Father's Love

Here is the last part of the Foundations Class. Hope you'll be blessed. To read it clearly, give a right-click on the picture, select "Open Link in New Tab". In new tab, you can zoom in the picture.

Di postingan sebelumnya , aku sempat cerita bahwa pergumulanku selama pengerjaan skripsi ini justru diawali dengan hilangnya fokusku kepada Tuhan. Parahnya, aku bahkan tidak menyadari bahwa fokusku kepada Tuhan sudah lama hilang. Butuh waktu sekitar 4 bulan sebelum benar-benar menyadarinya. Cukup unik, Tuhan menggunakan kondisi laptopku untuk menegur dan mengembalikan fokusku kembali kepada-Nya . Setelah aku rekonsiliasi dengan Tuhan dan laptopku balik normal, aku mulai berdoa meminta supaya Tuhan singkirkan satu per satu setiap hal yang membuatku tidak fokus lagi kepada Tuhan.

My friends and I (TC Students) have mandatory chapels every Tuesday morning, Friday night, and Sunday morning. Last year, we (TC Students who become Church-members of HMCC) asked Ps. Andrew to write a letter of permission for us to miss the Friday Night Fellowship so that we could join the Good Friday Service at our church. This year, we tried to do the same, but the leader of dormitory and the rule were changed. As the result, we are not allowed to miss the Friday Night Fellowship so that we can join the Good Friday Service at church. All TC Students in our church are sad about it, including me. As we are committed to our home church, it is our desire to attend the Good Friday Service.

I joined Foundations Class during last month. I posted the first part about the Gospel here . This is the second part about the fundamental. Hope you’ll be blessed!

Setiap mahasiswa/i tingkat akhir pasti bergumul dengan skripsi. Sejak Juli 2012 lalu, skripsi menjadi salah satu beban pikiran yang utama. Selama internship 4 bulan di Batam, aku harus melakukan Penelitian Tindakan Kelas (PTK)/Classroom Action Research (CAR) yang menjadi bahan penulisan skripsi. Bersyukur, skripsiku sudah terkumpul hari Jumat (22/3) lalu! Masih ada sidang tanggal 4 April 2013 nanti, tapi aku bersyukur satu langkah sudah dilalui! Yeeeey!!! Ada banyak pergumulan, doa, bahkan air mata, namun yang pasti selalu ada Tuhan yang setia dibalik pengerjaan skripsi ini. Jadi selama beberapa minggu ke depan, aku mau coba tuliskan pergumulan-pergumulanku bersama dengan Tuhan. Kebenaran yang sesungguhnya adalah bahwa Tuhan yang telah dan terus bersamaku. Dia tetap setia, bahkan ketika aku tidak setia.

When I was meditated on Isaiah 57, I found that in verse 15, the Lord said that He lives in a high and holy place but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite. Every time I read this verse, I always feel amazed. How could The Most High God wants to be with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit? Why does he want to revive the spirit of the lowly and the heart of the contrite? Does not he know that we are nothing? This is really beyond my understanding!

I joined Foundations Class during this past month. Here are some notes that I put here so that I will always remember it and be able to read it anywhere, anytime. Hope you’ll be blessed!

In my time alone with God this morning, I meditated on Isaiah 51-55. Here are some highlights that the Holy Spirit emphasized for me. 1.      LISTEN to the LORD. Give your ears and LISTEN. --> this is the calling that I need! 2.     The Lord comforts you, don’t forget your Maker . God wants me to always remember Him. 3.     Jesus was pierced for our transgressions and he was crushed for our iniquities. Our punishment was upon Him, and by His wounds, we are healed. 4.     We are like sheep, have gone astray, have turned to our own way, and the LORD has laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all. 5.     It was the LORD’s will to crush Jesus and cause him to suffer. He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors. 6.     Novi, do not be afraid ; you will not suffer shame. Do not fear disgrace ; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your yo...

"Ce, yapa seh nglupano mantan pacar? " (yang nanya orang Surabaya) . "Ci, gimana sih nglupain mantan pacar?" "Gimana sih kak caranya nglupain mantan?" Yah, intinya sih belakangan aku jadi sering ditanya bagaimana caranya melupakan mantan pacar. Jadi supaya tidak berbusa karena berkali-kali menjawab, sebaiknya ditulis aja di sini :) Ini sih berdasarkan pengalaman pribadi, bukan kebenaran mutlak, tapi aku jamin bisa membantu karena sudah dipraktikkan. Bukan berarti aku sukses sempurna lo ya. Sebaliknya aku pun jatuh dan gagal berkali-kali dalam hal melupakan mantan pacar ini. Tapi toh akhirnya bisa juga dengan kasih karunia Tuhan dan ketaatan! So, let's check it out!

