This post is not a display of arrogance or an air of pomposity but indeed Jesus was in my house.
I had just finished cooking my dinner, fried fish with chilli peppers in black beans with rice, and was about to sit myself down in front of the television waiting for American Idol to begin when the door bell chime.
It was the end of the month so I guessed it must be the newspaper man doing his collection. I peeked outside and saw a figure standing outside. It wasn't the paper man. It was about 7 pm but the evening sky was gloomy as it had rained earlier.
"Who could it be?" I tried figuring out as my friends normally sent me a short message to my mobile informing me of their visit. "Maybe it's the neighbor!", as I slant my eyes, trying to get a good focus of the figure outside. It was Jeff, a young lad I got to know from the church not too long ago.
He had with him two huge suitcases and was teary eyes.
I picked up the keys and walked towards the gate, never shifting my eyes from him while I fiddle with the lock and immediately ushered him in after opening the lock, controlling my curiosity to question his unexpected appearance.
Once inside the house, all hell broke loose as he burst out and tears ran down his face like Niagara Falls. I was attempting very hard to make out what he was trying to convey to me.
The only audible full sentence was, "Thank God! I found Jesus in your house!"
Jeff was evicted for failing to settle four months overdue for his room.
Jeff told me that he has been to almost every house of his friends from the church but none could accommodate him. Some told him they don't have any spare room, while others bluntly explained about having daughters and don't feel safe with his presence.
"Each of them have their reasons, and I didn't pursue their reasons for turning me away."
"Maybe it's because of my past, a drug addict and jailbird", Jeff bemoaned.
"Anyway, I was looking for Jesus to help me and not the sinful human" Jeff continued bemoaning sadly.
I was stunned by what he remarked. Before I could reflect on his comment, I saw him broke into a smile and say, "And I found Him in your house, the last house and my last hope!"
WOW!
Cheerfully share your home with those who need a meal or a place to stay. 1 Peter 4:9
When God's children are in need, be the one to help them out. And get into the habit of inviting guests home for dinner or, if they need lodging, for the night. Romans 12:13.
It wasn't me who was hospitable that received Jeff into my home. It was an act of humility and love from our Saviour Himself. I was merely a vessel, learning obedience and always ready to be used by the Master. In reality, the Teacher was teaching me about humility and love, which constitutes his character. My Teacher was teaching me through the Holy Spirit to be hospitable filled with His love and humility.
Our Saviour will never turn anyone away, in regardless who the person was in the past because He will not judge those who constantly seek Him. That's the reason He was sent by the Father; to provide forgiveness and hope for those who sought Him.
Jesus Christ welcome every sinner who seek Him because He came not to judge sinners. We turn people away because we judge them! Most of us doesn't realized that in the presence of our Supreme Almighty Judge, we are no better than Jeff; maybe worse (the fact that we play judge)! We are all sinners in His Presence!
Allow me to conclude with the following verse from Galatians 6:3,
If you think you are too important to help someone in need, you are only fooling yourself. You are really a nobody.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Excuse Me, Pastor! Are You Jesus?
I could no longer endure the constant reply by most Christians...."The Pastors Says...."
God chose someone in our midst and use them to speak to us. God could choose anything and anyone and it's most likely He will choose someone foolish and whom the world consider nothing. And I know none of you will be convinced unless my statement is supported by God's word. Galatians 1:1, This letter is from Paul, an apostle. I am not appointed by any group of people or any human authority, but by Jesus Christ himself and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from the dead.
(Jesus chose 11 simple fishermen and a tax collector)
God sent His Holy Spirit to speak to us through someone; and it could be anyone, including animals and do not be shocked or surprised if your pillow speaks to you!
A pastor used by God is not someone who only teach people what to do, rather they are supposed to show us by example how to live a godly life. Pastors and every other servant of God are actually Jesus Christ in disguise. Every servant of God, fulfilled God's work powered by the power of the Holy Spirit. Every work belong to the Almighty God, who accomplished His own will through men He chose.
A servant of God does God's will silently and secretly away from the limelight. Jesus Christ do not seek publicity in what He does. Jesus Christ worked in such a manner that only the Father knows and is pleased. The Father is glorified when every good work is accomplished in secret. Galatians 1:10, Obviously, I'm not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, then I would not be Christ's servant.
Jesus Christ ministered with love and humility.
No work can be accomplished in the absence of God's Spirit. Jesus Christ, promised the Holy Spirit to those whom the Father has chosen, when He left his earthly life and returned to the Father.
Jesus Christ disclosed to us that every of His sheep recognizes Him. "My sheep knows my voice".
If the Holy Spirit is the One performing miracles in our midst, then we are witnessing Jesus Christ, our Saviour alive and at work in every servant who sacrificed themselves as vessels to be used. What I meant to say is no man can fulfilled God's will without the presence of God's Spirit assisting them. It is the same to mean that Jesus must be present in you to fulfill God's will for apart from Jesus, we can not accomplished anything for God's honor and glory.
A servant of God is either doing God's will or his own will! It is either the Holy Spirit at work in a person or the person is merely doing everything by his own effort?
Do not just follow blindly.....seek and check out the truth....always remembering that the devil will never take a holiday from his work to deceive YOU! The devil is constantly at work to distract you from God's truth about Jesus our Saviour.
In closing, please never neglect reading the Bible and spending personal time with Jesus. The Judge will not accept your answer someday, when you stand before Him and say, "My pastor told me so..."
Do you see Jesus in your pastor?
Do you recognize the sermon he preached each week as those that were from Jesus Himself?
Does your pastor's lifestyle bear the fruits of the Holy Spirit?
And most important, do you know Jesus personally?
The shepherd chosen by God the Father is loving and humble and will not hesitate to face death for the honor and glory of the Gospel.
God chose someone in our midst and use them to speak to us. God could choose anything and anyone and it's most likely He will choose someone foolish and whom the world consider nothing. And I know none of you will be convinced unless my statement is supported by God's word. Galatians 1:1, This letter is from Paul, an apostle. I am not appointed by any group of people or any human authority, but by Jesus Christ himself and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from the dead.
(Jesus chose 11 simple fishermen and a tax collector)
God sent His Holy Spirit to speak to us through someone; and it could be anyone, including animals and do not be shocked or surprised if your pillow speaks to you!
A pastor used by God is not someone who only teach people what to do, rather they are supposed to show us by example how to live a godly life. Pastors and every other servant of God are actually Jesus Christ in disguise. Every servant of God, fulfilled God's work powered by the power of the Holy Spirit. Every work belong to the Almighty God, who accomplished His own will through men He chose.
A servant of God does God's will silently and secretly away from the limelight. Jesus Christ do not seek publicity in what He does. Jesus Christ worked in such a manner that only the Father knows and is pleased. The Father is glorified when every good work is accomplished in secret. Galatians 1:10, Obviously, I'm not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, then I would not be Christ's servant.
Jesus Christ ministered with love and humility.
No work can be accomplished in the absence of God's Spirit. Jesus Christ, promised the Holy Spirit to those whom the Father has chosen, when He left his earthly life and returned to the Father.
Jesus Christ disclosed to us that every of His sheep recognizes Him. "My sheep knows my voice".
If the Holy Spirit is the One performing miracles in our midst, then we are witnessing Jesus Christ, our Saviour alive and at work in every servant who sacrificed themselves as vessels to be used. What I meant to say is no man can fulfilled God's will without the presence of God's Spirit assisting them. It is the same to mean that Jesus must be present in you to fulfill God's will for apart from Jesus, we can not accomplished anything for God's honor and glory.
A servant of God is either doing God's will or his own will! It is either the Holy Spirit at work in a person or the person is merely doing everything by his own effort?
Do not just follow blindly.....seek and check out the truth....always remembering that the devil will never take a holiday from his work to deceive YOU! The devil is constantly at work to distract you from God's truth about Jesus our Saviour.
In closing, please never neglect reading the Bible and spending personal time with Jesus. The Judge will not accept your answer someday, when you stand before Him and say, "My pastor told me so..."
Do you see Jesus in your pastor?
Do you recognize the sermon he preached each week as those that were from Jesus Himself?
Does your pastor's lifestyle bear the fruits of the Holy Spirit?
And most important, do you know Jesus personally?
The shepherd chosen by God the Father is loving and humble and will not hesitate to face death for the honor and glory of the Gospel.
Friday, May 11, 2007
Happy Mother's Day
As the whole world celebrates Mother's Day, honoring them for all she has done for us, her children, I wanted to pen these few words and dedicate it to my mum.
Mum, You Are Simply The Greatest That my Heavenly Father has gifted me,
THANKS!
Mum, there won't be enough space in this universe to describe how wonderful and fantastic you are.
Heavenly Father in Christ Jesus my Saviour,
Thank you Father for gifting me with such a
wonderful gift; my Mum!
Thank you for lovin me always!
I love you Mum!
May my Saviour bless you richly each day with His peace and joy, filled you with His wonderful love and kindness, that you may touch someone's else life, to bring forth the truth that Jesus Christ is the Saviour, the son of the Living God of Israel, who brought salvation into the world at the cross. Jesus Christ was resurrected on the third day to bring all those who has placed their trust and hope in Him alone that someday soon, our Saviour will returned to bring us all safely home to the Father.
Thanks mum!
Mum, You Are Simply The Greatest That my Heavenly Father has gifted me,
THANKS!
Mum, there won't be enough space in this universe to describe how wonderful and fantastic you are.
Heavenly Father in Christ Jesus my Saviour,
Thank you Father for gifting me with such a
wonderful gift; my Mum!
Thank you for lovin me always!
I love you Mum!
May my Saviour bless you richly each day with His peace and joy, filled you with His wonderful love and kindness, that you may touch someone's else life, to bring forth the truth that Jesus Christ is the Saviour, the son of the Living God of Israel, who brought salvation into the world at the cross. Jesus Christ was resurrected on the third day to bring all those who has placed their trust and hope in Him alone that someday soon, our Saviour will returned to bring us all safely home to the Father.
Thanks mum!
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
The Amazing Man
Jesus Christ is the son of the living God, Creator of heaven and earth and everything in it.
The Father shape, mould, build and condition His son for 30 years before He sent His son, Jesus to do His will. Remember that Jesus is the begotten son of the living God of Israel.
Man however, study and prepare himself only for 3 years and is ready to serve the living God of Abraham for (maybe) the next 30 years.
Isn't man amazing?
The Father shape, mould, build and condition His son for 30 years before He sent His son, Jesus to do His will. Remember that Jesus is the begotten son of the living God of Israel.
Man however, study and prepare himself only for 3 years and is ready to serve the living God of Abraham for (maybe) the next 30 years.
Isn't man amazing?
Friday, April 20, 2007
Be Still
Father, Lord Jesus, why you never answer my prayers?
