Ah Huat unconsciously scratched his head unceasingly and mumbled to himself wondering how a Proton car could be transformed into a Ferrari. "Is it possible?", he asked. "Okay I want to hear your theory how that is possible."
It all started when a Malaysian made Proton car which had undergone heavy modification drove up to park where we were sitting. We were waiting for our chicken rice to be served while seated on the five foot way in downtown Kuala Lumpur. I threw Ah Huat a silly question by asking him to identify the make of the Proton that drove up to us???
"Aiyah! Even the blind and dumb can recognize it's a Proton lah." he answered with a sense of pride because he was known among our circle of friends for not being 'bright'.
"Wah! You so intelligent ya!" I replied.
Modestly he answered, "No lah! Anyone also can see it's a Proton mah!"
I threw him the mother of all questions. It started him scratching his head trying to figure out the possibility of such a transformation before answering me. I asked him whether a Proton can be transformed into a Ferrari!
"Can meh!?", he asked looking at me with a 'Ya! I know I am dumb' look.
My Chief Mechanic convinced me that it is possible. I am only to put my absolute trust in him.
Every Sunday if I am to drive my Proton car to his workshop and trust him to replace a Proton part with a Ferrari part. Eureka! After hundreds of visits, I finally drove home a Ferrari.
Unbelievable? Impossible?
Jesus Christ told his disciple that with God everything is possible. From a son of man to the son of God? It is not a problem to God, the Creator of heaven and earth.
We can be going to Church every Sunday but if we don't submit ourselves to be transformed by our Saviour's teachings, then we are going home the same person after every attendance. Every one of us was once a son of man. But the proviso required for entry into the Kingdom of God is that you must be a son of God transformed by the Holy Spirit. We are to put our trust and hope in Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God, the Messiah, the Saviour and Redeemer who went to the cross to redeem us from the wrath of the Father.
The Father is looking for the son in us; God is looking for the Jesus in us because Adam failed Him as a son. Adam was disobedient and Christ obedient.
We were born as Adam but we are to return as Christ.
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. 1 Peter 1:16
Read the Book of Romans chapter 5.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Understanding Faith, Hope And Love
What is faith, hope and love in Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God of Israel?
To me, faith in my Saviour means even though I have never seen Him, I know in my heart that He is truly my Saviour, the Son of the Living God, Creator of heaven and earth and that Jesus came to redeem me at the cross and His resurrection assured me with a hope that on the last day, my Saviour Jesus will bring me home safely to my loving heavenly Father.
No matter what people say about my Lord Jesus, the negative perspective of Him will never influence me from what I believe in my heart about my Saviour Jesus. When Jesus truly lives in your heart, you know He is real. When you live your life each day with Him, it's no longer faith, it's relationship! When a relationship exist between two people, faith no longer act as a bond to the relationship. The relationship itself is a bond between two people.
Faith is what you need to establish a relationship. And hope is what you need to grow a relationship. Finally, love plays the all important role in bonding the relationship.
Without faith, we cannot initiate a hope in a relationship where love queue right behind to complete the process.
Faith, hope and love are three main components that's most influential to sustain a relationship. 1 Corinthians 13:13 articulate appropriately, Faith, hope and love are three things that will last forever and the greatest of these is love.
Faith propels us to cling to a hope and hope push us to love. Love completes the process. Love binds everything together.
Love is the greatest because love is the foundation to faith and hope.
God has faith in us, sinners, that we will place our hope in His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Saviour to experience God's love for us at the cross. Faith draw us to God, in Jesus to hope in His only begotten Son to complete God's love for us in a relationship between a Father and His children.
Faith, hope and love must work in unity in our quest to live with our heavenly Father in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour forever.
To me, faith in my Saviour means even though I have never seen Him, I know in my heart that He is truly my Saviour, the Son of the Living God, Creator of heaven and earth and that Jesus came to redeem me at the cross and His resurrection assured me with a hope that on the last day, my Saviour Jesus will bring me home safely to my loving heavenly Father.
No matter what people say about my Lord Jesus, the negative perspective of Him will never influence me from what I believe in my heart about my Saviour Jesus. When Jesus truly lives in your heart, you know He is real. When you live your life each day with Him, it's no longer faith, it's relationship! When a relationship exist between two people, faith no longer act as a bond to the relationship. The relationship itself is a bond between two people.
Faith is what you need to establish a relationship. And hope is what you need to grow a relationship. Finally, love plays the all important role in bonding the relationship.
Without faith, we cannot initiate a hope in a relationship where love queue right behind to complete the process.
Faith, hope and love are three main components that's most influential to sustain a relationship. 1 Corinthians 13:13 articulate appropriately, Faith, hope and love are three things that will last forever and the greatest of these is love.
Faith propels us to cling to a hope and hope push us to love. Love completes the process. Love binds everything together.
Love is the greatest because love is the foundation to faith and hope.
God has faith in us, sinners, that we will place our hope in His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Saviour to experience God's love for us at the cross. Faith draw us to God, in Jesus to hope in His only begotten Son to complete God's love for us in a relationship between a Father and His children.
Faith, hope and love must work in unity in our quest to live with our heavenly Father in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour forever.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: A Requiem
No break-ups are pleasant.
Break-ups are definitely never easy. It's also the hardest choice to conclude.
Break-ups are so bad that when tears run out from your eyes, they draw up additional water from your bladder, convert them into partial tears and you sort of cry and urinate from your eyeballs, and when all sources of water are totally exhausted, then blood will ooze out of your eye balls, 22 seconds later you drop dead!
5 seconds after that, someone will revived you and because you ran out of tears, your eyes starts to shed shit!
Break-ups are unquestionably worse than death. In death, at least you knew it's gone forever but in break-ups, you can sense it's presence nearby!
Break-ups are torturing, mentally and physically.....mentally because it haunts you for life and physically because you are emotionally paralysed for all eternity.
Dogs are man's best friends, a truism many dog lovers sweared by. Today I discovered they are much more than just best friends. They are one in you and when you lose them, it's like a part of your limbs being torn away from you. I wonder whether the hurt will ever heal? Invisible wounds and invisible pain..that only God's amazing love can help you comprehend.
The relationship between dog and man is beyond any man's comprehension. Only God's wisdom can explain the love shared between a dog and it's owner. You find a piece of a dog's heart in the man and vice versa.
Goodbye to my dearest Terrorist and Dictator; Saddam and Hitler.
Goodbye is a much preferred word than farewell because it holds a hope that someday we meet again whereas farewell sounded so hopeless.
Even though I know we are separated, I can still feel the presence of your cheerful spirit accompanying my miserable solitude. When the wind blew, I was sure I felt one of your gentle loving licks and heard your soft yelping.
Perhaps our heart-rending parting will bring more joy to your new owners; I knew it will. I am convinced that your new life with these new owners is more joyous than your life with me. Honestly, I celebrate your new found joy with mixed emotions; in tears of joy and sadness (a bottle of champagne in one hand and a bottle of king cobra venom in the other hand).
I do not know whether to play Neil Sedaka's Breaking Up Is Hard To Do or The Slik's The Requiem? Or should I play Elton John's Candle In The Wind? Or maybe I should play The 3 Degrees When Will I See You Again to fill my grieving loss with a hope?
Strange, uncanny but true, my hands pulled out the cd of Love Me Love My Dog by Peter Shelley! ~Smiling~ I knew I have to let you guys go because I love you. You will suffer being with me.
I knew you are safe in the love of your new owners.
Peace and Love Always to my most Beloved Saddam and Hitler.
For the sake of remembrance, I am keeping a pee stained piece of cloth and a cube of your shit in an air tight crystal container. This container will be guarded 24 hours by a volunteer group of killer bees.
My apologies that I am not posting any photographs of Saddam and Hitler's because of their exceedingly swollen eyes.
In conclusion, I now solemnly trust my beloved into your hands and have faith that you will love them both in sickness and in health; in rich and in poor; in deep pee and in deep shit; till death do you part.
Love you always Saddam and Hitler.
Break-ups are definitely never easy. It's also the hardest choice to conclude.
Break-ups are so bad that when tears run out from your eyes, they draw up additional water from your bladder, convert them into partial tears and you sort of cry and urinate from your eyeballs, and when all sources of water are totally exhausted, then blood will ooze out of your eye balls, 22 seconds later you drop dead!
5 seconds after that, someone will revived you and because you ran out of tears, your eyes starts to shed shit!
Break-ups are unquestionably worse than death. In death, at least you knew it's gone forever but in break-ups, you can sense it's presence nearby!
Break-ups are torturing, mentally and physically.....mentally because it haunts you for life and physically because you are emotionally paralysed for all eternity.
Dogs are man's best friends, a truism many dog lovers sweared by. Today I discovered they are much more than just best friends. They are one in you and when you lose them, it's like a part of your limbs being torn away from you. I wonder whether the hurt will ever heal? Invisible wounds and invisible pain..that only God's amazing love can help you comprehend.
The relationship between dog and man is beyond any man's comprehension. Only God's wisdom can explain the love shared between a dog and it's owner. You find a piece of a dog's heart in the man and vice versa.
Goodbye to my dearest Terrorist and Dictator; Saddam and Hitler.
Goodbye is a much preferred word than farewell because it holds a hope that someday we meet again whereas farewell sounded so hopeless.
Even though I know we are separated, I can still feel the presence of your cheerful spirit accompanying my miserable solitude. When the wind blew, I was sure I felt one of your gentle loving licks and heard your soft yelping.
Perhaps our heart-rending parting will bring more joy to your new owners; I knew it will. I am convinced that your new life with these new owners is more joyous than your life with me. Honestly, I celebrate your new found joy with mixed emotions; in tears of joy and sadness (a bottle of champagne in one hand and a bottle of king cobra venom in the other hand).
I do not know whether to play Neil Sedaka's Breaking Up Is Hard To Do or The Slik's The Requiem? Or should I play Elton John's Candle In The Wind? Or maybe I should play The 3 Degrees When Will I See You Again to fill my grieving loss with a hope?
Strange, uncanny but true, my hands pulled out the cd of Love Me Love My Dog by Peter Shelley! ~Smiling~ I knew I have to let you guys go because I love you. You will suffer being with me.
I knew you are safe in the love of your new owners.
Peace and Love Always to my most Beloved Saddam and Hitler.
For the sake of remembrance, I am keeping a pee stained piece of cloth and a cube of your shit in an air tight crystal container. This container will be guarded 24 hours by a volunteer group of killer bees.
My apologies that I am not posting any photographs of Saddam and Hitler's because of their exceedingly swollen eyes.
In conclusion, I now solemnly trust my beloved into your hands and have faith that you will love them both in sickness and in health; in rich and in poor; in deep pee and in deep shit; till death do you part.
Love you always Saddam and Hitler.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
The Contrast
A man spoke with the Lord about selfishness and selflessness.
The Lord said to the man, "Come, I will show you what is selfishness."
They entered a room where a group of people sat around a huge pot of stew. Everyone was famished, desperate and starving.
Each held a spoon that reached the pot, but each spoon had a handle so much longer than their own arm that it could not be used to get the stew into their own mouths. The suffering was terrible.
"Come, now I will show you what is selflessness," the Lord said after a while.
They entered another room, identical to the first - the pot of stew, the group of people, the same long-handled spoons. But there everyone was happy and well-nourished.
"I don't understand," said the man. "Why are they happy here when they were miserable in the other room and everything was the same?"
The Lord smiled, "Ah, it is simple," he said. "Here they have learned to feed each other."
The Lord said to the man, "Come, I will show you what is selfishness."
They entered a room where a group of people sat around a huge pot of stew. Everyone was famished, desperate and starving.
Each held a spoon that reached the pot, but each spoon had a handle so much longer than their own arm that it could not be used to get the stew into their own mouths. The suffering was terrible.
"Come, now I will show you what is selflessness," the Lord said after a while.
They entered another room, identical to the first - the pot of stew, the group of people, the same long-handled spoons. But there everyone was happy and well-nourished.
"I don't understand," said the man. "Why are they happy here when they were miserable in the other room and everything was the same?"
The Lord smiled, "Ah, it is simple," he said. "Here they have learned to feed each other."
God Understands???
The cliche that God Understands Our Sins attracts a lot of doubt in truth whether God really understands why we sinned!
This statement is, evidently and inevitably directed at believers.
Assuming our heavenly Father understands the constant temptation by the Evil one to seduce us to sin, my question is whether we should succumbed to temptation and sin when God has gifted us the power of the Holy Spirit as our Guardian?
I found that Christians, who constantly does wrong, find comfort sheltering behind this cliche which is a blatant lie that God understand. But the momentous question in reality is whether God truly understand when we repeatedly sin against Him?
My friend, Bush, who is obsessed with pornography, retorted that God understood his sexual compulsions. But in the Book of Romans 6:1-2, it define otherwise, Well then, should we keep on doing wrong so that God can demonstrate more and more of His wonderful grace? Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it?
The honest truth is God could never, never understand why we continuously repeat our sins. After all He has provided us an escape route when we are confronted by temptations. Thank God for establishing a get away in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour! When we are tempted to do wrong, we essentially muster all our strength to cry to our Saviour Jesus, who will shield us, by equipping us with His strength to run and hide in Him.
Sometime ago, at a dinner gathering, I overheard this conversation between a couple of ladies, presumably "Christians": "Oh! Once we are Christians, worry no more for our sins will undergo automatic cleansing by the blood of our Saviour, shed on the cross for us?" Huh!
"But we are imperfect" defended the constant sinner.
