Human wisdom cannot comprehend the ways of the Almighty Lord God of Israel. God's wisdom is foolishness to man. Likewise, man's wisdom is foolishness to the Mighty God, Creator of heaven and earth and everything in it.
The teaching of Jesus instructing man to love their enemies is foolishness to man. But it pleases God when we are obedient to this teaching. Don't joke lah! I see him I want to kill him liao and you tell me to love him?
When someone hit you on the right cheek, offer your left cheek too! If he hit me on my right cheek, I punched all his teeth out leh!
Invite to meals those who could never repay you. Every time also I pay wan! Eh! Next time don't call him anymore lah! Don't be stupid lah, you belanja him he could not belanja you back wan!
When you give to someone in need, don't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. Wah! Today I give charity RM100! If I give one million, can you arranged for press conference ka? Today I help So And So. If I don't help him, he sure die wan!
Herculean task?
Not exactly true.
Humble before the Almighty God, Father of our Saviour Jesus and asked Him to send the Holy Spirit to help you. Yes, we only need to ask. The burden to carry out the task belonged to Jesus, our Saviour.
" Aiyah! Abraham, don't be stupid lah! How can God asked you to sacrifice Isaac after He gifted Isaac to you when you are 100 years old? Cannot be lah! It don't make sense leh! "
" Ah! Shepherd boy 12 years old killed Goliath ka? How can? The boy no experience wor! "
" Are you sure or not? Jesus the Son of the Living God came to suffer and die for us who are sinners? Sure or not? Eh! where you hear wan? "
So, it means if I am a Christian I no longer live lor? I must surrender my life and trust Jesus to help me in the power of the Holy Spirit. My human wisdom cannot please God anymore mar!
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Monday, November 27, 2006
Different Love!
Different love?
What do I meant?
Can the love in us love enemies? And why not?
Wow! That is some questions!
Today I realized about the difference between our type of love with God's.
Our love can never love our enemies. Only the type that belongs to God filled by the Holy Spirit can do that. Similarly with words. Apparently those spoken only by Jesus are filled with living power.
What do I meant?
The difference:
Buddha says, "Come to me, I love you!" and Jesus, our Lord Saviour says the same. Now, who would you chose to go to?
Remember our Lord reminded us in Matthew 23:8-10 that we have only One Father in heaven and One Teacher.
When we were still sinners, our heavenly Father came to die for us. Only a true Father who created us out of His own hands can love like that.
And He has filled us with that same love to love those who sin against Him.
Would you want God's free gift of salvation for your enemies? Do you love them enough to pray for God's grace and mercy in His unfailing to work through you for these people?
Would you allow God's agape love to live in you in the Holy Spirit to touch the lives of sinners?
Do you want to do His will?
What do I meant?
Can the love in us love enemies? And why not?
Wow! That is some questions!
Today I realized about the difference between our type of love with God's.
Our love can never love our enemies. Only the type that belongs to God filled by the Holy Spirit can do that. Similarly with words. Apparently those spoken only by Jesus are filled with living power.
What do I meant?
The difference:
Buddha says, "Come to me, I love you!" and Jesus, our Lord Saviour says the same. Now, who would you chose to go to?
Remember our Lord reminded us in Matthew 23:8-10 that we have only One Father in heaven and One Teacher.
When we were still sinners, our heavenly Father came to die for us. Only a true Father who created us out of His own hands can love like that.
And He has filled us with that same love to love those who sin against Him.
Would you want God's free gift of salvation for your enemies? Do you love them enough to pray for God's grace and mercy in His unfailing to work through you for these people?
Would you allow God's agape love to live in you in the Holy Spirit to touch the lives of sinners?
Do you want to do His will?
Sunday, November 26, 2006
Why Eve?
Our Creator, the God of Israel, Father of our Saviour Jesus never intended for us to walk alone through life- that's why He created friends to surround us. Our Abba Father purpose these special friends to grace our life, to walk with us......
Friendship did not result overnight. Friends are the product of many years of being together through thick and thin. Friends are people whose hearts interlocked, making us One in strength to help us persevere.
Friends are people who dare to fly with you, soaring high, reaching out for dreams and hope. Friends are people who will be with us together when we stumbled. They are there with us in celebration and in tears.
Friends are those who will dry each others tears and picked you up, carry you when you fall.
Friends are not just people who are always there to help us. Friends is a relationship that grow in us a sense of confidence whereby in the relationship as friends we are always wanting, willing, and ever ready to help.
Above all, friends is a gift from our heavenly Father to each other.
Thank you Father for such a beautiful gift.
Friendship did not result overnight. Friends are the product of many years of being together through thick and thin. Friends are people whose hearts interlocked, making us One in strength to help us persevere.
Friends are people who dare to fly with you, soaring high, reaching out for dreams and hope. Friends are people who will be with us together when we stumbled. They are there with us in celebration and in tears.
Friends are those who will dry each others tears and picked you up, carry you when you fall.
Friends are not just people who are always there to help us. Friends is a relationship that grow in us a sense of confidence whereby in the relationship as friends we are always wanting, willing, and ever ready to help.
Above all, friends is a gift from our heavenly Father to each other.
Thank you Father for such a beautiful gift.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Thank God! Man Is Not Controlling The Sun/Son?
If man could control the sun, they will be selling you sunshine!
Thank God, man is not controlling the Son otherwise (maybe) only Bill Gates goes to heaven!
With God, the Creator everything is free.