That's exactly what Adrienne was bemoaning with frustrations. She recalled how she prayed and prayed and was down on her knees until they were blistered and swollen. Yet, she claimed that her heavenly Father in Christ Jesus did not answered her. She had so many questions for answers to improve her earthly life. She needed answers to help her repentance.
When Adrienne shared with me her frustrations, I answered her that maybe Jesus did answered her without her realizing it. "How could it be?", she asked with exasperation.
I explained to her that very often we spent a long time telling our Father Saviour about our problems but never spent time quietly listening to Him. We prayed but once finished, we never sat quietly to hear what He has got to tell us. So, how can He ever get His opportunity to speak and reply us? He sat quietly listening to our prayers, but as soon as we finished praying, we never spent any time at all listening to Him. He wanted to answer us, but how could He when you are not staying back to hear Him?
And we ended up misunderstanding our Father Saviour that perhaps He is not interested in our prayers. Perhaps because of our sins, He's ignoring us. But how could a Perfect Father ignore us? He loved us!
When we spent an hour pouring out our hearts content to Him, we should spent maybe two hours listening to our Saviour. He is our Counselor, Teacher, Advisor, Guide, Comforter, Guardian, and He have all the answers for our life. In fact, we should spent more time listening than talking.
I guessed it's because the Church has always asked us to pray but rarely asked us to spent time listening. If you have a problem to share with your earthly father, after sharing, won't you spent time listening to his thoughts? If not, how would you ever know what are his answers for your questions?
The trouble with most of us is we enjoy talking but are impatient when listening. And how can we make stride when we failed to be attentive listening to our heavenly Father?
And how do we listen?
Be Still!
That's exactly what Adrienne was bemoaning with frustrations. She recalled how she prayed and prayed and was down on her knees until they were blistered and swollen. Yet, she claimed that her heavenly Father in Christ Jesus did not answered her. She had so many questions for answers to improve her earthly life. She needed answers to help her repentance.
When Adrienne shared with me her frustrations, I answered her that maybe Jesus did answered her without her realizing it. "How could it be?", she asked with exasperation.
I explained to her that very often we spent a long time telling our Father Saviour about our problems but never spent time quietly listening to Him. We prayed but once finished, we never sat quietly to hear what He has got to tell us. So, how can He ever get His opportunity to speak and reply us? He sat quietly listening to our prayers, but as soon as we finished praying, we never spent any time at all listening to Him. He wanted to answer us, but how could He when you are not staying back to hear Him?
And we ended up misunderstanding our Father Saviour that perhaps He is not interested in our prayers. Perhaps because of our sins, He's ignoring us. But how could a Perfect Father ignore us? He loved us!
When we spent an hour pouring out our hearts content to Him, we should spent maybe two hours listening to our Saviour. He is our Counselor, Teacher, Advisor, Guide, Comforter, Guardian, and He have all the answers for our life. In fact, we should spent more time listening than talking.
I guessed it's because the Church has always asked us to pray but rarely asked us to spent time listening. If you have a problem to share with your earthly father, after sharing, won't you spent time listening to his thoughts? If not, how would you ever know what are his answers for your questions?
The trouble with most of us is we enjoy talking but are impatient when listening. And how can we make stride when we failed to be attentive listening to our heavenly Father?
And how do we listen?
Be Still!
Bill Please, Jesus!
When was the last time you received anything for free? I am specifying free without any conditions attached.
I was sitting with a group of housewives at a coffee shop this morning and the topic was about Taoist gods healing people and fixing our various earthly problems. Consultation is however not free, but accompanied by a subtle request of a free offering.
Nowadays, religious and non religious concerned cleverly concoct means to amass money from unsuspecting bigots. Those who are desperate for healing of diseases and sickness, and remedies for their many earthly troubles especially relationships, give readily and unsuspectingly.
Accordingly to these Taoist housewives, who credited their assortment of deities for the various miracles they witnessed, each consultation comes with a free will offering. That's how all those gigantic joss sticks offerings vying attention in front of these Chinese temples come about.
Not too long ago, a Christian friend also related to me how he was required to attend a special class to understand baptism better. The one day lesson ostensibly cost RM40. I was shock by his claim and complain. Unbelievingly and not wanting only to hear one side of the story, I deliberately arranged to meet an authority of the church to check out the truth about the charges.
The pastor confirmed my unbelief with this scorching answer, "The charges were levied so that they may valued their baptism."
I responded spontaneously by blurting out loudly, "WHAT!!!" I was actually more offended than disgusted with the answer!
Closer examination reveals that no one is spared from the antics of these unscrupulous godlessness of soliciting funds, not even the very poor in our midst, who are close to our heavenly Father's heart.
Honestly, I find it very disturbing with all these episodes chronicling the methods of amassing money as we inched slowly towards the last days. I am particularly disturbed with the manner of how the churches are using God's name in vain.
Our heavenly Father, provided Himself a living sacrifice as Jesus Christ, our Lord Saviour to die on the cross for all our wrong doings against Him, so that we can be reconciled to Him as sons of the living Father. And as sons, everything is provided free by virtue of our faith acknowledging that He is our Father Saviour.
Maybe, like what the pastor articulated about his doctrine that 'nothing is free', then our heavenly Father should charged us for the blood He shed so that we may value our salvation?
I am sure our heavenly Father is extremely remorseful over how His children are burdened. After all He has come to pay in full for the price of our salvation. I am sure His plan was never to burden us.
The richest man on earth could not buy patience, kindness, love, peace, self control and the other various gifts of God. God freely give these to His children who are obedient.
Similarly, our heavenly Father would be pleased if we help build His church who are people with His love and humility rather than being drawn into a deception to build man's church which is the building with money. When we partner Jesus to do the Father's will, we accomplished His will by His power He filled us through the power of the Holy Spirit and not money.
If Jesus were to levy a price for the blood He shed on the cross, I wonder how much it will cost us to be reconciled to our Father?
What is the price of salvation then?
I was sitting with a group of housewives at a coffee shop this morning and the topic was about Taoist gods healing people and fixing our various earthly problems. Consultation is however not free, but accompanied by a subtle request of a free offering.
Nowadays, religious and non religious concerned cleverly concoct means to amass money from unsuspecting bigots. Those who are desperate for healing of diseases and sickness, and remedies for their many earthly troubles especially relationships, give readily and unsuspectingly.
Accordingly to these Taoist housewives, who credited their assortment of deities for the various miracles they witnessed, each consultation comes with a free will offering. That's how all those gigantic joss sticks offerings vying attention in front of these Chinese temples come about.
Not too long ago, a Christian friend also related to me how he was required to attend a special class to understand baptism better. The one day lesson ostensibly cost RM40. I was shock by his claim and complain. Unbelievingly and not wanting only to hear one side of the story, I deliberately arranged to meet an authority of the church to check out the truth about the charges.
The pastor confirmed my unbelief with this scorching answer, "The charges were levied so that they may valued their baptism."
I responded spontaneously by blurting out loudly, "WHAT!!!" I was actually more offended than disgusted with the answer!
Closer examination reveals that no one is spared from the antics of these unscrupulous godlessness of soliciting funds, not even the very poor in our midst, who are close to our heavenly Father's heart.
Honestly, I find it very disturbing with all these episodes chronicling the methods of amassing money as we inched slowly towards the last days. I am particularly disturbed with the manner of how the churches are using God's name in vain.
Our heavenly Father, provided Himself a living sacrifice as Jesus Christ, our Lord Saviour to die on the cross for all our wrong doings against Him, so that we can be reconciled to Him as sons of the living Father. And as sons, everything is provided free by virtue of our faith acknowledging that He is our Father Saviour.
Maybe, like what the pastor articulated about his doctrine that 'nothing is free', then our heavenly Father should charged us for the blood He shed so that we may value our salvation?
I am sure our heavenly Father is extremely remorseful over how His children are burdened. After all He has come to pay in full for the price of our salvation. I am sure His plan was never to burden us.
The richest man on earth could not buy patience, kindness, love, peace, self control and the other various gifts of God. God freely give these to His children who are obedient.
Similarly, our heavenly Father would be pleased if we help build His church who are people with His love and humility rather than being drawn into a deception to build man's church which is the building with money. When we partner Jesus to do the Father's will, we accomplished His will by His power He filled us through the power of the Holy Spirit and not money.
If Jesus were to levy a price for the blood He shed on the cross, I wonder how much it will cost us to be reconciled to our Father?
What is the price of salvation then?
Friday, April 06, 2007
I Love You, I Honestly Love You
While almost everyone who claimed to be Christians celebrate Good Friday and Easter, I was just wondering whether they heard with clarity from Jesus Christ, our Saviour, whispering from His heart at the cross into our ears....' I Love You, I Honestly Love You'
And if those who heard Him, I also wonder whether they will be convicted? Will those who heard Him continue hurting Him with their sins? Or will they turn around and live a new life in the power of the Holy Spirit for Him?
Easter to me is about living the new life through Christ, my Saviour's victory over death. Jesus Christ died so that I can live! His resurrection means I shall rise on the last day and be reconciled with the Father, who loves me.
Easter means the day I confessed Jesus Christ is my Saviour, I died to the old sinful life and was resurrected with Christ in victory to live a new righteous life with Him in the power of the Holy Spirit. I no longer live but now I live my new life trusting in the Son of God, who came and died for me to set me free from sin.
Easter means my salvation is real because God has placed His hope in me that someday we'll meet again.
And if those who heard Him, I also wonder whether they will be convicted? Will those who heard Him continue hurting Him with their sins? Or will they turn around and live a new life in the power of the Holy Spirit for Him?
Easter to me is about living the new life through Christ, my Saviour's victory over death. Jesus Christ died so that I can live! His resurrection means I shall rise on the last day and be reconciled with the Father, who loves me.
Easter means the day I confessed Jesus Christ is my Saviour, I died to the old sinful life and was resurrected with Christ in victory to live a new righteous life with Him in the power of the Holy Spirit. I no longer live but now I live my new life trusting in the Son of God, who came and died for me to set me free from sin.
Easter means my salvation is real because God has placed His hope in me that someday we'll meet again.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Jesus Loves Me, But I DON'T THINK I LOVE HIM
I wonder whether those who claimed themselves Christians actually paused a moment at some stage of their spiritual life and asked, "Who loves me; Jesus or Satan???"
But then again, the irony is whether anyone is aware that Jesus alone loves them. Love is an exclusive hallmark of God, our heavenly Father. He alone is the source of love. Since love belongs only to God, Satan cannot be loving me, right?
Before we embark on this scorching subject, we need to understand and examine what is love and lust. Originally, I wanted to title my post 'Jesus Loves; Satan Lust!' but changed my mind because I wanted us to question ourselves whether we understand the meaning between love and lust and its originality.
