I've done a lot of sharing of my experiences of this past term lately. But I have to remember, almost all of them were done at the prompting of the Lord, instead of being initiated by myself. That is quite important, because only the sharing done for the Lord seems relevant, and yielded peace in my heart afterwards. If I am the one initiating the sharing, then it usually ends up flat and becomes a bit self-centred? Another interesting thing I've noticed is that when the Lord wants me to share, it's usually without preconceived scripts and it just flows fluently and naturally; but when I share on my own, I would think about what I would say, and usually end up stuttering through it and missing the main points. Again, this lends to the notion of surrender all of myself to Jesus, doing what He wants me to do instead of doing what I want to do...

Before, I find the notion of living day by day in the Lord to be a daunting task, probably because I can't seem to imagine myself keeping this up for the rest of my life (which may be long). But the epiphany for today is that it shouldn't be like that...instead, living day by day is exactly living one day at a time without thinking about what might happen in the future. So each day, decide to live for the Lord for the day and that's it. It also lends to the notion of living each day to the fullest, which to me means living this particular day for the Lord. Surely I see that there may be times ahead where I may walk in a spiritual desert, but that's not my concern right now. My concern should be the present, as the present presents enough to handle already.

Re-read chapter 2 of Abide in Christ for the third time this afternoon. This book is simply a gem. Need to remember to trust and obey, obey and trust, and surrender every part of my life to Christ, and then I shall find rest. I still long for this abiding unbroken fellowship with Christ as promised...