Opportunity and Change

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Welcome To Benj’s Twisted Dictionary With Commentary

FORMAL LABORATORY REPORTS (eyp-el-ar)- What i do most of the time. syn: buhay,  library research, borrowing books, typing with MS word, reading,  calculating with MS Excel

GRADUATE(fud-tek) - What I want to be in 2 1/2 years time or less.


GULLIBLE - Walang gullible sa dictionary.

//haha…// 

KAIROS (op-or-choo-ny-ty)- The term "kairos" is used in theology  to describe the qualitative form oftime  . In rhetoric kairos is "a passing instant when an opening appears which must be driven through with force if success is to be achieved." (en.wikipedia.org)

// that’s half the name of this blog, which defines its purpose: to encourage people to grab all opportune times for growth and change towards Christ-likeness//

PAPACY (da-di) - Pagiging ama.

//I hope to be a father someday. I am, however, alarmed by the fact that even Israel and Judah’s best and most righteous kings (David, Hezekiah and Josiah) had a hard time in raising their children. David’s son Amnon commited incestuous rape. Hezekiah’s son Manasseh was the longest ruling evil king in Judah. Jehoiachim, the Great Reformist King Josiah’s son, was described as "doing evil in the eyes of the LORD". Being a righteous king did not assure that their household was obedient to the LORD. Perhaps there were many factors, like their environment and personal choices. I have, however, seen some Christian families who have taught their children well, and I believe that it’s still possible to rear up children according to God’s directives and succeed//

PERPETUAL (aaaaaaa-gh) - the adjective that best describes my lack of sleep

STUCK KNOWLEDGE(?) - what becomes to what you learn from cramming, but only while you are taking the exam. syn: short term memory, "nasa-dulo-na-ng-dila-ko knowledge"

TARPAULIN DESIGN (tarp)- yung gagawin ko ngayon kasi nakakasawa na magtype ng FLR.

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"And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that
he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem, he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters
of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him. So there was gathered much people together,
who stopped all the fountains and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings
of Assyria come, and find much water?"
    [2
Chronicles 32.2-4]

"And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might,
and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah?"[2 Kings 20.20]

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watercourse was a tremendous feat of engineering by any standards. At one time, critics of the Bible said openly
that it was impossible, because of the great difficulty of the project: this was another example, they said, of
the way in which Bible accounts had become exaggerated and then recorded as historical fact. This argument cannot
be used against the Bible today because the watercourse has been discovered.

An Arab boy accidentally fell into the Pool of Siloam and discovered the underwater
opening of the tunnel. Just as the new London Bridge has a commemorative plaque marking its official opening, so
a plaque had been placed on the wall of the tunnel. This inscription is written in the old Hebrew script of the
time of Hezekiah and part of the tablet, which is now in the Istanbul Museum, reads as follows:

‘Now this is the history of the excavations. While the excavators
were still lifting up the pick, each towards his neighbour, and while there were yet three cubits to excavate,
there was heard the voice of one man calling to his neighbour: for there was an excess of rock on the right hand.
And when on the day of excavations the excavators had struck pick against pick, one against another, the waters
floweth from the spring to the Pool, a distance of 1,200 cubits. One hundred cubits was the height of the rock
above the head of the miners’.

We cannot deny the existence of Hezekiah’s watercourse because, as Keller describes,
it is there -

‘a narrow passage about two feet wide and barely 5 feet
high…cut through limestone. It can only be negotiated with rubber boots and a slight stoop. Water knee-deep rushes
to meet you. For about 500 yards the passage winds imperceptibly uphill. It ends at the Virgin’s Fountain, Jerusalem’s
water supply since ancient times. In Biblical days it was called the Fountain of Gihon.’
[The Bible as history - Keller,Hodder & Stoughton.

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Lifted from: Bible Archeology, http://www.biblelight.org/arch6.htm

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I think it was in high school that I first heard about Hezekiah’s aqueduct, which still stands today.

I’m just privileged that I will be able to preach about one of Judah’s godly kings. ^_^

All i want is 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep once each week…

I still can’t understand why my body wakes up at 5:30am.
regardless  of what time I sleep,
regardless of what I have to do,

when i open my eyes,
i can’t seem to close them again
yet i know i need it
i want it badly

If this is a curse,
can anyone break it?

I plead and pray to the Almighty.