What is love? Let us examine the truthful meaning of love.
Citing 1 John 4:19, We love because God, our heavenly Father in our Saviour Jesus, first loves us. God is love. The wholesome characteristic of God who is love is fully articulated in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Love is humble, patient and kind. Love is never jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand it's own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. Love does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth prevails. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstances.
Now make the verses contained in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 your criterion to compare your love. If your so claimed love does not consist any of the ingredient mentioned in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, then it's most probably deceptive love. The simple reason is we cannot love unless God who is the source of love, loves us first. If we have not experienced His love at the cross, then we will never comprehend love.
God filled us with His love when we experienced His love poured out from His heart for us at the cross.
Satan could never love us because Satan is not the source of love. Satan, however, can deceived us that he also loves us. Satan yield the following fruits; greed, sexual immorality, pride, jealousy, lies, fear, selfishness, bitterness, anger, unforgiving and other impurities. If Satan's fruits are present in our daily lives, then we have not died to our old life as we are still slave to sin which separates us from the God who loves us.
After confessing Jesus as our new Master, most of us still held on to their old life, thwarting the new life in the Holy Spirit to reign in us, shaping, molding and growing us into Christ likeness which pleases God, the Father, bringing Him honor and glory.
If we acknowledged that God, the Father in Jesus Christ alone love us, then why are we grieving the heart who alone loved us? I asked a quite similar question some weeks ago; If God is right, then why are we not obedient? If God loves us in His Son Jesus, then why would we hate Him by the way we live?
Honestly, I am baffled by our prudence about love. How could we continuously grieved the heart that love us unconditionally? How could we constantly break the heart of one who died for us? Those who are filled with His truth will be able to comprehend God's agape love and will never live another day hurting our Saviour!
We either live our earthly life in the opulent love of Jesus who alone loved us or we lived in lust with the one out to destroy us by deceiving us. We cannot be torn between two lovers! We either live for the Truth and Light or for Lies and Darkness!
Deep inside me, I knew my heavenly Father in my Saviour Jesus loves me, but my lifestyle is reciprocal of my claim that I love Him. I worship Him with my mouth, but my heart is far away from Him. I claim I knew Jesus, but I deny Him by the way I live.
If I have sampled God's love at the cross, and His Holy Spirit lives in me to fill me with His love, then I will not have a problem demonstrating His love in me by loving others as in 1 John 4:7-8, Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
In the gospel of John, the Jews stood firmly claiming they knew God and God was their Father. However, Jesus in John 8:42, 44 did not agree with their statement, answering them, If God were your Father, you would love me, because I have come to you from God. For you are the children of your father, the devil, and you love to do the evil things he does.
It's obvious that with the gifting of the Holy Spirit to us, God the Father who have love us through His Son, Jesus at the cross, the Holy Spirit will grow in us an undeniable desire to reciprocate His love for us. If those who have experience His true love at the cross, surely we will love Him too because the Holy Spirit equipped us with the ability.
But then again, the irony is whether anyone is aware that Jesus alone loves them. Love is an exclusive hallmark of God, our heavenly Father. He alone is the source of love. Since love belongs only to God, Satan cannot be loving me, right?
Before we embark on this scorching subject, we need to understand and examine what is love and lust. Originally, I wanted to title my post 'Jesus Loves; Satan Lust!' but changed my mind because I wanted us to question ourselves whether we understand the meaning between love and lust and its originality.
What is love? Let us examine the truthful meaning of love.
Citing 1 John 4:19, We love because God, our heavenly Father in our Saviour Jesus, first loves us. God is love. The wholesome characteristic of God who is love is fully articulated in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Love is humble, patient and kind. Love is never jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand it's own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. Love does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth prevails. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstances.
Now make the verses contained in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 your criterion to compare your love. If your so claimed love does not consist any of the ingredient mentioned in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, then it's most probably deceptive love. The simple reason is we cannot love unless God who is the source of love, loves us first. If we have not experienced His love at the cross, then we will never comprehend love.
God filled us with His love when we experienced His love poured out from His heart for us at the cross.
Satan could never love us because Satan is not the source of love. Satan, however, can deceived us that he also loves us. Satan yield the following fruits; greed, sexual immorality, pride, jealousy, lies, fear, selfishness, bitterness, anger, unforgiving and other impurities. If Satan's fruits are present in our daily lives, then we have not died to our old life as we are still slave to sin which separates us from the God who loves us.
After confessing Jesus as our new Master, most of us still held on to their old life, thwarting the new life in the Holy Spirit to reign in us, shaping, molding and growing us into Christ likeness which pleases God, the Father, bringing Him honor and glory.
If we acknowledged that God, the Father in Jesus Christ alone love us, then why are we grieving the heart who alone loved us? I asked a quite similar question some weeks ago; If God is right, then why are we not obedient? If God loves us in His Son Jesus, then why would we hate Him by the way we live?
Honestly, I am baffled by our prudence about love. How could we continuously grieved the heart that love us unconditionally? How could we constantly break the heart of one who died for us? Those who are filled with His truth will be able to comprehend God's agape love and will never live another day hurting our Saviour!
We either live our earthly life in the opulent love of Jesus who alone loved us or we lived in lust with the one out to destroy us by deceiving us. We cannot be torn between two lovers! We either live for the Truth and Light or for Lies and Darkness!
Deep inside me, I knew my heavenly Father in my Saviour Jesus loves me, but my lifestyle is reciprocal of my claim that I love Him. I worship Him with my mouth, but my heart is far away from Him. I claim I knew Jesus, but I deny Him by the way I live.
If I have sampled God's love at the cross, and His Holy Spirit lives in me to fill me with His love, then I will not have a problem demonstrating His love in me by loving others as in 1 John 4:7-8, Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
In the gospel of John, the Jews stood firmly claiming they knew God and God was their Father. However, Jesus in John 8:42, 44 did not agree with their statement, answering them, If God were your Father, you would love me, because I have come to you from God. For you are the children of your father, the devil, and you love to do the evil things he does.
It's obvious that with the gifting of the Holy Spirit to us, God the Father who have love us through His Son, Jesus at the cross, the Holy Spirit will grow in us an undeniable desire to reciprocate His love for us. If those who have experience His true love at the cross, surely we will love Him too because the Holy Spirit equipped us with the ability.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
A Loving Sacrifice: Before The Next Teardrop Falls....
There was a blind girl who hated herself because of being blind. Not only did she hate herself but she hated everyone else, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her.
She said that if she could only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend.
One lucky day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. She then saw everything, including her boyfriend. Her boyfriend then asked her, "Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?"
She was SHOCKED when she saw that her boyfriend was blind too. She said, “I am sorry but I can't marry you because you are blind and it will be too hard.”
Her boyfriend walked away with tears streaming down his face and said, "Please just take care of my eyes.”
This story reminded me of how much Jesus loved us and went to the cross for us. When a person truly loves you, no sacrifice is beyond triumph. Everything is possible.
That's exactly how God, our heavenly Father who is overwhelmed with love for us. After all, each of us were created out of His own perfect hands. He never intended any of us to be lost to eternal death. He will do anything, to the extent of dying our death to ensure each of us returned to His loving arms. He wanted back every of His beloved children.
For the sacrifices He has made, Jesus will be very broken hearted each time we sinned, ignorant of all He has done for us. Each time we sin, it's like telling Him point blank at His face that His sacrifices meant nothing to us.
Like the true lover in the above story who sacrificed his eyes for his lover, with the hope of marrying her, our God and Saviour Jesus sacrificed His life to die our death, hoping we will turn around for Him and lived!
Our God and Saviour made a solemn plea to us in Ezekiel 18:32, I don't want you to die, says the Sovereign Lord. Turn back and live!
I pray our heavenly Father in His Son Jesus Christ, our Saviour sent the Holy Spirit to help us open our hearts to Him so that we can find His strength in us to turn around and let Him heal us.
She said that if she could only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend.
One lucky day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. She then saw everything, including her boyfriend. Her boyfriend then asked her, "Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?"
She was SHOCKED when she saw that her boyfriend was blind too. She said, “I am sorry but I can't marry you because you are blind and it will be too hard.”
Her boyfriend walked away with tears streaming down his face and said, "Please just take care of my eyes.”
This story reminded me of how much Jesus loved us and went to the cross for us. When a person truly loves you, no sacrifice is beyond triumph. Everything is possible.
That's exactly how God, our heavenly Father who is overwhelmed with love for us. After all, each of us were created out of His own perfect hands. He never intended any of us to be lost to eternal death. He will do anything, to the extent of dying our death to ensure each of us returned to His loving arms. He wanted back every of His beloved children.
For the sacrifices He has made, Jesus will be very broken hearted each time we sinned, ignorant of all He has done for us. Each time we sin, it's like telling Him point blank at His face that His sacrifices meant nothing to us.
Like the true lover in the above story who sacrificed his eyes for his lover, with the hope of marrying her, our God and Saviour Jesus sacrificed His life to die our death, hoping we will turn around for Him and lived!
Our God and Saviour made a solemn plea to us in Ezekiel 18:32, I don't want you to die, says the Sovereign Lord. Turn back and live!
I pray our heavenly Father in His Son Jesus Christ, our Saviour sent the Holy Spirit to help us open our hearts to Him so that we can find His strength in us to turn around and let Him heal us.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
God Is Wrong, I AM RIGHT!
God is wrong, and I am right otherwise I couldn't find myself another reason why I don't listen to Him.
If God is right and I am wrong then I also couldn't find myself another reason why I should not be obedient.
Apparently, there are no two ways about it. Either He is right and we obey or He is wrong and we disobey.
What could be the reason for our rejection for His truth. Honestly, I couldn't find a more logical and convincing reason besides our mind being corrupted by lies and deception. We love lies and deception or aptly love being seduced, charmed and bewitched by it.
We attract danger when we allow our minds to be the devil's playground.
Eve sinned at the Garden of Eden because she took in every lie the serpent spoke to her. She enjoyed the lie of the serpent when it told her that she could be equal to God, Father and Creator of heaven and earth, knowing good and evil.
Since then, the serpent's lies sank in and we have always believed we are god and we are right with our decisions, thus our constant disobedience.
Perhaps it's time to allow Galatian 2:20 to alter our mindset of what we really are. My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ my Saviour now lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of the living God, who loved me and gave his life for me. Maybe it's time to die to the old life so that Christ can live the new life in us.
God no longer trust us. The Father only trust His Son, our Saviour Jesus. Unless the Spirit of Christ lives in us and identify us to the Father on the last day, we are doomed!
Maybe it's time to examine our faith. Do you still think we are right with our every decisions or the Father is right all the time?
If God, our Father is right, then it's time to repent and be obedient. Our heavenly Father is full of grace and mercy in His unfailing love; He is filled with compassion to forgive your every wrong committed against Him.
