tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81440859873126154032023-11-16T15:39:57.153+08:00Treasure in Jars of Clayhooi chinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961565016530264053noreply@blogger.comBlogger237125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144085987312615403.post-22071088605957929742022-01-17T22:59:00.011+08:002022-01-22T13:49:06.036+08:00God's Providence: What God teaches me through my Ectopic Pregnancy <p>I took me great effort and prayers to write this post. The purpose of putting them down in a post is to remind myself not to forget the grace I have received in Christ, and to persevere in this life to do what He has called me to do. It is also my desire to leave this to my loved ones, especially Joshua and Nathan - to share and encourage them to see the good Lord I have and to hold fast to Him, for apart from Him there is no hope and goodness, no matter how beautiful the things of world appear to you.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiACAzpGWj7Y6M9DqIyRMDjTxuTEYNUT5q4B0OqIlk83VyGT_4iUvIeVPmdDtw2IiNTR2L8VvEGTpTbMO5vhU5vE5GXKk9rhK-ICRsCp45j-GEIM-1r9XNOsqxw38-q_m7Iwl2Vdxu3u_ENjpkXlDjeEDd6EC26jcdyEc2zqzm7bn1iq7TlN5T2Wc65=s960" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiACAzpGWj7Y6M9DqIyRMDjTxuTEYNUT5q4B0OqIlk83VyGT_4iUvIeVPmdDtw2IiNTR2L8VvEGTpTbMO5vhU5vE5GXKk9rhK-ICRsCp45j-GEIM-1r9XNOsqxw38-q_m7Iwl2Vdxu3u_ENjpkXlDjeEDd6EC26jcdyEc2zqzm7bn1iq7TlN5T2Wc65=s960" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiACAzpGWj7Y6M9DqIyRMDjTxuTEYNUT5q4B0OqIlk83VyGT_4iUvIeVPmdDtw2IiNTR2L8VvEGTpTbMO5vhU5vE5GXKk9rhK-ICRsCp45j-GEIM-1r9XNOsqxw38-q_m7Iwl2Vdxu3u_ENjpkXlDjeEDd6EC26jcdyEc2zqzm7bn1iq7TlN5T2Wc65=s960" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiACAzpGWj7Y6M9DqIyRMDjTxuTEYNUT5q4B0OqIlk83VyGT_4iUvIeVPmdDtw2IiNTR2L8VvEGTpTbMO5vhU5vE5GXKk9rhK-ICRsCp45j-GEIM-1r9XNOsqxw38-q_m7Iwl2Vdxu3u_ENjpkXlDjeEDd6EC26jcdyEc2zqzm7bn1iq7TlN5T2Wc65=s960" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a></div><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiACAzpGWj7Y6M9DqIyRMDjTxuTEYNUT5q4B0OqIlk83VyGT_4iUvIeVPmdDtw2IiNTR2L8VvEGTpTbMO5vhU5vE5GXKk9rhK-ICRsCp45j-GEIM-1r9XNOsqxw38-q_m7Iwl2Vdxu3u_ENjpkXlDjeEDd6EC26jcdyEc2zqzm7bn1iq7TlN5T2Wc65=s960" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiACAzpGWj7Y6M9DqIyRMDjTxuTEYNUT5q4B0OqIlk83VyGT_4iUvIeVPmdDtw2IiNTR2L8VvEGTpTbMO5vhU5vE5GXKk9rhK-ICRsCp45j-GEIM-1r9XNOsqxw38-q_m7Iwl2Vdxu3u_ENjpkXlDjeEDd6EC26jcdyEc2zqzm7bn1iq7TlN5T2Wc65=s320" width="240" /></a>Wei En and I have been married to each other since 2017, and we have our firstborn, Joshua, in the following year in 2018, and Nathan the year after in 2019. Time just passed by swiftly when parenthood begins, and this journey has been infused with so much challenges, joy, tears, learning, testing of patience and love. Without the grace of God through His Word and Holy Spirit, I believe this journey would be so awful, hopeless, and centering a lot on man-made pursuits. </p><p>Just end of last year, Wei En and I started having conversations about having a third baby. I was a bit dumbfounded when he raised that idea. The reasons are very practical - it is physically draining to start all over again and caring for an infant along with two toddlers is madness; I can sense the body truly aging and running out of energy; it is quite a bit of money to raise a kid in Singapore; we are constantly battling with childcare arrangement especially our kids fall sick 40% if not 50% of the time. </p><p>However, when Wei En raised this thought, it was not as if he was oblivious to all these constraints. It was raised at a time when he was equipping himself more aggressively in the Word, and shepherding the youths in church. </p><p>At times, we think how good it will be if there is one more godly person in this world who will share the Word of God clearly and boldly, seeing that nothing in this world can save a person's souls but only the faith in Christ Jesus. We desire to raise godly offsprings who can live for God's kingdom, who can be the salt and light of the world - not being assimilated into the world but live out the glory of God in each given condition.</p><p>But the practical aspects of child-bearing and nurturing a child are intimidating for a small heart as mine. Wei En once shared - with two kids, we are actually quite comfortable now. Each parent can take care of one child, fair and square. With the third, if there is, maybe the children and us will come to realize our Lord's grace deeper. But out of love for me, he hope if we ever have another child, may it be sooner than later so that it is not too strenuous for my body to go through another child-bearing process.</p><p>I could not say yes to him heartily but I have kept these conversations in my heart, and bring it God through prayers. "God, do you think it is a good thing that we have another child?" "Can we make it, without failing badly and embarrass You?" "Can I take it? The two kids are already driving me nuts most of the times as I battle with their increasing manifestation of sin." Little did I know while all these concerns seem valid, my heart was softened over time and I have also started desiring having the 3rd baby unknowingly...</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrRDtmQaPV7oTbx72dqwx31SLfXM21pzYA-qqsGKvVxGJ17Iv88rYwJM9i6RbJS9SKgXsg4W_ciy_j09EM_-2bkenEid9gbQVBPUXTdu1wjTECjxtLeiNStFmL_EMb4ioxACVSh2YEHutY7nnt9OYsyKwHPIVebJJwPU2Mviiy1EAi__owbhMjVxKQ=s4032" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrRDtmQaPV7oTbx72dqwx31SLfXM21pzYA-qqsGKvVxGJ17Iv88rYwJM9i6RbJS9SKgXsg4W_ciy_j09EM_-2bkenEid9gbQVBPUXTdu1wjTECjxtLeiNStFmL_EMb4ioxACVSh2YEHutY7nnt9OYsyKwHPIVebJJwPU2Mviiy1EAi__owbhMjVxKQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>Few months later, just the few days before Christmas, I found myself pregnant! How should I describe the feeling? It was a curry of mixed feeling of "oh no!" and "thank God!" and "God, this is Your reply to us as we bring the idea to you?" But we were so very happy, though intimidating, we were so so happy. It was like God answering a Yes/No to our prayer, and He gave us just before the year ended. It was like a gift to us, just in time during Christmas!</p><p>The body started to feel aches all over, and it felt so different than previous pregnancies. Perhaps I really have aged much over time. We decided to find a time to visit gynae earlier, right after TBRC. With full anticipation and gratitude, we prepared ourselves for The Blessed Run Conference (TBRC) and we couldn't be more thankful that the kids were not sick and were able to join childcare as TBRC began.</p><p>I would never forget TBRC 2021. We made our way quickly to church after sending the kids to childcare, and I saw Isabelle playing the keyboard for the worship. I was so so happy for her. I know it is a fight for her to be there, after becoming a mother of a just 1 year old toddler. There are so many things that call for our attention after a woman becomes a mother, most of them come from the child. I know she prayed to restore serving as well after becoming a mom, and seeing her on the keyboard was one of the little leaps of faith and commitment to God she strived to sustain. The sermon started on the right and necessary note, as Pastor preached about the BIG ASSUMPTIONS many Christians have - We already know. </p><p>However, midway while listening to the sermon, I felt something gushing out from me beneath. Something did not feel quite right. But I was not feeling any pain, so I gave myself a mental note to check it later during the toilet break. </p><p>To my horror, I saw blood when I went to the toilet. It was not a little blood, it was abnormal amount of blood for a pregnant woman. My heart sank and I broke into tears. I put a pad and went back to my seat at the conference. My tears just came down uncontrollably as I sat through the second sermon. The mind told me what was happening. Being a trained healthcare person, I know I could be having a miscarriage or threatened miscarriage. In any way, it is not a good sign. But if it is a miscarriage, there is nothing that I could do that can salvage what is to be lost. Going to the hospital right away might not help because no actions would possibly be taken in the next few hours; and I was already sitting down and not doing strenuous exercise which would not aggravate the situation. Knowing these didn't help the tears, my heart felt as if it was torn into million pieces knowing I might be losing it. All I could do at that time was to cry to God who is sovereign, He who gives also sustains if He wills. I continued to pay attention to the sermon preached but my heart continued to be troubled and sorrowful - God, help me to trust You come what may.</p><p>After the sermon, we had a blessed forum session discussing on the sermons preached in the morning. God seemed to let me forget the blood as the forum went on, we got so engaged in the sharing and discussions. Once the forum ended, I felt more gushing beneath and we know, it is time to head to the hospital. The tears just fell uncontrollably as soon as I stepped out of church. God, help me. I asked Wei En while he was driving me to KKH, "Can God not take away our baby?". He held my hands and asked me don't think so much, we will take it a step a time, God will lead us."</p><p>The wait at the hospital was expectedly long. We waited for near 2 hours. They tested my urine for pregnancy and I was found to be pregnant. I was so happy - its a good sign, I thought. But as the dr did an ultrasound for me at the bedside, he was not pleased at all. </p><div style="text-align: left;">He said, "You're pregnant, but I couldn't find the baby." <br />My heart sank. "Ectopic?" I asked. <br />"Perhaps but can't be sure, we need to do a more detailed scan, now. I'll arrange for it immediately." He replied.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The medical mind tells me most likely the pregnancy is at the wrong location, and it can't be kept if it's not in the womb. I cried. The sadness I felt then was so profound. Is there a word for it? How do you describe the feeling of once so very happy which turned quickly into so very sad with mourning? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I asked God to help me, but I don't know what kind of help I need. Help me God, walk with me God, let me see You walking with me and not lose heart. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I was wheeled to the radiology room. It was near childcare closing time and Wei En had to leave to pick up the kids to bring them home. We continue to do what we need, while waiting for more things to be revealed to us.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The scan was done. After that, they insisted to put me on a trolley bed and stopped me from eating or drinking. It did not feel good, honestly. Bedbound, fasting - all these are signs of KIV procedure/surgery. Sometimes knowing some, but not knowing the full picture, can torment a person's mind. If it wasn't for the Truth I know, the assurance of God who was with me and will continue to be with me, I would be so lost. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In this state, I waited for the final report of detailed scan for about 2 hours. In these 2 hours, I wept terribly under the blanket most of the times, mourning for what I had lost. I also prayed deeply in my heart, cried to God to relieve my sorrow and to give me courage to continue to do what I ought to do. I also spied on Joshua and Nathan through the home camera, feeling relieved knowing they returned home from childcare and were settling down with the help of husband, my sister, and my helper. I thought about the TBRC night session which I would miss, and I could not remember how many times I've asked God - Why? </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Why God gave and took it away?</div><div style="text-align: left;">Why God chose to take it away this way, and not just a straightforward miscarriage?</div><div style="text-align: left;">Why God gave when we consulted Him about having another child, and decided to take it away in the end?</div><div style="text-align: left;">Why now? </div><div style="text-align: left;">Why was the condition so complicated - I'd rather feel some extreme pain, at least I would leave with no choice but to go ahead with surgery immediately.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Why is it that despite knowing God is sovereign and good to His children, the sadness was so uncontrollably deep? </div><div style="text-align: left;">Why does it have to happen on us? Have I been sinning against God? </div><div style="text-align: left;">I thought I'm walking with God - why then do I suffer this way? I've done something wrong?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Strangely, it is not that I don't know the answers to these questions. My mind could answer these questions, I recounted God's timeless Truth to answer every single one of them. Yet, I caved in emotionally. I can't help it, the tears just came down from my cheeks, the heart just felt so painful. I could only ask God to help my emotions, help me in any way possible, help me to surrender to Him come what may. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Wei En came back for me after settling the kids. The doctor spoke to us.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Indeed, the pregnancy is at the wrong location near the fallopian tube, and no heartbeat was detected. It needed to be dealt with because the pregnancy cannot carry on, it would not develop into a full baby and it would be life threatening if let it be as the tube may rupture and I would go into severe bleeding. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So the treatment options for ectopic pregnancy are:</div><div style="text-align: left;">(1) Surgery to remove the affected tube - that will remove the immediate danger of tube rupture and terminate the pregnancy immediately. But it is invasive and needs general anesthesia and recovery process after it.