i'm going back to sungei gedong camp today. the very thought sickens me, like really. everytime i think about it i just feel like throwing up. that's the effect army has on me. bleah.
all good things must come to an end. i'm already starting to miss the freedom. as i type this post, the setting sun is like the fleeting freedom. wish i could turn back time to the 14th of December, when i went for youth camp. wish time stopped on the 1st of January, when we lasted through the 7.5-hour watchnight-cum-prayer meeting.
gotta get used to the grind. going to bed at 10.30pm, waking up at 5.30am, queuing up for breakfast. one should never take too long a break away from army. once you get back into the comfort of civilian life, you never want to go back to the regimentation in camp.
loved the message today. Sis Poh Ee Lyn preached from Joshua 1:1-9, probably one of my favourite passages in the Bible. as i was dreading the end of the long break and the very thought of leaving the comforts of home and church to return to camp, the word was so comforting: I will never leave you nor forsake you. read that so many times, prayed it so many times, but today it came through like a fresh revelation. it's amazing how someone can read something so many times, but it can still be so refreshing at the right moment.
yes Lord, you will never leave me nor forsake me. how comforting is that.
the bicycle saga is over, and i am $180 poorer, but at least it ended with my conscience clear. so life goes on.
God i don't wanna book in!
After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' aide: "Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them—to the Israelites. I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses. Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates—all the Hittite country—to the Great Sea on the west. No one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you. "Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their forefathers to give them. Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go."
Josh 1:1-9