I believed that God truly understand about the Devil's persistent in attacking us to do wrong and enrage our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus. And the solution God has given us is learning to cry out to Him in Jesus' Name so that He could provide us with His strength to run away from doing wrong. The solution is not repeatedly doing wrong and provide comfort assuring ourselves that God will understands and forgive us. And even if God is merciful towards our wrong-doing, let us remind ourselves that we must refrained from repetitions of our sins.
Yes, if the Devil continue hurling us with temptations, we'll keep on running until the Devil is exhausted and gave up attacking us. That's how we claimed Christ's victory for us!
Those who proclaimed Jesus Christ the Saviour, the son of the Living God is never safe from temptation until we are back home at the bosom of our Loving heavenly Father.
Meanwhile, together with the Holy Spirit gifted you, be watchful over every step and every breath you take. Temptation will never abandon the Devil's objective, knocking on the door of your spiritual life every second, seducing you to do wrong!
However, don't fret for our Saviour is alive in us to provide Himself as our hiding place.
May our Saviour Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit constantly watch and guard you because you are a son of the Living God of Israel.
This statement is, evidently and inevitably directed at believers.
Assuming our heavenly Father understands the constant temptation by the Evil one to seduce us to sin, my question is whether we should succumbed to temptation and sin when God has gifted us the power of the Holy Spirit as our Guardian?
I found that Christians, who constantly does wrong, find comfort sheltering behind this cliche which is a blatant lie that God understand. But the momentous question in reality is whether God truly understand when we repeatedly sin against Him?
My friend, Bush, who is obsessed with pornography, retorted that God understood his sexual compulsions. But in the Book of Romans 6:1-2, it define otherwise, Well then, should we keep on doing wrong so that God can demonstrate more and more of His wonderful grace? Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it?
The honest truth is God could never, never understand why we continuously repeat our sins. After all He has provided us an escape route when we are confronted by temptations. Thank God for establishing a get away in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour! When we are tempted to do wrong, we essentially muster all our strength to cry to our Saviour Jesus, who will shield us, by equipping us with His strength to run and hide in Him.
Sometime ago, at a dinner gathering, I overheard this conversation between a couple of ladies, presumably "Christians": "Oh! Once we are Christians, worry no more for our sins will undergo automatic cleansing by the blood of our Saviour, shed on the cross for us?" Huh!
"But we are imperfect" defended the constant sinner.
I believed that God truly understand about the Devil's persistent in attacking us to do wrong and enrage our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus. And the solution God has given us is learning to cry out to Him in Jesus' Name so that He could provide us with His strength to run away from doing wrong. The solution is not repeatedly doing wrong and provide comfort assuring ourselves that God will understands and forgive us. And even if God is merciful towards our wrong-doing, let us remind ourselves that we must refrained from repetitions of our sins.
Yes, if the Devil continue hurling us with temptations, we'll keep on running until the Devil is exhausted and gave up attacking us. That's how we claimed Christ's victory for us!
Those who proclaimed Jesus Christ the Saviour, the son of the Living God is never safe from temptation until we are back home at the bosom of our Loving heavenly Father.
Meanwhile, together with the Holy Spirit gifted you, be watchful over every step and every breath you take. Temptation will never abandon the Devil's objective, knocking on the door of your spiritual life every second, seducing you to do wrong!
However, don't fret for our Saviour is alive in us to provide Himself as our hiding place.
May our Saviour Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit constantly watch and guard you because you are a son of the Living God of Israel.
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
The Fearsome Despicable Terrorists Twins!
I command you to salute and say hello to the world's most fearsome, brutal, tyrannical, and despicable terrorists....Hitler and Saddam, aka the world's most celebrated and lovable terrorist puppies!
Look at their killer look face. Their bark are so ferocious and bloodthirsty; the trademarks of a true terrorist.
Today, Hitler and Saddam brought down the Christmas tree, shit a mile long and pee til the neighbors thought our house spotted a burst pipe. Besides these minor catastrophe, shoes, cushions, carpets, and various household articles were damaged beyond repair and rescue. Apocalypse will begin from my house!
It baffles me how 2 microscopic creature could produce such a heap of shit and a reservoir of pee unless they were bought from FOS Store! FOS Store? What's that?
FULL OF SHIT!
Man are created from dust and puppies must be from shit. Okay enough of the poop talk.
My focus today is about my walk with Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour. When I completely trust my Saviour, and that only He alone can accomplished the impossible, I am convinced my puppies will be transformed into godly puppies.
If Saul aka Paul can be transformed from a Christian persecutor to a Saint, I believe my puppies can too....simply because of my simple faith that my Saviour Jesus is the power!
Until further developments of my puppies, I believe someday these 2 terrorists will be transformed into Saint Hitler and Saint Saddam.
Til then, goodbye for now! Cheers!
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
He Devil And She Devil
My patience was tested today by my 2 schnauzer puppies.
They went on a rampage, I wonder whether they were protesting Saddam's unjustified execution! They almost tore my house apart. I thanked God for the gifting of the Holy Spirit in me, controlling and helping me to subdue the Devil in me as I fear I may lose control of myself and strangle the pups with my bare hands.
I checked up the origin of their species and found they were German and not Iragi; thank God! Hitler? Eh! Hitler and Saddam are celebrity dictator!
I remembered my children were the same too when they were babies. They pee as though they have an in built spring and shit like a factory producing endless sausages. I always wonder what they ate judging by the mass of shit they pile up.
Today, they are, as far as I am concern, the greatest children God gifted me. Thank you heavenly Father!
I hope I am going to have endless fun caring and looking after these 2 pups!
I know and believe I can because Christ is my strength!
Hey! I am not joking okay...it's not easy when you have to wipe pee and sweep shit all day long!
Cheers!
Monday, January 01, 2007
Two New Puppies And Lessons In Love!
Two new shnauzer puppies joined my family of 4 today.
I am just wondering how long can I sustained caring for the pups as I am basically not a dog man. But I hope I am able to look after them well and actually learn from them. Learn from them? Yup! I mean maybe they can teach me a thing or two about loving doggies!
Now that my children have grown up, I thought I could use my spare time to care for these doggies. I am prepared for them to stretch my patience and raise my level of tolerance.
My greatest challenge in life was when I was asked to care for an extremely selfish person. It was hell unleashing it's worst of the worst evil. Honestly, nothing beats living with a selfish person and if you could emerged from it all unscathed, you can live with the Devil without the slightest tinge of a problem.
But victory comes in the form of the Holy Spirit providing me constantly my Saviour's strength and wisdom. Only God, in Jesus Christ can subdued such evil. It's the greatest most gruesome lesson ever!
Coincidentally, I blogged about selfishness just yesterday or was it the day before? What I learned was the greatest lesson about agape love: unconditional love taught by Christ, my Saviour. I learned that without love, I can never conquer anything that is of this life. And not just any sort of love, it must be love that flow from Christ heart into us through the Holy Spirit.
God is love, and all who live in love live in God and God lives in them 1 John 4:16b
It is said, "Love conquers all", how true!
Let us asked the Holy Spirit to fill us with the Father's love so that we can all live in love. And I am sure we can make this world a better world to live in.
A Blessed And Joyous New Year 2007!
I am just wondering how long can I sustained caring for the pups as I am basically not a dog man. But I hope I am able to look after them well and actually learn from them. Learn from them? Yup! I mean maybe they can teach me a thing or two about loving doggies!
Now that my children have grown up, I thought I could use my spare time to care for these doggies. I am prepared for them to stretch my patience and raise my level of tolerance.
My greatest challenge in life was when I was asked to care for an extremely selfish person. It was hell unleashing it's worst of the worst evil. Honestly, nothing beats living with a selfish person and if you could emerged from it all unscathed, you can live with the Devil without the slightest tinge of a problem.
But victory comes in the form of the Holy Spirit providing me constantly my Saviour's strength and wisdom. Only God, in Jesus Christ can subdued such evil. It's the greatest most gruesome lesson ever!
Coincidentally, I blogged about selfishness just yesterday or was it the day before? What I learned was the greatest lesson about agape love: unconditional love taught by Christ, my Saviour. I learned that without love, I can never conquer anything that is of this life. And not just any sort of love, it must be love that flow from Christ heart into us through the Holy Spirit.
God is love, and all who live in love live in God and God lives in them 1 John 4:16b
It is said, "Love conquers all", how true!
Let us asked the Holy Spirit to fill us with the Father's love so that we can all live in love. And I am sure we can make this world a better world to live in.
A Blessed And Joyous New Year 2007!
Sunday, December 31, 2006
A Peek Into My 2007 Commitment
Firstly I want to ask the Holy Spirit gifted to help me to help me dedicate more time to worship God in Christ Jesus in the area of
giving more to the poor
spend more time with those God, my heavenly Father and Father of my Saviour Jesus, sent me
share and teach people to seek the absolute truth that Jesus taught
ask Jesus to help me to teach and share effectively
be sensitive to hear with clarity and obey the Holy Spirit whom God in Jesus gifted me
to live a lifestyle that witness the Living Christ in me
My personal life:
to eat and live healthily
to record daily what the Holy Spirit teaches me
to work harder and pay more of my debts
to expand more accounts of my greeting cards business to bookstores, pharmacies, hospitals, colleges
I pray my Lord Jesus help me to sustain my commitment for 2007.
Holy Spirit, may your Presence in me provide me the strength and wisdom that I needed to accomplish all things for the honor and glory of my Lord, Saviour Jesus, the Son of the Living God who was sent to rescue me from sin and unite me to my Creator, whom I belong.
Praise the Living God of Israel, Father to my Saviour Jesus, forever and ever, Amen!
giving more to the poor
spend more time with those God, my heavenly Father and Father of my Saviour Jesus, sent me
share and teach people to seek the absolute truth that Jesus taught
ask Jesus to help me to teach and share effectively
be sensitive to hear with clarity and obey the Holy Spirit whom God in Jesus gifted me
to live a lifestyle that witness the Living Christ in me
My personal life:
to eat and live healthily
to record daily what the Holy Spirit teaches me
to work harder and pay more of my debts
to expand more accounts of my greeting cards business to bookstores, pharmacies, hospitals, colleges
I pray my Lord Jesus help me to sustain my commitment for 2007.
Holy Spirit, may your Presence in me provide me the strength and wisdom that I needed to accomplish all things for the honor and glory of my Lord, Saviour Jesus, the Son of the Living God who was sent to rescue me from sin and unite me to my Creator, whom I belong.
Praise the Living God of Israel, Father to my Saviour Jesus, forever and ever, Amen!
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Selfishness: A Miserable Life In Solitude
I am sharing a message to a grieving parent who suffered in silent anguish over her daughter's extreme selfishness and felt hopeless how she as a parent can help. She believed she is embarking on a hopeless journey, or so it seems to search for help until she wrote to me.
I am not the Light but I am showing her to the Light that will lead her out of darkness. The Light is Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour........ John 1:8-9
Greetings with love and peace in our heavenly Father who is in our Saviour Jesus.
Aunty Margaret, I am saddened by your telephone call regarding your daughter, Adeline. I promised to remember her in my daily prayers. However, I must truthfully admit my joy over your honesty to share about your daughter's problem. Whilst sharing your problem with a fellow brother in Christ, simultaneously you are in reality surrendering your problem to the Almighty God of Israel. Let's discuss about your daughter here as I found that it's the most economic and appropriate method. Thank God for modernization in computer technology.
Selfishness is an illness of excessive self obsession. You can easily identify the traits of a selfish person by his inconsideration, insensitivity, tactlessness, rudeness, and thoughtlessness towards others. A selfish person is someone who prioritized himself first. I have purposely outline about God rewarding those who learn to be selfless in closing. Please read about it at the end of my letter.
Selfishness is a dreadful, frightening, hideous, and literally deadly illness. It silently disfigures a person's character. Selfish people live in isolation in a sociable world. Selfishness is so deadly that in most cases it destroys without any significant symptoms.
In the Bible, we know that selfishness is a part of the Devil's character. Selfishness breeds other fruits of evil like arrogance, erratic emotional moods, hatreds, judgmental, anguish and mental unstableness. In truth, we witness what the Devil is in a selfish person.
Selfish people need urgent assistance. Nope, I am not recommending medical supervision like counseling or psychiatric consultation. What these people need is direct help from God in Christ Jesus. Only God in Jesus Christ can removed such infirmity. Only the power of the Living God in the Holy Spirit can infiltrate the inner soul of these sick people to administer God's potent healing power. Only the Holy Spirit can accomplish correction in our imperfection we suffer in the sin we were all born into. Metamorphosis belongs to the Living God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
It's a tragic that most of these selfish people suffer arrogantly by not admitting to their selfishness. They virtually erect a wall around them barricading themselves within, isolating themselves from outside help. Any opportunity to help them is very marginal unless they capitulate, acknowledging they warrant aid.
Besides divine intervention, maybe another effective approach is to administer doses of their own medicine. We should live and behave like them; we take on their likeness! Hopefully, our behavior and lifestyle reflect to them their own likeness. By imitating them, we hope for an opportunity to elucidate subtly about the evil of selfishness to them. This modus operandi might work!
Like I mentioned earlier, it's tragic that selfish people rarely owned up to their personality. Selfish personalities have this impression that they are smarter and highly intelligent beings. They are unaware that they are trapped by their own folly. They lived in deception and in misery.
I wonder whether selfishness is hereditary or merely bad habits develop unconsciously as a result of some childhood trauma. Selfishness is the Devil's incognito in us and we must expose this evil by acknowledging it and summon help. I am sad to mention that such people surround our lives and there's nothing very much that we can do to help them unless they stood out and distinctly confessed a mutation. The obvious simplicity is to commit to the Almighty Creator of heaven and earth and everything in it.