" Jesus Christ, my Lord and my God, you are right and I am wrong. I am sorry! Forgive me! "
Jesus Is The Answer
To my best friend who shared about his predicament with life.
I am sorry that I could not offer any form of assistance to your dilemma other than to refer you to the Saviour. Matters pertaining your distress can only be directed to Jesus who alone is the answer.
People who are drug addicts, sex addicts, gamblers, compulsive liars, egoist, greedy, selfish, are people who are already trapped by evil. These people live in ignorance of God, the Father who created them. They are beyond human help but within God's help. We can only commit these people to Jesus to help them.
I have taken quite a number of such people under my care. Honestly its more than just an uphill task caring and loving such people. Without Jesus, its in fact totally impossible to bring these people back to their normal senses.
Sadly, these people are already victims of the devil's lies and deception. So what do we do when we are caught in these circumstances? Sit back and wait for God to take action! Pray that the consequences meted on them is not too harsh.
These people live in defiance of people who truly loved them. One word of advice is to stay a distance from them, ministering and approaching them with subtlety because if you don't, these people ended up hating you more. Like I mentioned earlier, your only alternative is to surrender them to Jesus who created them. Pray for them without giving up!
One obvious symptom of these people is they are guilty and conscious of their actions and will tell lies to cover their guilt. They construct and weave their lies skillfully, believing that no one is suspicious of them. They are capable of providing excellent excuses and reasons and stories.
Truthfully, we are helpless and hopeless when confronted by such dilemma. The evil one have already taken a grip on their helpless soul. Only Jesus can set them free. Their mind, eyes, ears and heart are locked in darkness and dead to the truth. Pray and ask God, our Saviour to sent His grace to break down and set free these people.
'Go and say to this people: when you hear what i say, you will not understand. when you see what i do, you will not comprehend. for the hearts of these people are hardened, and their ears cannot hear, and they have closed their eyes- so their eyes cannot see, and their ears cannot hear, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and let me heal them.' Acts 28:26-27
Believe me, I can understand how sad and painful to witness these people whom we loved got entangled in the web of evil. As Christians, you and I play a very important and responsible role as guardian to these people.
We are the beacon for the Light and we are handed the responsibility to guide these people out of darkness. We must not abandon or neglect or be angry and hate them during this hour. We must be steadfast in the love that Jesus has filled us to care for them.
We must remember that they are but victims of evil and it's evil at work to destroy them and tear them away from the loving Almighty Father in Christ our Saviour.
The greatest frustrations is having to take a back seat, observing from a near distance how the evil one unceasingly offer temptation after temptation seducing them with the evils of this world and our loved ones lapping them up greedily and unexpectedly. The work of the Devil can be so convincing. Unless Jesus lives in you, how can anyone resist his pleasures?
However, in regardless how hopeless we seemed to look, remember that Jesus Christ has given us His victory at the cross and when we continue to hope in Him, I am confident that someday we can give Him honor and glory when His grace set our loved ones free.
I hope I have, by the gifting of the Holy Spirit, provided you His peace and comfort to be bold and confident approaching your dilemma. Only in Jesus Christ, our Saviour do we have the victory.If Jesus is with us, who can be against us? And remember, do not give up praying for them.
May He be your peace and comfort now and forever
I am sorry that I could not offer any form of assistance to your dilemma other than to refer you to the Saviour. Matters pertaining your distress can only be directed to Jesus who alone is the answer.
People who are drug addicts, sex addicts, gamblers, compulsive liars, egoist, greedy, selfish, are people who are already trapped by evil. These people live in ignorance of God, the Father who created them. They are beyond human help but within God's help. We can only commit these people to Jesus to help them.
I have taken quite a number of such people under my care. Honestly its more than just an uphill task caring and loving such people. Without Jesus, its in fact totally impossible to bring these people back to their normal senses.
Sadly, these people are already victims of the devil's lies and deception. So what do we do when we are caught in these circumstances? Sit back and wait for God to take action! Pray that the consequences meted on them is not too harsh.
These people live in defiance of people who truly loved them. One word of advice is to stay a distance from them, ministering and approaching them with subtlety because if you don't, these people ended up hating you more. Like I mentioned earlier, your only alternative is to surrender them to Jesus who created them. Pray for them without giving up!
One obvious symptom of these people is they are guilty and conscious of their actions and will tell lies to cover their guilt. They construct and weave their lies skillfully, believing that no one is suspicious of them. They are capable of providing excellent excuses and reasons and stories.
Truthfully, we are helpless and hopeless when confronted by such dilemma. The evil one have already taken a grip on their helpless soul. Only Jesus can set them free. Their mind, eyes, ears and heart are locked in darkness and dead to the truth. Pray and ask God, our Saviour to sent His grace to break down and set free these people.
'Go and say to this people: when you hear what i say, you will not understand. when you see what i do, you will not comprehend. for the hearts of these people are hardened, and their ears cannot hear, and they have closed their eyes- so their eyes cannot see, and their ears cannot hear, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and let me heal them.' Acts 28:26-27
Believe me, I can understand how sad and painful to witness these people whom we loved got entangled in the web of evil. As Christians, you and I play a very important and responsible role as guardian to these people.
We are the beacon for the Light and we are handed the responsibility to guide these people out of darkness. We must not abandon or neglect or be angry and hate them during this hour. We must be steadfast in the love that Jesus has filled us to care for them.
We must remember that they are but victims of evil and it's evil at work to destroy them and tear them away from the loving Almighty Father in Christ our Saviour.
The greatest frustrations is having to take a back seat, observing from a near distance how the evil one unceasingly offer temptation after temptation seducing them with the evils of this world and our loved ones lapping them up greedily and unexpectedly. The work of the Devil can be so convincing. Unless Jesus lives in you, how can anyone resist his pleasures?
However, in regardless how hopeless we seemed to look, remember that Jesus Christ has given us His victory at the cross and when we continue to hope in Him, I am confident that someday we can give Him honor and glory when His grace set our loved ones free.
I hope I have, by the gifting of the Holy Spirit, provided you His peace and comfort to be bold and confident approaching your dilemma. Only in Jesus Christ, our Saviour do we have the victory.If Jesus is with us, who can be against us? And remember, do not give up praying for them.
May He be your peace and comfort now and forever
Friday, March 16, 2007
I HATE YOU!
Honestly, I have no intention to intrude into someone else private love life. Whatever fervor propels me into one seems strange. It definitely wasn't interest nor jealousy, neither it was infatuation or lust . I am sure it's no mistake that it's love, godly love that propelled me into this frenzy disposition. Yes, I can feel that it's because of a concerned godly driven heart that is filled with the Father's unconditional love. Period. No other foreign elements participated in this busybody absurdity.
You cannot influence someone to hate a person they loved, neither can you have someone love a hated person. The Master Divider of relationships must play it's role.
Once upon a time, I was so in love with the world that nothing that Jesus, my Saviour who loved me and died for me, whispered into my heart could change my passion for the world and everything that's in it. I was so in love with money, sex, pride and everything evil. Thank you Jesus for patience and kindness and everything that He is in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, He endured all of my imperfections and misconstrue about love. He is patient enough to allow the evidence of evil someday to destroy my misinterpreted perception. His love for me is eternal.
Jesus Christ, my Saviour loved me long before I was even conceived in my earthly mother's womb. His love for me is everlasting. It's whether someday I will wake up to my senses and turned back to Him, my Everlasting Love.
But those who are still caught in the web of evil, we hated Him.
If we hate the people who truly loved us, how can we then loved the people who never love us purely? And how do we ever discover and establish whether a person truly love us. In 1 John 4:16b, God says that He is love and unless He lives in us, we don't know love. And if we have never experienced God our Father's love in His Son, our Saviour Jesus, then how do we love? Love must live in us first because all good things belongs to God, the Father.
Throughout our life time, God, the Father sent His Holy Spirit into us in a variety of manner to help us reminded of His love for us at the cross. But each time, we turned Him away, hating Him more as our love and desire for evil tightened its grip. If we have never experienced the Father's love for us at the cross, then the love that we display comes from evil. It bear all the resemblance of evil. It is lust not love that lives in us.
Praise and thank God, the Father in Christ Jesus our Saviour, for His mercy and grace in His unfailing love. Ultimately, His mercy and grace in His unfailing love triumphed, setting us free from the slavery of evil. No chains of evil, no matter how strongly we were bound by it could withstand the awesome power of our Saviour's grace.
Today we may hate Him, but someday, yes, someday His grace will be victorious in us and then we will return to His true, pure untainted love. His Spirit lives in us to ache for those loving Fatherly arms whose embrace provided us eternal love.
But for now, He is patient to wait for us to turn back to Him because He wouldn't want any of His children to be lost to evil, forever! (2 Peter 3:9)
The Father desire all His children to live in His love and not lust!
Thank you Jesus for your love at the cross.
You cannot influence someone to hate a person they loved, neither can you have someone love a hated person. The Master Divider of relationships must play it's role.
Once upon a time, I was so in love with the world that nothing that Jesus, my Saviour who loved me and died for me, whispered into my heart could change my passion for the world and everything that's in it. I was so in love with money, sex, pride and everything evil. Thank you Jesus for patience and kindness and everything that He is in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, He endured all of my imperfections and misconstrue about love. He is patient enough to allow the evidence of evil someday to destroy my misinterpreted perception. His love for me is eternal.
Jesus Christ, my Saviour loved me long before I was even conceived in my earthly mother's womb. His love for me is everlasting. It's whether someday I will wake up to my senses and turned back to Him, my Everlasting Love.
But those who are still caught in the web of evil, we hated Him.
If we hate the people who truly loved us, how can we then loved the people who never love us purely? And how do we ever discover and establish whether a person truly love us. In 1 John 4:16b, God says that He is love and unless He lives in us, we don't know love. And if we have never experienced God our Father's love in His Son, our Saviour Jesus, then how do we love? Love must live in us first because all good things belongs to God, the Father.
Throughout our life time, God, the Father sent His Holy Spirit into us in a variety of manner to help us reminded of His love for us at the cross. But each time, we turned Him away, hating Him more as our love and desire for evil tightened its grip. If we have never experienced the Father's love for us at the cross, then the love that we display comes from evil. It bear all the resemblance of evil. It is lust not love that lives in us.
Praise and thank God, the Father in Christ Jesus our Saviour, for His mercy and grace in His unfailing love. Ultimately, His mercy and grace in His unfailing love triumphed, setting us free from the slavery of evil. No chains of evil, no matter how strongly we were bound by it could withstand the awesome power of our Saviour's grace.
Today we may hate Him, but someday, yes, someday His grace will be victorious in us and then we will return to His true, pure untainted love. His Spirit lives in us to ache for those loving Fatherly arms whose embrace provided us eternal love.