</div><div style="text-align: left;">(2) Inject a chemo drug called methotrexate into the body - this chemo drug will kill cells, and terminate the pregnancy. But it is a chemo, hence all other areas of body will be subjected to the side effects of the drug and if one conceives in the next 3 months, the baby will have congenital defects. With this approach, it will still take time for the pregnancy hormone to reduce and become 0, but it should be faster, and shorten the risk for tube rupture.</div><div style="text-align: left;">(3) Wait and let body take care of the pregnancy itself - because this pregnancy is unhealthy, the body knows it and will auto rejects it. It is possible for the body to terminate the pregnancy itself, but it will take a long time for the pregnancy hormones to drop to zero (not pregnant), and in this process the risk of rupture is high as it may continue to grow. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Dr hoped we could go with (2) if not (1), for (3) was too risky. </div><div style="text-align: left;">The information was familiar and correct. I digested it as a healthcare personnel before, but to digest it as a patient today was so difficult. Medically trained, I could understand where the Dr came from. The injection would be an option that could balance the risk and less invasive, it could also be something I would recommend right away in an ICU setting.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In the end, Wei En and I unanimously opted for option 3, though the Dr was not quite agreeable. To take the injection to terminate the pregnancy myself was not possible for me at that time - I could not bring myself to do it based on one scan report, especially when conclusion is drawn by postulations. Secondly, I have not felt any pain thus far, this was a sign that the obstruction not too serious or less obstruction, and tube rupture may not happen. Thirdly, there is something more than we know about our body that is gloriously created by God, we should wait awhile more (if within safe limits) to see how body deals with it. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">We left the hospital that day around 9pm. Sad but composed; tired but moving on.</div><div style="text-align: left;">At home, I saw the 2 kids sleeping soundly, not knowing about the possibility of another sibling. But I am so thankful. It is true - 我们本来是没有的. But we already have two, and we are doing right to raise them up in the Lord. God has given us a lot.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">God gave me a good sleep that night, for I woke up the next day feeling rested, and less sad. I don't know how, but I believe God has done something in my spirit while I was asleep. God took care of me, and I have to learn to lean totally on Him, He was carrying the heavier load, and I was carrying the lighter load. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><br /></div><div>"Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." Mt 11:28-30</div><div><br /></div><div>There was nothing I could do but to adhere to instructions given by the gynae, i.e to return every 2 days to check the pregnancy hormones to ensure it was dropping, and to have ultrasound to ensure the mass not growing and posing the risk of rupture. At any point, if I feel sharp pain, to rush to A&E immediately as it is likely to be tubal rupture and surgery is necessary.</div><div><br /></div><div>We could join the TBRC on 2nd day again, and immersing in the Word of God instead of letting the minds run wild endlessly is good. We enjoyed the sermons and interactions with brethren, and we received a lot of prayer topics for future. It felt as if God had temporarily suppress the matter in my mind, as there were many things that I could focus on. That evening, Nathan came home with a bloody eye. He had knocked himself in school and teacher hoped that we could bring him to dr for a check.My heart skipped a beat when I saw him, but amazingly, as we prayed with him, God calmed my anxious heart. We managed to get him checked at a GP nearby. He was happy and running through it all. Daddy left for the final TBRC session and I was streaming in while putting the 2 kids to sleep. Before Joshua slept, he choked himself on a vitamin C pill and kept coughing. He was very bothered by it and kept coughing, and I too was bothered. Why did all have to happen at the same time? I did first aid on Joshua but he still couldn't spit it out, and he still kept coughing but talking. From my assessment, I think he is safe and the airway is not obstructed, since we could not get it out, I told him we just had to pray and ask God to help him to go through this process. Perhaps God wanted to draw his attention because he has been behaving quite rebelliously lately. I asked if he would like to pray and he said yes. We both prayed and asked God to help us because there was nothing we can do but to look to Jesus, because He loves us and will not leave us. May we come to know the good things God is doing through the incidents.</div><div><br /></div><div>Sometimes, I think the prayer is more to calm an anxious mother's heart more than anything. I hope God humbles the two kids through their little huddles, and they will be brought to depend on God more and more. </div><div><br /></div><div>Right now as I write this, my medical file has not closed yet. That first visit was the beginning of many follow-ups that were to come. Each visit, we could spend up to 6 hours waiting at the hospital for blood test results, scan reports, and discussion with the drs. God let me see a lot of things during the lengthy hours of waiting. I saw parents visiting their hospitalized kids who were unhealthy physically - some are having feeding tubes through their noses; some are not quite normal and undergoing treatment. I saw victims of sexual assaults at the urgent O&G, and I also saw expecting mothers weeping away. I could never imagine if I were to handle a stillbirth too. Perhaps God knows that I cannot take it, that's why He did not let me go through it.</div><div><br /></div><div>Actually, I feel very ashamed at my own sadness. There are many others who are going through tougher journeys than me, there are many others who are grieving for their loss and they may not even have any child yet but I already have two kids. Simultaneously, I feel so thankful for the Truth I have received in Christ, for without which, there would be no hope, no comfort, and no purpose in the process I am made to go through. Do they also have the Truth I've received? Do they find comfort from the Creator our God? Do they receive strength from the Holy Spirit who is interceding for us with wordless groans even when we have run out of words to cry for help or pray? I earnestly hope so. </div><div><br /></div><div>On my 1st return to the hospital for check 2 days later, the pregnancy hormones dropped by 20%, it was good sign. Nonetheless, the Dr still asked us to consider the injection as it would be faster closure. Mentally, it isn't that I disagree with her, but clinically I was not having any pain and the body was taking care of itself, I truly wished it would just settle this way and save myself from a chemo injection. </div><div><br /></div><div>On my 2nd return another 2 days later, the pregnancy hormones did not drop significantly, and the scan showed it seemed to grow by 1cm. The Dr urged us to take the injection immediately. After going through much discussion, we still maintained our decision to wait. I told the dr honestly that I was not oblivious to their concerns, I was aware of the risk vs benefits of each decision. As a medical personnel, I shared their concerns. I know they are doing their job, after all, I have been carrying a time bomb since the beginning of pregnancy. But as a person with faith, my husband and I are convinced that God has led us this far, and without obvious pain and the hormones still decreasing albeit slow, we could still wait and observe how the body took care of it. They wanted to admit me for monitoring but I declined because I have two young kids at home and I could monitor myself, so we signed the consent form to release ourselves. It was a Saturday, first day of 2022. I can't wait to be with the kids, we have put them in church before heading to hospital, I hope they were doing well. We did not expect the visit would take so long and it lasted till night. At church, their favorite uncle yong took care of them well and got them food on our behalf, and they were enjoying themselves in Sunday School. Thankful for the community of faith. It's such blessing to be able to grow up in a community marked by God's grace, it's God's grace that they can be exposed to the Gospel since young. I hope they will grow up to be godly men for God.</div><div><br /></div><div>Nonetheless, that night, I went home feeling sad. I asked myself why did I feel so? Perhaps I have hoped for a more positive results from the blood test and scan to confirm my decision, I have placed my hope on some sort of improvement that I was expecting, thinking God would not give me another blow. But after searching my heart, and a hearty talk with my husband, I found out that I was sad because I have hoped for something else other than God <i>alone.</i> I have hoped for God be with me + good progress in this ectopic pregnancy journey. If I have fully surrendered to God in this process, I would be okay with whatever results revealed to me. If I have fully rested in the fact that all that is from Him is good, why would I feel sad and down-casted? I broke down that night, and I asked God to sanctify me, sanctify my wait, and sanctify my obedience. I prayed that He could lead me to a stage that I would delight in <b>just</b> knowing God alone and made Him my greatest treasure, not in certain positive outcomes I have secretly harboured.</div><div><br /></div><div>I slept that night knowing God heard my prayers, He uplifted me the next day. Gradually, God worked in our hearts and made us incline towards surgery, the "worst" option, and we saw the good in this option. After all, whether I took the injection or chose to wait on it, the whole process would be lengthy and required frequent followups until the pregnancy hormones dropped to zero and mass disappeared. </div><div><br /></div><div>We went back to follow up together 2 days later again. By God's leading, we took injection that day and I was warded for a day of observation. The decision was made with assured hearts, the hormones are coming down but still in 200 plus, though we could wait but the follow ups are taking too much time. Hence we received the methotrexate injection to speed up the process. I think it’s time to move on. That night, in the ward, I had a good time with God while Wei En took care of the kids at home. We are working on the same thing, but at different place. The Lord strengthened my heart.</div><div><br /></div><div>Though I still have to return weekly for monitoring, I think we have grown much from it. Thinking back, we did not regret the decision made at each juncture. I thought of many brothers and sisters with illnesses. When they were informed about their diagnosis and possible treatment options, how did they face the situation? I believe it must have been difficult for them to reach a decision. In medical world, when most things are about risk vs benefit, and dr's liabilities, sometimes information given can have its biasness. I guess we are glad that we did not succumb to the pressure from the drs to "do something about it", as we just wanted to make sure we heard the still voice of God in all the rush and impromptus moment. I realized that in our Christian living, it is often not the decision we made but the process of seeking God that builds our faith. One will not regret his decision if he has chosen to walk with God in the process. </div><div><br /></div><div>Yet, sometimes when I feel really weak inside, I still cried to God and asked if He could just reverse all that had happened. Can He not give me such a pregnancy experience? He surely could, but He still gave it to me. </div><div><br /></div><div>I remember in the book of Job, the godly Job suffered because God recommended him to Satan. It is a <b>test</b>. Do we fear God and walk in His way because God has sheltered and protected us in all things? When test comes, though it can be difficult and awful, the Truth we know and have learnt reminds us that the one who is in-charged of the test is not Satan, but God. There may be trials and sufferings that we feel painful, and we might not know the reason but it is of greater importance that we trust Him that He has got it. He brought us through seasons to grow our faith and our dependence on Him. I must confess that I am not godly as Job, I don’t deserve what he deserved. But as I look to the story of Job and reflect on my own journey, God exposed a lot of impurities within me which I need to deal with. What drives my walk with God - good outcome, or God Himself? When I seem to obey God, is it because I honour God for who He is, giving due credit and glory to Him alone, or because of the rewards or good that may come along with my obedience? </div><div><br /></div><div>I believe in a Christian’s walk, it’s easy to obey God and give glory to God when things are good; but when things turn unexpected and as one is still struggling to go through it, to obey God and to give glory to God because God still reign, can be very difficult. It is counter-nature, and only through the Spirit’s intervention and help can one do so. However, just because it is difficult does not mean it is bad - God refines His children with love, through these struggles. When we are exposed to the impurities within us, and bring them to God, we are closer to victory in Christ. </div><div><br /></div><div>Honestly, at each checkup after the injection, I still feel sad when I returned to monitor the condition. I secretly wished it could be a simple miscarriage which does not need so many follow-ups, but God has ordained this process. I told Wei En, it was hard for me when I am shown to be pregnant from the hormones check, but I won't be having a baby in the end. He comforted me through John Calvin's biography. John Calvin and his wife were pregnant 3 times, but they had miscarriage x1, lost a daughter at birth, and delivered a son who would die at 2 weeks of age. Calvin later wrote, <span style="color: #2b00fe;">"The Lord has certainly inflicted a bitter wound in the death of our infant son. But He is Himself a father and knows what is good for His children."