Aunty Margaret, I hope I have articulately encapsulated your daughter's 'illness' with the above wisdom. There is no other miracle healer in this whole universe besides Dr Jesus! Perhaps it's God's plan, when you chose to share with me, that I can redirect you back to Him.
I thanked God for your honesty and the Holy Spirit's conviction that you share with someone your problem. I am confident and is convinced that Jesus is standing by awaiting you to approach Him. Jesus always champion those who approached Him with an honest heart ~smile~
Some Holy Scripture to encourage you.....
Don't be selfish; don't live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself. Philippians 2:3
But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your hearts, don't brag about being wise. That is the worst kind of lie. James 3:14
For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and every kind of evil. James 3:16
And of course the best description about selfishness is in Matthew 16:24, Then Jesus said to the disciples, "If any of you wants to be my follower, you must put aside your selfish ambition, shoulder your cross, and follow me. It's obvious that Jesus came into the world thinking of us more than Himself.
The Word of God is perfect.
You can never uncover joy until you learn to share! You can never uncover joy until you learn to live with others. If God intended us to be selfish, He would not have created a companion in Eve for us. God would not have established marriage. God would not have share the joy of His only Son with us.
I promised earlier to touch on God's exclusive plan to reward those who share generously. Our heavenly Father purposely design our lifestyle in such a manner that we can only discover joy when we learn to share with others. Selfishness results in emptiness. Selflessness generates an abundance of everything good.
Honestly, I like the way of how God infused His blessings with our obedience. It's a "Do and Get or Don't do don't Get!" application.
If you don't believe me, try giving just a little bit and learn to grow your giving and soon your life will be filled with a celebration of great joy that comes from God's blessings.
In concluding my message to you, Aunty Margaret, I wish you a fruitful journey together with your daughter, as you held her hands and walked with her towards Jesus Christ, our Light and Lord and Saviour.
Let the healing begins.............
Happy New Year 2007!
I am not the Light but I am showing her to the Light that will lead her out of darkness. The Light is Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour........ John 1:8-9
Greetings with love and peace in our heavenly Father who is in our Saviour Jesus.
Aunty Margaret, I am saddened by your telephone call regarding your daughter, Adeline. I promised to remember her in my daily prayers. However, I must truthfully admit my joy over your honesty to share about your daughter's problem. Whilst sharing your problem with a fellow brother in Christ, simultaneously you are in reality surrendering your problem to the Almighty God of Israel. Let's discuss about your daughter here as I found that it's the most economic and appropriate method. Thank God for modernization in computer technology.
Selfishness is an illness of excessive self obsession. You can easily identify the traits of a selfish person by his inconsideration, insensitivity, tactlessness, rudeness, and thoughtlessness towards others. A selfish person is someone who prioritized himself first. I have purposely outline about God rewarding those who learn to be selfless in closing. Please read about it at the end of my letter.
Selfishness is a dreadful, frightening, hideous, and literally deadly illness. It silently disfigures a person's character. Selfish people live in isolation in a sociable world. Selfishness is so deadly that in most cases it destroys without any significant symptoms.
In the Bible, we know that selfishness is a part of the Devil's character. Selfishness breeds other fruits of evil like arrogance, erratic emotional moods, hatreds, judgmental, anguish and mental unstableness. In truth, we witness what the Devil is in a selfish person.
Selfish people need urgent assistance. Nope, I am not recommending medical supervision like counseling or psychiatric consultation. What these people need is direct help from God in Christ Jesus. Only God in Jesus Christ can removed such infirmity. Only the power of the Living God in the Holy Spirit can infiltrate the inner soul of these sick people to administer God's potent healing power. Only the Holy Spirit can accomplish correction in our imperfection we suffer in the sin we were all born into. Metamorphosis belongs to the Living God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
It's a tragic that most of these selfish people suffer arrogantly by not admitting to their selfishness. They virtually erect a wall around them barricading themselves within, isolating themselves from outside help. Any opportunity to help them is very marginal unless they capitulate, acknowledging they warrant aid.
Besides divine intervention, maybe another effective approach is to administer doses of their own medicine. We should live and behave like them; we take on their likeness! Hopefully, our behavior and lifestyle reflect to them their own likeness. By imitating them, we hope for an opportunity to elucidate subtly about the evil of selfishness to them. This modus operandi might work!
Like I mentioned earlier, it's tragic that selfish people rarely owned up to their personality. Selfish personalities have this impression that they are smarter and highly intelligent beings. They are unaware that they are trapped by their own folly. They lived in deception and in misery.
I wonder whether selfishness is hereditary or merely bad habits develop unconsciously as a result of some childhood trauma. Selfishness is the Devil's incognito in us and we must expose this evil by acknowledging it and summon help. I am sad to mention that such people surround our lives and there's nothing very much that we can do to help them unless they stood out and distinctly confessed a mutation. The obvious simplicity is to commit to the Almighty Creator of heaven and earth and everything in it.
Aunty Margaret, I hope I have articulately encapsulated your daughter's 'illness' with the above wisdom. There is no other miracle healer in this whole universe besides Dr Jesus! Perhaps it's God's plan, when you chose to share with me, that I can redirect you back to Him.
I thanked God for your honesty and the Holy Spirit's conviction that you share with someone your problem. I am confident and is convinced that Jesus is standing by awaiting you to approach Him. Jesus always champion those who approached Him with an honest heart ~smile~
Some Holy Scripture to encourage you.....
Don't be selfish; don't live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself. Philippians 2:3
But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your hearts, don't brag about being wise. That is the worst kind of lie. James 3:14
For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and every kind of evil. James 3:16
And of course the best description about selfishness is in Matthew 16:24, Then Jesus said to the disciples, "If any of you wants to be my follower, you must put aside your selfish ambition, shoulder your cross, and follow me. It's obvious that Jesus came into the world thinking of us more than Himself.
The Word of God is perfect.
You can never uncover joy until you learn to share! You can never uncover joy until you learn to live with others. If God intended us to be selfish, He would not have created a companion in Eve for us. God would not have established marriage. God would not have share the joy of His only Son with us.
I promised earlier to touch on God's exclusive plan to reward those who share generously. Our heavenly Father purposely design our lifestyle in such a manner that we can only discover joy when we learn to share with others. Selfishness results in emptiness. Selflessness generates an abundance of everything good.
Honestly, I like the way of how God infused His blessings with our obedience. It's a "Do and Get or Don't do don't Get!" application.
If you don't believe me, try giving just a little bit and learn to grow your giving and soon your life will be filled with a celebration of great joy that comes from God's blessings.
In concluding my message to you, Aunty Margaret, I wish you a fruitful journey together with your daughter, as you held her hands and walked with her towards Jesus Christ, our Light and Lord and Saviour.
Let the healing begins.............
Happy New Year 2007!
Sunday, December 24, 2006
The Ability To Be Still And Hear With Clarity
All my years as a Christian, I rarely heard a sermon preached on being still and hear from God in Jesus Christ, sensitive to the still gentle voice of the Holy Spirit.
Albeit the never ending order to pray, I believed it's even more important to listen to our heavenly Father. While praying is conveying our needs to our Saviour God, listening is getting instructions and guidance to live righteously for His honor and glory. This is different from praising and worshipping our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus.
Prayers are important but without listening, how do we ever know what our heavenly Father demand of us? Prayers is imparting our thoughts to our heavenly Father while listening is allowing our Father to reveal his will to us. And I personally believe that it's significant to hear from our heavenly Father.
In order to be still, one needs to learn to navigate his focus on Jesus through the maze of evil set up by the evil one. We need to ask the Holy Spirit to help us be sensitive to his convictions. Honestly, there is no such thing as the best times like waking up in the middle of the night; you only need to open your mouth and ask the Holy Spirit to help you be focus!
I thank Jesus in the Holy Spirit, revealing this awesome truth to me about my unfruitful spiritual life being the fault of me talking too much and failing to listen more. I could witness my spiritual growth as I started learning to be sensitive listening to the Holy Spirit's guidance.
I heard you asking how are we supposed to tune our ears to the still small voice of our heavenly Father in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour?
READ THE BIBLE!
Amazingly, this was how the Holy Spirit revealed to me when I asked my heavenly Father to tune my ears to hear Him with clarity.
Reading the Bible is spending quality time with our Saviour Jesus as He teaches us, we listened with the help of the Holy Spirit, gifted to us.
Reading the Bible is allowing the Word of God ministered to us. And the Word is our Saviour Jesus (John 1:1, 14). As we read, we listened and learned obedience, resulting us planting Jesus into our life, building Him as the foundation, the Rock.
Like I mentioned earlier, there is no such thing as waking up in the middle of the night, hiding away on a retreat, locking yourself in the room, or any other man created rubbish reasons. You only need to ask the Holy Spirit to help you develope an honest passion after the heart of our heavenly Father in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.
Desire the Kingdom of God and God's righteousness as your priority in worship and all things will be given to you (Matthew 6:33)
Starts reading the Bible today and allow God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ speaks and minister to you as you learned to be still and listens.
God Bless You............
Albeit the never ending order to pray, I believed it's even more important to listen to our heavenly Father. While praying is conveying our needs to our Saviour God, listening is getting instructions and guidance to live righteously for His honor and glory. This is different from praising and worshipping our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus.
Prayers are important but without listening, how do we ever know what our heavenly Father demand of us? Prayers is imparting our thoughts to our heavenly Father while listening is allowing our Father to reveal his will to us. And I personally believe that it's significant to hear from our heavenly Father.
In order to be still, one needs to learn to navigate his focus on Jesus through the maze of evil set up by the evil one. We need to ask the Holy Spirit to help us be sensitive to his convictions. Honestly, there is no such thing as the best times like waking up in the middle of the night; you only need to open your mouth and ask the Holy Spirit to help you be focus!
I thank Jesus in the Holy Spirit, revealing this awesome truth to me about my unfruitful spiritual life being the fault of me talking too much and failing to listen more. I could witness my spiritual growth as I started learning to be sensitive listening to the Holy Spirit's guidance.
I heard you asking how are we supposed to tune our ears to the still small voice of our heavenly Father in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour?
READ THE BIBLE!
Amazingly, this was how the Holy Spirit revealed to me when I asked my heavenly Father to tune my ears to hear Him with clarity.
Reading the Bible is spending quality time with our Saviour Jesus as He teaches us, we listened with the help of the Holy Spirit, gifted to us.
Reading the Bible is allowing the Word of God ministered to us. And the Word is our Saviour Jesus (John 1:1, 14). As we read, we listened and learned obedience, resulting us planting Jesus into our life, building Him as the foundation, the Rock.
Like I mentioned earlier, there is no such thing as waking up in the middle of the night, hiding away on a retreat, locking yourself in the room, or any other man created rubbish reasons. You only need to ask the Holy Spirit to help you develope an honest passion after the heart of our heavenly Father in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.
Desire the Kingdom of God and God's righteousness as your priority in worship and all things will be given to you (Matthew 6:33)
Starts reading the Bible today and allow God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ speaks and minister to you as you learned to be still and listens.
God Bless You............
What Is A Christian?
Today is Christmas Day 2006.
As I kneel to pray for my family, friends, those who persecute me and my nation whom my heavenly Father has placed me in, I pondered for a minute and asked myself this question: What exactly is a Christian? What am I and who am I when I decided to confess that Jesus Christ is my Lord Saviour, identifying myself a Christian to the world at large?
Jesus Christ my Saviour died, nailed to the cross for my sake. If I claimed myself to belong to Him, how shall I lived my life for the honor and glory of His Majestic Name?
If I am a Christian, I must lived like my Saviour Jesus. I must live according to all He has taught me in the Bible. I wouldn't want my Saviour to pose me this question as in Luke 4:46, Why do you keep calling me, "Lord, Lord!" when you don't do what I say?
And what exactly did our Saviour taught us?
Love each other like we love ourselves.
Love our enemies.
Provide for others.
Share with others
Be prepared to sacrifice our own lives
are just a few examples of what our Saviour taught us.
I know most of us thought these acts are almost impossible to execute. It's totally and absolutely not true! This is one lie the Devil wanted us to believe. If we rebuke the lie, swallow our pride and learned to ask, then we can do what Christ our Saviour taught us. The strength to pray comes from our Saviour in the power of the Holy Spirit that our heavenly Father gifted us when we confessed and believed by faith that Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God.
As Christians, we must lived our new lives in the power of the Holy Spirit gifted to help and guide us to live above the lifestyle of the ordinary man. The gifting of the Holy Spirit is an extra in the ordinary us. The extra of God's gift to us created us anew to become extra-ordinary!
In Matthew 5:43-48 our Saviour Jesus taught us to live apart from the ordinary. "You have heard that the law of Moses says, 'Love your neighbor' and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and on the unjust, too. If you love only those who love you, what good is that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that. But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect."
Every good works belonged to the power of the Holy Spirit because goodness belongs to God alone. No man who is dust can do God's work except God Himself in the Holy Spirit. Even our Saviour Jesus acknowledged in John 14:10 that his work belonged to the Father who lives in him to empower him.
I also discovered the teachings of our Saviour Jesus are foolishness to men. The unbeliever can never grasp and fathom the ways of our heavenly Father because the ways and thoughts of God are higher than man. Without the Holy Spirit, no one can love their enemies, share kindly and generously, love unconditionally and witness for the honor and glory of our Lord Jesus by living right. God's wisdom to us is to live to please Him alone. God's wisdom is foolishness to man.
To stay away from sinning, I daily seek the Holy Spirit, gifted to help me and constantly remind myself reading and meditating John 8:47, Anyone who belongs to God listens gladly to the words of God. But you don't listen because you don't belong to God.
