What I learned at Church yesterday..

Part of the sermon yesterday kind of hit me hard in the heart. If I've been pretty selfish lately, I'm very sorry for that. This scriptures did remind me a lot of what I should've been as a Christian. I know it might sound a little harsh, but.. here goes:

"When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, your lives will produce these evil results: sexual immorality, impure thoughts, eagerness for lustful pleasure, idolatry, participation in demonic activities, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, divisions, the feeling that everyone is wrong except those in your own little group, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other kinds of sin. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will NOT inherit the Kingdom of God." (Galatians 6:19-21, NLT)

But, as children of God, we all should have these characters that I will list soon instead. These are the famous nine fruits of the spirit. I've known them since I was still in grade school, and I can't believe that I still have to be reminded about it.

"But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Here there is no conflict with the law." (Galatians 6:22-23, NLT)

Moreover,

"Those who belong to CHRIST JESUS have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. If we are living now by the Holy Spirit, let us follow the Holy Spirit's leading in every part of our lives. Let us not become conceited, or irritate one another, or be jealous of one another." (Galatians 6:24-26, NLT)

Well, I hope this may bless others as it has blessed me abundantly.

Enough with the scriptures, now I want to tell you about my weekend. =p Well, nothing exciting actually. I spent the weekend to do a special project for my grandma's 80th birthday. She's the only grandparent I have left. All the kids, grandkids, great grandkids in Indo are preparing for her 80th birthday party. What is awesome is that, she does not know that it'll be a huge party. She thought it'd be like the usual, just family members celebrating at a fancy restaurant. But for this year, we have rented a ballroom in a hotel and have invited kazillion guests (ok, maybe i'm exaggerating about the guests, but they invited A LOT =p). It'll be so huge that everyone will be wearing uniforms. I know that the sons will be wearing suits with pink shirts underneath, because that's what my dad will be wearing. The daughters will be wearing dresses in the same colour too (I think they actually pre-ordered the dresses). The grandsons will be wearing suits with another colour of shirt, and the granddaughters will be wearing dresses of the same colour. Also the great grandchildren. It's like a wedding party, but it'll be even greater.

It's a shame that my mom, my brothers and I cannot attend this event. Only my dad will attend. Well, my brothers and I have exams in 2 weeks or so, and we tried to convince my grandma to delay the party until the end of April, but she refused because she had invited all her friends. =( But it's okay.. I'm still a little upset, but I'll get over it soon.

Anyway, on Friday I printed out over 200 pictures from my computer and I put them all in a really sweet-looking photo album. =) I gave comments to a lot of the pictures too!! =p I hope that my grandma will like it a lot because she hasn't seen us in a while. Well, I just went back two years ago. But my youngest brother hasn't gone back to Indo for almost 9 years now, and my older brother for 6 or 7 years. It's crazy, I know.

We also videotaped everyone saying happy birthday and things like that so that she can watch us! =) Well I was actually kind of embarrassed about the videotaping thing, because they will show the video at the party with hundreds of guests watching. o.O" But it's okay, I probably won't know anybody there except my family.

So, my dad went back to Indo last night after dropping off me and my brother at our rez in Waterloo. Even though he wasn't done packing, but he insisted on dropping us off. Aww.. make me miss him even more.

My brother also went to Buffalo on the weekend. And guess what? He bought me a Burberry scarf with matching gloves!!!! =) So nice! ^-^

Alright.. this is it for now, I've got much work to do!

L8er!