</span> This brought great comfort to me, and really encouraged me to move on knowing that there are great giants of faith who had harder times than me, and they still saw the glory and goodness of God through those sufferings, and God had not disappointed them.</div></div><p>God granted me some restful period and I could dive deeper into His Word, I enjoyed these moments. As I pray for wisdom and fixed perspectives in raising my own children, I also pray that I could love and nurture those children whom I will engage in Sunday School. As I think about Joshua, Nathan, and other children, it further engraves in my heart that though I hope to love and protect them from harms and dangers, I cannot safeproof things at all times. In their trying moments, they need to struggle through those moments with the God they know. I hope to teach them about God well, and may God regenerate them in His time so that they can call upon God themselves in all things. There is no safer refuge in this world other than the Truth of God. </p><p>Was reading some first catechism with Joshua and I was reminded once again the reason we could glorify God in all situations. It's because <span style="background-color: #ffd966;">God made us and takes care of us. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhm6HanLQRoH9hbYWFpGVBzXm2ZyXTh1jARKVx_KO6LoBiDLvuyG2D4vURIbppST0vYv6zlFGsuKFitYbkjx-kgcC1YmFRwdnWW2pUgv6dKKuGOqw0B5tg0n0zHm-m7AoV9A5YjvnZtIdCI5atHO8Ejk8VKDLtMPz5E31zHOsw9IWVJ0S8AWyt4zump=s4032" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhm6HanLQRoH9hbYWFpGVBzXm2ZyXTh1jARKVx_KO6LoBiDLvuyG2D4vURIbppST0vYv6zlFGsuKFitYbkjx-kgcC1YmFRwdnWW2pUgv6dKKuGOqw0B5tg0n0zHm-m7AoV9A5YjvnZtIdCI5atHO8Ejk8VKDLtMPz5E31zHOsw9IWVJ0S8AWyt4zump=s320" width="240" /></a></div>God's providence is such a great encouragement and assurance to our Christians' living. No wonder John Calvin said, <span style="color: #2b00fe;">"It is a great thing to be subject to the majesty of God</span>." <i>Amen.</i><p></p><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>hooi chinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961565016530264053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144085987312615403.post-46438440022761615652022-01-14T12:27:00.031+08:002022-01-14T15:28:00.253+08:00Why Church History? <p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6rZ80yS2pDJdrOnO4jgnE6O9zjJ4Tla0ziWJRNoyDFp7AlSJHBYj3ray0AwDbV7RtShPV6uB0LFkdiGQJ_oRd3JaY-gVC7fMFjzqxl3ZNAdtrRE1u2u1b8OILSxrkZRg4hyYaobfjvpo//" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="700" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6rZ80yS2pDJdrOnO4jgnE6O9zjJ4Tla0ziWJRNoyDFp7AlSJHBYj3ray0AwDbV7RtShPV6uB0LFkdiGQJ_oRd3JaY-gVC7fMFjzqxl3ZNAdtrRE1u2u1b8OILSxrkZRg4hyYaobfjvpo//" width="320" /></a></div><br />Some Christian believers felt that church history is not important. What's important is what the Bible says. While I hold strongly to the supreme importance of the Bible, I must confess that church history is also very weighty and important in Christians' living. On retrospect, when I recount my time in seminary, I felt I learnt theology more from church history than systematic theology, although on hindsight, I wish I could study church history deeper and not just surface-scratching.<p></p><p>The Bible reveals to us what took place since the beginning of world and God's redemptive work through man's history after fall. 2000 years later, no matter how glamorous this world appears to be, God's people are to always remember we are living in the backdrop of Genesis-Revelation. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 reminded us, " All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work." In fact, there is no other religion / faith in this world that possess utmost privilege like Christians, who are personally directed by God in all things through His very own revelation. There is also no other religion in this world that knows exactly how to reach out to <i>god</i>, but we Christians know we can reach the throne of God by prayers, because our Lord Jesus personally taught us how to pray. Indeed, it will be foolish for Christian believers to not hold onto the Word of God as lifeline - for what hope do we have, what lasting benefits can we receive, if we do not hold fast to the living Word of God?</p><p>What about church history? </p><p>Some argue that because Bible is all-sufficient, we do not need to care about church history. However, acknowledging the all-sufficiency of Bible does not mean we have to reject church history. They are not contradictory. The Bible is about man's history - history is important and has precious teaching values. When we dive into church history, we will be greatly humbled by it as we saw how God's bride, the church, has always been suffering internal woes and external afflictions of all kinds . Yet, the sovereign God who binds His people by His covenant, has always been working through the church history and raised up people who truly know His will to turn the church back to Him. Without looking at church history, we are risking ourselves to forget the biblical history remains valid and active today, because we see no continuation after apostles' death.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9RLdlIg4-_KJbCcxZ3VpnsXw5Pg0Nj7mAyF59pCDNy5QHOfOTSWjo_YNSbt9Z3l17phLnkTxqfVKum1eZvf_Fh7q01J9wLXWdI641NovR1tyy0RvgEvAZaqgCbhSexZ96dtT__RrbYbg//" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="650" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9RLdlIg4-_KJbCcxZ3VpnsXw5Pg0Nj7mAyF59pCDNy5QHOfOTSWjo_YNSbt9Z3l17phLnkTxqfVKum1eZvf_Fh7q01J9wLXWdI641NovR1tyy0RvgEvAZaqgCbhSexZ96dtT__RrbYbg//" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>Indeed, there were many happenings over the last 2000 years that contributed to where, what, and who we are today. One big lesson I learnt from reading church history is God's sovereignty. Nothing could happen to the follower of Christ or in history, that is out of His reach. This includes the persecutions of God’s people because of their faith, the presence of false teachings, failing political powers and invasions that distracted the church from obeying their calling in Christ, corruption in church, and the divisions that occurred in God’s body (church) – all these are permissible by God and under His scrutiny because He is sovereign. Despite all these weaknesses and problems that infected the church after Christ’s ascension, the gospel continues to spread far and wide, entering new boundaries years after years, reaching places <span style="text-align: center;">where Christ’s name has never been heard, and churches built. This shows that God is sovereign in carrying out His will despite man's depravation and wickedness; it also shows that the sovereign God works through all circumstances and conditions to accomplish His good purpose so that He will receive the glory, and no man can boast about their own abilities in this. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggC8H0RyBv5mxxG5f3Pz99vRhRIskKLRhyphenhyphenIspiUKIbGD7Yko56zePzgImMwiCF_0vTynMZaFeH9Y6j0JYqyiK3H1OW47yth27475ub3gkzixAYb33wazDdNy1FqyZJGjHcNQMEZA_sfjk//" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="173" data-original-width="307" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggC8H0RyBv5mxxG5f3Pz99vRhRIskKLRhyphenhyphenIspiUKIbGD7Yko56zePzgImMwiCF_0vTynMZaFeH9Y6j0JYqyiK3H1OW47yth27475ub3gkzixAYb33wazDdNy1FqyZJGjHcNQMEZA_sfjk//" width="320" /></a></div><br />From church history, one will see that God is always refining His own church for His glory. God is the one who initiated reformation through people and circumstances. When people were lukewarm and absorbed in their own personal motives, God worked through chains of events to bring forth spiritual awakening in His body. Through the problems and hardships that afflicted the church, God had used them to purify His body by pushing the church to restore her identity as salt and light of the world. When the church leaders were weak and consumed by power fight, resulting in the Word of God not holistically preached and spiritual famine in His church, God in His providence raised up people like Martin Luther and John Calvin to bring forth the reformation movement. All these were taking place in God's time. Subsequently, the reformation also raised important leaders who worked towards solid and grounded preaching of the Word so that the laity could understand the revelation of God, and helped God's people to grow in knowledge and faith. Through these, God also refined the Catholic Church by bringing them to introspect on the divisions that occurred and the oppositions they faced, so that they would humble and seek God’s counsel. In God’s wise planning, God worked through Catholic’s counter-reformation to bring His good news to remote regions nonetheless – echoing the fact that God’s work will not be stopped by human’s folly or wrong-doings. Instead, God disciplines those He loves, and He also works for the good of those who loves Him, who have been called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28). God works through means and coordinates all events to bring history to its decreed goals. Sometimes we do not seem to see God, but God is there, placing each person in exactly the right place "for such as time as this" (Est 4:14, Eccl 3:1-11).<p></p><p>The church history also revealed to us that the work of devil through church history was aggressive yet subtle at the same time, and it could come from external as well as internal within the Church. Thus it is important to discern its work through the faithful study of the Word of God. The devil’s purpose has always been to create divisions in church and influence people such that they will depart from Truth and become vulnerable to Satan’s schemes. For example, the aggressive attacks on God’s people can come in the form of persecutions like that during post-Apostolic era, but it can also come in the form of heresies, corruption of church leaders, or liberalism that plague mankind today. Yet, the purpose of attacks has always been anti-Christ, stop the complete Word of God from being preached, and weaken the power of God in peoples' lives. Knowing this, it also warns us to be watchful of Satan's attack. For Satan is cunning and often masquerades as angels of light, we need to constantly introspect if the way we do church has been polluted by man-centered motives. We need to also check ourselves if our faith has been lukewarm and lacking the flame of God, causing us to lose the heart to do the work of an evangelist or be equipped in the Word of God? This constant introspection is important to believers who are living in a relativistic and pluralistic world today, and unless the Word of God is faithfully expounded, the darkness in the hearts can hardly be exposed and be corrected.</p><p><span style="text-align: center;">Finally, from church history, I learnt that the only reason the world continues and still exist today is none other than for God’s redemptive plan to be carried out, until the last elect is saved. God could wipe out the world when the papacy was extremely corrupted and failed to reflect the holiness of God, when the church was lukewarm and hardened; yet God did not do so but in His power, rise up another force such as Reformation and also Pietism for instance, so as to bring people spiritually alive again. With each renewal, we witnessed new doors of evangelism opened and new people uncovered and redeemed. Therefore, the reason that this world continues to exist is so that Christ lives in the hearts of His people and jointly fulfils the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20). Unless we align our purpose of life with God’s purpose, we will be vulnerable to devil’s scheme and lose out on God’s grace. </span></p><p>We have every reason to study church history. <span style="text-align: center;">Knowing these are important because what happened in the past serve as lessons for us, so that we grow wisdom from learning them and deter ourselves from falling into the same trap knowing the consequences that may ensue; at the same time, it also encourages us to continue to equip ourselves in the gospel truth through radical discipleship (grounding on the Word) so that we can also be workers whom God use to advance His Kingdom. </span><br /><br />Today, we stand on the shoulders of these giants of great faith. The clarity of gospel teachings we have now are crystallized through the faithfulness and blood shed of these clouds of witness. If we abandon our church history, we will lose out on seeing the hands of God in these 2000 years, how sad is that? When we are disillusioned by our present situations that look grim and thinking this is worst of times, a look back to church history enables us to remember that God's people have always faced extremely dark times, only to experience revival in the years that followed. </p><p>As we look at our spiritual ancestors from Biblical history and church history, we know -- it is possible to live by faith, by the grace of God.</p><p><br /></p><p><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">This is extracted from segments of the church history assignment which I wrote many years ago, posting here because it is an important milestone for 2022. </span></i></p><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>hooi chinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961565016530264053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144085987312615403.post-31870797616417802352020-02-15T23:13:00.001+08:002020-02-16T21:45:03.076+08:00Glorious Turning Point <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Without making the road trips back to our hometowns in Malaysia, this Chinese New Year definitely felt quieter and less festive. We barely gave out any <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ang bao</i>, but time flies when you are managing a newborn. I felt more tired than I were during confinement because of the regular breastfeeding and having to managed Nathan’s cries, but this is not more draining than what was to come.