Title: Thank you, you brought me back.

camp was great!

the sermon was good.
the people were good.
the games were good.
the food was good.
the companionship was good.
the nights were good.
the days were good.
the fellowship was good.

practically, everything was good.

it turned out all well! & it became a life lesson learnt for me too! the camp's theme was ai zai tuan qi which literally means that love in youth fellowship! it impacted on me in many ways, honestly. i do agree there's always this someone that the whole gang of us can't stand cause it's really really making your blood boil when you see the actions it does. i'm sure. but the QT hit me real hard on day one.

Matthew 22:34-40
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silences the Sadducees, they gathered together. & one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. " Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" & he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart & with all your soul & with all your mind. This is the great & first commandment. & a second is like it: You shall love you neighbor as yourself. On thses two commandments depend all the Law & the Prophets."
1 John 4:7-11
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, & whoever loves has been born of God * knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us & sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

"I gave you a new life, the purpose is for you people to love each other" & the question goes like: In our times now, how does God wants us to love? Who are the ones that are easy to love & who are the ones who are hard to love? prayer: Thank God for giving us the Holy Spirit to love people.

it impacted on me that, God gave us a new life to love, & why are we wasting our time by going arnd gossiping, hating people, doing those acts that are really despicable. to love, we must show with actions, & that doesn't means the kissing & hugging kind of love between two different sexes that are sexually invovled, but love, is something that can happen even to someone that is just right across the street, a complete stranger. God wants us to love everyone, He wants us to love our enemies like our neighbors, He wants us to be living His image. we should be showering people with concern & stuff like that instead of us gossiping & getting all peeved with someone. yes i agree, i did that. now, i want to try to love. that sounds dumb, but yes, i want to try to love cause that's what the camp impacted me. another thing, we must love those who are unlovely. imagine you're someone not so cute like others, you can't get everyone's love, you're just so unlovely just because of your looks, while others get so much love & attention cause they're attractive & all, wouldn't you feel down? yes, everyone would, i mean like, surely definitely. so we must love everyone, honestly, everyone. you don't have to hug or kiss the person to show your love, you can always give some concern, shower some care when the person seems down, always be there for them when they're in need & that's more than enough.

day 2's QT! "The love mentioned in the bible will increase the love between your brothers & sisters, & ltr it will increase more love. What is this love?" & again: What do you gain when you love someone? What benefits does the receiver of the love gains? prayer: Ask God to let you see someone who needs your love.

that QT was like practically talking to me kind of thing. there was this particular person that we all didn't really like as mentioned, & the prayer was like kind of for me, for me to pray to God to ask for strength & the willingness to love that person. to accept it's acts & to forgive & forget. the love as mentioned in the bible is sacred.

2 Peter 1:5-11
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualitles are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks this qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. Therfore, brothers, be all the more dilligent to make your calling & election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
1 John 3:18-20
Little cildren, let us not love in word or take but in deed and in truth. By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our hearts before him; for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and he knows everything.

& the love that is greater than loving our brothers & sisters in Christ is to love our enemies, that is what that impacted me from the QT & i'm still currently working on it badly. adding on, when you love someone, you feel accomplished & when you see the person that you've shown love on feel happy you'll feel a sense of satisfaction. because of loving someone, you feel happy. even though you're complaining in your heart that you really dont want to love that particular someone, you have to because in front of God the act of us loving people will make Him happy. & because God's status is bigger than ours, far way, bigger. & because of that, we should do what God wants. & when someone receives the love, they will feel happy. & who knows, maybe they were in desperate times & when we showed them our love, it touched them & they will change their opinions of christians from being bad because tarnished by some things to being good because of this brotherly love that we showed. & that might change the person to be a christian. so, show our christian love.

1 Corinthians 1:10-17
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree & that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind & the same judgement. For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What i mean is that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," or "I follow Apollos," or "I follow Cephas," or "I follow Christ." Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I baptized none of you rxcept Crispus & Gaius, so that no one may say that you were baptized in my name. ( I did baptized also the household of Stephanas. Beyond that, I do not know whether I baptized anyone else. ) For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. & if i have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries & all knowledge, & if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, & if I deliver up my body to be burned but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient & kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arogant or rude. It does not insists on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoings, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it was pass away. For we know in part & we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in a part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
So now faith, hope, & love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Can we be in one body with our brothers & sisters in Christ & can we be of one body with our church to pray together? How does God looks at love? How does God show His love to us? & how does our actions shows our definition to the word love?

those are the questions worth pondering about. as followers of Christ, we should all be in one body & worship him together, showering each other with love & forgive & forget even though others might have offended you. we do have flaws too, we aren't perfection, so before we judge others, look into ourselves. God looks at love as sacred & it is the utmost important commandment. we should follow it just as it is stated & shower our love to anyone, anytime, anywhere as allowed. & God sent His only Son, Jesus Christ into the world so that He would bear all our sins on the cross & crucified for us. no other love is greater than this. which brother would die for you? which brother would bear your sins for you? none other than our Savior. God loves us, every single one of us, He made us, He knows us, He's our Heavenly Fatherly, He takes care of us, He listens to us & He carries us through our trials & temptations, so we should love like He does & live in His image, & most importantly, love. we must love Him too. & our actions must be acts of love towards everyone, no resentment or irritating actions. we must love like how God first loved us.

all the verses & things that were mentioned above was just served as a reminder to whoever who might chance upon my blog & read this post, rebuilting up their love again, loving everyone.

yeah, so that was the lessons learnt! fellowships were built up once again between brothers & sisters & it was so fun working together towards a bible story (Philemon) within 3 days which almost seemed impossible for the whole load of us! it felt great to spend this 4 days together with my church peeps to fellowship together, to chat throughout the night, to sleep together, & complain to each other in the morning how tired we were & to listen to sermon & also played angel & mortal together. all the games, all the memories & fun times we shared together was great! the small ones were so enthusiatic & it was so heartwarming for us to see that! we went through times of desperation, through times of rushing & through many things together. this camp, was great.

adieu.