EVERYONE WANTS TO BE SOMEONE ELSE WHO WANTS TO BE EVERYONE ELSE WHO DOES NOT WANT TO BE

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i just got back from a sec sch classmate's (and also fellow churchmate) 21st birthday party.
t'was a joy to meet up with some of my secschclassmates whom i haven't seen in ages.
sublime joy effervesced pandemic laughter as secschday-hood was recalled and relived.

DID U KNOW? that i once..:

• sported uberbeng center parting hair
• addressed teachers by their full name just to be rude "oi. Lai Yin.."
  
• deliberately handed in a blank A Math test to score a zero in defiance
• selected all the 1s in an MCQ test just to see what score i would get (i scored 36%)
• inspired a "Lee Theory" in which i said that a student learned better in a semi-conscious state of mind (i.e. sleeping)
• tried to put footprints on the ceiling

splendid. i had forgotten that my secschlife was actually so colourful.

neways..!
in the morning i was led to:

"Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, singing: 'To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!'" - Revelations 5:13

and also:

"Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a loud rumbling sound - May the glory of the Lord be praised in his dwelling place!" - Ezekiel 3:12

we've all embarked on a quest to know God. (yes, incaseuduno, we have.)
and i sensed the Spirit was giving me a small glimpse of his nature. that at his very presence, all things must burst out in PRAISE.
i remember a verse that says something like if no one praises God even the rocks will start crying out. pureamusement. who said God wasn't creative?

and so..!
thus simply is our God: DESERVING OF PRAISE.
indeed. it is. so.
and so it is.

O APPLICATION, APPLICATION! WHEREFORE ART THOU APPLICATION?
every morning awakening, instead of just praying for MEmyselfandi and to putofftheoldself renewthemind putonthenewself yadayada, i shall henceforth ALSO praise God!

for he is DESERVING of our praise.