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">My elder sister returned home after spending a few days in KL with our family. We were excited for her return, as she would be able to tell us how the rest of our family was doing back home. CNY is a big thing in our family – we will spend more time together as our siblings from all over the places will gather in our parents’ house and the kids will flip the house upside down. It is also during CNY that we get to talk more with our nephews and nieces, and know how’s everyone doing. Most importantly, my parents are happiest when they see everyone back, and they will feed us continuously with their home-cooked food and tidbits. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">However, as soon as sister got back from Malaysia, she turned unwell. She started having high fever and cough. In our family, she is one of the strongest in health and we rarely see her coming down with illness requiring more than 2 days of absence from work. But this time it was different. After visiting the company dr, she was still coughing badly, and had high persistent fever for coming to 3 days. I could tell that she was not getting better and it would be better to see a doctor to re-assess her condition. She took my advice and went to the GP again. Few hours later when I texted my sister to find out how she was doing, she told me that they were referring her to A&E, and an ambulance was already on the way to pick her at the clinic. In my heart, I was thinking it could be pneumonia, and a chest x-ray would be necessary to confirm it, and the best place she could do it on a Sunday would be A&E. Knowing my sister, I knew she would feel a bit scared because in her entire life, she had never entered a hospital for treatment, and she probably had never imagined herself being transported to a hospital via an ambulance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Immediately, I packed a few of her essentials, kway teow soup, and took a Grab car to the hospital to meet her. Hubby and Joshua were in church, and I figured they should not come along as Wei en had to take care of Joshua, while I entrusted baby Nathan with my newly hired helper. At this juncture, Singapore was already picking up many coronavirus cases and all hospitals were geared up in their efforts to reduce transmissions. No children were allowed to come into the hospital for visitations, and strict hours of visitations were imposed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">As I reached A&E, I tried to identify when my sister was. My heart skipped a beat when they brought me to P1 area. Sometimes, my medical knowledge can let me think about the worst. My experience of working in hospital informed me that it was not good, for P1 is a resuscitation area and only very ill and unstable patients are placed there – for resuscitation and close monitoring. The walk to P1 area felt so long. Finally, I saw my sister. She was on nasal prongs, her breathing was laborious, and she felt lost. I looked at her vitals – her blood pressure was low, her heart rate was beating above 100 bpm, and her saturation was not too optimistic thus the nasal prongs for oxygen. The doctor updated me of her condition. I saw her chest x-ray and was horrified – bilateral consolidations in her lungs. In another words, both of her lungs were infected, and she was having a severe pneumonia! I was wondering how on earth someone healthy like her, with no other medical condition, could get such a bad infection in the lung. My sister asked me to explain what was going on and I did. This place was foreign to her; the condition was foreign to her; the treatment she was going to receive which involved injections etc were unfamiliar to her; hospitalization was something so remote in her mind before this, the billing issues, eligibility of subsidies and the medical insurance coverage were not something she had thought about. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Subsequently, she was sent to the general ward for pneumonia treatment. I comforted her that it could be nothing worrisome, just let the healthcare workers do their job and we pray for her speedy recovery. For the first time in her life, my sister stayed in the hospital. That evening, I informed the church and asked for prayers on behalf of my sister. We need prayers to tie us through this, and I felt sad leaving my sister alone in the hospital overnight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Over the next few days, she did not seem to improve. I could see that her breathing got more effortful, she was getting more tired, the fever never went away. No positive cultures to pinpoint the cause of infection, and the treatment remained empirical. Each day, the oxygen support continued to escalate. From a medical point of view, I knew I had to prepare her mentally by telling her what to expect if things continued this way. I needed to tell her she might need more invasive therapy such as mechanical ventilation in ICU in this acute period until her lung capacity improved. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdBnZAAopgbXiTNv5k2xN2XcG6iKGV4bgC-qk3UUEM3FK3rED3WIwpZUE8XgGpDu7i1sNmnFDYUNrbqfpisMUNYxPOe_he5YqoCGmzsBJAPYGG88FIMzUiJL78I_YIHoCnZbZVMcH9tbY/s1600/IMG_9228.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdBnZAAopgbXiTNv5k2xN2XcG6iKGV4bgC-qk3UUEM3FK3rED3WIwpZUE8XgGpDu7i1sNmnFDYUNrbqfpisMUNYxPOe_he5YqoCGmzsBJAPYGG88FIMzUiJL78I_YIHoCnZbZVMcH9tbY/s320/IMG_9228.jpg" width="320" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">As an ICU pharmacist, I have taught my juniors about intubation many times, and gave mini-talks on ICU care. But when I had to tell my sister about it, explained to her the procedure and what to expect, it was actually very heart wrenching. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I remember my sister telling me she really hoped to avoid going into ICU.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> It was </span>heart-breaking for me,<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> I did not expect my sister’s condition would be this bad. It was very </span>heart-breaking, <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">because I felt so painful for my sister for having to go through all these invasive </span>treatment<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> but they were all necessary. It was very heart-breaking, because although I know God is sovereign and will surely heal my sister, my heart still </span>feel<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> painful for my sister. At this time, my parents were already in Singapore. They were worried about my sister and thus drove to Singapore to visit. They were saddened by how sick my sister was, and was asking me a million of questions such as if she was given the best care, were the doctors and nurses competent, why did my sister end up this sick, could it be coronavirus </span>etc etc<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">. I confessed, I was overwhelmed by my sister’s illness and the need to manage my parents too. I could not lie to my parents about my sister’s condition, yet I could not tell them the possibilities of what could happen because they would be so so sad. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">My heart sank on the night I told the doctors I felt that my sister would be better if she could be sent to ICU. I have seen my sister deteriorating over the days, I have seen how hard she tried to catch a breadth and it only became harder, I have seen how tired my sister had become – it was as if she had been running a long marathon on the bed. She was so breathless, struggling so hard to remain conscious and respond to our calls… The medical team also made the decision to refer her for ICU care, as she was too unstable to be managed in the general ward. I assured her that putting the breathing tube in to replace her own effort of breathing would help her, she would not be so tired if she was on the ventilator. With tears, I prayed with my sister at her bedside, and we invited our mother to pray with us in Jesus name. The tears just fell uncontrollably as I prayed, though I know God would take care of my poor sister, my heart still felt so so sad. I entrusted my sister into God’s healing hands, and assured her that God would be by her side through it all, and so were we. I could tell that my sister was fearful, but at the same time, I could tell that my sister was calling upon God ceaselessly in her Spirit. With that, she was pushed to ICU.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">She was pushed into the isolation room in ICU, and the ICU team was preparing to intubate her. I saw the familiar intubation kit, push carts, medications<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– they felt so scary at that moment, because I knew they were going to be used on my sister. I asked them if I could have another 5 minutes with my sister before she would be totally sedated, the doctor kindly agreed but urged me to be quick as my sister was tiring out. I quickly ran into the isolation room. My sister was trying very hard to talk and she told me she felt so so cold. She was actually having a fever… I wept. I said another prayer for my sister, holding hers and my mother’s hands. I asked God for His abounding grace to be on my sister and He would give her the peace for what was to come, and that she could hear God’s loving voice despite the pain that was to come. I assured her that she is greatly loved by God, and God will not forsake her. I told her I love her – something I have never told her, and I thought there would never be an occasion I would say such thing. We then left the room, as the team of doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists, all fully-suited, went in to intubate her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">My parents were shaken. I could tell that my outwardly-strong but innerly-vulnerable father was in despair, and he broke down in tears. My mother was weeping since the day my sister was admitted to the hospital, and more so when she was pushed to ICU for intensive treatment. They were still processing all that were going on, and the fear of potentially losing their precious daughter overwhelmed them. I could only comfort them, telling them that sister was in good hands, and Jesus would help our sister. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">A few hours later, the nurse allowed us to visit my sister by standing at the glass door. I asked my parents to stay at the lobby to wait, for I knew they were not ready to see the condition my sister was in. In the ICU, I saw the familiar tubes and machines, but the unfamiliar sister. She must be feeling so uncomfortable with the breathing tube inserted through her throat, the feeding tube through the nostrils, the urine catheter, and the big catheter at the neck area. The propofol was running at 200 mg/hr, a very high dose of anaesthesia, but my sister was still struggling. The fentanyl was running at 100 mcg/hr, also a very high dose of analgesia. For someone who cannot even take alcohol well, the doses given to her were very high and she could still struggle – she must have felt so awful. I wanted to bolus a few more doses of propofol and fentanyl to end her struggle, but I realized I was not a pharmacist there but only a patient’s relative. The nurse kindly allowed me to enter with protective gears. I went into the room and came to my sister’s bedside. I surveyed her hands, legs, face, and every single part I could see – but there was nothing I could do. Having covered ICU as a pharmacist for so many years, I thought I knew all these stuff well, but the emotional aspect of dealing with an ICU patient who is your very own loved one, was not something I was well trained in. It felt so raw, so toxic, so awful, so helpless, and you could only pray and pray. I prayed with my sister, holding her hands that felt so cold. I kept rubbing her hands against mine to give her some warmth, but they still felt so cold. The ventilator settings showed ARDS lung protective ventilation, and I believe they would paralyze her later to totally knock her out. The doctor also prepped me for the worst, as they were considering ECMO, the last resort, if her oxygenation remained bad. I told God that I was not prepared to lose my sister, although heaven is a better place. I hope she stays, for now at least, if it fits into God's perfect plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">That night, for the first time in my life, I asked my non-believing parents to pray to Jesus with me. We have been praying all these years for our parents to know Jesus, and I believe this is especially important to my sister. My sister has been a faithful child of God all this while, and I am sure this trial is not punitive but to reveal the great glory of God. Indeed, that night, I saw the glory of God as my parents humbled themselves and prayed with me. The forces of darkness was gradually broken through the cross carried by my sister. I could see the helplessness of my parents, they just hoped that our Lord could save her, even if it means they were to pray to Him. Indeed, the end of man is the beginning of God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">I received a call from ICU early in the morning. An infectious disease doctor informed me that my sister was tested positive for coronavirus. I was stunned. Very, very, stunned. How could it be? She had no exposure with people who returned from China, neither did she travel there. How could it be possible? In addition,there were not many cases in Singapore at that time, and how would my sister contribute to the statistic? The doctor told me that they had started anti-HIV medication, Kaletra, on my sister, but this therapy was not proven as it was still in investigational phase. But they gave it to my sister for whatever its worth, as her condition was critically ill and