Manage to overcome a major obstacle in my project yesterday. Was really elated.
Hopefully more progress on the road ahead.
Thank You Lord :)
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
The look of the Saviour
Marred, scourged and despised.
There were no beauty in His visage. Anguish, grave agonising pain He endured that no man ever felt.
The only comfort He seems to suggest a returning glory, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit" and there Jesus gave up His life.
It is in this death that gave life. Seemingly it looks hope is all buried and gone but that is not the case. Overwhelmed with grief, the disciples gazed. Yet that look of the Saviour was one that would arised with a glorious voice, "I am risen"
To see the resurrected Christ governs hope. The look of Christ, my Saviour, our Saviour is a victory of overcoming the world.
This world has no path to victory. This world has only end. Death is our end.
However, when you looked to the bronze serpent, when you look at the risen Christ, when you see the look of the Saviour, my friend there is no end, there is only life, the life with Christ, the new birth, the resurrection that says, death has lost its sting.
What a delight to commend your spirit to Christ, our Shepherd who first commend His spirit to God the Father.
We can also find rest through Christ in commending our soul, our lives to God.
There were no beauty in His visage. Anguish, grave agonising pain He endured that no man ever felt.
The only comfort He seems to suggest a returning glory, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit" and there Jesus gave up His life.
It is in this death that gave life. Seemingly it looks hope is all buried and gone but that is not the case. Overwhelmed with grief, the disciples gazed. Yet that look of the Saviour was one that would arised with a glorious voice, "I am risen"
To see the resurrected Christ governs hope. The look of Christ, my Saviour, our Saviour is a victory of overcoming the world.
This world has no path to victory. This world has only end. Death is our end.
However, when you looked to the bronze serpent, when you look at the risen Christ, when you see the look of the Saviour, my friend there is no end, there is only life, the life with Christ, the new birth, the resurrection that says, death has lost its sting.
What a delight to commend your spirit to Christ, our Shepherd who first commend His spirit to God the Father.
We can also find rest through Christ in commending our soul, our lives to God.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Awake
Slept a fair bit in the afternoon.
Hardly could sleep now. Thank God today. Went to spurgeon website and read the old introduction of Spurgeon homepage for his sermons,
"I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself." My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Spurgeon's conviction shaped his ministry. His belief on the absolute sovereignty of God. Few understand what I meant by this. God's foreknowledge predicates not on our freedom on will but by divine wisdom, every event of man's redemptive history will come to past because simply it is God's plan.
A load ease. Tough we must toil for the kingdom to advance, it is never the servant's work that can accomplish without the Master's decree.
I must understand I go about doing my Master's work and not mine. Only then, my hope lies on the freeness of grace. God's grace that is.
I am comforted by the quote from Surgeon.
Hardly could sleep now. Thank God today. Went to spurgeon website and read the old introduction of Spurgeon homepage for his sermons,
"I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself." My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Spurgeon's conviction shaped his ministry. His belief on the absolute sovereignty of God. Few understand what I meant by this. God's foreknowledge predicates not on our freedom on will but by divine wisdom, every event of man's redemptive history will come to past because simply it is God's plan.
A load ease. Tough we must toil for the kingdom to advance, it is never the servant's work that can accomplish without the Master's decree.
I must understand I go about doing my Master's work and not mine. Only then, my hope lies on the freeness of grace. God's grace that is.
I am comforted by the quote from Surgeon.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Sin is Cruel
A sudden grip of thought. Sin is indeed cruelty to God.
How violent a death would God have endure for sin? Friday is coming. The day to remember what our Lord has done. The day that stays as a day that sin was to be conquered by a cruel death.
That cruelty was God to bear. To adhor sin is right. Because sin to God is adhorable, it is cruel. Sin slayed God, in flesh, in Christ.
Its gripping. How would you see sin? See it through God's heart. May we never lose our guard towards sin, neither ignore its effect, neither it subtlety.
The sinfulness of sin breeds its beginning from temptation.
The cruelty to God forbids that we should allow sin to speak its lies. May we guard our heart with all diligence since Christ took that cruelty upon Himself.
Sin indeed is cruelty to God.
But the amazing thing is....Christ brought that sting of death to be dead that we can be alive in Christ.
We can rejoice this Friday and say that it is Good Friday. Christ is good to us.
How violent a death would God have endure for sin? Friday is coming. The day to remember what our Lord has done. The day that stays as a day that sin was to be conquered by a cruel death.
That cruelty was God to bear. To adhor sin is right. Because sin to God is adhorable, it is cruel. Sin slayed God, in flesh, in Christ.
Its gripping. How would you see sin? See it through God's heart. May we never lose our guard towards sin, neither ignore its effect, neither it subtlety.
The sinfulness of sin breeds its beginning from temptation.
The cruelty to God forbids that we should allow sin to speak its lies. May we guard our heart with all diligence since Christ took that cruelty upon Himself.
Sin indeed is cruelty to God.
But the amazing thing is....Christ brought that sting of death to be dead that we can be alive in Christ.
We can rejoice this Friday and say that it is Good Friday. Christ is good to us.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Who is the most important person on Earth?
Had a conversation with someone yesterday. Been knowing one another at least for 7 years I think. And thinking back and remembering the things we have gone through, it was sweet.
Comparing with the holidays I have been to, the physical beauty might be great, but if I ask myself, it is still the people that makes the memory fond.
I have been on holidays alone in US, seen the great heights and depths, felt particularly awe but these are so distant and in fact when I looked at the pics, it didn't really bring forth any smiles. But the places I have been, with the people I loved, it brought among the smiles with the fondest of memory.
Ultimately, I believe all of us are made for relationships. For kinships and friendships. Beacause that is sweetest.
Who then is the most important person on earth?
I know who is not definitely. It is not Barrak Obama. He is a man under law though powerful. It is not the economist, the militalists, the political, your school principal, your boss, your CEO, your Prime Minister, your President or even perhaps Bill Gates.
It is the one who brought you to Christ, the one who invited you to church that allows you to hear the gospel and be saved, the one who spoke to you in moments in times of discouragement, that made you strengthened again in God.
He or she who brings you into a loving relationship with Christ. This person is the most important person on earth.
Amazing isn't it? Simple but true.
Comparing with the holidays I have been to, the physical beauty might be great, but if I ask myself, it is still the people that makes the memory fond.
I have been on holidays alone in US, seen the great heights and depths, felt particularly awe but these are so distant and in fact when I looked at the pics, it didn't really bring forth any smiles. But the places I have been, with the people I loved, it brought among the smiles with the fondest of memory.
Ultimately, I believe all of us are made for relationships. For kinships and friendships. Beacause that is sweetest.
Who then is the most important person on earth?
I know who is not definitely. It is not Barrak Obama. He is a man under law though powerful. It is not the economist, the militalists, the political, your school principal, your boss, your CEO, your Prime Minister, your President or even perhaps Bill Gates.
It is the one who brought you to Christ, the one who invited you to church that allows you to hear the gospel and be saved, the one who spoke to you in moments in times of discouragement, that made you strengthened again in God.
He or she who brings you into a loving relationship with Christ. This person is the most important person on earth.
Amazing isn't it? Simple but true.
Diary of 2 Otahs
Once there lived 2 Otahs. The older is called "Fish" and the younger is called "Prawn."
Both went through fire in the toaster oven and came out looking brighter then before and great to savour.
Notice their aroma and beauty. See the front bearing prawn and the back having a slice of fish meat sicking out.
Fantastic.
Thats the story of Otah Fish and Otah Prawn, 2 brothers that lived and was eaten side by side.
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