保罗和马可

当初我们选择一起委身，

你却一声不响做了决定，

你却选择什么话也不说，

你却半途而废独自离开。

  

当人用尽方法联络你，

是你刚硬了自己的心，

是你狠狠的不理不睬，
是你选择马可的道路。

  

既然你选择放弃这一切，

  

请不要后悔你的选择，

请不要回头乞求帮助，

请不要哀求任何帮助，

请不要渴望人理会你，

请不要提出一起小组，

请不要要求一起学习，

 

不要遇到困难的时候，

才想要选择联络我们，

才想请求我们的帮助。

   

因为是你先选择放弃，

因为是你选择独自行，

因为是你不理会我们。

  
请不要以为我是巴拿巴，
我比较喜欢保罗的样式。
   

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 要照愚昧人的愚妄话回答他，

免得他自以为有智慧。  

箴言 26:5

  

Answer a fool according to his folly,

or he will be wise in his own eyes.

Proverb 26:5

 

Yoke: Ox & Donkey

I always like to have bible study

to study the Word of God together.

    
I always like to have fellowship
to share our testimonies together.
  

I always like to have a study group 

to study and prepare for exam together.

  

I always like to have CME to teach one another 

and to study patient's case together.

   

It is because I always believe that 

  

"Two are better than one, 

because they have a good return for their work"

(Ecclesiastes 4:9) 

  

and 

  

"As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another"

(Proverbs 27:17). 

  

But it is also written that: 

 

"Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together."

(Deuteronomy 22:10)

   

The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like 

an egg-and-ham breakfast: 

the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'. 

  

After all not every single person is committed like a pig,

and some stop to be a pig.

It is sad to stop something, 

but if the commitment is not there anymore,

maybe it is better to just stop

and continue to move on, by our own pace
with God.
 
 Whom have I in heaven but you? 
And earth has nothing I desire besides you. 
My flesh and my heart may fail, 
but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
(Psalm 73:25-26)

   

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Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.

Deuteronomy 22:10

 

Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted

Stricken, smitten, and afflicted,
See Him dying on the tree!
’Tis the Christ by man rejected;
Yes, my soul, ’tis He, ’tis He!
’Tis the long expected prophet,
David’s Son, yet David’s Lord;
Proofs I see sufficient of it:
’Tis a true and faithful Word.
 
Tell me, ye who hear Him groaning,
Was there ever grief like His?
Friends through fear His cause disowning,
Foes insulting his distress:
Many hands were raised to wound Him,
None would interpose to save;
But the deepest stroke that pierced Him
Was the stroke that Justice gave.
 
Ye who think of sin but lightly,
Nor suppose the evil great,
Here may view its nature rightly,
Here its guilt may estimate.
Mark the Sacrifice appointed!
See Who bears the awful load!
’Tis the Word, the Lord’s Anointed,
Son of Man, and Son of God.
 
Here we have a firm foundation,
Here the refuge of the lost.
Christ the Rock of our salvation,
Christ the Name of which we boast.
Lamb of God for sinners wounded!
Sacrifice to cancel guilt!
None shall ever be confounded
Who on Him their hope have built.
 
- Thom­as Kel­ly -

 

 
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 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. 

Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 

  

Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, 

yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. 

  

But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; 

the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,

 and by his wounds we are healed. 

  

We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; 

and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 

  

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; 

he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, 

so he did not open his mouth.

  

Isaiah 53:3-7

   

距离

不喜欢阔大蔚蓝的天空，
还是比较喜欢在宁静的深海里游。
那片天空可能永远不是属于我的地方。
唯有深海才是我的栖息之处。
唯有在深海中才能寻找到那平安。

在沿海地帶放逐我的愛　孤單也很精彩
我相信我們都有該去的未來　不該在原地徘徊    
在耶路撒冷放逐我的愛　忧愁也很快乐
我相信上帝给我生命的方向　不該在原地徘徊    

 

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有些距离看不见，但却一直存在，而且很遥远。

   

Revival

I didn't expect a revival last semester.

Few brothers and sisters decided to come to this fellowship,

and few brothers and sisters moved back to hostel.

I never expected this fellowship in the hostel will be revived, 

after being dead for few years. 

  

I never expect a revival just a month before I leave.

As an introvert I start to talk to a complete stranger and have a meal together.

  

Brother comes to me to seek for spiritual advice,

and has a such a strong desire to learn the Word,

to contend for the faith that was once and for all delivered by the saints.

  

Strange dream comes,

and a "Daniel" interpreted this dream. 

 

Revival is neither planned, nor expected.

It comes like a wind, 

you don't know when it blows, 

from where it comes, 

or to where it goes.

 "When the Spirit works, who can let?" (John Gill)

When the Spirit blows, who can resist?

    

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The wind blows wherever it pleases. 

You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. 

So it is with everyone born of the Spirit. 

John 3:8

I will say to the north, 'Give them up!' and to the south, 'Do not hold them back.' 

Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth — 

everyone who is called by my name, 

whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.

Isaiah 43:6-7