unstable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Soon after I put down the call, the epidemiologist called to get more information about my sister’s contact and travel history for the past 2 weeks. After that, MOH called. I remembered receiving multiple calls from so many parties – CID, MOH, and the hospital. They could call multiple times a day to get some information. As I updated my family about my sister, everyone was shocked. My eldest brother who was on the way to the airport to fly to Singapore could not board the plane, as he had to report himself to be screened, for he is a healthcare worker. His family was quarantined, so were my eldest sister and her family in KL. I was informed that no visitor was allowed to visit my sister from now. Moreover, MOH was sending ambulances to my house to bring us for screening. They would be sending me and baby Nathan to KKH, while my husband and parents were sent to TTSH for screening. However, they decided not to send Joshua and my helper for screening. Before we knew it, the ambulances were under my block and the people with protective gears were at my door. Things happened too quickly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">I asked them to give me a few minutes as I prepped my family on what’s going on. My parents were obviously fearful, and worried. They asked me what would happen. Actually, I also did not know what to expect – eg how long will we be sent away, will they admit us, will we be quarantined there or somewhere, what is happening to Joshua and my helper if none of us were at home over the next few days etc. However, all these seem trivial compared to the need to look to God. I asked all, including my non-believing parents, to be seated at the dining table. I prayed for my sister, that by God’s grace and perfect timing, she would improve and recover. As nobody can now visit her, she must have felt lonely in an unfamiliar place. I asked God to have mercy on her, and let her feel His presence more strongly than ever. I also prayed for my parents that peace be upon them, and assured them that God would surely protect our family from the virus. I also asked God to watch over Joshua and my newly hired helper -- although I fought very hard to bring them along with me, it was rejected. I could only entrust them into God’s loving hands. After praying, we parted ways and went with the ambulances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">I updated our church for prayers while I was in the ambulance with Nathan. I believe God heard our prayers in tears and would not let us undergo trial that is beyond our capacity. Though I am weak and helpless, my heart had peace that transcends all understanding, only because I know God’s plan must be perfect, loving, and very good, no matter how horrible our circumstances are and how incomprehensible things could be. He will surely lead us with His pleasing and perfect will, only do not lose hope in Him. He is still in control. I were more certain than ever that God is bringing my parents closer to salvation through our circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">As we reached the respective healthcare institutions, they assessed us and decided to admit me, Nathan, and Wei en; while my parents could be sent home/ quarantine center for quarantine after swabbing for the virus. Just then, I received a call from my helper – in her barely competent English. I could tell from her tone that she was scared, as she told me some police officers were outside my house and had asked to enter the house. I took a look at the home camera and saw a few people standing outside. I told my helper that nobody was to come in because only Joshua and herself were at home, and they should call me directly if anything urgent. Soon, I received a call and they claimed to be from MOH. They had come to issue home quarantine order (HQO) to Joshua and my helper. They needed them to sign the HQO. I told them Joshua and my helper are incompetent to sign – Joshua is not even 2 years old, and my helper cannot even read or write English. I asked to read the terms in the HQO – and was told that both of them were to remain in the master bedroom for 14 days. They could not come out, or would be deemed to breach the law. I was stunned. How about their meals? They said, “maybe you could ask the maid to order delivery”. I was very angry. How could I ask my helper who could not read English to order delivery? She does not have a functional data phone. Even if there is delivery, they cannot step out of the master bedroom to get the food from the door. I told them to leave my house, and I would settle the rest. After putting down the phone, I asked the Dr at A&E to please bring my son and helper along for screening. My son attends a childcare and is having some nasal symptoms, so is my helper. How could everyone be screened except them? Wouldn’t the parents from my son’s childcare be concerned knowing he stays with his aunty who has been tested positive with coronavirus? Feeling helpless, I asked God what should I do to help everyone, what should I do to help Joshua and my helper. God had mercy on me and showed favor through the doctor. The doctor assessed my situation and deemed it important to screen them as well. Immediately, he called the ambulance to go and fetch Joshua and my helper to KKH. We were then warded to test for the virus - Nathan and myself in one isolation room, while Joshua and my helper in the isolation room beside me. I could hear Joshua's voice from the other side of the wall, but I could not see him. However, I was very comforted - if God made it this way, this would be the best arrangement for us at the time being.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">God did not give us another wave of trial. We were all tested negative for the virus. Wei en, Joshua, and my helper were discharged home on the 3<sup>rd</sup> day when two results came back negative for coronavirus. Nathan, however, had diarrhea and the dr wanted to keep him for further test to ensure it is not coronavirus. I stayed with him for another night before we were discharged and sent home by Certis. We received HQO for another week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">As I am writing this, my sister is still in the hospital isolation ward because of the persistent presence of virus in her body. She has recovered tremendously and is stable to be discharged from ICU. If God allows, may her virus be eradicated totally and she can be discharged home soon. She’s more loved than she knows, and more missed by us that she knows. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">As I reflected on what happened, my heart is full of thanksgiving and I see the faithfulness of God through it all. When He allows trials into our lives, He is also walking with us through the trial, strengthening us with His promise. In fact, He has already prepared His children for the trial that is to come. God is right when He promised no temptation has overtaken us that is not common to man. God is faithful, and He will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation He will also provide provide a way out, so that we are able to endure it (1 Co 10:13). </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></span> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">When my sister was heavily ill, the whole church was mobilized to pray earnestly for her and my family. God also convicted me that their prayers and my prayers in tears were not wasted. God will not despise a broken and contrite heart (Ps 51:13). In the entire process,</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> God has sent many people to help and comfort us in many different ways – some outwardly, while some quietly assisting us in the background. I told my sister, perhaps I am made an ICU pharmacist for such a time as this, and for her. Over the years, God has equipped me with acute and critical care experiences so that I know what to expect, and able to work under pressure. If not, I believe I would have crashed when things happen one after another. God also builds my networks in ICU, and I have made good friends over the years. When my sister turned very ill, these friends and bosses offered help by giving me timely update about my sister, helping me to connect with relevant people who were taking care of her, and helped with my parents’ screening. They offered me words of consolations and prayed for our family.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: "times new roman";"><i>For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare[b] and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. (Jeremian 29:11)</i></span></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">I would never forget how God provided ways to comfort and encourage my sister while she was battling in ICU alone. The doctors told me that she was resisting against the ventilator as they weaned down the sedation, as such, they were unable to reduce much of the sedation due to her agitation. With high sedation it would also mean she would continue to depend heavily on the machine for breathing. I wished I could be there to talk to my sister and comfort her, but none of us could go near her due to our circumstances - we were all quarantined and nobody was allowed to visit her. As I prayed for my sister, God opened ways through a friend made in ICU at my workplace. She could help to send voice clips to the team of doctors in charge of my sister. I recorded an audio clip and wrote a message for my sister, mainly to comfort my sister and encouraged her to hold onto the hope in Christ. I also consoled her that all these would not be in vain, and God would use her suffering for God’s good intentions. I also told her that our parents were not resistant towards Christianity through her ordeal, and she needed to co-operate with the medical team by not fighting against the ventilator. Few hours later, I was told that my sister had listened to the voice clip, and she gave a <span style="color: red;">thumb up. </span>That night, I felt so encouraged and I believed my sister too. Indeed, God had mercy on us and He gave us signs of His continual presence. Over the next few days, the team told me that my sister was no longer agitated, it was as if she had calmed down tremendously and they were able to wean down the sedation. Her ventilator requirements also reduced day by day. Her condition was also improving. Indeed, when we turned to Lord, He who reigns above all will take charge and show us He is sovereign despite human limitations and helplessness. When nothing seems to work, pray. Prayers will truly move our loving Father’s hands. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Not only so, when crisis like this hit our family, our church brethren also stepped up and love us in every possible way. Some helped us with daily groceries; some helped by sending audio speaker to the hospital so that Christian songs and hymns could be played in the ICU room as my sister was all by herself; and some also helped to send the handphone and spectacle to my sister when she was no longer sedated and able to sit up. I am thankful that when the society was thrown in fear because of the increasing infected cases, it is such actions of love from faith in Christ Jesus that shines so brightly. In trial, the genuine love of brethren was so evident, and that was the best way to evangelize to my non-believing parents. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">As I recounted what happened, Wei En and I confirmed many things together. Just end of last year, we were praying how we could serve as a family unit, how could we be versatile in our serving despite having young children, and how we could continue to grow spiritually. I realized we are serving a family ministry. While I went to the hospital, ministering to my parents, and take care of my baby, my husband will look after Joshua so that I can focus on the things I need to do. When I was tired or received some setbacks while ministering to my parents, my husband would be there to support me by giving me the vision, and encouraged me by telling me how he had walked through similar route ministering to his once-devoted Buddhist cousin who is a Christian now. We also realized our perspective towards many things have changed because of the Gospel we received.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">For example, before my sister was admitted to ICU, I was running between hospital and home at every 4-5 hours interval. I needed to rush home to express breastmilk or nurse my baby because I could not bring Nathan along with me. Sometimes, I could not come back in time because of circumstances. My milk supply was abundant during confinement, but it slowly decreased over time as I could not nurse regularly. However, I realized I was not as uptight as I used to be, when I first had Joshua. God had renewed my perspective that being able to nurse my baby, though important, was not more important than being there with my sister and my parents. I had decided, if my milk supply became insufficient, I would readily give formula milk and not feel any guilt about it. Nathan will grow up nonetheless, because it is not my milk but the Word of God in his life that matters – the Word of God makes him wise, not my milk. People asked me to avoid hospital as I have a newborn, the rising fear of coronavirus and risk of other infections in a hospital setting should be considered. Being a medically trained person, I totally understand the risk and the concern was not invalid. But strangely, I am not afraid. The perfect love of God drives out any fear – my sister needs me, more than anyone else, more than Nathan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">When we were in isolation in hospital, I was physically drained looking after Nathan all by myself. He cried every 2 hours, needed to be breastfed every 2 hours, and the diarrhea did not help the situation. Being in isolation means the nurse would not check on me regularly to reduce the risk of exposure to infection. At one point, I thought I was going to die from exhaustion. Looking back, it must be God strengthening me through my period of isolation with Nathan. I looked at Nathan who was sleeping in the hospital bed, he was only 6 weeks old. This scene felt so familiar, because Joshua was also hospitalized at a very young age of 2 months plus for meningitis.</span></div>
