be still

ok so basically i just got home from a 4 day youth camp last night, and this time the title of the camp is "be still"

well i think this is more than appropriate for me atm, to be still

there had been many times where God and Jesus had told people to be still, like the time where jesus calls out to the raging storm and wind saying "quiet! be still!", is he not also saying that to his disciples to not to worry but to have faith in him?

tbh i rly wanted to share my testimony during the camp of wat i have experienced, but since i missed the opportunity at that time, i figure that isnt it even better to potentially share this to the world through the net?

so last year was my final year in high school (as u all probs alrdy know alrdy from reading the rest of my blog), and of cuz, like every other azn, its the year where pressure had rly struck me. the fact that my lung had collapsed a few weeks before my final exams had inevitably increased my mental strains. furthermore, the medical condition also eliminated the chance of going overseas to attend my sister's wedding banquet and to meet my extended siblings whom ive not seen in years. then comes the breaking up with my gf added on by the disappointment of my atar (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) being a few marks below my estimation mark and the fact that all my bonus mark schemes of my medical condition and my volleyball commitments being rejected, tbh i hit quite a new low at that point of my life.

but then again, God works in mysterious ways. i believed that it was a challenge, a test of faith perhaps, that such and such had happened. thankfully, even after all that, i had still managed to get into my first preference into my desired university. i think this is the point where i say, "THANK GOD!" lol and in fact, i thanked god during the time every single time i prayed, becuz i know that after each period of suffering, one would grow stronger, spiritually and emotionally. + if my lung didnt collapse, i wouldnt be at this awesome youth camp eh? :D so i rly felt that the way my lung collapsed and all, mustve been God's doing, to test me and to bring me to youth camp, maybe thats y pneumothorax had doesnt rly have a medical explanation as to y it happens? LOLOLOL

within each session and devotion time, i find that everything that ive learnt had been so applicable to my current life that i felt as if the camp was made for me lol, so i rly ought to thank God for this awesome opportunity :)

first off, mathew 6:25-34
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

its not the first time ive read that, but SHHH BAAAM, smacked me in the face like no other, y worry in times of need, when u know that God wud truly provide?
and so u might as well remind urself this, psalm 46:10
“Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”

there r much more than just that as to wat ive learnt, but then i think ill give it a lil pause there, becuz that is my testimony, as to how i found refuge in God, and how we shud all remain strong in faith no matter what happens (Y)