But for now, He is patient to wait for us to turn back to Him because He wouldn't want any of His children to be lost to evil, forever! (2 Peter 3:9)
The Father desire all His children to live in His love and not lust!
Thank you Jesus for your love at the cross.
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Just An Old Fashioned Love Story
I love you! I love you! I love you!
Remember the touching romance story of the frog prince, trapped by a spell that turned him into an ugly frog whereby only by kissing it could break the spell and turned the ugly frog back into a handsome prince. Then along came contemporaries love story movies like Shrek, a romance setting of the old beauty and the beast tale. Had any of these successful romances of impossible matches influenced any of todays romances?
Do people love because they understood true love?
Ever heard, read or encountered a truly honest true love story recently?
I read, heard and encountered this romantic tale about a Father after a perfect bride for His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Like any romance tale, it is composed of a twist, the presence of a jealous suitor, Satan, out to wreck the Father's perfect wedding ceremony, for His perfect Son.
Jesus Christ portrayed the perfect bridegroom, characterized by his humble, graceful, merciful and unfailing love attitude. Jesus is always accessible to any kind of help needed by his suitors even to the point of death. The extend of his agape love for his suitors resulted in him going through persecution, prosecution and execution. And he did this for those who were labeled "unwanted, rejected, discarded". Everyone of these mis-match were invited and welcomed to be a part of his eternal family, bound by a simple condition that each suitor acknowledged the Bridegroom as the True Only Begotten Son of the Living Almighty I AM of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Jesus Christ aka the Son of the Living Creator, the Light, the Truth, the Way, the Life, the Saviour and Redeemer!
Over at the other corner is Satan, the self-centered, self proclaimed Prince of the world, handsome, wealthy of all material riches of the world, hypothetically a vain pot too! Satan is famed for his charming, seductive, alluring, captivating words and generosity of worldly wealth to his suitors who chose him. Yup! He is the one who give out Mercedes, BMWs, Rolex watches, bungalows, and an assortment of the world's currencies. I read that his eternal kingdom is a fiery one! And don't even dream of air conditioners! There ain't any!
Satan aka The Devil, the Prince of Darkness, Deceiver, Liar, The Evil One, The Fallen Angel!
Having introduced you the bridegrooms, the irony is, for Jesus Christ, the heavenly Father make His choice, selecting brides for the Son with the balance going to Satan. I've learnt that the heavenly Father's grace is bountiful for those who will not surrender their pursuit to be brides of His Son.
Genuine true love acts in silence. Love is humble, patient and kind. Love is never jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand it's own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. Love does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth prevails. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstances.
Fake love bears the following similitude. It seemingly attracts you with priceless worthless material things that don't last. It charm and captivate you with seductive sweet words. Fake love abdicate confrontation with difficult circumstances. Fake love deceived you into believing that it will triumph over circumstances where only agape love can remedied.
Do you know what is love and understand it?
Ask God, the Father who is love. He knows because true love comes from Him. We love because He first love us in His Son, Jesus. The sinful person cannot see, experience and comprehend true love because love belongs to the Father, who is holy.
I am compelled to include the following Scripture in closing.
Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for the physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.
1 John 2:15-17
Watch out for my next posting titled 'I Hate You'
In a flash, the people you loved most, turned around and hated you. Galatian 4:16 have prepared us for those moments, Have I now become your enemy because I am telling you the truth? In a flash, the trust in the true lover turned to the fake lover!
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Jesus, I Don't Need You, I Need Money!
I wondered how many people out there believed that we seriously needed money to do the Almighty I AM's work or will?
Money is one interesting controversial subject surrounding us that needed to be exposed of it's greatest lies and deceptions.
Honestly I must have heard a zillion times from sermons that the Almighty Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who by His Majestic power brought His people, the Israelites out of Egypt have blessed the Church built by the hands of man with money to do His work.
Can we accomplished the Creator's work without the gifting of the Holy Spirit? If the Almighty I AM does His own work, then do we really need to involve money to do the work?
And I am now seriously questioning God's almighty power that God needed money to do His work. Are we saying that without money, God by His Majestic power will not be able to accomplish His work?
The Almighty Lord God of Israel, who created heavens and earth and everything that's in it needed money to accomplish His work???
Jesus Christ, our Lord Saviour who redeemed sinners at the cross, paid everything in full for our redemption, warned us incessantly through His teachings about the evils of money, is now inviting us to place our trust in money and not in Him who is the almighty power to live for Him alone?
Wow! What interesting truth from the pulpit!
The Creator of heaven and earth, who filled everything in it needed money to built His church and it's related work??? Huh!
Truthfully, I grew up believing that we were asked to built His Church, who are people with His love and humility! We were empowered with abilities from the Holy Spirit to accomplish His will by touching lives with His agape love. God the Father of our Saviour Jesus does His own work through us. Our Saviour filled us with His own Spirit to achieve all His purposes so that the Father is glorified.
Please tell me that I am writing lies and nonsense!
"Without money, how can we do His work?"
"Heavenly Father, we needed money to do your work! Please send us money! Apparently your power is ineffectual in what we wanted to do for you. Money works better!"
Throughout Scripture, God, Father and Creator of heaven and earth demonstrated His awesome power. God accomplished all His work by His awesome power. And He needed money?
Yes, I heard you loud and clear that your church leaders told you about church building and God will provide you the ability to tithe towards the building. Maybe it's time that you start spending some time each day getting to know God, your merciful and graceful Saviour better, by reading His heart and thoughts in the Bible.
Perhaps you should read Job 36-41 to know the Awesome Almighty and Majestic God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
The sons of the living God, Father and Creator, the Almighty I AM, lived by trusting in His awesome majestic power. Amen.
Money is one interesting controversial subject surrounding us that needed to be exposed of it's greatest lies and deceptions.
Honestly I must have heard a zillion times from sermons that the Almighty Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who by His Majestic power brought His people, the Israelites out of Egypt have blessed the Church built by the hands of man with money to do His work.
Can we accomplished the Creator's work without the gifting of the Holy Spirit? If the Almighty I AM does His own work, then do we really need to involve money to do the work?
And I am now seriously questioning God's almighty power that God needed money to do His work. Are we saying that without money, God by His Majestic power will not be able to accomplish His work?
The Almighty Lord God of Israel, who created heavens and earth and everything that's in it needed money to accomplish His work???
Jesus Christ, our Lord Saviour who redeemed sinners at the cross, paid everything in full for our redemption, warned us incessantly through His teachings about the evils of money, is now inviting us to place our trust in money and not in Him who is the almighty power to live for Him alone?
Wow! What interesting truth from the pulpit!
The Creator of heaven and earth, who filled everything in it needed money to built His church and it's related work??? Huh!
Truthfully, I grew up believing that we were asked to built His Church, who are people with His love and humility! We were empowered with abilities from the Holy Spirit to accomplish His will by touching lives with His agape love. God the Father of our Saviour Jesus does His own work through us. Our Saviour filled us with His own Spirit to achieve all His purposes so that the Father is glorified.
Please tell me that I am writing lies and nonsense!
"Without money, how can we do His work?"
"Heavenly Father, we needed money to do your work! Please send us money! Apparently your power is ineffectual in what we wanted to do for you. Money works better!"
Throughout Scripture, God, Father and Creator of heaven and earth demonstrated His awesome power. God accomplished all His work by His awesome power. And He needed money?
Yes, I heard you loud and clear that your church leaders told you about church building and God will provide you the ability to tithe towards the building. Maybe it's time that you start spending some time each day getting to know God, your merciful and graceful Saviour better, by reading His heart and thoughts in the Bible.
Perhaps you should read Job 36-41 to know the Awesome Almighty and Majestic God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
The sons of the living God, Father and Creator, the Almighty I AM, lived by trusting in His awesome majestic power. Amen.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
No Brain, No Heaven???
I was just wondering whether our heavenly Father is concerned about our intelligence? I am curious about it's significance to the Father regarding whether we are wise, knowledgeable or intelligent.
Will the Almighty I AM be impressed with our wisdom, knowledge and intelligence?
I remembered reading in the Bible teaching us to trust in Jesus Christ, our Saviour. That's about all we were required to do.
I am concerned and worried about those who are mentally challenged, and those who suffered other disabilities. Will these people ever get to share fellowship with the heavenly Father someday? Perhaps they needed knowledge too?
Just to refresh your so called Bible knowledgeable mind about knowledge, that it was because of man's desire for wisdom to be equal to God that causes our downfall. The serpent told Eve in Genesis 3:5 that our eyes will be opened and we will be like God knowing both good and evil. And again in Genesis 11 when God scattered man because man wanted to be famous (verse 4) for building the tower of Babel. In both scenario, God displayed His detest for man's wisdom.
In truth the Father is after the guileless personality that's in a child in each of us. The Father wanted us to trust Him alone, in Christ our Saviour.
Because of this, I will do wonders among these hypocrites. I will show that human wisdom is foolish and even the most brilliant people lack understanding." Isaiah 29:14
1 Corinthians 2:5, I did this so that you might trust the power of God rather than human wisdom.
Are we supposed to despise knowledge?
Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only fools despise wisdom and discipline. Proverbs 1:7 explained that when we honor God, the Almighty I AM, knowledge and wisdom will develop in us. God shall then provided Himself as our understanding to His wisdom. His understanding to His wisdom will guide us to live our earthly lives for His honor and glory.
Besides godly wisdom, human wisdom engendered our spiritual development.
The greater my wisdom, the greater my grief. To increase knowledge only increases sorrow. And that's how Solomon expresses his frustration acquiring wisdom and knowledge in Ecclesiastes 1:18
There has to be a reason why Jesus remarked that those who are child like will live with the Father forever. If our Father is in control, do we need more knowledge which is redundant.
So what does it take to remain with our Saviour?
Know and acknowledge that He is God, the Father and Saviour!
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Oops! Sorry! Forgive Me, I Wasn't Aware Of Your Warnings!
Where do you think is the most appropriate place for Satan to work his lies and deception on Christians?
Sorry! But I am not going to answer the above question. How about asking the Holy Spirit, gifted you by our heavenly Father in Jesus Christ.
Perhaps the following Holy Scriptures may edify you.
Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will turn away from what we believe; they will follow lying spirits and teachings that come from demons. 1 Timothy 4:1
He will brag and oppose everything that is holy or sacred. He will even sit in God's temple and claim to be God. 2 Thessalonians 2:4
And please do read up the entire chapter 2 of 2 Thessalonians and 1 John 4:1-6.
But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you, so you don't need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you all things, and what he teaches is true – it is not a lie. So continue in what he has taught you, and continue to live in Christ. 1 John 2:27
Be circumspect over your pastors, teachers, your church and those who are accountable to our heavenly Father for your spiritual well being. Remember that every worker who have committed their lives to serve our Lord Saviour possess abilities equipped by the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who filled us to do every good work for the Father's honor and glory. We are asked to recognize and identify the presence of our Saviour in these workers. John 10:4, My sheep knows and recognized my voice.
