dannytalk ™ A Danny Ng Blog

So its been 3 weeks or so since mid year conference and man have I enjoyed every moment of it. Surrounded by flatlands, sheeps and cows grazing blithely on the green pastures, and the Albury breeze that gently rustles the trees as though greeting whoever that passes it, somehow reminding you what the beauty of nature is really like as though an extinct attribute within the streets of the city district. Being in Albury for a week made you forget about your routine life laden with anxiety and busyness, and spend time with God’s artistic creation called ‘Mother Nature’.

It was great to see old faces again from last year’s conference and to see the familiar surroundings of Lakehume Resort, recalling memories of laughter and joy. The 8 hour bus ride must have given me NBS (Numb Bum Syndrome) but that didn’t stop me from heading straight to the tennis courts to have a few hits. Would have been my first hit in 6 months or so.

This year’s MYC was full of new faces and definitely was bigger than last year’s. Students from Sydney University doubled from 18 to 36 and there were a lot of new Victorian faces as well, or perhaps I’ve forgotten them from last year. ::shrugs::

Free times were filled with mainly soccer as most people had the world cup fever and wanted to strut out their newly acquired soccer skills. The game of ‘Taboo’ was also rekindled as fellow Taboo fans gathered to outdo the opposing team in a heated battle of careful word assembling and guess work. As the battle got more intense, more cries of excitement could be heard followed by the blessings of holy water (ie. saliva) by Rachel upon me. I guess no one told me to wear weather protective gear during the game. Hehe, was kind of funny though :)

Besides playing games, was also cool being able to catch up with friends and have a little chit chat.

Once again John North’s talks was very inspiring and uplifting as his talks went straight for my heart like an arrow to a bullseye. Romans 1:14-19 was pretty much what he talked about. Things I learnt from his talks:

1. Obligation – “I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.” vs 14

   God has given us the ministry of reconciliation and also are ambassadors of Christ. To experience Christ’s love in our lives and not share it with others would be outright selfish. (2 Corinthians 5:14-20)

2. Eagerness – “That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are at Rome.” vs 15

   To have experienced God in our lives, why wouldn’t we be eager to let people know about it and to give them this wonderful opportunity to know God?

3. Not Ashamed – “I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.” vs 16

   Imagine if you knew of a shopping sale of 99.9% off everything. Would you be ashamed to let your friends know about it? How about if you knew what type of questions were going to be in your exam because your lecturer told you so? Would you be shy to let people know about it? Well this is God we’re talking about here, the one who created everything. We should be excited to present the gospel (good news) to others. Our roles as Christians isn’t to convert people but to share the good news. God does the converting (John 16:8). The message of the gospel has the power to change people’s heart and it is for everyone.

4. God’s righteousness revealed – “For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”” vs 17

   We should live our lives with the righteousness of God through our faith so that the righteousness of God may be revealed to others.

5. God’s wrath revealed – “The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.” vs 18-19

   Sometimes do you wonder why the lives of people around you are depressing and spiraling downwards? It could be the result of sin as people decide to reject God and as a result, God gave them over to immorality, degrading passions and depraved minds which leads to a corrupt world. All the more reason why people need God and be reconciled to the creator.

People will not change if they are satisfied where they’re are. Am I satisfied where I’m at?

-Danny

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Hear me now, my praise to You,
Humbly seek, to worship You,
I quiet my soul, I still my voice,
I bow before, my heart undone.

I close my eyes, begin to think,
The sacrifice, for saving me,
Amazing love was, truly free,
Glory to the Lord and King.

I love you, I need you
I want you, I adore you.

-Danny

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So its been like 15 months since I created this blog and haven’t properly posted what constitutes to be a proper ‘blog post’. Why did I create a blog? Heck I don’t know. Could be the lack of enthusiasm as I haven’t caught on to the wave of blogging or perhaps sheer laziness. Spending hours in front of a cathode ray tube typing aimlessly on whatever popped into mind and narrating my life didn’t seem like my cup of tea. I’m not much of a writer anyways. I’m an engineer. I write maths equations, draw graphs and circuit diagrams, program code and perhaps learn a little bit of Greek by using words like rho, pi, theta, sigma, and the list goes on. Here I am now, nearly midnight during first week of 2nd semester of university and I’m bored.

My name is Danny Ng and I am a Chinese born Malaysian. Yes, my surname is really ‘Ng’. There are no vowels in it so get used to it. Grew up in the streets of Petaling Jaya (PJ) and Robertson, Brisbane, I lived a very nomadic life spending 12 years in Malaysia and my 9th year in Australia. Went to three different primary schools and four different high schools. Let’s just say it was a combination of my nomadic lifestyle and the education system having a hard time adjusting around me. Now I’m attending the University of Sydney and studying a combined degree of Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Repeated Electrical Engineering. Yes, theoretically I am supposed to graduate this year as it is my fourth, but hopefully the last sentence explains a bit why I’ll still be around for a little bit next year. Go figure.

The reason why I’ve decided to make a proper post is because July 06 has been a very eventful month full of excitement and stress, blood and sweat and above all, God. Wonderful things have happened throughout this month that continue to amaze me how good God is. The month of June has been quite a stressful period of looking for a place to move out to, looking for a new job to sustain me living outside of home and university exams. I prayed to God asking for more faith not to worry (Matt 6:25-34) about my problems because I know God is good and He will take care of me. As I continued to pray to God fervently, slowly He started to answer my prayers. I bumped into an old university friend who I haven’t seen for more than a year and he told me that he had a spare room to rent out ready in July. After that, I managed to buy furnitures off ebay at minimum bid prices which was unbelievably cheap.

As I enjoyed seeing my prayers answered, I kept asking God for more faith to not doubt Him. University exams came and the Radio Frequency paper was a bitch. Sure needed lots of prayer for that one. Turns out I found out last week that I managed to pass that paper. Sweet as! So the holidays came and I started paying rent and moving some of my stuff to my new place. Didn’t start living there until 3 weeks later as I hadn’t found a new job yet. As I spent my first week of holidays job hunting and working my ass off to earn money, God decided to answer my prayer by giving me a new job. Sweet I thought, couldn’t get any better than this. Second week of holidays I went down to Albury for six days for a Student Life mid year conference which was totally wicked! I’ll talk more about MYC is another post as it is quite lengthy. Third week of holidays, God decided to answer another one of my prayers by giving me an interview with a IT company that one of my friends from church works at. “What the heck!?!”, I thought. So I went to the interview and was successful with the HR manager which means I’ll be back for a second interview with the managing director.

So yeah, thought I’d share the wonderful things that have happened. Prayers after prayers were answered by God. I still wonder why sometimes I still doubt Him?

-Danny

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Call my name, I call Your name,
Let the wind whisper the sound of Your name,
Let me see the beauty of Your heart,
Till this day I know we will never be apart.

Neither death, neither life,
Neither angels, rulers,
Neither things within this life,
I can’t escape, Your love surrounds me,
Oh no, we will never be apart.

Awake my heart,
Awake my soul,

Who shall separate us from,
The love from heaven above,
Because of You this I know,
We are more than conquerers.

There’s no height, there’s no depth,
In all creation, there is nothing that could keep,
You away, me from You,
You’re the only one that will pull me through.

-Danny

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