Be Encouraged - By Merry Wirawan

  It has been 7 months since I started my blog. It is an amazing journey where I experienced a lot of new things from God. I didn’t know that I can write until He has asked me to write this blog. He is also the one who gives me ideas and topics what to write and I am thankful that I am in this journey with Him. I would like to share the story behind my blog so my readers will know me better and of course I hope through this, you all will love our God even more. It started from early January 2020. I normally enter every New Year with full of hopes and expectations. However I entered 2020 with full of sorrow. At that time we as family were in agony waiting for the time when my late brother would be going. At the end of December 2019, in the hospital, while my late brother was in palliative care, doctor has warned us that he only had few more days to live. While I was still believing for a miracle to happen, God had different plan for him. He passed away on 04 January 2020. For ...

  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the  new   creation  has come: The old has gone, the  new  is here! – 2 Corinthian 5:17 (NIV) When we have accepted Christ as our personal saviour, we have been made as new creation. Whoever we were in the past have to be changed into a new one. Whatever bad things that we used to have need to be replaced into good ones after we were born again. As children of God we have to be different with others. We have to set a good example for the people around us. And lastly we have to bear fruit. We have to make sure that our fruit can be seen and enjoyed by our friends, our family, our colleagues, and etc.   But perhaps as you are reading this blog, you may have a thought how to change ourselves easily? It seems so difficult to do a transformation in us. It is not easy to change our character in a blink of an eye. It requires times, process, perseverance, a lot of motivation and so on. The question is do you want to ...