When the Holy Spirit lives in us, the Light and Truth will expose the charms, seduction, and bewitching lies and deceptions of the evil one, including the works of his servants.
Without the presence of Christ's Spirit in us, we are ineffective and insufficient. The Holy Spirit was gifted to guard and protect us, the sons of the Living I AM, made worthy by the blood of His Son, our Saviour Jesus at the cross. By His grace and mercy in His unfailing love, we were redeemed, priceless to our Loving Father!
Ever stopped, paused and wondered what Jesus meant in his teachings to us, as he constantly endure worries and distress, guarding over our salvation, our spiritual birthright through Him.
Jesus Christ, our Saviour unceasingly cautioned us about false prophets, false teachings, and false doctrines level at us by the evil one as we approached the last days. Evil, lies, deceptions and darkness will continue to breed in the midst of Christ's church, his family.
Allow me to conclude by mentioning the following verses from Matthew 24:23-25, Mark 13:21-23 and John 16:1-4, "Then if anyone tells you, 'Look, here is the Messiah,' or 'There he is,' don't pay any attention. For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and perform great miraculous signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even God's chosen ones. Watch out, I have warned you about this ahead of time!"
Indeed, we have been warned!
Sorry! But I am not going to answer the above question. How about asking the Holy Spirit, gifted you by our heavenly Father in Jesus Christ.
Perhaps the following Holy Scriptures may edify you.
Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will turn away from what we believe; they will follow lying spirits and teachings that come from demons. 1 Timothy 4:1
He will brag and oppose everything that is holy or sacred. He will even sit in God's temple and claim to be God. 2 Thessalonians 2:4
And please do read up the entire chapter 2 of 2 Thessalonians and 1 John 4:1-6.
But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you, so you don't need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you all things, and what he teaches is true – it is not a lie. So continue in what he has taught you, and continue to live in Christ. 1 John 2:27
Be circumspect over your pastors, teachers, your church and those who are accountable to our heavenly Father for your spiritual well being. Remember that every worker who have committed their lives to serve our Lord Saviour possess abilities equipped by the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who filled us to do every good work for the Father's honor and glory. We are asked to recognize and identify the presence of our Saviour in these workers. John 10:4, My sheep knows and recognized my voice.
When the Holy Spirit lives in us, the Light and Truth will expose the charms, seduction, and bewitching lies and deceptions of the evil one, including the works of his servants.
Without the presence of Christ's Spirit in us, we are ineffective and insufficient. The Holy Spirit was gifted to guard and protect us, the sons of the Living I AM, made worthy by the blood of His Son, our Saviour Jesus at the cross. By His grace and mercy in His unfailing love, we were redeemed, priceless to our Loving Father!
Ever stopped, paused and wondered what Jesus meant in his teachings to us, as he constantly endure worries and distress, guarding over our salvation, our spiritual birthright through Him.
Jesus Christ, our Saviour unceasingly cautioned us about false prophets, false teachings, and false doctrines level at us by the evil one as we approached the last days. Evil, lies, deceptions and darkness will continue to breed in the midst of Christ's church, his family.
Allow me to conclude by mentioning the following verses from Matthew 24:23-25, Mark 13:21-23 and John 16:1-4, "Then if anyone tells you, 'Look, here is the Messiah,' or 'There he is,' don't pay any attention. For false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and perform great miraculous signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even God's chosen ones. Watch out, I have warned you about this ahead of time!"
Indeed, we have been warned!
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
An Everlasting Love: Nothing Can Separate His Love For Us
To a dear brother in Christ Jesus who is undergoing predicament.
May this short message brings you hope and encouragement to pursue our Saviour Jesus without end to answer your prayers to restore His wholesome goodness in your life.
God promised that He will take care of you because His promise in Hebrews 13:5 confirmed it, For He has said, "I will never leave you or forsake you."
May your troubled heart find peace and comfort in the knowledge that you are never alone. May our Saviour's presence ease your trembling spirit and give you rest. Our Lord knows how you feel and He is aware of your circumstances. Our Saviour Jesus, is ready to provide Himself to be your strength, your grace and your peace. He is there to cast sunlight into all your dark shadows, to send encouragement through the love of friends and family, and to replace your weariness with new hope.
Remember that our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus our Saviour, is your refuge, your hiding place and He is your guide, your hope and you need not be afraid.
No circumstances can block His love. No grief is too hard for Him to bear. No task is too difficult for Him to complete. When what you are feeling is simply too deep for words and nothing anyone does or says can provide you with the relief you need, our Saviour Jesus understands.
Our Saviour Jesus is your provider- today, tomorrow, and forever. And He loves you. Cast all your cares on Him....and believe.
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow- not even the powers of hell can separate us from His love. No power in the sky above in the earth below- indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus our Saviour. Romans 8:38-39
May this short message brings you hope and encouragement to pursue our Saviour Jesus without end to answer your prayers to restore His wholesome goodness in your life.
God promised that He will take care of you because His promise in Hebrews 13:5 confirmed it, For He has said, "I will never leave you or forsake you."
May your troubled heart find peace and comfort in the knowledge that you are never alone. May our Saviour's presence ease your trembling spirit and give you rest. Our Lord knows how you feel and He is aware of your circumstances. Our Saviour Jesus, is ready to provide Himself to be your strength, your grace and your peace. He is there to cast sunlight into all your dark shadows, to send encouragement through the love of friends and family, and to replace your weariness with new hope.
Remember that our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus our Saviour, is your refuge, your hiding place and He is your guide, your hope and you need not be afraid.
No circumstances can block His love. No grief is too hard for Him to bear. No task is too difficult for Him to complete. When what you are feeling is simply too deep for words and nothing anyone does or says can provide you with the relief you need, our Saviour Jesus understands.
Our Saviour Jesus is your provider- today, tomorrow, and forever. And He loves you. Cast all your cares on Him....and believe.
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow- not even the powers of hell can separate us from His love. No power in the sky above in the earth below- indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus our Saviour. Romans 8:38-39
Sunday, February 11, 2007
The Angel In You And The Devil In Me!
Over lunch, a close friend, Ann Gee boasted that she never misses attendance on Sunday church!
Thanks to her statement, allowing me the opportunity to rant about church attendance, something I wanted to do for a long time. I am brassed off by the constant harassing practiced by many inconsiderate, desperate Christians who are trying too hard to please their church leaders, simultaneously boasting to their church mates how fruitful they are by luring people to attend their various church services.
I could literally hear 2.5 billion "Christians" screaming I am guilty of blasphemy and should be nailed to the cross!. As a Christian myself, how could I betray my own belief and faith? In opening, I already exclaimed that I have wanted to rant about this for a long time.
Most Christians view church attendance with critical importance but failed terribly when it concerns attending to people especially those who are with financial needs. I am bored with the rationale that the church is imperfect! So, when does it start working towards perfection?
Owing to her near perfect attendance on Sundays, Ann believed that her heaven bound destination is undeniably secured. People like me, she is worried, might not even get the opportunity to just stand outside the gates of heaven and peek inside.
"So you are the angel and I am the devil?", I quipped.
On a more serious note, I want to share that Christian living is not about going to Church on Sundays. And this statement is going to raise unnecessary controversial ~frown~
Throughout the Bible, we were asked to be obedient to Christ's teachings and lived a life to honor and glorify our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus.
I broach this to her, asking whether she is also mindful when attending to pleas for various support by her brothers/sisters in Christ and non believers? Do you bolt without a doubt and hesitation to a brother/sister or a non believer's adversity?
Our Lord Saviour, Jesus reminded us about being merciful in our way of life. Then there is also a reminder to apply His love, even in foolish situations, as evidence that His love for us on the cross was not in vain. What I meant is, when our Saviour obediently went to the cross, he did not question the Father whether he is dying for friends or enemies? If we hear clearly from the Holy Spirit gifted to us and live in our hearts to guide, teach, counsel, protect and comfort us, we should obey without any doubts.
What is important is whether we obey the teachings of Jesus. As Christians, I believed the most important rule is to do what Jesus has taught us. Our Saviour expect our lifestyle to bring honor and glory to our heavenly Father. Our Christian lifestyle should be above the benchmark of ordinary people.
I told Ann that she may be going to Church everyday for the rest of her life, but if she do not show mercy in situations demanded of it, then she is still nothing. In fact I quoted 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 only in my last post. It's all about ministering to people with love and humility that will please God, our Father and Father of our Saviour Jesus.
The Devil is not intimidated by what we know and how much we know about the Bible, how regular we attend Church, but I am confident we will rocked the Devil by how we obey and apply the teachings of Jesus in our daily earthly lives. It's our lifestyle ministering in His love and humility towards others that will cause the Devil to tremble.
Ann Gee wasn't happy when I mentioned this: How can Christians shake and rock the Devil when most of our Christian lifestyle strayed from what our Lord has taught us? I questioned further about whether as a Church we ministered to each other with the true love and humility of Christ that is alive in our hearts?
While attending church is of extreme importance; The biggie question is do we congregate as a church in His love and humility where Christ is the Head or do we just congregate to worship and failed in every other departments of His teachings.
As a Church, do we care for each other because each of us belongs to the bigger body or are most of us fakes where we live selfishly apart from each other? Do we boast about our perfect attendance in our church services but failed miserably when the demand to minister with love and humility to our brothers/sisters and pagans?
Those who are knitted into the body of Christ care for each other with the love and humility of our Saviour Jesus Christ because we know we are One in Him!
Allow me to add another question: Are we living in His truth? How much do we understand about Church which is the body of Christ, our Saviour?
Thanks to her statement, allowing me the opportunity to rant about church attendance, something I wanted to do for a long time. I am brassed off by the constant harassing practiced by many inconsiderate, desperate Christians who are trying too hard to please their church leaders, simultaneously boasting to their church mates how fruitful they are by luring people to attend their various church services.
I could literally hear 2.5 billion "Christians" screaming I am guilty of blasphemy and should be nailed to the cross!. As a Christian myself, how could I betray my own belief and faith? In opening, I already exclaimed that I have wanted to rant about this for a long time.
Most Christians view church attendance with critical importance but failed terribly when it concerns attending to people especially those who are with financial needs. I am bored with the rationale that the church is imperfect! So, when does it start working towards perfection?
Owing to her near perfect attendance on Sundays, Ann believed that her heaven bound destination is undeniably secured. People like me, she is worried, might not even get the opportunity to just stand outside the gates of heaven and peek inside.
"So you are the angel and I am the devil?", I quipped.
