The Reason for Blogging + New Song Coming Soon!

Hello hello hello!

I really like this whole blog thing. I was thinking about it last night as I was lying in bed and I think this was a very good idea. It really forces me to reflect and think about things that I would otherwise give very little thought.

I was also thinking about what the purpose or function of this blog would be and I came up with a few good ones. I think that first of all, it would be a good way to let people know how I am doing or how my day/week has been. It's also a good way to preserve some memories and would be something nice to look back on a while from now. Third, it would be a great way to have fellowship in a way because I'll probably be talking about faith and things God shows me and stuff. Fourth, it would be a good way for people to keep me accountable. I am pretty sure there are even more good reasons for keeping up a blog but I can't think of any others right away.

ANYWAY.

And noooooo winter break is almost overrrrr :(
Today, tomorrow, sunday, and then school again! >:O

I'm gunna try to make the most of my last few days of freedom. Today I will clean up my room and throw out old and useless papers and things. Then I will prepare tonight's worship songs. I also have a AMC movie gift card but I really do not know how I will use it. I would really like to use it soon! Before winter break ends! There are lots of good movies out and school will definitely make it hard to get out and watch a movie.

Saturday I have absolutely no plans so I am really hope I get around to doing something fun and hang out alllllllll day :D

Oh, as an update to yesterday's entry, I DID get more sae-bae-dohn from my aunt and uncles. They gave me $65 bucks! I felt really bad for taking the money because they were literally emptying their wallets and giving me like all that they had (which was not much). They are pretty much old and retired now so I know every dollar they give me is pretty important and valuable to them. So very nice of them.

Yea anyway, that stuff isn't really too interesting. BUT, something else is.

Yesterday night after my extended family members left, I had a jam session with my friend Jon Bae. He told me that he wanted to jam (it was past 9pm at this point) and so he ended up coming up to my house really spontaneously.

We had a ton of fun. We first started off by playing some worship songs together but after a while, I was like, "LETS WRITE OUR OWN SONG!!!"

Jon agreed and we started brainstorming right away. After deciding upon the chords, we started thinking about what message we wanted to send out through the lyrics. I said that I wanted to make a song that really punches people in the gut and "calls them out". A song that really makes people think and reflect and say "daang..."

We talked about how people struggle with pride and that lead us to start talking about apathy and a numb heart to God's grace. Jon talked about some of his struggles with "head knowledge" vs "heart knowledge". Knowing the Bible, but not really feeling strongly (emotionally) about it in his heart. I think this is a struggle that so many Christians, including myself, face.

This lead me to comment on how during worship and with our own lives, we start speaking/singing empty words and giving lip service to Christ. We wanted to truly question people and probe their minds on the topic of worship more specifically. Why do we as Christians sing worship songs that declare our passionate love for Christ when the vast majority of us don't even truly mean the words? Do you really sing from your heart when you tell God that He is Mighty To Save? When you say His grace is amazing? So why do we continue to sing empty words? Why do we not try to do something about this? Week in and week out we sing "Your Grace is Enough" while we at the same time seek things in life OTHER than God, placing greater value on things like relationships and school. In essence, you're saying, "God, Your grace ISN'T enough. I need a girlfriend/boyfriend to make my life complete." I need you PLUS this other thing to have a complete and full life. I guess it all goes back to the sin of having other gods or idols before Christ. This sin is so deadly because we often don't even know that we are idolizing other things.

So yeah. That's what our song is about. We've written the chorus and bridge and they are pretty powerful. We really feel like God is using us to develop a song that He really wants to use in a big way. Hopefully this song really hits people and gets the Spirit moving all over.

Anyway, we still need to write a couple verses and figure out some more technicalities with the song but we wanted to finish it as soon as possible.

I am really thankful and happy that God is doing this. He really inspired us last night so we have a good feeling that He is behind all of this. And with that kind of force, it's hard to doubt that this song will just be any other song. Hopefully we can play this song during worship and at cafe nights as well.

Yea.

It's 1:14pm right now. Woke up not too long ago, ate breakfast, and then started writing this. Yeaaaa.

Well anyway, I think that is it for now. Oh and I found the verse from Proverbs that relates with New Year's resolutions.

The mind of man plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.
-Proverbs 16:9

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