~May Your Light Shine :D~

Saturday, February 10, 2007

i know of some who do not listen to the radio lest they be influenced, as some has said, the music we listen to and the tv we watch mould our thinking. and of course not everything the media has to offer is wholesome or helpful.

however, recently a few songs although from secular origin, led me to think about my spiritual walk. who says God can't work through non-Christian sources?

Amazing grace by Joey Yung (this is the Cantonese version but I believe some of us have heard the Mandarin one on radio)

This song is pretty commercialised I must say, I think a couple of non-Christian singers have sang this song. Nevertheless, the lyrics of the original song encapsulates God's saving grace for us, for we truly are all wretched sinners. If people are drawn to this song, then I guess they must be seeking God, whether or not they know it.

I am who I am by Guang Liang

Exodus 3:14 (NIV) - God said to Moses, "I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I am has sent me to you.'"
The name "I am" expresses God's character as the dependable and faithful God who desires the full trust of His people. It implies that God is complete and He is all we need. In John 8:58, Jesus uses the same name for Himself, declaring that He and God are one.
I wonder why Guang Liang used this as the name of the song...

我一直都在 by 林稷安&程于伦( I don't think that there is an mv for this song, but someone made this using clips from My Girl)

This song is from the soundtrack of 花样少年少女 aka Hanakimi. I don't know why, but as I was writing the post forsaken, this song kept playing in my head.

我一直都在你身后等待

等你有一天回过头看我

我的笑送给你

希望你快乐

你的难过都给我

关于你的一切我都好好收藏着

I guess this song made me think of how God is always there for us, and for those who have yet to come to know Him, waiting for us to accept Him into our lives. He is a God who knows us best and loves us the most, thus He only wants what is best for us.

Psalm 139: 1-16

O LORD, you have searched me and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.
You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be

Lydea blogged at 7:54 PM

May your light shine...
in the darkness...