On a more serious note, I want to share that Christian living is not about going to Church on Sundays. And this statement is going to raise unnecessary controversial ~frown~
Throughout the Bible, we were asked to be obedient to Christ's teachings and lived a life to honor and glorify our heavenly Father in Christ Jesus.
I broach this to her, asking whether she is also mindful when attending to pleas for various support by her brothers/sisters in Christ and non believers? Do you bolt without a doubt and hesitation to a brother/sister or a non believer's adversity?
Our Lord Saviour, Jesus reminded us about being merciful in our way of life. Then there is also a reminder to apply His love, even in foolish situations, as evidence that His love for us on the cross was not in vain. What I meant is, when our Saviour obediently went to the cross, he did not question the Father whether he is dying for friends or enemies? If we hear clearly from the Holy Spirit gifted to us and live in our hearts to guide, teach, counsel, protect and comfort us, we should obey without any doubts.
What is important is whether we obey the teachings of Jesus. As Christians, I believed the most important rule is to do what Jesus has taught us. Our Saviour expect our lifestyle to bring honor and glory to our heavenly Father. Our Christian lifestyle should be above the benchmark of ordinary people.
I told Ann that she may be going to Church everyday for the rest of her life, but if she do not show mercy in situations demanded of it, then she is still nothing. In fact I quoted 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 only in my last post. It's all about ministering to people with love and humility that will please God, our Father and Father of our Saviour Jesus.
The Devil is not intimidated by what we know and how much we know about the Bible, how regular we attend Church, but I am confident we will rocked the Devil by how we obey and apply the teachings of Jesus in our daily earthly lives. It's our lifestyle ministering in His love and humility towards others that will cause the Devil to tremble.
Ann Gee wasn't happy when I mentioned this: How can Christians shake and rock the Devil when most of our Christian lifestyle strayed from what our Lord has taught us? I questioned further about whether as a Church we ministered to each other with the true love and humility of Christ that is alive in our hearts?
While attending church is of extreme importance; The biggie question is do we congregate as a church in His love and humility where Christ is the Head or do we just congregate to worship and failed in every other departments of His teachings.
As a Church, do we care for each other because each of us belongs to the bigger body or are most of us fakes where we live selfishly apart from each other? Do we boast about our perfect attendance in our church services but failed miserably when the demand to minister with love and humility to our brothers/sisters and pagans?
Those who are knitted into the body of Christ care for each other with the love and humility of our Saviour Jesus Christ because we know we are One in Him!
Allow me to add another question: Are we living in His truth? How much do we understand about Church which is the body of Christ, our Saviour?
Friday, February 09, 2007
Love Reigns!
Daily, I encounter people from every walk disputing about what they know, people remonstrating about issues, bickering over what's right and wrong, boasting over what they know because of who they thought they are, and the record goes on.
People dispute over everything, and taking center stage could most probably be religion. Even among its own group of believers, people bickered over how well they could interpret the text of each religion's teachings.
As a Christian who sits at the feet of my Saviour Jesus who teaches me everyday, I've learned that the most important role of a true Christian is to live our earthly life, touching other lives filled with Christ love in our hearts. Without love, we cannot please God, our heavenly Father and Father of our Saviour Jesus because our Father is love.
I wrote a fortnight ago that a true Christian is someone who not only carry his own cross but also the cross of others. Repeatedly throughout Scripture, we were reminded of love, and to love, and the highest priority, is to love our enemies like ourselves. Without love as the pre-eminent fruit of our accomplishment, we are nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 expounded our Saviour's stipulation with clarity to those who wished to be His followers. If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains but didn't love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it, but if I didn't love others, I would have gained nothing.
We can talk and talk and do and do until eternity, but if Christ's love is not in our accomplishment, everything is futile. In truth, as Christians, all we needed is to equip ourselves with Christ's love in the gifting of the Holy Spirit to live our earthly lives. We may spend a lot of time accumulating knowledge, but if our lives are not lived by the fillings of Christ love, we lived in vain for Him.
For when we were still sinners, our heavenly Father overwhelmed with love for us, His children created out of His own hands, came as a man in Jesus to die for us so that we can be sons of the Living God.
Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. God showed how much he loved us by sending his only begotten son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love- not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. Dear friends since God loved us so much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and His love is brought to full expression in us. And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us.
1 John 4:7-13
Thank you Lord Saviour and Redeemer, Jesus Christ aka Greatest Valentine of mankind whose love for us is eternal.
Happy Valentines Day!
People dispute over everything, and taking center stage could most probably be religion. Even among its own group of believers, people bickered over how well they could interpret the text of each religion's teachings.
As a Christian who sits at the feet of my Saviour Jesus who teaches me everyday, I've learned that the most important role of a true Christian is to live our earthly life, touching other lives filled with Christ love in our hearts. Without love, we cannot please God, our heavenly Father and Father of our Saviour Jesus because our Father is love.
I wrote a fortnight ago that a true Christian is someone who not only carry his own cross but also the cross of others. Repeatedly throughout Scripture, we were reminded of love, and to love, and the highest priority, is to love our enemies like ourselves. Without love as the pre-eminent fruit of our accomplishment, we are nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 expounded our Saviour's stipulation with clarity to those who wished to be His followers. If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains but didn't love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it, but if I didn't love others, I would have gained nothing.
We can talk and talk and do and do until eternity, but if Christ's love is not in our accomplishment, everything is futile. In truth, as Christians, all we needed is to equip ourselves with Christ's love in the gifting of the Holy Spirit to live our earthly lives. We may spend a lot of time accumulating knowledge, but if our lives are not lived by the fillings of Christ love, we lived in vain for Him.
For when we were still sinners, our heavenly Father overwhelmed with love for us, His children created out of His own hands, came as a man in Jesus to die for us so that we can be sons of the Living God.
Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. God showed how much he loved us by sending his only begotten son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love- not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. Dear friends since God loved us so much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and His love is brought to full expression in us. And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us.
1 John 4:7-13
Thank you Lord Saviour and Redeemer, Jesus Christ aka Greatest Valentine of mankind whose love for us is eternal.
Happy Valentines Day!
Friday, February 02, 2007
Shhhh! Don't Tell The Pastor!
Wandering among the maze of various games tables inside the casino looking for my parent's friend, I glimpsed a familiar face. It was a Church elder I knew personally. I approached his game table, totally ignorant that he is gambling, to greet him. He was horrified to see me, never expecting my presence there.
Beckoning me to edge closer to him, he wanted to whisper into my ears, feeling uneasy and suspicious of the surrounding people eavesdropping.
Shhhh! Please remember don't exposed me in Church, especially the Pastor!
"Huh! I thought you are aware that God is staring down on you from His throne up in heaven?", I replied nonchalantly!
"You don't fear God who can destroy your soul but man who can do nothing to you", I apprise him with a slightly raised voice. I proceeded to remind him of a familiar verse in Hebrew 4:13.
Nothing in all creation can hide from him. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes. This is the God to whom we must explain all that we have done. Hebrew 4:13
I wanted to mention another incident which happened some years ago when I was still a rebellious Christian. I was visiting a Christian brother to pick up a novel he borrowed. He stayed with his parents in an apartment. When I arrived at his residence, I knocked and pushed the door bell, but failed to receive any response.
After a couple more knocks and attempts at the door bell and still unsuccessful with any answers, I started to walk away, exasperated! I was about five steps away from the door when I heard a soft click. I turned around and spotted my friend peeping out from the side of the door. I was about to raise my voice and asked him what took him so long to answer when my friend shoo me and beckoned me to him.
Almost whispering, he told me that he was watching pornography in his room, thus missed hearing my knocks and the door chime. He articulated to me that he make sure his room door was tightly secured and the volume from the television was lowered.
I smiled and look upward towards the ceiling, followed with this question to him, " Hey! Do you think God can hear and see what you were doing from up there, through the ceiling?"
It's funny how we try hiding our wrong doings from man but forgotten that God is always keeping watch over us.
The next time if you are planning to do something bad, remember to look up instead of looking around you! Make sure you are safe from God's watchful eyes!
I guessed you must be wondering what was I doing in the casino? I brought my parents and their friends to watch an opera performance, staged at one of the casino theater, by a renown opera troupe from Hong Kong. I went into the casino to look for my mum's friends who had slipped away from us to try their luck at some of the games tables.
Beckoning me to edge closer to him, he wanted to whisper into my ears, feeling uneasy and suspicious of the surrounding people eavesdropping.
Shhhh! Please remember don't exposed me in Church, especially the Pastor!
"Huh! I thought you are aware that God is staring down on you from His throne up in heaven?", I replied nonchalantly!
"You don't fear God who can destroy your soul but man who can do nothing to you", I apprise him with a slightly raised voice. I proceeded to remind him of a familiar verse in Hebrew 4:13.
Nothing in all creation can hide from him. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes. This is the God to whom we must explain all that we have done. Hebrew 4:13
I wanted to mention another incident which happened some years ago when I was still a rebellious Christian. I was visiting a Christian brother to pick up a novel he borrowed. He stayed with his parents in an apartment. When I arrived at his residence, I knocked and pushed the door bell, but failed to receive any response.
After a couple more knocks and attempts at the door bell and still unsuccessful with any answers, I started to walk away, exasperated! I was about five steps away from the door when I heard a soft click. I turned around and spotted my friend peeping out from the side of the door. I was about to raise my voice and asked him what took him so long to answer when my friend shoo me and beckoned me to him.
Almost whispering, he told me that he was watching pornography in his room, thus missed hearing my knocks and the door chime. He articulated to me that he make sure his room door was tightly secured and the volume from the television was lowered.
I smiled and look upward towards the ceiling, followed with this question to him, " Hey! Do you think God can hear and see what you were doing from up there, through the ceiling?"
It's funny how we try hiding our wrong doings from man but forgotten that God is always keeping watch over us.
The next time if you are planning to do something bad, remember to look up instead of looking around you! Make sure you are safe from God's watchful eyes!
I guessed you must be wondering what was I doing in the casino? I brought my parents and their friends to watch an opera performance, staged at one of the casino theater, by a renown opera troupe from Hong Kong. I went into the casino to look for my mum's friends who had slipped away from us to try their luck at some of the games tables.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Understanding Fellowship
What is fellowship? Define fellowship!
What's the difference between fellowship and socializing?
Are we confusing the connotation of fellowships and socializing?
Fellowship without the Holy Trinity is worldly; fellowship with the presence of the Holy Trinity is godly! Fellowship without the Holy Trinity is called PARTY; fellowship with the presence of Father, Son and Holy Spirit is FAMILY REUNION!
When we fellowship, do we fellowship in Christ's presence or without? According to Christ's stipulation on fellowship, two person satisfy the conditions. And our Saviour Jesus promised His involvement in this simple fellowship. I believed our Saviour Jesus intentionally designed our fellowship in the simplest format. Two is more than enough. I believed our Saviour's intention is to produce effectively for two people to care, and love each other.
