Psalms 103

It's so easy to overlook what God is plainly giving us... or maybe I'm just speaking for myself.... eeeeyeahh, lol. I always fail to see the obvious. I feel inadequate to just accept God's love, and instead I feel like I always have to earn it. God just wants us to accept His love freely, no strings attached. It's so easy that it's hard lol. 

Knowing I fail to measure up to people's standards as well as the world's, it becomes so discouraging a lot of the times. It's so shocking and relieving at the same time to know that God accepts us, flaws and all. He makes my worth complete, and I praise Him for that. I praise Him for always bestowing good to me, forgiving my sins, redeeming my life from death, crowning me with His love and righteousness, satisfying all my desires. In the end, everyone just wants to be loved, and He is that ultimate Provider.

We have all we need in You

And all we need is You

All we need is You.

Psalm 61

Hear my cry, O God.
Listen to my prayer.
From the ends of the earth, I cry to you,
I cry as my heart grows faint;
lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
For you have been my refuge,
the strong tower against the foe.

I'm tired and losing focus...

Yet I know that my God exists and He always hears our cries. After my QT today, I was reading some psalms because to me, the book of Psalms seems so real and geunine, and I love how we can totally see how joyous David is or how much he's suffering. Everything's out in the open, and it encourages me to persevere and move forward like David did. Psalms 42 today really hit me hard. In this psalms, David knows that God is the living God and he is searching for Him. He knows that God is good, but wonders why he still feels so forlorn. "Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God" (v. 11). Even though David feels so downcast, he still praises God. And that is what I will also do...

On another note, my next entry will be about Candle Cafe, an upper-midtown vegetarian cafe, introduced to me by my lovely soonwon Christine Kim! =) Kudos to her for picking out such a nice place and taking us to eat good food! Thank you! 

Candle Cafe Vegetarian Cuisine