I spent the last 5 years with the help of the Holy Spirit, gifted to me, learning to run from sin, finding shelter to hide in my Saviour. And each day the strength of my Saviour grew in me to help me confront evil bravely. Each day I commit my weakness to my Saviour Jesus so that He can be my strength. Each day, I learned obedience, grew to be like Jesus as the Holy Spirit slowly transforms me.
This Christmas, I wish for myself that Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour continue transforming me into His likeness. I pray the Holy Spirit remain in me to help me live my earthly life, firmly as a Christian, bearing fruits for the honour and glory of my Majestic Lord Saviour Jesus, Creator and Father.
And may the Holy Spirit filled and equipped me to do the will of the Father, to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world.
Merry Christmas 2006!
As I kneel to pray for my family, friends, those who persecute me and my nation whom my heavenly Father has placed me in, I pondered for a minute and asked myself this question: What exactly is a Christian? What am I and who am I when I decided to confess that Jesus Christ is my Lord Saviour, identifying myself a Christian to the world at large?
Jesus Christ my Saviour died, nailed to the cross for my sake. If I claimed myself to belong to Him, how shall I lived my life for the honor and glory of His Majestic Name?
If I am a Christian, I must lived like my Saviour Jesus. I must live according to all He has taught me in the Bible. I wouldn't want my Saviour to pose me this question as in Luke 4:46, Why do you keep calling me, "Lord, Lord!" when you don't do what I say?
And what exactly did our Saviour taught us?
Love each other like we love ourselves.
Love our enemies.
Provide for others.
Share with others
Be prepared to sacrifice our own lives
are just a few examples of what our Saviour taught us.
I know most of us thought these acts are almost impossible to execute. It's totally and absolutely not true! This is one lie the Devil wanted us to believe. If we rebuke the lie, swallow our pride and learned to ask, then we can do what Christ our Saviour taught us. The strength to pray comes from our Saviour in the power of the Holy Spirit that our heavenly Father gifted us when we confessed and believed by faith that Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God.
As Christians, we must lived our new lives in the power of the Holy Spirit gifted to help and guide us to live above the lifestyle of the ordinary man. The gifting of the Holy Spirit is an extra in the ordinary us. The extra of God's gift to us created us anew to become extra-ordinary!
In Matthew 5:43-48 our Saviour Jesus taught us to live apart from the ordinary. "You have heard that the law of Moses says, 'Love your neighbor' and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and on the unjust, too. If you love only those who love you, what good is that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that. But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect."
Every good works belonged to the power of the Holy Spirit because goodness belongs to God alone. No man who is dust can do God's work except God Himself in the Holy Spirit. Even our Saviour Jesus acknowledged in John 14:10 that his work belonged to the Father who lives in him to empower him.
I also discovered the teachings of our Saviour Jesus are foolishness to men. The unbeliever can never grasp and fathom the ways of our heavenly Father because the ways and thoughts of God are higher than man. Without the Holy Spirit, no one can love their enemies, share kindly and generously, love unconditionally and witness for the honor and glory of our Lord Jesus by living right. God's wisdom to us is to live to please Him alone. God's wisdom is foolishness to man.
To stay away from sinning, I daily seek the Holy Spirit, gifted to help me and constantly remind myself reading and meditating John 8:47, Anyone who belongs to God listens gladly to the words of God. But you don't listen because you don't belong to God.
I spent the last 5 years with the help of the Holy Spirit, gifted to me, learning to run from sin, finding shelter to hide in my Saviour. And each day the strength of my Saviour grew in me to help me confront evil bravely. Each day I commit my weakness to my Saviour Jesus so that He can be my strength. Each day, I learned obedience, grew to be like Jesus as the Holy Spirit slowly transforms me.
This Christmas, I wish for myself that Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour continue transforming me into His likeness. I pray the Holy Spirit remain in me to help me live my earthly life, firmly as a Christian, bearing fruits for the honour and glory of my Majestic Lord Saviour Jesus, Creator and Father.
And may the Holy Spirit filled and equipped me to do the will of the Father, to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world.
Merry Christmas 2006!
Friday, December 15, 2006
Some Disturbing Questions!
I accompanied my mom to lay some offerings for my deceased father at a nearby Taoist temple.
There were literally hundreds of vagrants of various races lining outside the temple grounds with a variety of 'begging' bowls. There could be Ming porcelain bowls among them ~smile~
While mom was doing her things inside the temple, I couldn't help wondering why there were always so many vagrants outside chinese temple grounds. I pushed my memory back to a few weeks earlier when I was driving pass a Hindu temple in the Mid Valley shopping mall area and also saw many vagrants outside. Out of curiosity, I purposely searched out a Moslem mosque and checked out it's surrounding. Eureka! There were a few vagrants loitering around it's grounds and some were napping along the corridors.
The purpose of my writing today involved a disturbing question that has been swelling on my mind: Why are there no such category of people outside Churches? Has anyone seen, once, even just once, one less fortunate person begging outside a church?
Ever wonder why?
What could be their reasons staying away from begging outside Churches? Many Churches claimed thousands of worshippers present at one service. Churches should be an excellent choice to beg for these less fortunate. And afterall, it's only a few hours in a days work; Sundays!
The other disturbing fact is about religious services. I observed that the various religious place of worship are open into the late evenings of the day. Churches opens only on Sundays or unless there is some functions.
I checked with a Christian about this and he told me that they are vigilant over thefts.
And I thought Christians were supposed to trust God to have His angels guarding His own house? And how are the Churches serving the community when it's doors are closed on most days of the week?
Hmmm?
There were literally hundreds of vagrants of various races lining outside the temple grounds with a variety of 'begging' bowls. There could be Ming porcelain bowls among them ~smile~
While mom was doing her things inside the temple, I couldn't help wondering why there were always so many vagrants outside chinese temple grounds. I pushed my memory back to a few weeks earlier when I was driving pass a Hindu temple in the Mid Valley shopping mall area and also saw many vagrants outside. Out of curiosity, I purposely searched out a Moslem mosque and checked out it's surrounding. Eureka! There were a few vagrants loitering around it's grounds and some were napping along the corridors.
The purpose of my writing today involved a disturbing question that has been swelling on my mind: Why are there no such category of people outside Churches? Has anyone seen, once, even just once, one less fortunate person begging outside a church?
Ever wonder why?
What could be their reasons staying away from begging outside Churches? Many Churches claimed thousands of worshippers present at one service. Churches should be an excellent choice to beg for these less fortunate. And afterall, it's only a few hours in a days work; Sundays!
The other disturbing fact is about religious services. I observed that the various religious place of worship are open into the late evenings of the day. Churches opens only on Sundays or unless there is some functions.
I checked with a Christian about this and he told me that they are vigilant over thefts.
And I thought Christians were supposed to trust God to have His angels guarding His own house? And how are the Churches serving the community when it's doors are closed on most days of the week?
Hmmm?
Not Just A Decision!
What does it take to fulfill an intention?
Just a decision!
Yet, it takes a lot to muster enough strength to make a decision abeit a small and simple one. Commitment in a decision helps to bear fruit to it. Decisions are easily uttered through the mouth but it takes a whole heart to realise it. It is easy to aye to a decision, accomplishing it is another matter.
Like this morning, while brushing my teeth, I decided to wash my car after breakfast. With a mug of the loveliest coffee, I slumped my body to my comfy cushy chair to catch a little bit of the morning news and was trapped sitting there until my wife, looking slightly annoyed, asked whether I am ready to be served 'dinner!'
What! It's dinner time?
"Hey! I thought I heard you muttering in between brushing your teeth this morning that you are going to wash the car?", scowled a very sweet and patient already used to my character wife.
I am writing this to remind myself how easily most times I told my Saviour Jesus about my intended repentance from certain weaknesses in my lifestyle. It's so easy to pray and say I decided to turn away from heavy eating and bingeing at the sight of anything edible. But when I encountered all these glorious food, I just give in and stretched out my hands towards those food.
I could never be able to muster enough strength to bolt from food that seems to appear everywhere and every time when I could feel strength enveloping me. I failed each time.
Today, I thanked Jesus in the Holy Spirit to reveal me it's secret about making decisions and conforming it.
The strength lies in my Saviour Jesus! The knowledge of this fact was with me since birth! Yet, this knowledge never served me well but speaking into my heart to convict me each time when I needed it most! The Devil must be working overtime to keep the knowledge from divulging me.
I just decided to make a donation to an orphange. Knowledge whispered audibly to me that I could never do it on my own. I thanked my heavenly Father for my Saviour Jesus who promises me He'll be my partner in everything I wished to do.
Merry Christmas!
Just a decision!
Yet, it takes a lot to muster enough strength to make a decision abeit a small and simple one. Commitment in a decision helps to bear fruit to it. Decisions are easily uttered through the mouth but it takes a whole heart to realise it. It is easy to aye to a decision, accomplishing it is another matter.
Like this morning, while brushing my teeth, I decided to wash my car after breakfast. With a mug of the loveliest coffee, I slumped my body to my comfy cushy chair to catch a little bit of the morning news and was trapped sitting there until my wife, looking slightly annoyed, asked whether I am ready to be served 'dinner!'
What! It's dinner time?
"Hey! I thought I heard you muttering in between brushing your teeth this morning that you are going to wash the car?", scowled a very sweet and patient already used to my character wife.
I am writing this to remind myself how easily most times I told my Saviour Jesus about my intended repentance from certain weaknesses in my lifestyle. It's so easy to pray and say I decided to turn away from heavy eating and bingeing at the sight of anything edible. But when I encountered all these glorious food, I just give in and stretched out my hands towards those food.
I could never be able to muster enough strength to bolt from food that seems to appear everywhere and every time when I could feel strength enveloping me. I failed each time.
Today, I thanked Jesus in the Holy Spirit to reveal me it's secret about making decisions and conforming it.
The strength lies in my Saviour Jesus! The knowledge of this fact was with me since birth! Yet, this knowledge never served me well but speaking into my heart to convict me each time when I needed it most! The Devil must be working overtime to keep the knowledge from divulging me.
I just decided to make a donation to an orphange. Knowledge whispered audibly to me that I could never do it on my own. I thanked my heavenly Father for my Saviour Jesus who promises me He'll be my partner in everything I wished to do.
Merry Christmas!
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Judge Not!
One day, many moons ago, while shopping in Metrojaya Buikit Bintang, I witnessed this young mother beating her daughter. The poor soul was crying her lungs out. Shoppers were crowding around them; non responded to stop the young mother or tried to allay further beatings. I took the initiative and walked towards the mother.
I could only managed to utter one word, "excuse" when this young mother burst out crying. I was slightly embarrassed by the sudden outburst. The crowd started to disperse when they thought all is well. I stood there with the young lady as she explain her predicament in between sobs.
She told me she was a single mother and doesn't know how to care and love her daughter correctly. She truly loved her. But the daughter was mischievous by her benchmark. She tried to spend as much time with her. Someday she even took her to work.
She admitted to me that many times she contemplated suicide together with her daughter or leaving her daughter at the orphanage so that she could start all over again. But she truly loved her and promised herself that she would not give up the struggle to bring her up. Close friends and relatives evaded mother and daughter because of her bad choice in her husband.
She told me she hugged her daughter and assured her how much she loved her each time after a beating.
She wasn't prideful holding back explaining her weakness to me, a total stranger. I was glad I stayed to listen to her. If she did not explained and I did not stayed to listen, I am sure I would have totally misunderstood her beating her child.
God, our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus taught us to love each other, to love our neighbors like ourselves. In Luke 6:46, our Saviour Lord Jesus asked why called Him Lord! Lord! when we don't obey what He has taught us.
It is easy to claim that I am a Christian but followed a different lifestyle. Titus 1:16
I realized I would never be able to offer any form of assistance to anyone because I decided so. But I could help anyone if I draw strength from my Saviour and asked Him to live in me in the power of the Holy Spirit to help. I can love if Christ lives in me.
I cannot do anything for Christ's glory if I chose to live independant of Him.
I would have condemned the young mother for beating her child senselessly. I thanked my heavenly Father for teaching me to understand why not to simply judge people when we do not know the truth.
Our heavenly Father knows the end from the beginning. Everything happened for a reason and everything works according to His plans for His glory.
When I was rotten and a reject, a sinner who is not worthy of anything, Christ came to die for me on the cross. Jesus alone loves me. I am the worst sinner but Jesus never gave up on me.
With all sincerity, I could have passed judgement on the parents for the lives of their three children. (A couple was arrested for taking the lives of their 3 children in Malaysia in a suicide pact that went awry). I am glad I did not because each day I pray for grace to work in my life and today I pray that God in Jesus Christ will work His grace through me. Without His grace, I am still rotten, rejected and lost out there.
Without grace, probably I could be worst than the parents of the 3 lost children.
I do not want to be arrogant about my faith lest God send me a test too great that I may fail. I know I will surely fall away if God removed His grace from me. What am I without the Holy Spirit who lives in me to fill me and equip me to live my earthly life for the honor and glory of Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour.
As a Christian, I learn each day to view everything from God's heart and not interpret anything by my own wisdom. My wisdom is foolishness to Him. I may pass judgement wrongly!
I could have ended up a crook, a rapist, a snatch thief, a murderer, a person filled with all types of evil if not for the grace, mercy and unfailing love of my Saviour, Lord Jesus.
I pray for the parents whom many people are judging them and bind the powers of the evil one so that in each of us, we reign with Christ our Lord with victory. I asked for Christ grace, mercy and unfailing love for them. I pray our Saviour is there with them right now, not because they deserved anything but because Christ is Lord and Saviour, because of His abundance mercies. Because He came to die for the undeserving like me.
Christmas ain't Christmas if Christ did not come to die for us when we were still sinners!
Merry Christmas!
