my first blog after coming back to toronto....

i'm still trying to adjust to toronto, to church, to no fellowship, to friends.....hmmm...everything seems to be different around here...different, very different. i don't know maybe it is becuz people are busy around this time, but i can't really explain what i'm feeling right now...people are different. It seems to me that my dearest friends who use to be close to me just totally lost interest of what goes on in my life! i don't know....who cares...:)
To the happier note...I had a wonderful time having lunch on thurs. with a dear friend of mine that I haven't talk to for a long long time. I had such a great time!! To be able to talk to a sister of mine and being able to witness the wonderful things that God has been doing in her life. I was amazed at the things that we are able to share with each other..i mean, considering we haven't talk to each other (like real talks) for nearly..hmm...a year and a half? How amazing is that? And it is only becuz of Christ that is in the centre of our friendship that we have so much to share about, and the eagerness to want to know more about what God has been doing in each other's lives. Wow!..3 hours of sharing and no awkward moments....cool...Thank you God for being the centre and the one who binds our friendship together...:)

A.W. Tozer=Amazing Author!!!
"The old cross is a symbol of death. It stands for the abrupt, violent end of a human being. The man in Roman times who took up his cross and started down the road had already said good-bye to his friends. He was not coming back. He was going out to have it ended. The cross made no compromise, modified nothing, spared nothing; it slew all of the man, completely and for good. It did not try to keep on good terms with its victim. It struck cruel and hard, and when it had finished its work, the man was no more. The race of Adam is under death sentence. There is no commutation and no escape. God cannot approve any of the fruits of sin, however innocent they may appear or beautiful to the eyes of men. God salvages the individual by liquidating him and then raising him again to newness of life...."
This is what the cross is about. This is what the cross is truly about..not enjoyment, it is not a "friendly pal", it will not let us keep part of Adam and things of this world.
The one that decides to follow Christ must pick up its Cross. "He must forsake his sins and then go on to forsake himself. Let him cover nothing, defend nothing, excuse nothing. Let him not seek to make terms with God..." Then..."the cross that ended the earthly life of Jesus puts an end to the sinner; and the power that raised Christ from the dead raises him (us) to a new life along with Christ." Dare we preach anything but the truth of the cross.