As for me, it was hard to wake up around 7 AM on this morning. I slept late because I had to submit my SKRIPSI on the afternoon yet it had not finished. I did not feel well yet I did not sick. There’s should be an Asian History class in the morning. We already planned to watch Mahatma Gandhi but I felt so weak physically and my spirit just broken. I did not go. Instead, I kept lying on my bed with a head worrying about SKRIPSI and did not know what to do. At 9 AM, Silvi came to my room with pancakes for me. It was surprised me because she supposed to watch Mahatma Gandhi. She said that her SKRIPSI-supervisor asked her to submit her SKRIPSI on Wednesday (3/13/13), therefore she asked permission to not watch because she needed more time to work on her SKRIPSI. She reported to our lecturer that I was sick and would watch the Mahatma Gandhi with her later (after Wednesday). I felt blessed as she came to my room. It was not about the pancakes yet I loved it, but her gentle care tow...

Few weeks ago, two sisters and I talked about a brother in our church. In our sights, he is so perfect. He is a godly man that every single-Christian-woman might dream about. I agree with them. Then one of the sisters said, “But, is he too perfect? Imagine, how can we marry someone like him? We are broken-hearted girls. Will he accept a girl like us to be his spouse someday?” I was kept silent. I did not know the answer until I shared our conversation to my accountability partner. “He is a sinner, Novi,” she said. “When you see him so perfect, it is not him that you see, but Christ, the perfect God, that lives in him.” That’s definitely true. “Then, if he is so perfect, just like Jesus, will it be possible that he accepts a broken-hearted girl like one of us? I mean, he is sooooooo godly.” “If he as perfect as our God, he must be merciful and able to forgive his future wife’s sins in the past.” “How if the sin is relate to a sexual relation? It is really serious. Will he fo...

Tadi siang untuk pertama kalinya aku makan siang dengan Kak Anggit, the author of http://queensophiaofwestland.blogspot.com/ , yang ternyata satu gereja denganku (gubraaaaaaaaaaaak...) . Sebenernya tahun 2011 lalu kami pernah ngobrol sekali di gereja, tapi aku sama sekali tidak mengingatnya. Kak Anggit yang justru inget sama aku setelah kami "ketemu" di blognya. Hehe... I'm so blessed to have lunch with her. Tadi kami saling share tentang passion kami nulis, gimana kami nulis blog, and how it can really blessed others. From our conversation, I think God really opened my mind that writing is also God's calling to minister others and spread the Gospel . I feel amazed. Writing is not just a hobby. Typing words using our gadgets and publish it in internet (blog, social media, etc) is not just "catch up with technology". God can really use our writings to work in people's heart, in people's life. He is so powerful and everything can be used GREATLY ...

Accidentally, I found this video on You Tube that was uploaded a year ago by my (ex) student. She was teaching at Taman Bacaan, Bencongan. It was near to Lippo Karawaci. I knew that place since I had the similar experience, serving some little kids there for few months. I am so thankful and blessed to see her in this video. I was her tutor for few weeks in 2011. At that time she was in grade 6. She was my first indonesian-but-english-spoken-student. Became her tutor, I have learned how to teach all subjects in English and how to teach her to create a video using Windows Movie Maker, and then upload it to You Tube (I never upload anything to You Tube, but I taught this young girl and she already uploaded two videos!) . I really feel touched by looking on how she had taught little children on this video. Although I contributed very little in her education, I feel so blessed to see her taught little children in this video! To be honest, I could not find any word to express my...

Seminggu yang lalu, ada miskom ketika teman-teman order snacks buat refreshment time after church. Gara-gara miskom itu, kue yang dipesan jadi kedobelan. Tapi kami (refreshment team) bersyukur Tuhan izinkan miskom ini terjadi. Jadi hari Minggu lalu, mendadak kami kedatangan sekitar 50 orang baru di gereja. Mereka ini rombongan mahasiswa yang diajar sama Ms. Tina di kelas Basic English. Nah, mereka itu dapet tugas untuk practice speaking with native speaker. Nggak cuma kasih tugas, Ms. Tina juga kasih undangan buat dateng ke gereja kami yang memang using English karena diimpor langsung from United States. Berarti HARUS ada snack lebih dong untuk mereka.... hehe..sudah mengerti apa yang terjadi? Praise the LORD! Snacks yang sudah diorder itu cukup untuk semua yang hadir, bahkan lebih 24 biji, yang kalo disajikan itu ntar jadinya 12 plates. WOW! Jadi inget gimana Tuhan Yesus kasih makan 5000 orang pake 5 roti dan 2 ikan terus sisanya 12 bakul! Luar biasa bagaimana Tuhan bekerja dalam s...