I could only managed to utter one word, "excuse" when this young mother burst out crying. I was slightly embarrassed by the sudden outburst. The crowd started to disperse when they thought all is well. I stood there with the young lady as she explain her predicament in between sobs.
She told me she was a single mother and doesn't know how to care and love her daughter correctly. She truly loved her. But the daughter was mischievous by her benchmark. She tried to spend as much time with her. Someday she even took her to work.
She admitted to me that many times she contemplated suicide together with her daughter or leaving her daughter at the orphanage so that she could start all over again. But she truly loved her and promised herself that she would not give up the struggle to bring her up. Close friends and relatives evaded mother and daughter because of her bad choice in her husband.
She told me she hugged her daughter and assured her how much she loved her each time after a beating.
She wasn't prideful holding back explaining her weakness to me, a total stranger. I was glad I stayed to listen to her. If she did not explained and I did not stayed to listen, I am sure I would have totally misunderstood her beating her child.
God, our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus taught us to love each other, to love our neighbors like ourselves. In Luke 6:46, our Saviour Lord Jesus asked why called Him Lord! Lord! when we don't obey what He has taught us.
It is easy to claim that I am a Christian but followed a different lifestyle. Titus 1:16
I realized I would never be able to offer any form of assistance to anyone because I decided so. But I could help anyone if I draw strength from my Saviour and asked Him to live in me in the power of the Holy Spirit to help. I can love if Christ lives in me.
I cannot do anything for Christ's glory if I chose to live independant of Him.
I would have condemned the young mother for beating her child senselessly. I thanked my heavenly Father for teaching me to understand why not to simply judge people when we do not know the truth.
Our heavenly Father knows the end from the beginning. Everything happened for a reason and everything works according to His plans for His glory.
When I was rotten and a reject, a sinner who is not worthy of anything, Christ came to die for me on the cross. Jesus alone loves me. I am the worst sinner but Jesus never gave up on me.
With all sincerity, I could have passed judgement on the parents for the lives of their three children. (A couple was arrested for taking the lives of their 3 children in Malaysia in a suicide pact that went awry). I am glad I did not because each day I pray for grace to work in my life and today I pray that God in Jesus Christ will work His grace through me. Without His grace, I am still rotten, rejected and lost out there.
Without grace, probably I could be worst than the parents of the 3 lost children.
I do not want to be arrogant about my faith lest God send me a test too great that I may fail. I know I will surely fall away if God removed His grace from me. What am I without the Holy Spirit who lives in me to fill me and equip me to live my earthly life for the honor and glory of Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour.
As a Christian, I learn each day to view everything from God's heart and not interpret anything by my own wisdom. My wisdom is foolishness to Him. I may pass judgement wrongly!
I could have ended up a crook, a rapist, a snatch thief, a murderer, a person filled with all types of evil if not for the grace, mercy and unfailing love of my Saviour, Lord Jesus.
I pray for the parents whom many people are judging them and bind the powers of the evil one so that in each of us, we reign with Christ our Lord with victory. I asked for Christ grace, mercy and unfailing love for them. I pray our Saviour is there with them right now, not because they deserved anything but because Christ is Lord and Saviour, because of His abundance mercies. Because He came to die for the undeserving like me.
Christmas ain't Christmas if Christ did not come to die for us when we were still sinners!
Merry Christmas!
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Ryan Watched Pornography!
Hmm....Am I having your attention now?
Pornography are acts of mischief that may excite or may bring offense to people. The dictionary defined pornography as obscene, filthy, dirty, lewd, and unholy!.
Is our Christian life like pornography to unbelievers?
SCENE 1:
A certain Christian leader addresses a group of young Christians about the harmfulness of smoking. They were shown photo slides of victims suffering from cancer; the effects from smoking. It generated a lot of excitement among the children. The children were also taught to look after their body because its the temple of the Holy God. When the dialog ended each child applauded to acknowledge that they fully understood and appreciated the message about the effects of smoking on their health.
Ryan, aged 8 was with his parents in a restaurant having dinner. There was a commotion in the restaurant. It was between a diner and the waitress. The diner, lost his cool and uttered a stream of profanities at the waitress, who apparently accidentally spilled hot coffee on him. Ryan recognized the diner as the person who spoke to them about the ill effects of smoking. Ryan was an attendee at the smoking dialog. Ryan remembered the part about honoring the body which is also the temple of the Holy God.
Ryan turned to his parents and exclaimed disappointingly, "Mum! Dad! This man taught us about honoring our body and to keep our body from harm because God lives in it. Look at him shouting at the waitress and the words he is using on her. Isn't that a shame? I am wondering how God is feeling inside him now? I am sure the anger wasn't from God? And I thought when God lives in us, we have the gift of self control? Isn't anger worse than smoking?"
SCENE 2:
Immediately after Sunday service, the small group of Christians were frenzy over something. They were getting ready to visit someone. Its the new believer's home. At the new believers request, they are going over to his home to remove the idols he was worshipping in the past. Half an hour later, there were celebration. The idols had been removed.
Young Ryan was with his family in the car. They were on the way home after shopping at the nearby supermarket. Ryan's mum suddenly recall that she forgot to buy something when they were in the supermarket. Ryan's dad stopped the car at the convenience store for mum to get her stuff. Young Ryan glimpsed a furtive person at the betting shop. Young Ryan thought he looked familiar. Aha! He was the new believer who had his idols removed a week ago. Ryan's parents were at the new believers home to help removed the idols.
Mum returned to the car after she got her stuff.
Ryan turned to his parents and exclaimed disappointingly again, "Mum! Dad! Could you recognized that man in the blue shirt in the betting shop? Isn't he the guy we went over to his house with our other Christian family to remove the idols he used to worship? I thought he had repented of everything and only worship God in Jesus alone. Isn't it more important that we removed the idols in our hearts first? He had those idols removed in the home he lived but not those in his heart where God dwells. Since he still had idols in his heart, where will Jesus be because Jesus would not share His home with someone else. Is there a union between holiness and unholiness?"
Isn't it apparent that the Devil has made lies look like truths? Lies dwelled in us deceiving us to remove the wrong priorities that stumble us!
Our heavenly Father gifted everyone who confessed his son, Jesus Christ is the Messiah, the Saviour with the Holy Spirit. The purpose of the Holy Spirit is to help us live our earthly life for God. The Holy Spirit is a gift to guard the Father's children. The believer has given up his old life and by confessing Jesus Christ as the Saviour, the person lived the new life obedient to the power of the Holy Spirit (Galatian 2:20).
The true children of God are those who are led by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14).
Our new life in Jesus should not be like pornography to the non believer (Titus 1:16). Each and every moment of our life as a Christian is a testimony of His holiness in us. Each and every moment of our Christian life is a testimony of Christ victory in us.
All of us can live that victorious life for Jesus if we allow the power of the Holy Spirit to guide us. And that is if we are prepared to kneel and ask Jesus to come into our lives to help us. Jesus is prepared to do just that because he remembered that we are dust. He remembered because when He came to save us, we were on our way, doomed for eternal destruction.
If we are obedient to the power of the Holy Spirit, we can experience God's amazing grace in metamorphosis of a sinful Adam into the perfect Christ.
Pornography are acts of mischief that may excite or may bring offense to people. The dictionary defined pornography as obscene, filthy, dirty, lewd, and unholy!.
Is our Christian life like pornography to unbelievers?
SCENE 1:
A certain Christian leader addresses a group of young Christians about the harmfulness of smoking. They were shown photo slides of victims suffering from cancer; the effects from smoking. It generated a lot of excitement among the children. The children were also taught to look after their body because its the temple of the Holy God. When the dialog ended each child applauded to acknowledge that they fully understood and appreciated the message about the effects of smoking on their health.
Ryan, aged 8 was with his parents in a restaurant having dinner. There was a commotion in the restaurant. It was between a diner and the waitress. The diner, lost his cool and uttered a stream of profanities at the waitress, who apparently accidentally spilled hot coffee on him. Ryan recognized the diner as the person who spoke to them about the ill effects of smoking. Ryan was an attendee at the smoking dialog. Ryan remembered the part about honoring the body which is also the temple of the Holy God.
Ryan turned to his parents and exclaimed disappointingly, "Mum! Dad! This man taught us about honoring our body and to keep our body from harm because God lives in it. Look at him shouting at the waitress and the words he is using on her. Isn't that a shame? I am wondering how God is feeling inside him now? I am sure the anger wasn't from God? And I thought when God lives in us, we have the gift of self control? Isn't anger worse than smoking?"
SCENE 2:
Immediately after Sunday service, the small group of Christians were frenzy over something. They were getting ready to visit someone. Its the new believer's home. At the new believers request, they are going over to his home to remove the idols he was worshipping in the past. Half an hour later, there were celebration. The idols had been removed.
Young Ryan was with his family in the car. They were on the way home after shopping at the nearby supermarket. Ryan's mum suddenly recall that she forgot to buy something when they were in the supermarket. Ryan's dad stopped the car at the convenience store for mum to get her stuff. Young Ryan glimpsed a furtive person at the betting shop. Young Ryan thought he looked familiar. Aha! He was the new believer who had his idols removed a week ago. Ryan's parents were at the new believers home to help removed the idols.
Mum returned to the car after she got her stuff.
Ryan turned to his parents and exclaimed disappointingly again, "Mum! Dad! Could you recognized that man in the blue shirt in the betting shop? Isn't he the guy we went over to his house with our other Christian family to remove the idols he used to worship? I thought he had repented of everything and only worship God in Jesus alone. Isn't it more important that we removed the idols in our hearts first? He had those idols removed in the home he lived but not those in his heart where God dwells. Since he still had idols in his heart, where will Jesus be because Jesus would not share His home with someone else. Is there a union between holiness and unholiness?"
Isn't it apparent that the Devil has made lies look like truths? Lies dwelled in us deceiving us to remove the wrong priorities that stumble us!
Our heavenly Father gifted everyone who confessed his son, Jesus Christ is the Messiah, the Saviour with the Holy Spirit. The purpose of the Holy Spirit is to help us live our earthly life for God. The Holy Spirit is a gift to guard the Father's children. The believer has given up his old life and by confessing Jesus Christ as the Saviour, the person lived the new life obedient to the power of the Holy Spirit (Galatian 2:20).
The true children of God are those who are led by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14).
Our new life in Jesus should not be like pornography to the non believer (Titus 1:16). Each and every moment of our life as a Christian is a testimony of His holiness in us. Each and every moment of our Christian life is a testimony of Christ victory in us.
All of us can live that victorious life for Jesus if we allow the power of the Holy Spirit to guide us. And that is if we are prepared to kneel and ask Jesus to come into our lives to help us. Jesus is prepared to do just that because he remembered that we are dust. He remembered because when He came to save us, we were on our way, doomed for eternal destruction.
If we are obedient to the power of the Holy Spirit, we can experience God's amazing grace in metamorphosis of a sinful Adam into the perfect Christ.
God's Richness
If I ever wanted anything at all, I will always ask my heavenly Father in Christ Jesus, my Saviour.
I asked for food because I haven't eaten for 3 days and my Lord and my God sent someone with food. I have asked for a variety of things and told my Saviour why I wanted and needed them. If my Saviour approved of what I asked, a friend or a stranger will come along and gave them to me; but never once had I received anything monetary.
I believed that's faith in my Creator, my heavenly Father in Christ Jesus, my Saviour. And the reason why money was never a part of God's providence could be that He wouldn't want me to hope in money. And moreover money is never something godly. Money is something from the world.
My hope and trust is always in Jesus my Lord and Saviour.
God's providence is always from His richness.
You may chose to believe otherwise!
I asked for food because I haven't eaten for 3 days and my Lord and my God sent someone with food. I have asked for a variety of things and told my Saviour why I wanted and needed them. If my Saviour approved of what I asked, a friend or a stranger will come along and gave them to me; but never once had I received anything monetary.
I believed that's faith in my Creator, my heavenly Father in Christ Jesus, my Saviour. And the reason why money was never a part of God's providence could be that He wouldn't want me to hope in money. And moreover money is never something godly. Money is something from the world.
My hope and trust is always in Jesus my Lord and Saviour.
God's providence is always from His richness.
You may chose to believe otherwise!
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Aiyah! Why You So Stupid Wan?
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!
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!
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!
Friday, October 27, 2006
When A Servant Is Greater Than A Master
Many of us wanted to be Jesus, many more inclined to give up everything, including their life to be Him. Ironically, we are not prepared to live like Him? We only wanted to be Jesus, yet we are not willing to live the exemplary life He taught us. ~sigh~
The answers above is a result of my own findings when I posed this question to many "Christians". Everyone, without hesitation affirmed positively with a big yes that they loved the honor behind being Jesus.
Would you agree with me that there's always a hint of pomposity in leadership? And that humility in servanthood garnered more respect than "arrogance" in leadership. What I meant is people revere humility more than pomposity. I can hear murmuring that my statement is not true. Leadership itself is arrogance! Philippians 2:3 provides an excellent challenge!
The reason everyone wanted to be Jesus could be because Jesus commanded authority and many of us lust hideously for that glamour. Just like a designer's brand, we are only interested in the name. But we have forgotten that it's the work, the blood, sweat and tears behind the glamorous name! Philippians 2:5 outlined with details how Jesus was exalted because of what He did.
Humility exudes love. Humility without the love ingredient cannot work on its own. Love must be alive in humility to fulfill its purpose. When our heavenly Father gave Jesus Christ, a son He dearly loved to us at the cross, I am sure its because He was filled with overwhelming love for us that drove Him to humble Himself for us. Remember He is the Almighty God, the Creator! God, our Father humbled Himself as a son of man to die for us so that we can be sons of the living God.
So how can we be Jesus when we are not primed to live out His character? After all it's the character that's behind a name!
