A Past Post

Heyy ... just thought i'd share this post. I actually posted this quite sometime back. and just felt that it should be posted again:) pls read it below... (it was from my previous blog.. http://chocolatefontanza.blogspot.com)


Friday, March 7, 2008-7:34 PM
It is said, " time stops for no one".

But havent you ever wished that you could stop time?hold that second or minute to last forever.

That was the thought in my mind, as i was in the train on the way home.I stared at the digital clock, 18.38... 18.39and i saw how it never stopped... the 24 hours a day... the 60 minutes in an hour... the 60 seconds in that minute.. the 100 mili seconds in that second...It never stopped moving...I looked at myself through the reflection on the glass door as the crowd dwindled. And i saw myself, clad in deep brown cargoes, topped with a baggy sunny orange t-shirt. My hair hid my left eye and white headphones were plugged into my head. Then... as i approached Bishan, the song that started playing was The Stand, by Hillsong. It started

" You stood before creation
Eternity in your hand
And your spoke the earth into motion
My soul now to stand.
You stood before my failure
Carried the cross for my shame
My sin weighed upon your shoulders
My soul now to stand.

So what could i say?
So what could i do?
But to offer this heart o God
Completely to you..."

Thats when i found myself mesmerised by the blur of the brown and bronze mesh of tracks. I wanted to go on my knees and lift my soul up to God there and then. I opened up my heart... And i saw the awsomeness of God... The green in the grass... The beautiful blend of the skies... Everything made perfect without defection. Like a painter, God painted eveything in its perfectness. The way the water rippled in the resevoir, the way the green of the trees readily accepted the blues of the waters...

The minutest detail was not spared... The way the man swung his tennis racket in the court 1km away... The car driving at a speed of 50km per hour... the lights.. shadows... birds... all so perfectly drawn.. drawn into time... The thing that never stops... Stopped for me there and then...

It was'nt about if man created something that counted time... It was'nt about that clock tickking away... counting the hours in that day...

It was about that awsome presence of God that was in that train... As i worshipped with my heart... within.. i found how to stop time... and before i knew it... i was at khatib... Time didnt stop in reality.. It moved as per normal... It kept counting... But it stopped for me... and started moving for me as i stepped out of that train... Thats when i realised, that time stops, when the Creator stops it in your heart. To spend that time forever in His presence.

As i made that walk home...the wonderous beauty of the trees and the plants... the people... all perfectly made... passed by... I looked and saw the tall... the short... the plump.. the slim... the man with the wrinkles... the lady with that constant frown... The lady diging her nose... Was all so perfect... All perfectly made in God's image. The absolute beauty. To man... beauty is a false cover... what is beauty? Is it that perfectly fitting nose... the nice soft lips... the almond shaped eyes... and the body figure that causes people to stare? To God it is all perfect and good... whether the nose is a little too big... or the eyes are too round... or the shape of the body.. all bulging in the wrong places... Its all perfect in God's sight...

Thats when i appreciated that beauty all around me... and i wanted to just lift up my hands... as i was walking back.. Beacuse i was just so awed... by the splendour.. the beauty... time in itself... it was awsome.. And the Maker.. Creator of heaven and earth.. Made it so... Time... Colours... All in His hand... Time... does not exist for Him... For he is everlasting... same yesterday, today... and forever more... He was the God of Abraham, Isaac.. Moses... Joshua...Caleb... The same since the beginning of time... the same forever... The one that stopped time.. for my heart.. that unveiling of beauty...

What an awesome God...Indeed...Awsome...