Heaven on Earth

Bonne nuit guys!! I just came back from a bible study on my lovely church at Jakarta. During the service today, my father shared a short devotion before the real pastor preached. He was talking about making heaven on earth which scripture is taken from Matthew 6:9-10. That verse inspires me so much!! It says:



9 In this manner, therefore, pray: 

 Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 
 10Your kingdom come. 
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.



He said that for those who BELIEVE and LIVE in Jesus, will experience heaven on earth. Make it even more focus, not the real heaven yet, but the REALM of heaven. If you really live and trust Jesus, you shall experience ‘heaven’. Wonderful right?



Making things easy for you, catch this analogy. (LOVEE ANALOGY SO MUCHH <3)

Have you ever gone for a trip by car? Just few weeks ago I was travelling to Belitung island in Indonesia. It is extremely beautiful. I personally believed that this island will be the next Bali. So, back to focus, as I was driving to Tanjung Tinggi beach from the central city (which located in the middle of the island), I realized that there is a transition from a rainforest-like atmosphere towards a beach-and-sea-like atmosphere. When you almost arrive at the beach, you will feel the atmosphere of the beach already EVENTHOUGH you are not in the beach yet! You can feel the sea breeze, the coconut trees waving at you, and the soil composition on the roadsides start turning into a mixture of sands.




Get what I mean?

We all understand and have faith that those who believe in Jesus name will go to heaven when they died. But more than that, as a Christian, we should have a ‘taste’ of heaven, even before we are there! It is the Realm of Heaven. So, let’s create the realm of heaven on earth. Faith is bigger than proof. right? :)



Auf wiedersehen ;)!

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Bones and The Breath

Bonjour Freunde! It has been a very exiting week for me personally as my little sister was having a birthday, a sweet 17 even more :)! My fingers have not kissed the comp keyboard for quite long, and I think I should redeem it by writing some posts today. So enjoy guys!! :D!

Few days ago, as usual I was reading the old Testament (it’s seriously thought-provoking XD) and somehow I was caught by Ezekiel 37: 1-14. (Read it up at http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+37&version=NKJV )

If you have read it, you will understand that Ezekiel was given a REAL vision upon Israel. God Himself makes a defeated army back to life from dry bones. I will jump around seriously if I saw this happening in front of my naked eyes. It is a beyond-belief miracle! But here in this post, I want to focus on one very thing that make me understand further about how God created human and what human is.

Inside Ezekiel 37, God asked Ezekiel to prophesy to the BONES to build the human BODY. Yet the body is still soulless. Then God asked Ezekiel to prophesy to the BREATH and now the body lives. The dry bones become an exceedingly great army. Do you get what it means? So what is important here?




Yes, it is BREATH. God wants to remind us again that a body without “breath” are just nothing and not alive. This unity between a human body and a breath is a symbol of the unity between human and God on how a human without God is just a completely soulless body.

Moreover, these bodies only can become an exceedingly great army, when the “breath” is inside them. Why this is amazing? Because before the “breath” is given, they were just a defeated weak army, who died tragically on the midst of a valley. But when the “BREATH” is given, the weak transform into the great army. So, do you want to be the exceedingly great person? Have the BREATH of God on your life. J!! Be blessed!!

Auf wiedersehen :)

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The Soap

Bonjour everyone!! Hahaha it’s the first time I’m using a French word on this blog. It’s good to learn a new language. They are so mysterious and exciting :D:D!! anyway it has been a very long time since my last post. Finally I have found a little time right now to write this blog before I go today. So let’s start the analogy! Love analogy soo much <3 XD!!

A week ago, I went to a skin doctor, and they told me that my skin is quite sensitive that I need to change my body liquid soap with the original basic block soap. The next day in the morning, I was going to take shower yet amusingly I could not find my new powerful block of soap on my bathroom. I keep looking DOWN the floor, the bathtub, the closet, and washbasin, everywhere. I could not find it, even at the sneakiest corner of my bathroom! I felt so stressed as I have tried my best and look for it repeatedly (almost 10x!) and I need to go for working (I’m almost late!!). After feeling so depressed, I asked my maid for help. Then she just laughed and told me, “look UP, it’ just up there”. Yes, she was the one who put it there, as she could not find any place to put it BELOW. I was so amused and stunned. Simple story, yet it has a big impact upon me.



