It has been a while since I last jotted some thoughts or captured some memories here. Not really the thing I am into. Good outlet for babbling I guess. Wanted a few quotes and got a couple from Stephen which concluded in my quote which is…

“God doesn’t do Coincidence.”

How cool is that. No, I am not talking about the quote but about the very fact that God doesn’t do Coincidence. He plans everything. It is of no coincidence that I was born into this family nor that I went to Christian schools all my life and just happened to get plonked into a non-Christian school. The friends I have made is of no coincidence. Like Campus Crusade’s vision, I want to be that someone so that everyone in HS knows at least one person who lives for Christ.

Now you want to know about Ngee Ann and health sciences? Truth is that I don’t really know what to say about it. People think poly is really easy going and all, reality-check: it is double, if not triple, hard. This difficulty goes beyond academic and stretches to social and spiritual adaptation and growth. The culture is so different that I had to stop this morning before going to school to pray that God will protect me from falling into the clutches of the evil one. Sounds really dramatic and all right? But the fact is that I started to put off spending time with God and growing in his word. Prayer was the last thing on my mind for quite a few nights. It wasn’t until I was caught in a spiritual dilemma on whether to join Barakudas or Campus Crusade that I realised my need for God’s ultimate supremacy and governance in my life.

Just to set things straight, people in Ngee Ann aren’t anymore gangsters than almost any other school. [at least not so far] Whether it is their language, mannerism, beliefs or physical actions, they have distinctly different values and standards from what I should have . That is one reason why I really need to have a firm foundation in my faith, firmly anchored to the truth in both personal and shared activities. To all those who are going to or are considering going to poly [or any other non-christian institution] don’t fall away or lose your foothold. It is easy to fall away but hard to get back up.

Remember, your friends aren’t always going to be there but God will. You just have to keep that relationship with him strong. He wants that. Do you?