Are you prepared to be persecuted, prosecuted and executed in innocence?
Simpler task? How about washing feets, loving the unloved, forgiving those who hurt us, sharing what we have and (not what we don't want!).
It's sad that many of us never see our Lord Jesus as He is, we only see Him as we are!
The answers above is a result of my own findings when I posed this question to many "Christians". Everyone, without hesitation affirmed positively with a big yes that they loved the honor behind being Jesus.
Would you agree with me that there's always a hint of pomposity in leadership? And that humility in servanthood garnered more respect than "arrogance" in leadership. What I meant is people revere humility more than pomposity. I can hear murmuring that my statement is not true. Leadership itself is arrogance! Philippians 2:3 provides an excellent challenge!
The reason everyone wanted to be Jesus could be because Jesus commanded authority and many of us lust hideously for that glamour. Just like a designer's brand, we are only interested in the name. But we have forgotten that it's the work, the blood, sweat and tears behind the glamorous name! Philippians 2:5 outlined with details how Jesus was exalted because of what He did.
Humility exudes love. Humility without the love ingredient cannot work on its own. Love must be alive in humility to fulfill its purpose. When our heavenly Father gave Jesus Christ, a son He dearly loved to us at the cross, I am sure its because He was filled with overwhelming love for us that drove Him to humble Himself for us. Remember He is the Almighty God, the Creator! God, our Father humbled Himself as a son of man to die for us so that we can be sons of the living God.
So how can we be Jesus when we are not primed to live out His character? After all it's the character that's behind a name!
Are you prepared to be persecuted, prosecuted and executed in innocence?
Simpler task? How about washing feets, loving the unloved, forgiving those who hurt us, sharing what we have and (not what we don't want!).
It's sad that many of us never see our Lord Jesus as He is, we only see Him as we are!
Do you still want to be Jesus?
Friday, September 22, 2006
Against The World
I supposed most of us know what is truth; except we never accepted it.
So, what is truth?
I'll explained it as such....
We all know that nothing belongs to us. We came into the world empty handed. Everything is a blessing from God, Father and Creator of us.
We all know that we are instruments of God. God uses us to do His work.
We all know that we must be obedient to God's commands. God, our heavenly Father has gifted the Holy Spirit to succour hopeless sinners like you and me to live our earthly lives to please Him.
We know, right?
Now, one day, the Holy Spirit convicted our hearts and compel us to do something that our wisdom cannot comprehend example: God gave you a son when you are 100 years old and 7 years later, He demanded your son to be sacrificed to Him. Or you have only RM50 in your pocket and you were sensitive to the Holy Spirit's instruction to give everything to a person seated next to you. How do you respond to the above 2 circumstances?
To ignore will mean you know the truth but you reject the truth because it doesn't make any sense to you?
To be obedient will mean you are living in the truth, allowing the Holy Spirit to guide your heart. Romans 8:14 says that those who are lead by the Spirit of God are truly sons of the living God.
Living in God's truth will mean living against the desires of this world because the world are lies. It equates to living against the common sense of mankind because God's wisdom and ways are above man.
When you know the truth, the truth shall set you free!
Are you free?
So, what is truth?
I'll explained it as such....
We all know that nothing belongs to us. We came into the world empty handed. Everything is a blessing from God, Father and Creator of us.
We all know that we are instruments of God. God uses us to do His work.
We all know that we must be obedient to God's commands. God, our heavenly Father has gifted the Holy Spirit to succour hopeless sinners like you and me to live our earthly lives to please Him.
We know, right?
Now, one day, the Holy Spirit convicted our hearts and compel us to do something that our wisdom cannot comprehend example: God gave you a son when you are 100 years old and 7 years later, He demanded your son to be sacrificed to Him. Or you have only RM50 in your pocket and you were sensitive to the Holy Spirit's instruction to give everything to a person seated next to you. How do you respond to the above 2 circumstances?
To ignore will mean you know the truth but you reject the truth because it doesn't make any sense to you?
To be obedient will mean you are living in the truth, allowing the Holy Spirit to guide your heart. Romans 8:14 says that those who are lead by the Spirit of God are truly sons of the living God.
Living in God's truth will mean living against the desires of this world because the world are lies. It equates to living against the common sense of mankind because God's wisdom and ways are above man.
When you know the truth, the truth shall set you free!
Are you free?
Friday, September 08, 2006
The Prodigal Son
I overheard many times people exchanging opinions about whether we were born sinners or we were born into sin. Which belief is right?
I am for we were birth into sin and not the other. Why? Simply because I believe we were created out of a perfect pair of hands, the hands of our Creator, the perfect God, Father.
Our Creator created us as perfect people (that's why children are pure and blameless), place us into an imperfect world, allow us to be corrupted by its imperfection and by the free will given to us our Creator hope we will turned to Him, acknowledged Him as Saviour who came to rescue us from imperfection and by the gifting of the power of the Holy Spirit, we will live obediently to His guidance, to return us perfect into the Father's arms!
We are perfect because we originate out of His perfect hands. No one can cleanse our tainted being except our own Father. And only His blood is powerful enough to do the job. Yes! The only way back to Him is through Him in His Son, our Saviour Jesus.
Yes, Jesus is the Way because He is the only way who came from the Father and knows the way back to Him.
Jesus is the Truth because He is truth and He is the only true God; He is truly our Father.
Jesus is the Life because He alone lives forever, He has neither beginning or end. He is eternal and His children will live forever with Him.
To desire salvation is to desire to be with our True Father.
Father, I hate the world! I desired to return to you. Amen!
I am for we were birth into sin and not the other. Why? Simply because I believe we were created out of a perfect pair of hands, the hands of our Creator, the perfect God, Father.
Our Creator created us as perfect people (that's why children are pure and blameless), place us into an imperfect world, allow us to be corrupted by its imperfection and by the free will given to us our Creator hope we will turned to Him, acknowledged Him as Saviour who came to rescue us from imperfection and by the gifting of the power of the Holy Spirit, we will live obediently to His guidance, to return us perfect into the Father's arms!
We are perfect because we originate out of His perfect hands. No one can cleanse our tainted being except our own Father. And only His blood is powerful enough to do the job. Yes! The only way back to Him is through Him in His Son, our Saviour Jesus.
Yes, Jesus is the Way because He is the only way who came from the Father and knows the way back to Him.
Jesus is the Truth because He is truth and He is the only true God; He is truly our Father.
Jesus is the Life because He alone lives forever, He has neither beginning or end. He is eternal and His children will live forever with Him.
To desire salvation is to desire to be with our True Father.
Father, I hate the world! I desired to return to you. Amen!
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
CORRUPTION, THE CULPRIT
I just couldn't resist joining other bloggers sharing their views on the issues of fines for various traffic offences in Malaysia.
Its not whether the fines were RM50 or RM200 or RM1000. Its not about how much the fines should be. Its about corruption in the system. Its about a disorganized, chaotic, unsystematic department. Offenders are not fearful of whatever fines, summons and punishment the authorities pronounced on them because the authorities are tardy and ineffective meting out the punishment due to its disorganized characteristics.
I am curious, as a tax payer why were there no plans to improve? I mean all these years?
An offender could still changed the road tax and license without problems.
If a person is penalized for an offence, they could pay their way out by corrupting the officer.
Frequently we read in newspaper headlines that the authorities will be coming hard on offenders and the all out arrest at the homes of offenders. But what happened? Except for a lot of hoo-ha on the first two days of operation to arrest these offenders from their homes, we don't hear of anything else after that.
The problem is people have no more respect for the authorities concerned due to their half past six attitude of carrying out their duties. I am cocksure offenders will actually challenged the authorities to arrest them in their homes knowing very well they will never turned up.
It is a mockery to read about VCD peddlers beating up the authorities, people tearing up their summons or crumble up the summons and throw it away in front of the issuing officer, criminals making claims that they could walk off scot free as long as some form of payment is made etc.
Even my grandfather and grandmother is laughing from their grave!
Our laws are going haywire or what?
Or has corruption elevated to an uncontrollable level causing the people losing respect for the authorities?
I think its time Badawi sit down with all his boys to discuss about how to eliminate corruption totally from the system. There must be a way to do this!
Maybe its time to kneel and ask the Almighty God how?
Its not whether the fines were RM50 or RM200 or RM1000. Its not about how much the fines should be. Its about corruption in the system. Its about a disorganized, chaotic, unsystematic department. Offenders are not fearful of whatever fines, summons and punishment the authorities pronounced on them because the authorities are tardy and ineffective meting out the punishment due to its disorganized characteristics.
I am curious, as a tax payer why were there no plans to improve? I mean all these years?
An offender could still changed the road tax and license without problems.
If a person is penalized for an offence, they could pay their way out by corrupting the officer.
Frequently we read in newspaper headlines that the authorities will be coming hard on offenders and the all out arrest at the homes of offenders. But what happened? Except for a lot of hoo-ha on the first two days of operation to arrest these offenders from their homes, we don't hear of anything else after that.
The problem is people have no more respect for the authorities concerned due to their half past six attitude of carrying out their duties. I am cocksure offenders will actually challenged the authorities to arrest them in their homes knowing very well they will never turned up.
It is a mockery to read about VCD peddlers beating up the authorities, people tearing up their summons or crumble up the summons and throw it away in front of the issuing officer, criminals making claims that they could walk off scot free as long as some form of payment is made etc.
Even my grandfather and grandmother is laughing from their grave!
Our laws are going haywire or what?
Or has corruption elevated to an uncontrollable level causing the people losing respect for the authorities?
I think its time Badawi sit down with all his boys to discuss about how to eliminate corruption totally from the system. There must be a way to do this!
Maybe its time to kneel and ask the Almighty God how?
Friday, September 01, 2006
A Peaceful World If Only....................
Every evening, the kids in my neighborhood comprising various races, played together in harmony. These kids are the best witness to what Merdeka is all about. These kids don't understand what racialism is all about. They have no discernment of color, language or religion among themselves. Everyone is their best friends. They may fight, argue and quarrel and the occasional declaration of "I DON'T FRIEND YOU" statement, but they make up before you even realized they had fought.
The secret is simply because politics does not exist in their lifestyle. They don't have politicians sowing negative and sensitive sentiment into them. Politicians are the culprits of all forms of conflicts.
Children are innocent, pure and truthful. Their minds are not tainted with any influence of evil. Their friendship are not pretentious, deceitful or dishonest. They don't go to bed planning how to destroy their friends the next day. Children go to bed with pleasant thoughts hoping to meet their friends the following day, enjoying each other's company.
Politics exist because many people do not have a mind of their own to live life. They needed someone who is known as a politician to tell them what is right and wrong, who are our friends and who are our enemies! These people surrendered their minds as playgrounds to politicians. The greatest irony is every few years we elect these idiots or more correctly term as mongoloids, the retard to act for us and then complained about them!
On a similar note, children too will become cautious of the friends they socialize because parents cautioned them about who their friends are. Parents play the role of a mentally corrupt politician in the house when their way of judging their children's friends becomes extreme and unjustified. In the adult world, politicians were elected to represent the voice of the underprivileged people, fighting for their needs and not abused the responsibility entrust to them.
C'mon people, are you saying that God gifted the likes of Mahathir, Badawi, Bush, Blair, with bigger and juicier brains to think and act for us?
Parents and the government are bestowed with a responsibility to care of our welfare. The children and the people look to them as angels to guard and protect them, not as devils to maltreat them.
Simply put, the world is definitely more peaceful and a better place to live in if politics doesn't exist. But the irony is we created these politicians because we are so apprehensive in confronting the many issues of our daily lives. We elect someone to represent us and we condemned them for cheating us!
The secret is simply because politics does not exist in their lifestyle. They don't have politicians sowing negative and sensitive sentiment into them. Politicians are the culprits of all forms of conflicts.
Children are innocent, pure and truthful. Their minds are not tainted with any influence of evil. Their friendship are not pretentious, deceitful or dishonest. They don't go to bed planning how to destroy their friends the next day. Children go to bed with pleasant thoughts hoping to meet their friends the following day, enjoying each other's company.
Politics exist because many people do not have a mind of their own to live life. They needed someone who is known as a politician to tell them what is right and wrong, who are our friends and who are our enemies! These people surrendered their minds as playgrounds to politicians. The greatest irony is every few years we elect these idiots or more correctly term as mongoloids, the retard to act for us and then complained about them!
On a similar note, children too will become cautious of the friends they socialize because parents cautioned them about who their friends are. Parents play the role of a mentally corrupt politician in the house when their way of judging their children's friends becomes extreme and unjustified. In the adult world, politicians were elected to represent the voice of the underprivileged people, fighting for their needs and not abused the responsibility entrust to them.
C'mon people, are you saying that God gifted the likes of Mahathir, Badawi, Bush, Blair, with bigger and juicier brains to think and act for us?
Parents and the government are bestowed with a responsibility to care of our welfare. The children and the people look to them as angels to guard and protect them, not as devils to maltreat them.
Simply put, the world is definitely more peaceful and a better place to live in if politics doesn't exist. But the irony is we created these politicians because we are so apprehensive in confronting the many issues of our daily lives. We elect someone to represent us and we condemned them for cheating us!
Saturday, August 19, 2006
The Church of Men Or The Church of God?
Allow me to pose a question bluntly: Do we build God's church with money or with love?
Jesus Christ's death on the cross was the result of a Father's overwhelming love for His lost children.
When we build God's church with money, we build it with pride. But if we build God's church with love, we build it with humility. Money builds building, love builds relationship! Money is of the world whilst love is of the Living Creator. God deals with love, man deals with money. God's solution is to apply love, men uses money.