(LOOK UP guys!!! The moon is so beautiful up there!!! #randomthought ;p)



So what’s the moral of the story? If you search for an answer for any of your trouble, never only LOOK DOWN and search for it, LOOK UPWARD too. Or maybe the best way is to LOOK UP FIRST before look down and search for it. Somehow I remember a very beautiful verse that I always keep on my heart from the bible,

Matthew 6:33, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”

It is a simple verse, yet a very powerful one for me. Often in our life, we have many questions that we could not answer by ourselves. It is funny that many try with their best to search for the answers by themselves, LOOKING down at the “world” and search for the answers. But do you know that, our God has all the answer to all what we need? My horrible experience with the soap is simply retarded, yet it contains the most powerful thing I have ever imagined. Why don’t we try to LOOK UP first before looking down at the world? If we can find the “soap” from UP there, why we bother taking time to find the “Soap” from down the world which will indeed bring no result. So, try too LOOK UP, Jesus might just be the right answer for you. :D

Auf Wiedersehen,

Dieu Vous Benisse (D.V.B)

(God bless u in French, my “French revolution” hahaha ;p)

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The Pillar of God

Helllowwww guys! Today I just want to share a bit of my beautiful experiences with God. Have you ever felt that you are lucky for an occasion? Saved from an accident or a war? But how if you experienced it for three times? Is it just a coincidence? It is indeed when you know that God has really saved you and protected you. I experienced them few weeks ago.

Exodus 14:19-20 (NKJV) – “19And the Angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud went for, before them and stood behind them. 20So it came between the camp of Israel. Thus it was a cloud and darkness to the one, and it gave light by night to the other, so that the one did nor come near the other all that night.”



Exactly 3 weeks ago, I was fortunate to have a chance to have a holy escapade to Israel. My journey began with a stay at Egypt, and then continued with Israel, Palestine, and Jordanian. The whole experience was awesome and breathtaking. But today I’m not talking about the trip itself. It is about God’s protection.

I began my trip in Egypt with the Indonesian Tour. I am glad until now that I visited that country. I got a chance to see the pyramid with my own naked eyes and hike the mount Sinai with my own foot. From Egypt, we moved to Israel for the next schedule. One day after I left Egypt, I heard the news that Egypt was in chaos. Even until now it was no better and is getting worse and worse. It was one of my luckiest moments. If I am one day late, I might not be able to cross the border to Israel and get stuck in the chaos.

At first I thought that experience as coincidence, but it is not coincidence if it occurs more than once. Rite? On the trip final stop, I visited Jordanian for one day before I flew back to Jakarta. Then I flew back to Jakarta after the wonderful 9-days trip around the Middle East. When I arrived at Jakarta on the next day, I heard the news that Jordanian was in chaos as well, and it started FEW HOURS after I flew back to Indonesia. I was stunned and start to realize how great is our God! He blinded the eye of the people at Egypt and Jordanian not to start their massive riots while the whole tour group was there. Same as the pillar of cloud of God, we are protected from the chaos!

One week after the trip was Chinese New Year and I flew back to Juwana at Central Java to celebrate the festive season at my grandma house. It was wonderful and I got a lot of angpaos (the only day where children can amusingly gain a lot of revenue by just saying Gong Xi Fat Choi) ;p!! hehehhe. It was a memorable event and after that I flew back to Jakarta from Semarang. (Juwana is 3 hours drive from Semarang). To my amazement again, the next day I heard the news that the roadway that connecting one of the only road from Juwana to Semarang was flooded severely and none of the small car can pass it. I wonder if that flood happened on the day when we want to go back to Jakarta, I will not be able to go back!! So again, God really protects me.

So what’s the lesson here?

Trust God with all your life, just surrender to Him everything that you have, including your life and your future. Nothing is a coincidence in our life, it’s all His works. Thank Him for all things that happen in your life, it is a process to make you nearer to Him, to love Him. That’s all my testimony, let it be a revelation of God’s love to all of you.

Exodus 14:13-14 (NKJV)- “13Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see no more forever. 14The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.”

Be blessed guys,

Auf wiedersehen ;)

The Blue Lemon Squash from 40000 Feet Above the Sea Level

Hi guys, I guess you all are wondering about the title. Today is 21st Jan 2011 and yes, currently I’m writing this post 40000 feet above Colombo, on my way to Cairo. The current speed of this aircraft is 850 km/h and the temperature outside is -56 Degree Celcius!! That’s pretty amazing and terrifying actually :p. Anyway, it is a great experience to write a post while I was sitting down (and getting bored) for another 5 hours above the sky here before I reach Abu Dhabi and transit into another flight to Cairo. Anyway, let’s go back to our main dish here, the Blue Lemon squash.