I used to explain to my children that if we, consisting only four people, cannot fellowship with love within the house, then how are we going to fellowship with love with others outside the house? There are only four in the house; there are 6.5 billion people out there! Similarly, if people don't love each other in their own house or within the body of Christ, how are we to love God's lost children outside the body? Or to put it plainly, if people don't love each other in the Church, how do you expect people to love others outside the Church? Take note that love is not just an expression by mouth, it must be accompanied by deeds!
And to put it bluntly, if outsiders view the Church with a lot of hypocrisy lifestyle how do they have the confident in you, and Jesus Christ to join the family?
The purpose of fellowship is to encourage and support each other usually in times of trouble, sorrow, distress, moments of unhappiness. Of course, fellowship also involves a celebration of sorts at times and not only in tragic moments. Fellowship must relate to forging closer ties with each other.
What is truthfully fellowship? Let's examine true fellowship in the story of Job.
When three of Job's friends heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him. Their names were Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. When they saw Job from a distance, they scarcely recognized him. Wailing loudly, they tore their robes and threw dust into the air over their heads to show their grief. Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and nights. No one said a word to Job, for they saw that his suffering was too great for words. Job 2:11-13
Now what can we learned from the above fellowship? True fellowship is about esprit de corps that allow the overwhelming love of Christ to rule over us. Fellowship is about being there together to share the emotional status of a brother/sister in Christ or just an ordinary friend, or better, an enemy!
Fellowship is about allowing Jesus Christ, our Saviour to manifest His presence in an assembly. Fellowship is about allowing the love of Christ to fill a congregation and experience Him in us. Fellowship is when we gathered together and the ability to see our Saviour Jesus in everyone around us. Fellowship is when people experiencing the joy of the Saviour's love touching them.
Hebrews 10:25, And let's not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of our Saviour Jesus' return is drawing near. How do you want to interpret this verse? Yes, we must not neglect meeting together and more importantly we must stay put when confronted with problems. We must not turn deserters in times of troubles! Because when trouble or persecution arises and everyone disappears, then the true meaning of fellowship becomes a mockery.
We are One in the body of our Saviour Jesus! We are members of His body, the Church! While we should not neglect meeting together, our fellowship must not be intimidated by the presence of trouble, and persecutions that exist in us because we belong to Christ. We fellowship by His strength and His wisdom. We fellowship in Him.
Fellowship is not about a social function where we congregate, eat, talk and maybe pray. While it is important to remind ourselves to be in contact with our friends, we must not be forgetful about omitting our Saviour's presence in our fellowship. Encouragement is not through words alone but must be accompanied by deeds. It's not about expressing I Love You without responsibilities. It's not about some hugging and maybe some smooching! It's about Christ's love filling us to reach out and touch lives.
(Reprise) While it is important to fellowship, more important its not about just being together for meals but sticking together encouraging and supporting in times of persecutions.
True fellowship is a relationship bonded by Christ love that fills it.
When our heavenly Father who is filled with an overwhelming love for us, says I Love You, He did not just say it with words but He came and suffered on the cross punishing Himself by bearing all our wrongdoing.
So what is fellowship? And how do you define fellowship?
I define it as such: Fellowship is drawing strength from our Saviour Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit to aid us to carry the cross of Christ worst enemies. It's not only about our own cross. It's about our cross!
Christ has shown us that while we were still sinners, He came to carry our cross!
What's the difference between fellowship and socializing?
Are we confusing the connotation of fellowships and socializing?
Fellowship without the Holy Trinity is worldly; fellowship with the presence of the Holy Trinity is godly! Fellowship without the Holy Trinity is called PARTY; fellowship with the presence of Father, Son and Holy Spirit is FAMILY REUNION!
When we fellowship, do we fellowship in Christ's presence or without? According to Christ's stipulation on fellowship, two person satisfy the conditions. And our Saviour Jesus promised His involvement in this simple fellowship. I believed our Saviour Jesus intentionally designed our fellowship in the simplest format. Two is more than enough. I believed our Saviour's intention is to produce effectively for two people to care, and love each other.
I used to explain to my children that if we, consisting only four people, cannot fellowship with love within the house, then how are we going to fellowship with love with others outside the house? There are only four in the house; there are 6.5 billion people out there! Similarly, if people don't love each other in their own house or within the body of Christ, how are we to love God's lost children outside the body? Or to put it plainly, if people don't love each other in the Church, how do you expect people to love others outside the Church? Take note that love is not just an expression by mouth, it must be accompanied by deeds!
And to put it bluntly, if outsiders view the Church with a lot of hypocrisy lifestyle how do they have the confident in you, and Jesus Christ to join the family?
The purpose of fellowship is to encourage and support each other usually in times of trouble, sorrow, distress, moments of unhappiness. Of course, fellowship also involves a celebration of sorts at times and not only in tragic moments. Fellowship must relate to forging closer ties with each other.
What is truthfully fellowship? Let's examine true fellowship in the story of Job.
When three of Job's friends heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him. Their names were Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. When they saw Job from a distance, they scarcely recognized him. Wailing loudly, they tore their robes and threw dust into the air over their heads to show their grief. Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and nights. No one said a word to Job, for they saw that his suffering was too great for words. Job 2:11-13
Now what can we learned from the above fellowship? True fellowship is about esprit de corps that allow the overwhelming love of Christ to rule over us. Fellowship is about being there together to share the emotional status of a brother/sister in Christ or just an ordinary friend, or better, an enemy!
Fellowship is about allowing Jesus Christ, our Saviour to manifest His presence in an assembly. Fellowship is about allowing the love of Christ to fill a congregation and experience Him in us. Fellowship is when we gathered together and the ability to see our Saviour Jesus in everyone around us. Fellowship is when people experiencing the joy of the Saviour's love touching them.
Hebrews 10:25, And let's not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of our Saviour Jesus' return is drawing near. How do you want to interpret this verse? Yes, we must not neglect meeting together and more importantly we must stay put when confronted with problems. We must not turn deserters in times of troubles! Because when trouble or persecution arises and everyone disappears, then the true meaning of fellowship becomes a mockery.
We are One in the body of our Saviour Jesus! We are members of His body, the Church! While we should not neglect meeting together, our fellowship must not be intimidated by the presence of trouble, and persecutions that exist in us because we belong to Christ. We fellowship by His strength and His wisdom. We fellowship in Him.
Fellowship is not about a social function where we congregate, eat, talk and maybe pray. While it is important to remind ourselves to be in contact with our friends, we must not be forgetful about omitting our Saviour's presence in our fellowship. Encouragement is not through words alone but must be accompanied by deeds. It's not about expressing I Love You without responsibilities. It's not about some hugging and maybe some smooching! It's about Christ's love filling us to reach out and touch lives.
(Reprise) While it is important to fellowship, more important its not about just being together for meals but sticking together encouraging and supporting in times of persecutions.
True fellowship is a relationship bonded by Christ love that fills it.
When our heavenly Father who is filled with an overwhelming love for us, says I Love You, He did not just say it with words but He came and suffered on the cross punishing Himself by bearing all our wrongdoing.
So what is fellowship? And how do you define fellowship?
I define it as such: Fellowship is drawing strength from our Saviour Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit to aid us to carry the cross of Christ worst enemies. It's not only about our own cross. It's about our cross!
Christ has shown us that while we were still sinners, He came to carry our cross!
Saturday, January 20, 2007
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother!
Dearest Lord Jesus, help me today by your strength in the Holy Spirit, gifted to help me live my earthly life to honor and glorify you, not only to carry my own cross but also the cross of those you sent into my life. Amen.
When my Saviour Jesus lives in me, I am filled by His strength and wisdom in His unfailing love and humility to do every good work that belongs to my heavenly Father.
The sun was just rearing it's light over the horizon, making it's presence for another new day when my mobile rang. The call belong to a fellow brother currently in some deep financial misfortune. He wanted a hundred ringgit for food and transport to last until his payday month end. He just started working.
I dug deep into my pockets, struggling hard, I managed to haul up my last two hundred ringgit supposedly to last 10 more days to end month, looked towards heaven, gave thanks and asked my Saviour Jesus to bless it, reply via short messages on my mobile to my brother that he could collect the hundred ringgit anytime.
Honestly, I was doleful to part half of what's remaining, cognizant of running into problems arising from unforeseen circumstances. I battled to ask my Saviour Jesus for strength to give cheerfully and be victorious over my weakness of selfishness. Indeed in my Saviour Jesus, I have the victory; He lives in me to provide me His strength, wisdom in His love and humility.
Boy! It was a proud moment for me and I am certain my Saviour too. I feel certain I had place a smile on my Saviour's face.
Give to those who ask, and don't turn away from those who want to borrow. Matthew5:42
As a Christian, a privilege I proudly proclaim, I have learned to share everything I own because doing that means sharing Jesus and His love in my heart. Of course the ability to discharge this duty belong to the power of the Holy Spirit gifted me by Jesus. It is my Saviour Himself doing His own work through me.
Thank you Lord Jesus for teaching me not only to carry my own cross but also the cross for others because your love filled me with the ability.
I am but only a beacon for the Light!
When my Saviour Jesus lives in me, I am filled by His strength and wisdom in His unfailing love and humility to do every good work that belongs to my heavenly Father.
The sun was just rearing it's light over the horizon, making it's presence for another new day when my mobile rang. The call belong to a fellow brother currently in some deep financial misfortune. He wanted a hundred ringgit for food and transport to last until his payday month end. He just started working.
I dug deep into my pockets, struggling hard, I managed to haul up my last two hundred ringgit supposedly to last 10 more days to end month, looked towards heaven, gave thanks and asked my Saviour Jesus to bless it, reply via short messages on my mobile to my brother that he could collect the hundred ringgit anytime.
Honestly, I was doleful to part half of what's remaining, cognizant of running into problems arising from unforeseen circumstances. I battled to ask my Saviour Jesus for strength to give cheerfully and be victorious over my weakness of selfishness. Indeed in my Saviour Jesus, I have the victory; He lives in me to provide me His strength, wisdom in His love and humility.
Boy! It was a proud moment for me and I am certain my Saviour too. I feel certain I had place a smile on my Saviour's face.
Give to those who ask, and don't turn away from those who want to borrow. Matthew5:42
As a Christian, a privilege I proudly proclaim, I have learned to share everything I own because doing that means sharing Jesus and His love in my heart. Of course the ability to discharge this duty belong to the power of the Holy Spirit gifted me by Jesus. It is my Saviour Himself doing His own work through me.
Thank you Lord Jesus for teaching me not only to carry my own cross but also the cross for others because your love filled me with the ability.
I am but only a beacon for the Light!
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
From Proton To Ferrari
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.
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.
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!
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