Every time when I recall how much money man goes around collecting to build their church, I will silently snide and sneered at it.
Our Lord and Saviour commanded us to build His Church and not our church. It cost nothing to build God's church which is man. All that our LORD wanted us to do is simply to share with everyone we meet about His beloved begotten Son, Jesus our Saviour. Salvation is a free gift from God who owned it (just so if you have forgotten about it).
Yet, man has set up institutions to teach how to reach out to save people. What a joke!
Salvation is foolishness to those who are destined for destruction but those who are revealed it's gift knows that it's the power of the cross.
If without the Holy Spirit, we can never confessed that Jesus Christ is the Saviour, how then can anyone knows Christ Jesus if God, the Father didn't personally choose them?
Can anyone does the work of God without the Holy Spirit?
If God is doing His own work through us, then how do we equate with the collection of money for His own work?
If someday, I finally decided to stand up and be prepared to do God's will, does it signify that my inclination also comes with a liberty to collect a certain fee whilst discharging what God, Himself is doing through me?
When was the last time you remembered paying for something that comes from our heavenly Father?
Our Saviour Jesus' concern is the poor so why are men consistently insisting on a levy for everything connected to the kingdom? Our heavenly Father will never burden His children financially and laboriously! Would you as earthly father?
Thank God, man is not controlling the Son otherwise (maybe) only Bill Gates goes to heaven!
With God, the Creator everything is free.
Every time when I recall how much money man goes around collecting to build their church, I will silently snide and sneered at it.
Our Lord and Saviour commanded us to build His Church and not our church. It cost nothing to build God's church which is man. All that our LORD wanted us to do is simply to share with everyone we meet about His beloved begotten Son, Jesus our Saviour. Salvation is a free gift from God who owned it (just so if you have forgotten about it).
Yet, man has set up institutions to teach how to reach out to save people. What a joke!
Salvation is foolishness to those who are destined for destruction but those who are revealed it's gift knows that it's the power of the cross.
If without the Holy Spirit, we can never confessed that Jesus Christ is the Saviour, how then can anyone knows Christ Jesus if God, the Father didn't personally choose them?
Can anyone does the work of God without the Holy Spirit?
If God is doing His own work through us, then how do we equate with the collection of money for His own work?
If someday, I finally decided to stand up and be prepared to do God's will, does it signify that my inclination also comes with a liberty to collect a certain fee whilst discharging what God, Himself is doing through me?
When was the last time you remembered paying for something that comes from our heavenly Father?
Our Saviour Jesus' concern is the poor so why are men consistently insisting on a levy for everything connected to the kingdom? Our heavenly Father will never burden His children financially and laboriously! Would you as earthly father?
Monday, November 13, 2006
Stand Out Of Line And Be Noticed!
What is a Christian?
Can I deduced that a Christian is someone who has given up his earthly life and hence live his earthly life powered by the Holy Spirit? A Christian is a new person!
A Christian is a person who stands out of line. A Christian is a person whose lifestyle is above that of man. A Christian is a son of the living God.
The Father has gifted every son who belong to Him His own Spirit, the Holy Spirit to guard and assist in his earthly life.
Because a Christian is a son of the living God, he must be significantly different. A Christian lifestyle must bear fruits of the Holy Spirit to stand out among the ordinary.
If you love only the people who love you, you will get no reward. Even the tax collector do that. And if you are nice only to your friends, you are no better than other people. Even those who don't know God are nice to their friends. So you must be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect. Matthew 5:46-48
Christians are asked to be different. Christians are gifted with God's Spirit to help them live their life above those of ordinary man with extraordinary feats. Ordinary man do not have the gift of the Holy Spirit. Christians have the "extra" Spirit above the ordinary. Extra+ Ordinary.
The person equipped and taught by man does the things of man while the person equipped and taught by the Holy Spirit does the things of God. A person who live independent of the Holy Spirit cannot live his earthly life to please God, the Father.
Pause here and re-examine your Christian life. Take a few steps back and look at your true self and asked whether your earthly life truly resemble your Saviour Jesus Christ?
No?
Then, don't hesitate further, kneel and asked the Holy Spirit for help!
Can I deduced that a Christian is someone who has given up his earthly life and hence live his earthly life powered by the Holy Spirit? A Christian is a new person!
A Christian is a person who stands out of line. A Christian is a person whose lifestyle is above that of man. A Christian is a son of the living God.
The Father has gifted every son who belong to Him His own Spirit, the Holy Spirit to guard and assist in his earthly life.
Because a Christian is a son of the living God, he must be significantly different. A Christian lifestyle must bear fruits of the Holy Spirit to stand out among the ordinary.
If you love only the people who love you, you will get no reward. Even the tax collector do that. And if you are nice only to your friends, you are no better than other people. Even those who don't know God are nice to their friends. So you must be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect. Matthew 5:46-48
Christians are asked to be different. Christians are gifted with God's Spirit to help them live their life above those of ordinary man with extraordinary feats. Ordinary man do not have the gift of the Holy Spirit. Christians have the "extra" Spirit above the ordinary. Extra+ Ordinary.
The person equipped and taught by man does the things of man while the person equipped and taught by the Holy Spirit does the things of God. A person who live independent of the Holy Spirit cannot live his earthly life to please God, the Father.
Pause here and re-examine your Christian life. Take a few steps back and look at your true self and asked whether your earthly life truly resemble your Saviour Jesus Christ?
No?
Then, don't hesitate further, kneel and asked the Holy Spirit for help!
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