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It further dawn on me that our children indeed grow up in an era that is more turbulent and dangerous than before. I remember Nathan was inside my womb when I had to attend WORLD conference in Hong Kong, a place known for violence and unrest due to demonstrations. However, God preserved us nonetheless. Though both of them went through “much” in such a young age, God convicts us greatly through their encounters. Firstly, they are indeed remnants living in end times. Therefore, their focus cannot be worldly but on the kingdom of God. They have to preach the gospel even more earnestly than us, and do the work of Lord with the conditions given them. Secondly, these two sons do not belong to us, they belong to God. God, who brings them to life at such a time as this, will also raise them up – though we love them and care for them as parents, we can only entrust them to the Lord because He cares for them more than us. Thirdly, because they do not belong to us but Lord’s, they have to be sent forth for the gospel work. If not, they will be absorbed in the unnecessary worldly chase. Thefore, as parents, we need to teach them the Word of God and live a life of faith that is not abstract.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Through my sister’s illness, we further confirmed that God is indeed a timely God. He will not be a minute early, neither will He be a minute late. In the entire course of things, I witness a God who is so timely, such that His intervention will always bring about the results He intended. My parents would not be broken and humbled in the face of my sister’s ordeal, had God intervened and turned my sister around earlier; my parents would also be too devastated to even want to pray with me, if God had intervened much later. Indeed, who can fathom the wisdom of God? He is great beyond our knowledge, and He never disappoints.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">In James 1:2-4, we are reminded to “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">God, it is a privilege and honour to be deemed worthy of this trial. Your promises give us strength in trying moments, it drives us to love genuinely so that people can see the glory of God through your people. You refine us through Your carefully-crafted encounters. May our faith be refined through your loving fire, and we emerge as your children with endurance, character, and hope in God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Romans 5:2-5<br /> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Through him [Lord Jesus Christ] we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p>To me, ICU will never be the same anymore. I can relate to what Pastor Vincent said, "</o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">In our world now, we cannot eradicate all kinds of viruses, we cannot have full righteousness, we cannot make others understand our most genuine weaknesses. However, when we experience this situation first-hand, we realise how real <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">spiritual blessings </span></b>are.” </span></div>
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hooi chinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961565016530264053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144085987312615403.post-38926720807817067292017-06-17T08:40:00.001+08:002017-06-21T15:16:46.029+08:00Is the Bible trustworthy?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It is no surprise that people these days do not place highest regard on Bible (Scripture). Instead, we place highest regards on what we can see and feel, and make important and critical decisions in life according to the acquired knowledge we have, our intuition, or information gathered over the Internet. Over the years, we see people in and outside of church moves from trusting the inspired Word of God to trusting non-Biblical resources, including themselves. While there are many reasons to this observation, I would like to share one reason why I was deterrent of the Bible.</div>
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Being a self-acclaimed "intellect" myself, I used to struggle with many things about the Bible, especially when the Bible claims of things that do not reconcile with my acquired knowledge, feelings, or reasonings. In addition, I tend to wrestle with certain claims from the Bible when it challenges my scientific mind, some examples include the many phenomenon in the Bible like Joshua 10 "the sun stood still, and the moon stopped...." -- how can it ever be possible? How is the Bible faultless, reliable, and errorless when there are many contradictions? These doubts towards Bible deepen as reports on "did the Red Sea really part?" and questionable fall of Jericho wall appear as archaeological findings unravel bits and pieces that do not quite echo what is recorded in the Bible. I used to struggle with passages like how Jesus cast out demons on a child (Mark 9:14-29). The reason being, in my view, the people during that historical time did not know that the boy was experiencing a seizure ( in clinical term), and I could easily abort it with a dose of anti-epileptic -- but Jesus stopped this "seizure" with His Word.<br />
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style="height: 162px; margin-top: 0px; width: 312px;" /></a>Over time, I read less of the Bible, while exposing myself to other non-Biblical resources which I relate better with. They include my personal experience, sharings from others through various channels, what my spiritual mentors said and my feelings. I rarely go to God and ask Him to deal with the doubts I have of His holy book. It is no doubt that people do not read the Bible as much these days, for they do not trust the Bible enough to anchor all aspects of their lives onto it. As a result, when believers face problems, they follow what the Bible says when it is something they can trust, while following other methods when the Bible claims of things which they cannot really accept or trust.<br />
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<b>How trustworthy is the Bible?</b></div>
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In 2 Peter 1:21, it is said, "<b>for prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.</b>" <br />
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This verse has huge implications on us if we believe it, for Peter is telling us that -- <b>when the Bible speaks, God speaks. </b><br />
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Peter was a mere fisherman, how could his letters be the Word of God? Certainly, it is not what Peter said isolated-ly that mattered. Rather, it is what God was working through human agents like Peter to write those letters that mattered. The Bible is divinely inspired by God, in that <b>Holy Spirit (the Spirit of God) worked through human authors such as the apostles, prophets, and their distinctive conditions, such that the written words are the very Word of God. </b>Not that human is errorless, but God, being errorless, did not allow human to err even with their finiteness. This echoes the "omni'" and sovereign attributes we know of God. Even the apostles themselves recognize each others' letters as authoritative, calling the letters Scriptures (2 Peter 3:16). Therefore, the Bible is trustworthy because God remains the ultimate Author.<br />
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Being breathed out by God, the Bible is inerrant and trustworthy in its affirmations on <b>faith and living</b>, while not in particular seeking to affirm archaeological and scientific facts which bothered me for the longest time ever. In 2 Timothy 3:16, "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness."<br />
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I realized that in Joshua 10, the sun and moon appeared to stand still to Joshua at that point of time, it is as truthful as it seemed to him. When it happened, Joshua did not know the modern findings we will uncover today. Our current culture is different from that of Biblical times, and we carry our own perspective in reading the text. When we take this phenomenon reported in the Scripture as error, it is with respect to a reference point (e.g modern science). Description and reality can be very different. Similarly, description of the Red Sea parting and the reality parting of the Red Sea can be different. However, both are nonetheless pointing to the fact that God is intervening and working for His people.<b> It is a matter of understanding the parts in light of the whole (the heartbeat of God), </b>which is why we should not be impeded by the parts we do not know now, but continue to study the Word until we grasp the intentions of God in that text.<br />
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<b>What about the contradictions in the Bible? </b><br />
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The Scripture touches on historical and science-related matters, but it does not seek to affirm scientific infallibility. Similarly, the Bible recorded devil's speech or lies told by human such as Abraham's in Genesis 12 and 20, but it is not to affirm them. Neither does the Bible teach math like in 2 Chronicles, when describing the dimensions of the structures involved. It is not an archaeological, astronomical, mathematic, or medical book aim to teach in those areas. Nonetheless, the latter existed in history, reported in phenomenal language as truthful as they were to the author, yet it was not technical.<br />
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Fundamentally, the Bible is not meant to teach everything it touches on (e.g history, geography, math, science...), but on our <b>faith and living</b>, as written by Paul, ".. for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness". The Bible is inerrant in its affirmations, using the prevailing literary convention of authors' time, with the referent being God's purpose of writing that text. <b>In essence, the Bible drives us to act upon the Word (obey), not mere information provision.</b> Because the Word is the authoritative Word of God, we are called to test and approve, and obey after having understood it.Using various phenomenas, the Bible teaches believers to be "thoroughly equipped for every good work" (2 Timothy 3:17, 2 Peter 1:3), and is thus completely adequate for this purpose.<br />
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<b>What then can I get from the Bible? </b><br />
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The Bible, inspired Word of God, is like a road map to God. It is not a dictionary. It gives you an approximation of who God is. For instance, if you turn right, you will get to the destination. But it does not give you the exact description of how nice is the turn. If you follow it, trust upon it, it will surely lead you to God. <br />
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A famous theologian Barth once said, "Faith in Christ means trust, agreement, and knowledge of God." Trust is the main driving factor - trust the record, trust the spoken Words of Christ, and trust that God is superintending in the process of forming the Bible despite limitations of human. The knowledge is not the main driving factor but one of the supporting structures.<br />
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How do we view the reliability of the Word of God determines how we will interpret the Word of God, which subsequently impact how we walk with God. Indeed, the Bible carries tension, and has difficulty we cannot explain, which is why <b>Holy Spirit</b> is given us to help us understand the Word.<br />
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<i>"The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments...</i><b>"</b><i>(1 Corinthians 2:10-15).</i></blockquote>
Placing highest regard on the Scripture (Bible), though sound absolute and old-school, is nonetheless the most important way to safeguard our faith in Christ in a counter-Scripture era we are in today, where feelings and human reasonings trump. For we are fallen creatures (Romans 3:23), none of our feelings, discoveries, advancement in science, and knowledge can be the perfect benchmark to question the trustworthiness of the authoritative Word of God. When confronted with discrepancies which we have yet to resolve convincingly, we should humbly admit that we do not have all information readily and are truly limited. But by God's grace and persistent wrestling with God, they may be made available or reconcilable in future. Moreover, we also read the Scripture with our current existential thinking which can be different shades from the writer’s, so is the way we all perceive and describe the world to one another. There is indeed a lot to study and explore in understanding what God is affirming through the Biblical text. </div>
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So God taught me one thing over time - when we cannot understand the Bible, or when the Biblical statements sound unreasonable to us - <b>do not let our logics trump</b>. Go to God, wrestle with Him, and study His Words diligently with the church. Slowly but surely, God will open our hearts and minds to know Him better through His very own Word. You may be surprised, the living and active God may correct your presumptions and understanding through the Scripture itself. </div>
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It is no wonder that Moses called God's Word - <b>Life. </b><br />
I come to realise, I get <b>God </b>and <b>life </b>through the Bible.<br />
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<i>Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law. They are not idle words for you - <b>they are your life</b>. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess - Deuteronomy 32:46-47</i></blockquote>