I discovered God's mysterious truth not by any research work I did or through my intelligence rather the Holy Spirit showed it to me. Perhaps it is finally time to work, time to tell the world at large what's been hidden from them: Truth!
Christians are so hypocritical about their hunger for the truth yet we never love it when it confronted us. I was always wondering whether God's truth is elusive of us or perhaps we were evasive of it.
Billions of Christians goes to a kind of service each week to listen to sermons supposedly interpreted to be messages God spoke through men. Missionaries traveled throughout the world to built Churches to bring people together to listen to them preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Saviour, the only begotten Son of the Living God who came to die on the cross, bringing hope to those who chose to trust Him to forgive all their wrong doings and hoped to be reconciled to the Creator, the heavenly Father someday. This could be how the Church was born.
From a simple commandment by our Saviour to go preach about Him, events took a dramatic change throughout the centuries. Church became a kind of idol of men. Instead of caring, loving people and building people to draw them nearer to the Father, men now directed their focus to their Church, a building. Hmm..the deception in misconception...the alluring lies of the Devil crept slowly into us. The building which is a man's church slowly replaces God's church, the people.
As men's church grew bigger and richer, God's church shrink smaller and poorer.
The distraction draws our concern for people to our pride to protect the building. God's church which is a living body comprising of God's children is now non living and consist of bricks. The children of the Living Creator is now nothing more than just blocks of bricks. The welfare of God's children are neglected while importance and attention were directed at the building.
Instead of love, care, kindness, patience, and all the giftings of the Holy Spirit to build a church which is people, pride, selfishness and money replaces the goodness of God to build men's church which is a building.
Without love which is an essence of God, the Father in Jesus Christ our Lord, its impossible to build God's church which is people, created out of His own hands. And how do we express love? By spoken words or spoken words accompanied by deeds?
The contemporary church of men today is constructed with money rather than love.
I wished to echo this statement strongly: Building God's church which is people demand every essence of God's goodness. Without the demonstrations of Jesus Christ humility, love, self control, kindness, forgiveness and the help of the Holy Spirit, its absolutely impossible to bring God's lost children back into His loving embrace.
It's just not about a building! Its about a partnership with Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit to help our Creator, heavenly Father realized His will, to bring salvation to men. Its about overcoming the evil world with God's goodness. Its about overcoming darkness with His light. Its about overcoming deceptions and lies with God's truth.
Jesus' death at Calvary brought hope to God's lost children that someday He shall returned to reconcile those who confessed Him as the Saviour, knitting every believer into His own body, to form the Church of the Living God.
How do you perceived God's Church to be? Do you have the exclusive truth of God, setting you free from lies and deception?
Do you serve God by going to a church that is a building or a church that is God's lost children? When going to a church that is a building, are the services you rendered directed to men or to God?
I wonder which act will please God, the Father?
In conclusion, I can hear many of you murmuring whether I am suggesting that the Church which is a building should not be built? No! I am writing about God's truth which is to care and love after those He has redeemed by the blood of His precious Son, our Saviour Jesus! I am suggesting that people should be building God's church which are people first. The church which we spent millions building, are there any poor, hungry, sick, homeless, in it? Who are looking after these people? Who are caring for them? Any concern about them? God's children must be attended first because they were created by the Creator's own hands and the Father wants each one back into His own loving arms someday!
The Father looked down from His heavenly throne grieved because while millions are spent building a church which is a building, none was spared building the lives of His church, which are His children, created out of His own hands!
God says, " I want mercy, not sacrifices! "
Jesus Christ's death on the cross was the result of a Father's overwhelming love for His lost children.
When we build God's church with money, we build it with pride. But if we build God's church with love, we build it with humility. Money builds building, love builds relationship! Money is of the world whilst love is of the Living Creator. God deals with love, man deals with money. God's solution is to apply love, men uses money.
I discovered God's mysterious truth not by any research work I did or through my intelligence rather the Holy Spirit showed it to me. Perhaps it is finally time to work, time to tell the world at large what's been hidden from them: Truth!
Christians are so hypocritical about their hunger for the truth yet we never love it when it confronted us. I was always wondering whether God's truth is elusive of us or perhaps we were evasive of it.
Billions of Christians goes to a kind of service each week to listen to sermons supposedly interpreted to be messages God spoke through men. Missionaries traveled throughout the world to built Churches to bring people together to listen to them preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Saviour, the only begotten Son of the Living God who came to die on the cross, bringing hope to those who chose to trust Him to forgive all their wrong doings and hoped to be reconciled to the Creator, the heavenly Father someday. This could be how the Church was born.
From a simple commandment by our Saviour to go preach about Him, events took a dramatic change throughout the centuries. Church became a kind of idol of men. Instead of caring, loving people and building people to draw them nearer to the Father, men now directed their focus to their Church, a building. Hmm..the deception in misconception...the alluring lies of the Devil crept slowly into us. The building which is a man's church slowly replaces God's church, the people.
As men's church grew bigger and richer, God's church shrink smaller and poorer.
The distraction draws our concern for people to our pride to protect the building. God's church which is a living body comprising of God's children is now non living and consist of bricks. The children of the Living Creator is now nothing more than just blocks of bricks. The welfare of God's children are neglected while importance and attention were directed at the building.
Instead of love, care, kindness, patience, and all the giftings of the Holy Spirit to build a church which is people, pride, selfishness and money replaces the goodness of God to build men's church which is a building.
Without love which is an essence of God, the Father in Jesus Christ our Lord, its impossible to build God's church which is people, created out of His own hands. And how do we express love? By spoken words or spoken words accompanied by deeds?
The contemporary church of men today is constructed with money rather than love.
I wished to echo this statement strongly: Building God's church which is people demand every essence of God's goodness. Without the demonstrations of Jesus Christ humility, love, self control, kindness, forgiveness and the help of the Holy Spirit, its absolutely impossible to bring God's lost children back into His loving embrace.
It's just not about a building! Its about a partnership with Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit to help our Creator, heavenly Father realized His will, to bring salvation to men. Its about overcoming the evil world with God's goodness. Its about overcoming darkness with His light. Its about overcoming deceptions and lies with God's truth.
Jesus' death at Calvary brought hope to God's lost children that someday He shall returned to reconcile those who confessed Him as the Saviour, knitting every believer into His own body, to form the Church of the Living God.
How do you perceived God's Church to be? Do you have the exclusive truth of God, setting you free from lies and deception?
Do you serve God by going to a church that is a building or a church that is God's lost children? When going to a church that is a building, are the services you rendered directed to men or to God?
I wonder which act will please God, the Father?
In conclusion, I can hear many of you murmuring whether I am suggesting that the Church which is a building should not be built? No! I am writing about God's truth which is to care and love after those He has redeemed by the blood of His precious Son, our Saviour Jesus! I am suggesting that people should be building God's church which are people first. The church which we spent millions building, are there any poor, hungry, sick, homeless, in it? Who are looking after these people? Who are caring for them? Any concern about them? God's children must be attended first because they were created by the Creator's own hands and the Father wants each one back into His own loving arms someday!
The Father looked down from His heavenly throne grieved because while millions are spent building a church which is a building, none was spared building the lives of His church, which are His children, created out of His own hands!
God says, " I want mercy, not sacrifices! "
Friday, August 18, 2006
From A Distance
From a distance the world looks blue and green
And the snow-capped mountains white
From a distance the ocean meets the stream
And the eagle takes to flight
From a distance there is harmony
And it echoes through the land
It's the voice of hope
It's the voice of peace
It's the voice of every man
From a distance we all have enough
And no one is in need
And there are no guns, no bombs and no disease
No hungry mouths to feed
From a distance we are instruments
Marching in a common land
Playing songs of hope
Playing songs of peace
They're the songs of every man
God is watching us
God is watching us
God is watching us from a distance
From a distance you look like my friend
Even though we are at war
From a distance I just cannot comprehend
What all this fighting is for
From a distance there is harmony
And it echoes through the land
And it's the hope of hope
It's the love of love
It's the heart of every man (every man)
It's the hope of hope
It's the love of love
This is the song of every man
And God is watching us
God is watching us
God is watching us from a distance
Oh, God is watching us
God is watching
God is watching us from a distance
from the song “From A Distance”
Written by Julie Gold, sung by Bette Midler
And the snow-capped mountains white
From a distance the ocean meets the stream
And the eagle takes to flight
From a distance there is harmony
And it echoes through the land
It's the voice of hope
It's the voice of peace
It's the voice of every man
From a distance we all have enough
And no one is in need
And there are no guns, no bombs and no disease
No hungry mouths to feed
From a distance we are instruments
Marching in a common land
Playing songs of hope
Playing songs of peace
They're the songs of every man
God is watching us
God is watching us
God is watching us from a distance
From a distance you look like my friend
Even though we are at war
From a distance I just cannot comprehend
What all this fighting is for
From a distance there is harmony
And it echoes through the land
And it's the hope of hope
It's the love of love
It's the heart of every man (every man)
It's the hope of hope
It's the love of love
This is the song of every man
And God is watching us
God is watching us
God is watching us from a distance
Oh, God is watching us
God is watching
God is watching us from a distance
from the song “From A Distance”
Written by Julie Gold, sung by Bette Midler
Friday, July 14, 2006
The Priceless Seconds
I am not sure how much just a second means to you? As for me, it sure meant a lot. A second ago, I belonged to the world. The next second I made the most important decision in my life, I acknowledged Jesus Christ as my God, Lord and Saviour. By that decision, I have placed my hope and trust in Jesus to return someday to bring me safely home to my Father, my Creator.
Oh! the essence of a second. How much I would want to luxuriate and savour it. Oh! how I wanted to treasure those seconds, the reluctance of allowing it to tick away without filling it with some valuable memories. Each second, are priceless depending whose hope is in it.
Don't take every second for granted. Value it because every second is a gift from God. The next second may not see us breathing anymore. It is just a second that separates us from something. It could mapped us a whole new destiny. Value the seconds, value your choices.
Just a second ago, I was on earth, next I realized I was standing outside the gates of heaven or hell depending on the choices I made, only a second ago.
The difference of just a second could change everything.
The list is never ending. Every second does makes all the difference. Every second counts. Seconds are so significant, without it time will come to a stand still. Without the seconds, we will never have the minutes, the hour, the day, the week, the months and the years.
Don't just stand there and watch the seconds tick and waste away. Make every second counts. Make every second bear fruits in the choices you made.
Know and understand the importance of seconds. Each second lost is lost forever as God only gifted us 86,400 seconds each day!
Learn to appreciate the seconds. Ask the person who is about to die. Ask the person on death row. Ask the person waiting for help. Ask the athlete who misses out by just a fraction of a second to set a new Olympic record in the 100 meters final. Don't waste the seconds. Someday you will want to make it count. Ask those who know their seconds. They will tell you stories.
When you are not aware, the next second could spell the end of everything. Are you prepared for the next second?
Jesus Christ may be back!
Oh! the essence of a second. How much I would want to luxuriate and savour it. Oh! how I wanted to treasure those seconds, the reluctance of allowing it to tick away without filling it with some valuable memories. Each second, are priceless depending whose hope is in it.
Don't take every second for granted. Value it because every second is a gift from God. The next second may not see us breathing anymore. It is just a second that separates us from something. It could mapped us a whole new destiny. Value the seconds, value your choices.
Just a second ago, I was on earth, next I realized I was standing outside the gates of heaven or hell depending on the choices I made, only a second ago.
The difference of just a second could change everything.
The list is never ending. Every second does makes all the difference. Every second counts. Seconds are so significant, without it time will come to a stand still. Without the seconds, we will never have the minutes, the hour, the day, the week, the months and the years.
Don't just stand there and watch the seconds tick and waste away. Make every second counts. Make every second bear fruits in the choices you made.
Know and understand the importance of seconds. Each second lost is lost forever as God only gifted us 86,400 seconds each day!
Learn to appreciate the seconds. Ask the person who is about to die. Ask the person on death row. Ask the person waiting for help. Ask the athlete who misses out by just a fraction of a second to set a new Olympic record in the 100 meters final. Don't waste the seconds. Someday you will want to make it count. Ask those who know their seconds. They will tell you stories.
When you are not aware, the next second could spell the end of everything. Are you prepared for the next second?
Jesus Christ may be back!
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Diversity Unites, Uniformity Divides
The human body is an obvious magnum opus of the Creator. No man born of the dust can fathomed the awe-inspiring masterpiece of God's creation of you, me and the living earth. Its amazing how the body in its multifarious assortment of organs works harmoniously, functioning perfectly, to keep alive the body. That is on condition no interference to its original order. Any modification to its original order will lead to malfunction. Each organ, despite its size and significance, plays a unique role to ensure a flawless accomplishment whilst discharging its responsibility. It leaves no room for any form of error. The result could be fatal, if not painful and unpleasant. Try prickling any of your fingers with a needle. Imagine the horror if every body part is the same.
A 52 piece orchestra is another example of how diversity worked amicably in unity to display a splendid performance. Albeit unintelligible, we are astounded by how a diverse group of musicians performed to produce a piece of music. Any guesses what melody a 51 piece orchestra plays? Isn't it awesome how a variety of musical instruments blend in to produce a breathtaking unique melody. Imagine the horror of having 52 musicians trying to churn out a melody from playing the same instrument.
Sport teams comprises a certain number of players with different roles. Each player, despite its different role, execute an unselfish aspiration to triumph in the game. Sometimes when a player is sent off or suspended as a penalty for foul play, the team's performance will be affected. Imagine the horror if every player subscribe to the same role in a game.
A box of puzzles with a thousand different pieces connecting to form a bigger picture. How do one complete a puzzle if every puzzle piece is the same.
