like when I started checking. By right there shouldn't be enough time for debugging. By 2 pm, the TA came and asked us to pick a number from his hand deciding when we should present. We got number 3 but told him that we might be needing more time. The GA came, and asked us if ever we could present today. We were so uncertain considering that our subsystems were not working as they should. So we just said, we will try today latest before 5 pm. If not then we will be presenting on Friday. So we just worked... I don't know how we all managed, but in the end we had our subsystems working! It was the first time we integrated them. Some errors came up but was somehow fixed. Then we presented before 5 pm, and it was a success. It worked!

If I am not mistaken we were the third presenters, the first one was at 3 pm with their uber cool program features (can email the burglar's face!!! and checks the weather at home and compares it with the internet data!!! anyway, ours was way mediocre yeah? we're not even using wireless systems. one way to save us probably is at least present on time =D). The second one if I am not mistaken was around an hour later in the other room. Then us (this is accdg to what I noticed). So we were the 3rd presenters as how it should be. Aint it cool? My God is cool!

In the end, the group was shocked. We all did not expect that we could present today. Some of them gave up hope the day before. We all agreed that what happened just now was a miracle. Imagine the lack of sleep and discouragement we had. But somehow we just continued working. And Jarell, the PCB guy, was extra kind. He allowed us to work in the PCB lab even during lunch time!

It was Him responsible! Indeed from Matthew 20. Just ask Him through Jesus despite the stumbling block that we face (fear, discouragement, illogical request, unreasonable request, impossible request, etc). He was on time even!!! Praise Him!

be still

- a beautiful song...

be still and know that He is God. BE STILL and wait for His salvation.



Still by Hillsong


I
Hide me now, under Your wings.
Cover me within Your mighty hand.

CHorus:
When the oceans rise
and thunders roar.
I will soar with You, above the storm
Father You are king over the flood,
I will be still and know You are God.

II
Find rest my soul in Christ alone,
Know his power, in quiteness and trust.

***
When the oceans rise
and thunders roar.
I will soar with You, above the storm
Father You are king over the flood,
I will be still and know You are God.

Find rest my soul in Christ alone,
Know his power, in quiteness and trust.

***
When the oceans rise
and thunders roar.
I will soar with You, above the storm
Father You are king over the flood,
I will be still and know You are God.

***
When the oceans rise
and thunders roar.
I will soar with You, above the storm
Father You are king over the flood,
I will be still and know You are God.

what's going on? cannonball?

there’s still a little bit of your taste in my mouth
there’s still a little bit of you laced with my doubt
it’s still a little hard to say what's going on
there’s still a little bit of your ghost your witness
there’s still a little piece of your face i haven't kissed
you step a little closer to me
still i can't see what's going on
stones taught me to fly
love taught me to lie
life taught me to die
so it's not hard to fall
when you float like a cannonball
there’s still a little bit of your song in my ear
there’s still a little bit of your words i long to hear
you step a little closer each day
so close that i can't see what's going on
stones taught me to fly
love taught me to lie
life taught me to die
so it's not hard to fall
when you float like a cannon
stones taught me to fly
love taught me to cry
so come on courage
teach me to be shy
'cause it's not hard to fall
and i don't want to scare her
it's not hard to fall
and i don't wanna lose
it's not hard to grow
when you know that you just don't know
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hmmm... it is not a sweet love song or what not... but i like the chorus (the lines that repeat often)! the stanza has to have some deeper meaning into it other than the funny literal sense.

but anyway... all of us happen to have listened to love songs right?

I AM JUST WONDERING... THE FEELINGS DEPICTED IN THOSE SONGS, ARE THEY FICTIONAL?
THEY ONLY SEEM TO BE WONDERLAND EMOTIONS...

THEY ARE JUST TOO SWEET TO BE TRUE. TOO SINCERE TO EXIST. TOO much... too touching... too painful even...

please tell me that they are unreal.

information age, bio age?

before my topic I would like to praise the Lord for helping me see through this day (i had two midterms and crammed for it...). I praise Him for His guidance and the peace that He parted while I was about to choke in my panic... =)

Thank you Lord!

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as i was studying my bioelectronics paper... the first one out of the heap that i have to read for my midterm this week's saturday morning. I felt disturbed by the things that are happening already. Fields like bioelectronics, bioMEMs are quite confusing and as what our prof said today, it is supposedly a PhD level module (but our NUS believed that NUS students can take it... trust me... it is high level! my brain is gonna crack!) but from what I understand from this module, it is a field with gray areas in morality. when you speak of ethical issues, this one seems to have a lot to offer. A double-edged field... a totally double-edged one!

do you happen to recall Mission Impossible 3? where a miniscule bomb was inserted in the brain through the nostril and killed a close comrade of the protagonist. That technology is but a possibility (if not yet an underground part) of bioelectronics.
the paper i just read (half way) is about this neural prosthesis and how it can record neural pulses as well as stimulate pulses and even control the neuron's environment by inserting drugs and all that using this technology? In the not so far future you could see potential developments like cure for paralysis, parkinsons and all that... But on the other hand, you can also see a potential threat as this technology could actually lead to human control and as well as a biologically destructive weapon, one example is in MI3 and possibly other than a bomb, some deadly chemicals combined in such tiny chips, micrometer in size lately.

Don't know. I am disturbed alright. But who am I to tell what must and must not happen? I am but a small dot in the world, not even visible in the map. What change can I offer? ... But then... I realized that you know, if this is part of God's will so let it be. But if it is not, then there is no way it is going to happen... well, what is most impt of all I guess His plan, which we humans do not really understand yet... Although for sure that His plan is perfect and pleasing and good! We all just need the courage, determination, perseverance, faith in Him, etc to see through.