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Without solid understanding of God's revelation of Himself in Scripture, how can we be sure that the spiritual influence we sense (e.g. changes in emotions, or "convictions") is truly from God?<br />
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Therefore, to avoid misguided reliance on the Holy-Spirit, study the Word of God diligently!<br />
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One may say, "I trust God, and Holy Spirit is with me!"<br />
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However, the Spirit actualises the fruits of our prayer and study, He does not replace it.<br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">When non-believers ask us, “Why do you read the Bible? Why do you pray? Why do you go to church?” What will our response be? Because we inherit these practices from our parents, or because it feels “wrong” if we do not?</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A lot of people pray but forget Jesus. Many attend churches week after week, read the Bible in their designated quiet time, but neither do they see Jesus nor desire to live His life here today. Knowledge about what happened 2000 years ago seems to puff up with Bible reading, but faith is quenched along with love for God.</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Jesus demonstrated to His followers what it meant to live in this world. He characterized a spirituality that manifested both the human and divine dimensions. He lived an ordinary human life in a Jewish background, growing up like any young Jew of His time, and went through the rites of passages of Judaism. Yet, in His earthly living, He often spoke of the language of the Kingdom of Heaven. He preached and taught people about the Kingdom of Heaven, how people were called to live before God, and what life would be like under the rule of God. He also performed miracles that nobody doubted that He had authority. After resurrection, He continued to dwell with His disciples and spoke about the Kingdom of God. Jesus’s spirituality was distinctively a fusion of divinity in humanity. </span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">As Christians pursue spiritual growth, we should also ask – what it means to grow spiritually? It is to grow in the understanding of the incarnational nature of Christ, and pray to live like an incarnated Christ through the Spirit’s empowerment this moment, and it could mean:</span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Independence of human authority</b><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> – who gave Jesus the authority and power to drive out demons and healing the sick? The God who was with Him gave Jesus the power (Acts 10:38). Today, Jesus also gave His followers the same authority. We can also drive out demonic attacks on our thoughts, emotions, and living by exercising the authority given us, for the God who was present with Jesus is also here with us today. However, if we do not set time to be in alone with God, if we do not train our mind and heart to listen from Him and be taught by Him, cultivating our spiritual sensitivity to God’s voice, we will grow rusty and ignorant to the divine power indwelling in us.</span></span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The Great Inversion</b> – Contrary to what worldly people think as powerful (i.e money, reputation, fame, and possessions), God has a different definition to “being great". God sees the heart of following and loving God as great, no wonder Jesus rebuked, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight (Luke 16:15). Of noteworthy, I find that in Jesus’s teaching, He is always calling us to introspect, “Do we truly honor God, or ourselves in what we do? Do we truly love God, are we willing to take up our Cross and follow Him? Is our behavior echoing the heart of Gospel? </span></div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Complete security and freedom</b> – Not about having all, but having Jesus as my all. Believers often derive security from what we have, or our own preparatory work. Jesus did not have everything, He only knows the Father who is completely near to Him and whose provision and care that are beyond human imagination. Perhaps, to worry, is not seeing God for who He is, and how He is intimately related to every aspect of our life, working all things for our good. Christ's spirituality may be radically subversive of the world, but it is also a life of complete freedom. The world is full of human arrangement that is largely based on fear, programming human to operate out of fear, deriving security from things due to fear. But “Jesus had gone through death to destroy the one who had power of death, thus setting free everyone whose lives were held in slavery by fear of death”. We are not under bondages of fear, it is for freedom that God sent His Son to the world, to die for us, to conquer death and resurrect to life. </span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Death to self</b> – This is not being ascetic, rather, we are relinquishing our old ways because our life is now saved by Jesus’s life (Romans 5:10), and we are desiring to<i> keep in step with the Spirit</i>. We live as new creations, and are under God's total care. We are contended in God’s hands for He is sovereign and in charge of all outcomes no matter how things may seem out of ways in human’s lens. It is out of love that we put to death our old ways of self-serving, our ideals, our expectations, our personal interests; it is out of love for God and others that we yearn to challenge our complacency and comfort zones by looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, and press on to live in the new way of Spirit. </span><br />
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I hope when opportunities come and people do ask me, I can grasp the chance and let them know, “because I need Jesus, and because by doing so I get to know Him more and more, and I pray by God’s grace and mercy, I can be more and more like Jesus, so that people around me can come to know Jesus through me too.”</span></div>
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hooi chinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961565016530264053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144085987312615403.post-68605200947446822922016-08-13T13:23:00.001+08:002016-08-14T23:12:15.340+08:00One-on-one with God<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="text Matt-14-28" id="en-ESV-23625" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>28</b> And Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.”</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span class="text Matt-14-29" id="en-ESV-23626" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">29 </span>He said, <span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“Come.”</span> So Peter got out of the boat and <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-ESV-23626Z" data-link="(<a href="#cen-ESV-23626Z" title="See cross-reference Z">Z</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>walked on the water and came to Jesus.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span class="text Matt-14-30" id="en-ESV-23627" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">30 </span>But when he saw the wind,<span class="footnote" data-fn="#fen-ESV-23627d" data-link="[<a href="#fen-ESV-23627d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">[<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+14&version=ESV#fen-ESV-23627d" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b34b2c; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top;" title="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-ESV-23627AA" data-link="(<a href="#cen-ESV-23627AA" title="See cross-reference AA">AA</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>“Lord, save me.”</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span class="text Matt-14-31" id="en-ESV-23628" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">31 </span>Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, <span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-ESV-23628AB" data-link="(<a href="#cen-ESV-23628AB" title="See cross-reference AB">AB</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>“O you of little faith, why did you <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-ESV-23628AC" data-link="(<a href="#cen-ESV-23628AC" title="See cross-reference AC">AC</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>doubt?”</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"></span><span class="text Matt-14-32" id="en-ESV-23629" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">32 </span>And when they got into the boat, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-ESV-23629AD" data-link="(<a href="#cen-ESV-23629AD" title="See cross-reference AD">AD</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>the wind ceased.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span class="text Matt-14-33" id="en-ESV-23630" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "verdana" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">33 </span>And <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-ESV-23630AE" data-link="(<a href="#cen-ESV-23630AE" title="See cross-reference AE">AE</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>those in the boat <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-ESV-23630AF" data-link="(<a href="#cen-ESV-23630AF" title="See cross-reference AF">AF</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>worshiped him, saying, <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-ESV-23630AG" data-link="(<a href="#cen-ESV-23630AG" title="See cross-reference AG">AG</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>“Truly you are <span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-ESV-23630AH" data-link="(<a href="#cen-ESV-23630AH" title="See cross-reference AH">AH</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>the Son of God.” - Matthew 14:28-33</span></blockquote>
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Do you like Peter? <br />
When I started reading the bible, Peter is an apostle whom my heart is drawn to greatly. The reason is not merely because he is a great apostle to the Jews, but it is also because of his multiple one-on-one experience he had with Jesus that I could resonate with.<br />
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In the passage of Matthew 14, the disciples who had been following Jesus closely and had witnessed miracles after miracles performed by Jesus were sent by Him onto a boat. As they were left on the boat by themselves, they were being hit by the waves and the wind, greatly distressed by the inner insecurities and external threats they were in. When Jesus came to their rescue by walking on the water, they were terrified and thought that He must be a ghost! And then came Peter's one-on-one experience with Jesus here.<br />
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Like the disciples, believers like ourselves who have experienced grace in our lives often become distressed when we are hit by waves of lives and the perceived absence of Christ in our struggle. We are distressed because we tend to equate God's presence to no waves, no wind, no struggle, and no fight. As much as we would like to deny, we secretly long for a smooth-sailing life that is freed from troubles.<br />
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God knows about our heartfelt inclinations too. He knows that it is not the trouble-free life that makes us strong, it cannot strengthen our feeble arms against the demonic attack. Instead, it is faith and assurance in Christ that are strengthened through trials that enable us to enjoy a life that is more satisfying that a trouble-free life. Which is why Jesus comforts us saying,<br />
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What should we do when we are thrown into struggles that threaten to destroy our faith in Christ? I often find hope through Peter's response to Christ in this incidence, and also from Christ's response to Peter's baby faith.<br />
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Why did He have to walk on the water? Certainly, He being God He is, is able to do any supernatural things including walking on the water. Here, the boat of disciples were distressed in the middle of the lake, and to come to them in the fastest possible time, both swimming and rowing a boat will be too time-consuming - thus Jesus walked on the water so that He can come to them in the earliest possible time. The Lord does it to demonstrate His love and willingness to do whatever that is necessary to rescue His sheep, and there will never be a place on earth where Christ cannot find us and save us.<br />
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In response to their fear and calling Him as ghost (Matthew 13:26) , Jesus said, <b>"Take courage, It is I! Do not be afraid!"</b><br />
The disciples may not be expecting Jesus to come to their rescue. If they have, they would not have shouted in fear and unable to discern Him. They called Jesus ghost because they cannot accept and believe the reality that Jesus would come to them in this manner. But in response to all these, instead of scolding them, Jesus understood their vulnerabilities and affirmed them - Take courage!<br />
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Because <b><span style="color: red;">"It is I. Do not be afraid".</span></b> There is no reason to fear, because the God who created Heaven and Earth, and you, is here with you, helping you, guiding you, and empowering you. There is no reason to fear because Christ has taken all our sins when we were still ignorant, and died on the Cross for us so that we can be freed from condemnation. There is no reason to fear because He will neither leave you nor forsake you (Hebrews 13:5)<br />
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Then came the 1-1 experience of Peter with Christ.<br />
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<b>Peter said "Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water". He said, "Come!"</b><br />