If we were to observe and examine closely other forms of activities and life surrounding us, we will conclude that diversity produces extraordinary results of unity while uniformity disappoint us with divisions.
Have you ever marvel at the multifarious life forms of the animal kingdom, insects, birds and sea creatures or even the human race?
The myth about soul mates culminating fairy tales finale therefore is improbable. Studies revealed that the relationships of couples sharing homogeneous interest usually fizzle out soon because of boredom. A note of caution to those pursuing love mates; like in magnets, same poles repel, while opposite attracts. I personally ruminated about this love relationship phenomenon for a long time and deduced that there's endless fun learning and discovering each other from relationships with opposite personalities.
I always have this notion that Almighty God created a diverse life form so that He can established unity by His Omnipotent love. Observe how through diversity, life forms work corporately to achieve unity. The examples of how the different body parts function in unity to keep a body alive, the assortment of instruments used in an orchestra to produce a harmonious melody, the triumphant sport team who played with unselfish commitment, the significant missing puzzle piece endorsed the fact that diversity unites.
So in conclusion, I believe that Almighty Creator, and Father of our Saviour Christ Jesus, desire us to triumph over our diverse differences by His Omnipotent love for a harmonious relationship resulting from His love for us in Jesus on the cross.
Amen and amen, the cross, with God's Only begotten Son, our Saviour Jesus nailed to it, overflow with mercy, grace and unfailing love is God's way to unite His diverse children to Himself.
A 52 piece orchestra is another example of how diversity worked amicably in unity to display a splendid performance. Albeit unintelligible, we are astounded by how a diverse group of musicians performed to produce a piece of music. Any guesses what melody a 51 piece orchestra plays? Isn't it awesome how a variety of musical instruments blend in to produce a breathtaking unique melody. Imagine the horror of having 52 musicians trying to churn out a melody from playing the same instrument.
Sport teams comprises a certain number of players with different roles. Each player, despite its different role, execute an unselfish aspiration to triumph in the game. Sometimes when a player is sent off or suspended as a penalty for foul play, the team's performance will be affected. Imagine the horror if every player subscribe to the same role in a game.
A box of puzzles with a thousand different pieces connecting to form a bigger picture. How do one complete a puzzle if every puzzle piece is the same.
If we were to observe and examine closely other forms of activities and life surrounding us, we will conclude that diversity produces extraordinary results of unity while uniformity disappoint us with divisions.
Have you ever marvel at the multifarious life forms of the animal kingdom, insects, birds and sea creatures or even the human race?
The myth about soul mates culminating fairy tales finale therefore is improbable. Studies revealed that the relationships of couples sharing homogeneous interest usually fizzle out soon because of boredom. A note of caution to those pursuing love mates; like in magnets, same poles repel, while opposite attracts. I personally ruminated about this love relationship phenomenon for a long time and deduced that there's endless fun learning and discovering each other from relationships with opposite personalities.
I always have this notion that Almighty God created a diverse life form so that He can established unity by His Omnipotent love. Observe how through diversity, life forms work corporately to achieve unity. The examples of how the different body parts function in unity to keep a body alive, the assortment of instruments used in an orchestra to produce a harmonious melody, the triumphant sport team who played with unselfish commitment, the significant missing puzzle piece endorsed the fact that diversity unites.
So in conclusion, I believe that Almighty Creator, and Father of our Saviour Christ Jesus, desire us to triumph over our diverse differences by His Omnipotent love for a harmonious relationship resulting from His love for us in Jesus on the cross.
Amen and amen, the cross, with God's Only begotten Son, our Saviour Jesus nailed to it, overflow with mercy, grace and unfailing love is God's way to unite His diverse children to Himself.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Experiencing Grace In Unfailing Love
I am cheerless and dispirited since yesterday when a brother in Christ, a habitual drug abuser under my guardianship was apprehended by the authorities. He was found to possess 15g of heroin with intention to traffic. The offence is punishable by death or life imprisonment. He was apprehended in Penang on Sunday while on the pretext of visiting his parents.
I am lamenting now whether I did enough supervising him. He is a born again; he was saved and baptized 3 years ago. He is 52. He stayed with us, occupying the downstairs room.
Besides him, I also contribute food to an organization sheltering ex drug addicts, prostitutes, the aged, and homeless. The organization is tended by laymen and laywomen. I also make visits thrice weekly to nursery homes for elderly folks dumped by their own children. I shared the Good News with them and prayed with them. I also care for 2 vagrants around the Kelana Jaya neighborhood. Certain days I tapau chup fun and ate with them.
I totally misunderstood God's intention when I thought He used me to partner Him in His work; He was actually using these episodes to teach me.
Honestly, I am humbled by these responsibilities from God, our heavenly Father and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. I learned and discovered a lot about life and myself. I overcame selfishness, arrogance, patience and a lot of other detestable traits of the sinful me. In the process I assimilated what's like to allow God's grace, the same grace that saved me, to work through me.
Each assignment was a Herculean struggle. I tolerated cruel remarks and ridicule about my sincerity to be a part of God's plan to demonstrate His amazing grace at work. Undaunted, I persevered. I blistered my knees kneeling and sought Jesus for help. Without my Saviour, its mission impossible. I celebrated joyously each time I emerged victoriously in my test because I worked without any form of resources.
Initially, I thought it was a cruel joke from God. I was struggling with finances then, after losing almost everything in my book distribution business. Adrian and Melissa were still school going. Fortunately, God used my sister to help us.
Honestly, right up to this very second, my daily expenditure are sustained by God's kind provision and providence. Every day is a miracle because in my predicament, God provided everything to support His work, lest I boasted and claimed recognition for His work.
As I conclude, I could feel the cheery spirit slowly making its way back into its humble abode.
I am lamenting now whether I did enough supervising him. He is a born again; he was saved and baptized 3 years ago. He is 52. He stayed with us, occupying the downstairs room.
Besides him, I also contribute food to an organization sheltering ex drug addicts, prostitutes, the aged, and homeless. The organization is tended by laymen and laywomen. I also make visits thrice weekly to nursery homes for elderly folks dumped by their own children. I shared the Good News with them and prayed with them. I also care for 2 vagrants around the Kelana Jaya neighborhood. Certain days I tapau chup fun and ate with them.
I totally misunderstood God's intention when I thought He used me to partner Him in His work; He was actually using these episodes to teach me.
Honestly, I am humbled by these responsibilities from God, our heavenly Father and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. I learned and discovered a lot about life and myself. I overcame selfishness, arrogance, patience and a lot of other detestable traits of the sinful me. In the process I assimilated what's like to allow God's grace, the same grace that saved me, to work through me.
Each assignment was a Herculean struggle. I tolerated cruel remarks and ridicule about my sincerity to be a part of God's plan to demonstrate His amazing grace at work. Undaunted, I persevered. I blistered my knees kneeling and sought Jesus for help. Without my Saviour, its mission impossible. I celebrated joyously each time I emerged victoriously in my test because I worked without any form of resources.
Initially, I thought it was a cruel joke from God. I was struggling with finances then, after losing almost everything in my book distribution business. Adrian and Melissa were still school going. Fortunately, God used my sister to help us.
Honestly, right up to this very second, my daily expenditure are sustained by God's kind provision and providence. Every day is a miracle because in my predicament, God provided everything to support His work, lest I boasted and claimed recognition for His work.
As I conclude, I could feel the cheery spirit slowly making its way back into its humble abode.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
About Rehabilitation and Grace
Rehabilitation is man's way to allow someone to undergo restoration to return to normal lives. God's way is through His grace accompanied by His mercy and unfailing love.
Sometimes a person rehabilitate in prison for his bad choice of lifestyle. Others may rehabilitate in a hospital for their illnesses. Drugs and alcohol abusers may seek help at certain support groups or centers providing such services. The obvious reason is because these people wanted to return to a normal life.
Salvation is the beginning of a rehabilitation plan, a program initiated by God. Salvation is the beginning of God's grace working in us in the power of the Holy Spirit. It's God's plan in His wonderful grace at work in metamorphosis from the sinful Adam to the sinless Christ. God's grace is patient and merciful in His unfailing love. God's grace in the Holy Spirit will continue to live in us until we are totally transformed. God's grace promises results that His seed will bear fruit for His honor and glory.
When Billy sought accommodation in my home, I welcome him without the slightest hesitation. Billy, just released from rehabilitation from a drug center has nowhere to go. I was the only good friend on his mind when he walked out from the center. He assured me he had changed. He has been a drug abuser for more than twenty years. He had hope that by living with me, he could stay away from his habit. More important, he hope that he could live in the presence of Christ with me.
Old habits die hard. A leopard never changes its spots. A wolf in sheep's clothing. These are some of man's opinions, unkind remarks and perhaps condemnation when we retort in anger and frustration because a certain person didn't really complete his repentance. We failed to be great shepherd for the Almighty God when we failed to exercise patience, self control and unfailing love over those God gave us to look after. We forgot that its God in Jesus in the Holy Spirit at work through us.
After twenty years undergoing rehabilitation, Billy occasionally sneaked off for his old habit. A friend who caught Billy in the act reported to me and asked me to rid him from my home for fear of any harm to my children or theft of my things. I smiled at my friend whom I understood was concerned for my family's safety by explaining to him about how wonderful God's grace was at work in our lives. I explained to him that grace is allowing a person time to repent. If God's grace were to stop working, then all of us will be going to hell. Grace is at work until it accomplished its purpose in us for our heavenly Father.
Perhaps we have forgotten that the cross was our Father's plan to rehabilitate us? Perhaps we have forgotten that we are all equal before the Almighty God; we are merely sinners. Without God's wonderful grace, we are but just a piece of filthy rag. How sad and sorrowful that we have forgotten that it was grace that saved the wretch in us. How sad and sorrowful that instead of allowing God's grace to work in us to accommodate a sinner's repentance, we pronounced judgement on them.
The reason why Jesus kept reminding us to forgive and love each other is because as it encouraged us, it also helps us to grow His grace in us.
We must ask the Holy Spirit to help us overcome our weaknesses like anger, bitterness, resentment, jealousy, unforgivingness to prevent evil from breeding. Our weaknesses are fertile grounds to breed evil. Hence, God's objective in gifting the Holy Spirit to us was to help check and halt our new life from degenerating.
God's grace represent forgiveness. Jesus taught us to forgive those who sin against us seventy seven times seven times a day. Are we allowing God to live in us in the Holy Spirit to help us do that everyday for those who sinned against us? Are we patient like our Saviour to allow grace to work in our repentance? While we want grace to work in us, are we allowing grace to work through us?
We must allow God's rehabilitation plan to help everyone repent in His grace.
Sometimes a person rehabilitate in prison for his bad choice of lifestyle. Others may rehabilitate in a hospital for their illnesses. Drugs and alcohol abusers may seek help at certain support groups or centers providing such services. The obvious reason is because these people wanted to return to a normal life.
Salvation is the beginning of a rehabilitation plan, a program initiated by God. Salvation is the beginning of God's grace working in us in the power of the Holy Spirit. It's God's plan in His wonderful grace at work in metamorphosis from the sinful Adam to the sinless Christ. God's grace is patient and merciful in His unfailing love. God's grace in the Holy Spirit will continue to live in us until we are totally transformed. God's grace promises results that His seed will bear fruit for His honor and glory.
When Billy sought accommodation in my home, I welcome him without the slightest hesitation. Billy, just released from rehabilitation from a drug center has nowhere to go. I was the only good friend on his mind when he walked out from the center. He assured me he had changed. He has been a drug abuser for more than twenty years. He had hope that by living with me, he could stay away from his habit. More important, he hope that he could live in the presence of Christ with me.
Old habits die hard. A leopard never changes its spots. A wolf in sheep's clothing. These are some of man's opinions, unkind remarks and perhaps condemnation when we retort in anger and frustration because a certain person didn't really complete his repentance. We failed to be great shepherd for the Almighty God when we failed to exercise patience, self control and unfailing love over those God gave us to look after. We forgot that its God in Jesus in the Holy Spirit at work through us.
After twenty years undergoing rehabilitation, Billy occasionally sneaked off for his old habit. A friend who caught Billy in the act reported to me and asked me to rid him from my home for fear of any harm to my children or theft of my things. I smiled at my friend whom I understood was concerned for my family's safety by explaining to him about how wonderful God's grace was at work in our lives. I explained to him that grace is allowing a person time to repent. If God's grace were to stop working, then all of us will be going to hell. Grace is at work until it accomplished its purpose in us for our heavenly Father.
Perhaps we have forgotten that the cross was our Father's plan to rehabilitate us? Perhaps we have forgotten that we are all equal before the Almighty God; we are merely sinners. Without God's wonderful grace, we are but just a piece of filthy rag. How sad and sorrowful that we have forgotten that it was grace that saved the wretch in us. How sad and sorrowful that instead of allowing God's grace to work in us to accommodate a sinner's repentance, we pronounced judgement on them.
The reason why Jesus kept reminding us to forgive and love each other is because as it encouraged us, it also helps us to grow His grace in us.
We must ask the Holy Spirit to help us overcome our weaknesses like anger, bitterness, resentment, jealousy, unforgivingness to prevent evil from breeding. Our weaknesses are fertile grounds to breed evil. Hence, God's objective in gifting the Holy Spirit to us was to help check and halt our new life from degenerating.
God's grace represent forgiveness. Jesus taught us to forgive those who sin against us seventy seven times seven times a day. Are we allowing God to live in us in the Holy Spirit to help us do that everyday for those who sinned against us? Are we patient like our Saviour to allow grace to work in our repentance? While we want grace to work in us, are we allowing grace to work through us?
We must allow God's rehabilitation plan to help everyone repent in His grace.
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