Becoming a King

Hi there again buddies...how are things going on these days?

So, how long is it we haven't send news in this blog? 2 months, i guess?

to be honest, I almost desperate to keep this blog up and running by my self..but, it came up in my mind these several days, that we still need to keep intouch...we need to write each other more oftenly.

What I wanna share you guys today is about the process of become a king of our life.

I read bible about David history in the last few weeks.

I was wondering how old did God All Mighty blessed David as the king for Israel (1Sam 16:13). I couldn't find any sentences mention about it. It just said that he became king of Israel when he was 30 years old. But he already became king of Judah for 7 years 6 months before. And we was going to lots of wars and won them all long time before. The first time we won the war was by beatting Goliat the Philistine, and he was ruddy (bhs: wajah kemerah-merahan). So we was so...young..!!

And look what had God done to make him king. He was not really become the king of Israel on the day he was blessed to be. He needed to serve the present king, Saul, first, then won lots of war on Saul's kingdom, then he needed to flee from Saul. We all know what flee means, right? It's not just simple run, but running in rush (bahasa: lari, melarikan diri terbirit-birit). If he is a king, as he was blessed to be, why should he flee? That's seems not right to me.

But look, one thing interesting here, now God started to trained David as a real king. When he was young in the wilderness, he was a shepherd of few sheeps (two three sheeps, 1 Sam 17:28), then in the runs David became the king of his family and those who was in distress, in debt, and discontented in amount of 400 men (1Sam 22:2). And God trained him with all the consequences as a king before made him king of Judah then become the king of Israel.

So, guys...I learned lots from this. God might gave us heart of a worker, god of a teacher, god of a business-person, and He really mean it. He is willing and going to make us one of our dreams. But we all need to be trained, need to be purified. We need to learn all things that we need to have becoming one of our dreams. David wasn't trained in a class room, or a small places to became a king.

David was trained in a real life. And so do we. You and I need to live what we have now.

One thing made different as David knew that if he stayed and live with Saul he would died and the blessing prophesy of he becoming a king would never happen. We might also have the same experience of our present living conditions that would not take us to be one of what God has given us in our heart. If that so, then we need to take what ever chance to start living on our dreams. Take a small step. Take a small tiny forward step, go for your dream.

If you dream to become an IT Expert, start taking IT courses/books and make life experince to implement what you are learning of, make a software or a system. If you dreaming to live as a teacher, get experience to teach with a greater result for you your selfs and others, creat a class of several students and start teaching. If you dream to become a Sales Persons, take courses on it, read books about sales, find product to sale and sale them.

In the God Holy Name, Jesus, we would become the one that God had already pointed us to be.

Great dream for you all, God bless our dreams, and let's go for it!

Sun shine on the beach

Yow, fellows...how are you doing today?

You know what....I'm freaking addicted to the word DREAMING this lately. I have another thing to share with you guys about it, again...

Let's imaging a place call 'beach'. Imagine of a sun set on the beach.

Since we were in Yogya, let's take an example of a beach...let say Krakal, or Parang Kusumo, but not Parangtritis since I don't like Parangtritis to be honest with you...I just don't like it!! hehehehe...

=D

Okay, back to the topic..

So, for me..there are three main things in here. Sun, sea(water), people on the beach.

I'm assuming that the Sun is our dream. You all remember old maxim (=pepatah) saying 'Rise your dream as high as the stars up on the sky' right? Since the Sun is one of them, so..the Sun really our dream. The sea is our self, and people on the beach are the others (family, friends, co-workers, every body else but us).

Talking about goal/dream achievement is like REFLECTING SUN SHINE by THE SEA WATER.

Reflecting the sun shine is to let every body enjoying our dream. So to achieve our dream is by serving other peole to enjoy our dream/goal. Many of us hardly achieve our dream, since what we're always thinking of is our self. We focus to reach out our dream for our own, not to serve other people.

Achieve our dream is as simple as reflecting sun shine on sea water on the beach.

Sun shine is free..But with this free litle thing, we know what the sea planned to serve people using the sun shine, look what we could get from the sea, out of enjoyable scenery : fish, salt, vapour, oyster, minerals, etc.

our dream is free..And we can serve other people with this free litle thing, we call our dream, also..we would get and give more than we could expected. We could serve people more than what we're dreamed of..!!

I know that sometimes there would be cloudy season or even rainy or even worse storm season, where we couldn't reflect our dream for others, but when we're standstill on our dream, keep serving others with the dream we have...then for sure people could enjoy and be pleased for the dream we share.

Again fellows...keep dreaming.

Best wishes for our dreams,

m2n

4 simple things

Hi there again, great fellows...what news?
For me, it's been a freaking hot day for some days..!!! I got burned really bad on my face. That's why today I've been using small towel to cover my face. But after all...I have a wonderful days...!!
;)

One thing I want to share you guys. Today, while me and my contractor's supervisor supervising a job, we've been talking a lot, as ussual. He's around 55 years old and had been working in construction projects offshore for almost 35 years. He started his career as a helper then become an operator, then a welder, then performing onsite supervisor. Once he owned a contractor
company and handle a construction project by him self, before going back to his home and build an oil palm farm.

One thing interesting when we're talking about achieving goals. He said we can do every thing and achieve what ever we want with 4 simple things to have in our self:
1. Discipline
We have to be strict to our self to do what ever it takes to achieve our goal. We have to force
our self to do what ever it takes and live by the rules of the path we choose a long the way
2. Fun
We have to enjoy what ever we're doing, and have fun with it. Because when we enjoy and get fun on doing something, we would love to do it without pressures and stressfulness. And when we're having fun, we would be so creative to find any solutions for problems we might have a long the way.
3. Knowledge
We have to know how to do what ever it takes to achieve our goal. So we need to educate our
self on the things we need to achieve our goal
4. Faith
We have to a sure our self, that we can achieve our goal. When there are many problems, we
still be sure that we will achieve our goal.
So, it's quite simple things, huh..???
;)

Again, when we have a dream as our goal, we have to do something to achieve the goal, we need to work on our dream. In working on our dream, those 4 things are great key points to have for each of us.
And I would like to add one more thing out ot those 4...which is and always be...PRAY.
Pray before God, for He would be with us and bless our dreams and actions a long the way, then when we achieve the goal, we could share the bigger blessing from God to every other one we could.

So...my great wishes for our great goals,
m2n