Few weeks ago, I was having a meal at a famous restaurant in Jakarta, and they have a special menu for their beverages!! I ordered their special beverage, the Blue Lemon Squash. I didn’t understand on what’s so special about that drink until it was served in front of my eyeballs!! It was seriously a beauty of cuisine! You could see the color transition of the drink. The bottom of it was sunny sunshine yellow, and it changed to transparent and to bluish ocean as it goes upward. I quickly grasped that drink and started drinking it. Out of nowhere, it didn’t taste that good. It was too sweet, yet I continued drinking it, and from too sweet, it changed into ‘no taste’. Yeahh, I finished the drink yet I didn’t feel satisfied and felt so cheated. I told my friend who was with me there about how bad that drink was, yet he laughed. He told me that I forgot to MIX it well FIRST BEFORE I drank it. That’s the reason why my lemon squash did not taste good, yet disastrous. Do you get what I mean here? :)

We often asked a very big or ‘special’ request to Jesus through prayer, yet we think that what He gave is always not the same as what we want or need! Have you ever wandered why it happened? Two common reasons will be that it is not what you need on that time, or it is not the right time yet for Him to give it. Is that all? There is one OTHER POSSIBLE ANSWER. Let me tweak your mind with this ‘lemon squash’ analogy :p. It might not that Jesus didn’t answer your prayer, it is just that you FORGET to mix the ‘lemon squash’ BEFORE you DRINK IT. We know that He always answers our prayer, yet often we stay inactive and try just to receive His ‘lemon squash’ blindly and drink it right away. It is wrong!! You need to BE ACTIVE and MIX the lemon squash. He NEEDS your ACTION!! Without your action, it is logical that your ‘drink’ will taste ‘too sweet’ at the bottom and ‘too sour’ on top. I don’t know what you are praying or requesting for, my suggestion is just that be responsive and stay ACTIVE.

MIX IT WELL :p.

Be blessed, Auf wiedersehen

The Highway

More than three times a week I always pass this highway to Jakarta from my lovely city of BSD. It was nothing special, just a highway. Yet on that faithful day I received a beautiful revelation from Him again. I was sitting on the back and starring on the highway, literary the grey aged road which is amazingly still remain intact without blemish, unlike other Jakarta’s roads. Here is the thing.



Many people often say that there are many ways to Rome. I indeed believe that there are many ways to reach a destination, yet many think that these roads must be different roads and directions. Have you ever though that these roads might have the same direction and distance? They are just put side by side like a highway. The difference s just that there is the fast lane in the rightmost side, normal lane in the middle, and the slowest lane in the leftmost side.

These lanes are directed toward one destination. Yet cars must be driven with different speed. In our life often we are directed into the same destination with your friend, yet your friend or mate seems to move faster than you. Do not worry. You are still reaching that destination, just with a different speed.

But does it stop here? No, a highway allows you to move to another lane to speed up or to slow down. In life, God has planned great destination for our life. It is up to our choice whether we want to speed up or slow down. It depends on your attitude and capability. Some people prefer to move in a slower pace, some love the higher pace, and some enjoy the normal pace. He let it to our own decision. When you feel that the fast lane is too dangerous and full of concentrations, you can move to the normal or slow lane. Don’t worry, you are still on the track, you are still in the highway!! :D

After talking all these things, there is one more important thing to be noted. In any lane, sometimes there is a car moving slower than your car pace in your chosen lane, and the car is just in front of your car! In this momentous moment, you need braveryto move your car to the other lane in order to take over that car and move back to your lane. Get what I mean? In life, after you chose your own lane, there is a possibility that there is something that hinders your speed and growth. If you are not brave to speed up and temporarily move to the faster lane, you will be slowed down. So, be brave!! You only need to speed up a bit and move to the other line to take over that hindrance, and move back to your own lane, and back to your own preferred speed. It is great right? :DD!!

Psalm 32: 8 (NKJV) - “ I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will guide you with My eye.”

So, everything is your own choice! He has set your destination. Enjoy your drive ;)! !

God bless

Auf Wiedersehen

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