A sound from ground...

After so many times of rattling happened after the 311 incident, yesterday midnight earth quake was the strongest and most terrified one I had felt in Tokyo. I was half awake and lay on a side while feeding Egracia. My left ear was just on the pillow. In a sudden, I heard a zooming sound transferred from the pillow. The the pillow was on the bed, the bed was put on top of the floor without any bed frame and we were sleeping at ground floor. I haven't had chance to think of what the sound was, the house was shook by a very strong force. Immediately I heard something was falling down from up stair. I quickly sat up, looked at Ethan he still in his deep sleep and I almost wanted to carry Egracia. Then I heard the next door Emmanuel was crying. I was so terrified. Then all the sound stopped and the house was back to normal like nothing happened before. I went to next door, Laikiat was checking on the incident from the phone and got to know this time the earth quake spot was just at Chiba area with magnitude of 5.2 and it just next toTokyo.

For the whole night, we can’t sleep well. I felt the shake of the land; but this time I heard its sound from the ground. That sound seems still hovering on my heart. What a terrifying feeling, no peace in mind, a very unpleasant feeling to have. In a second we breathe in, spontaneously we breathe out  and we breathe in and we might not breathe out anymore. What am I doing here today? We can’t really know what will going to happen in the next second. We merely a fragile and tiny living thing stay on the earth only.  

On Sunday, Pastor’s sermon was encouraging us to read on Romans chapter 8 each day for a month. He said a miracle will happen to us. I read it this morning, I am going to read it for a month. Rejoice and rejoice. Be Faith, Hope and Love...

On yesterday dinner time, Emmanuel suddenly said "有earthquake吗？" I wondering why he suddenly said so. I having a strange feeling with me and on the night it really happened. This morning Emmanuel saw the stuff was scattered on the floor and he asked :"为什么东西会跌下来的？" we told him was earthquake happened on yesterday midnight. He said "为什么earthquake的？".... I have no words with it.... 

My dear little one at home, if anything happened to every one of us, please remains faithful and strong. God always has a great plan for everyone one of us. Holds on His promises to us and live on. And we are happy to be a family; we will definitely meet again in the heaven as you are one of the angels from the heaven.

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Romans 8

New International Version (NIV)


Life Through the Spirit

8 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, ² because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you^[a] free from the law of sin and death. ³ For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,^[b] God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.^[c] And so he condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴ in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

⁵ Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. ⁶ The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷ The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. ⁸ Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

⁹ You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life^[d] because of righteousness. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of^[e] his Spirit who lives in you.

¹² Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. ¹³ For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.

¹⁴ For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. ¹⁵ The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.^[f] And by him we cry, “Abba,^[g] Father.” ¹⁶ The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. ¹⁷ Now if we are children, then we are heirs —heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

Present Suffering and Future Glory

¹⁸ I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. ¹⁹ For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. ²⁰ For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope ²¹ that^[h] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

²² We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. ²³ Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. ²⁴ For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

²⁶ In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. ²⁷ And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

²⁸ And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who^[i] have been called according to his purpose. ²⁹ For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. ³⁰ And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

More Than Conquerors

³¹ What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died —more than that, who was raised to life —is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶ As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”<sup>[j]

37</sup> No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[k] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

罗马书 第8章

1. 如今那些在基督耶稣里的、就不定罪了。
2. 因为赐生命圣灵的律、在基督耶稣里释放了我、使我脱离罪和死的律了。
3. 律法既因肉体软弱、有所不能行的、　神就差遣自己的儿子、成为罪身的形状、作了赎罪祭、在肉体中定了罪案．
4. 使律法的义、成就在我们这不随从肉体、只随从圣灵的人身上。
5. 因为随从肉体的人、体贴肉体的事．随从圣灵的人、体贴圣灵的事。
6. 体贴肉体的就是死．体贴圣灵的乃是生命平安．
7. 原来体贴肉体的、就是与　神为仇．因为不服　神的律法、也是不能服。
8. 而且属肉体的人、不能得　神的喜欢。
9. 如果　神的灵住在你们心里、你们就不属肉体、乃属圣灵了．人若没有基督的灵、就不是属基督的。
10. 基督若在你们心里、身体就因罪而死、心灵却因义而活．
11. 然而叫耶稣从死里复活者的灵、若住在你们心里、那叫基督耶稣从死里复活的、也必借着住在你们心里的圣灵、使你们必死的身体又活过来。
12. 弟兄们、这样看来、我们并不是欠肉体的债、去顺从肉体活着。
13. 你们若顺从肉体活着必要死．若靠着圣灵治死身体的恶行必要活着。
14. 因为凡被　神的灵引导的、都是　神的儿子。
15. 你们所受的不是奴仆的心、仍旧害怕．所受的乃是儿子的心、因此我们呼叫阿爸、父。
16. 圣灵与我们的心同证我们是　神的儿女．
17. 既是儿女、便是后嗣、就是　神的后嗣、和基督同作后嗣．如果我们和他一同受苦、也必和他一同得荣耀。
18. 我想现在的苦楚、若比起将来要显于我们的荣耀、就不足介意了。
19. 受造之物、切望等候　神的众子显出来。
20. 因为受造之物服在虚空之下、不是自己愿意、乃是因那叫他如此的。
21. 但受造之物仍然指望脱离败坏的辖制、得享　神儿女自由的荣耀。〔享原文作入〕
22. 我们知道一切受造之物、一同叹息劳苦、直到如今。
23. 不但如此、就是我们这有圣灵初结果子的、也是自己心里叹息、等候得着儿子的名分、乃是我们的身体得赎。
24. 我们得救是在乎盼望．只是所见的盼望不是盼望．谁还盼望他所见的呢。〔有古卷作人所看见的何必再盼望呢〕
25. 但我们若盼望那所不见的、就必忍耐等候。
26. 况且我们的软弱有圣灵帮助、我们本不晓得当怎样祷告、只是圣灵亲自用说不出来的叹息、替我们祷告。
27. 鉴察人心的、晓得圣灵的意思．因为圣灵照着　神的旨意替圣徒祈求。
28. 我们晓得万事都互相效力、叫爱　神的人得益处、就是按他旨意被召的人。
29. 因为他预先所知道的人、就预先定下效法他儿子的模样使他儿子在许多弟兄中作长子．
30. 预先所定下的人又召他们来．所召来的人、又称他们为义．所称为义的人、又叫他们得荣耀。
31. 既是这样、还有什么说的呢．　神若帮助我们、谁能敌挡我们呢。
32. 　神既不爱惜自己的儿子为我们众人舍了、岂不也把万物和他一同白白的赐给我们么。
33. 谁能控告　神所拣选的人呢．有　神称他们为义了。〔或作是称他们为义的　神么〕
34. 谁能定他们的罪呢．有基督耶稣已经死了、而且从死里复活、现今在　神的右边、也替我们祈求。〔有基督云云或作是已经死了而且从死里复活现今在　神的右边也替我们祈求的基督耶稣么〕
35. 谁能使我们与基督的爱隔绝呢．难道是患难么、是困苦么、是逼迫么、是饥饿么、是赤身露体么、是危险么、是刀剑么。
36. 如经上所记、『我们为你的缘故、终日被杀．人看我们如将宰的羊。』
37. 然而靠着爱我们的主、在这一切的事上、已经得胜有余了。
38. 因为我深信无论是死、是生、是天使、是掌权的、是有能的、是现在的事、是将来的事、
39. 是高处的、是低处的、是别的受造之物、都不能叫我们与　神的爱隔绝．这爱是在我们的主基督耶稣里的。