what powerful powerful words. God im super amaze. there are so many sentences i speak in a day, and none can ever come close to expressing your reverence in such a way! i am resolving to talk less think more! even more than before.

you know that day God reveal something to me. and like alot of times i see things as a movie in my head so it all makes sense to me within my beautiful brain. but more often than not, people dont see how i connect things, and i hate it when i'd have to explain it all. Because everything made perfect sense within my beautiful brain, i dont see why it wouldnt make sense when it all came out from my awesome mouth! hahaha. thing is i realised in class today, people just dont see things the way everybody else sees things, and it makes sense that people know no beginning to my thoughts and no end to what it encompasses. when i was doing my random rambles at cell on friday, i was very convicted of the image i had that God placed in my mind during pbs that everyone just brushed away, as if i was talking to myself. strangely, everyone nodded their heads and were like YAR-UH! maybe everyone just identified with kiasu-ism. OR NOT (: but its something that convicts me so i hope you'll take some time to ponder about it too!

the question was what was the difference between atonement and redemption right.

sure we know atonement as the ultimate "reparations of all sins" and that there has to be a sacrifice in order to atone what you've done wrong. youre paying for your own mistakes. paving your forgiveness. but you know what redemption is? frequent grocery trips with my 老娘老豆 have opened my eyes to what redemption is! you know when you go to the supermarket right, and they give you like a prize, or a free gift, you'd have to redeem it? you dont redeem something you buy, you always redeem a FREE gift. A prize. all you gotta do is acknowledge the receipt in your hand, and claim it. With the receipt it doesnt matter where you get it. someone else might have paid for it, but as long as you acknowledge your receipt, go redeem your prize.

In the same way, with redemption, God already paid our price, its not our price to pay! we will never know how much we cost, or the cost of our salvation. The cost is DEFINITELY way too great for our weary souls to bear. that's why all we have to do is acknowledge the receipt. Acknowledge the receipt, the cost of the cross, and we'd be able to redeem our prize. God's gift of salvation is never free, it always cost something. Someone had to pay for it, and Jesus already paid the ultimate price. so just redeem your gift!

I've never seen redemption that way. But you know how above the redemption counter there's always this HUGEASS sign that you can spot from the other side of the supermart that says REDEMPTION. i guess God's redemption sign would be one million times bigger, written with infinite times the fervour and excitement. redemption counter man! God's redemption counter man who doesnt wanna go there! and please luh, how can there be no God. ask yourself why your heart beats before you answer! random particles banging each other my foot.

LET THE REDEEMED OF THE LORD SAY SO
LET THE REDEEMED OF THE LORD RISE UP
LET THE REDEEMED OF THE LORD SAY SO. SAY SO! SAY SO!