With the lingering doubts, I also pray that believers can deal with the doubts about Christ, who is for us and with us, the Peter-way. Instead of remaining in doubts about Jesus, Peter asked for clarification with Jesus, hoping to get verification from Him alone. It is not so much of Peter himself wanting to do supernatural act of walking on the water, it is more of Peter's willingness to pursue this personal experience with God - one which we fear, yet desire.<br />
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Jesus encouraged Peter by saying "Come". Come and test and approve my will. Come and learn about your weakness and see how Christ's strength is made perfect in your weakness. Jesus didn't say swim over, Jesus just said - Come. I see that as Christ encouraging us to come towards Him with all we are - with our broken heart, our ordinary conditions, our disbelief, our insufficiencies...<br />
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<b>So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus.</b><br />
Peter indeed walked on the water when he focussed on Jesus. What kept him walking on the water wasn't Jesus's physical hands on him at that point of time, rather, it was Peter's <b>trust </b>in what Jesus had commanded him to do that kept him walking on the water. Trusting in Jesus for what He has said and for who He is, are so crucial. When you trust, God's power becomes our power; when you trust, God's promise becomes yours; when you trust, God is also trustworthy to show you He is indeed living and active even in the seemingly scary circumstances.<br />
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As Peter walked, he saw the wind and was frightened, and he began to sink. <b>But as soon as he sank, he cried out "Lord, save me!" Immediately, Jesus reached out His hand and caught him, saying to him, "O you of little faith, why did you doubt?"</b><br />
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Peter's faith was weak and imperfect, but it was certainly real. Like Peter, when our eyes are focussed on other things except Jesus such as our insufficiencies, less ideal conditions and other factors, we also find ourselves sinking, despite we have attempted the first step by faith in Christ. But the very least we can do is to learn from Peter, in our helplessness, struggles, and doubts, cry to the Savior whose hands are always extending towards us to catch us from sinking.<br />
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How blessed are us who can hear Jesus saying to us "O you of little faith, why did you doubt?"<br />
It's Christ's reminder to us not to focus on the wrong thing but on Him - His character, His promise, His power through the indwelling Holy Spirit in you who believe. Indeed, the waves and wind are at times very strong, but our spiritual mind and experience can go ahead of our rational mind. Like us, Peter's understanding of Christ was faulty and imperfect, but Christ is always working in us and transforming us simply because we love, trust and want to listen from Him, and when we honestly meant to obey Him.<br />
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May we also pursue that One-on-one experience that Peter had. Our faith can be small, but if we exercise our faith in Christ, we could also one day proclaim with awe and adoration of Christ like Peter, "You are the Son of God!"<br />
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Fear not the waves and wind. No matter how ferocious they are, they are within Christ's sovereignty. They are merely elements in God's workshop to strengthen our faith, repair our insecurities, and deal with our misplaced faith. Draw on our faith in Christ for who He is and His finished work on the Cross.<br />
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Peter walked on the water, you can too. All we need is to focus on Christ, and Holy Spirit will work beyond our imagination so that Christ receives all glory.<br />
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hooi chinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961565016530264053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144085987312615403.post-10444048812213553322016-06-25T14:16:00.003+08:002016-06-25T14:45:42.151+08:00Be Still, and Move On<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i>"Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today... the Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still...move on.." (Exodus 14: 13-15)</i></b></blockquote>
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This is what God told Moses when he led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt, and pursued by the Egyptian army after their exodus.<br />
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Despite having witnessed God's miracles and works during the Passover, and witnessed the plagues that came upon their enemies, the Israelites were terrified and started complaining, losing faith in God when they were being pursued by the Egyptians, "Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!" (Exodus 14:10-12)<br />
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How familiar these grudges are!<br />
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"God, what have You done to me and my life? After confessing my faith before my parents, they left me, and I am worse than an orphan now!"<br />
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"God, before becoming Christian, I used to have more friends, more free time, more enjoyment! But now, I seem to only have sufferings and sacrifices! It's such a painful life."<br />
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"God, is this still Your good and perfect plan? Why then am I in great torment?"<br />
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"Why is it still the same after knowing You, O God?"<br />
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"Why do the enemies, the hostilities, the undesirable things, still follow me?"<br />
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But when faced with all these grudges, God only said, "Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today... the Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still...move on.." (Exodus 14: 13-15)<br />
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And we know how God parted the Red Sea for the Israelites to walk on, confused the Egyptian army and wiped out all who pursued His people, gave instruction to Moses to stretch his hand over the sea and pay attention to God's works that followed. Eventually, "the people feared the Lord and put their trust in Him and in Moses His servant" after seeing the great display of God's power and glory in the entire battle.<br />
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The story of Moses and Israelites was one of the most comforting story we have heard in church. Yet, often, there remains an un-identified disbelief in us - will God also fight for us and lead us like how He did to the Israelites? In face of trying circumstances, doubt just springs and grow like a yeast inside us. However, in face of trying circumstances, it is also God's litmus state to our hearts of our faith in Him. Do we trust Him?<br />
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If we trust Him, our response will be:<br />
Yes Lord, I need not be afraid.<br />
You are in front of me, and You will fight for me.<br />
I need only to be still.<br />
And move on doing what God calls me to do in my current state, trusting that You will deliver me and lead me to the destination You've prepared for me. Not later, but move on, now.<br />
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The light which we read in Genesis, that came to earth with God's Word, is also the light which shines upon us. The creative power of God's Word is still with us.<br />
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Is there anything too hard in God's creative hand?<br />
Fight the doubts that linger in our hearts by trusting in His promise and that He made all things beautiful in His time.<br />
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His rescue is never late.</div>
hooi chinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961565016530264053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144085987312615403.post-35106094162235982362015-05-24T21:22:00.002+08:002015-05-24T21:22:52.493+08:00我的一生在祢手中<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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hooi chinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961565016530264053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144085987312615403.post-71515688275685350302015-05-09T15:36:00.001+08:002015-05-09T15:37:24.917+08:00DesireOne thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. (Psalm 27:4 NIV)<div><br><div><br></div><div>A desire made especially strong when the goings get tough :) </div></div><div><br></div><div>Better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere :)</div>hooi chinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961565016530264053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144085987312615403.post-36332837571245488902015-04-26T22:30:00.000+08:002015-04-26T22:30:03.180+08:00Go low<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Not because of your sense of inferiority, but because of the grace-driven humility Christ has inputed to you<br />
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Not because you can manufacture the works that wins approval of men, but because you have grown in love for His holiness so much that you're willing to deny self and take up the Cross daily to do what He's called you to do, even if it means to wash others' feet.<br />
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hooi chinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961565016530264053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144085987312615403.post-3279623526787452182015-02-18T00:09:00.001+08:002015-02-18T00:10:18.525+08:00Don't Miss the New Works of God in You<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is what the Lord says— he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick: “<span style="-evernote-highlight: true; background-color: #ffcc66;">Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing!</span> Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. The wild animals honor me, the jackals and the owls, because I provide water in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland, to give drink to my people, my chosen, the people I formed for myself that they may proclaim my praise. (Isaiah 43:16-21 NIV)<br />
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Pray to get rid of all forms of complacency and failure mindset in us today for God is doing a new thing, a new perspective, new struggle each time.<br />
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As we start making connections with the covenant of God, we will realize that Lord is giving us new prayer direction, new hope and new strength. Seek to follow Him today.<br />
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hooi chinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961565016530264053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144085987312615403.post-27435666727732268642015-01-28T22:48:00.001+08:002015-04-04T18:21:45.005+08:00You're more determined than me<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Sometimes, the heart can be so weak that we think we may not go on. But many times, the Holy Spirit seems to be more determined than ourselves, ensuring that we won't go into disheartenment, and bringing us through the episodes of tearing down and rebuilding.<br />
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-- You're whom I made you to be, look to me and see how I lead you, shape you and refine you.<br />
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hooi chinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961565016530264053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144085987312615403.post-18328669209289475892014-12-28T21:57:00.003+08:002014-12-28T21:58:36.634+08:00Revive our hearts - too busy?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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style="height: 181px; margin-top: 0px; width: 136px;" width="300" /></a>I often complain - i don't have enough time, i don't have enough sleep, i don't have enough etc etc... little did i realize that i'm often "busy" because i have always been doing things that I want to do, not what God wants me to do. As a result, my heart is frustrated, my spirit feels the turbulence and unrest, and i lose the joy in the spirit.<br />
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Would like to share with you an article given to me timely by someone:<br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 16px;"><b><i>Frustration is the by-product of attempting to fulfill responsibilities God does not intend for us to carry. Freedom, joy, and fruitfulness come from seeking to determine God’s priorities for each season of life and then setting out to fulfill those priorities, in the power of His Spirit, realizing that He has provided the necessary time and ability to do everything that He has called us to do.</i></b></span></blockquote>
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Adapted from: https://www.reviveourhearts.com/media/uploads/pdf/articles/HelpBusyWomen.pdf<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">More often than not, I find that women (and Christian women are no exception) feel
overwhelmed by how much they have to do and how little time they have to do it. As a result,
many women are living breathless, frazzled, and discouraged lives.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Years ago, I read that the average woman today has the equivalent of fifty full-time
servants, in the form of modern, timesaving devices and equipment. That figure may or may not
be accurate, but we certainly have many conveniences available to us that were unknown to
women of past generations: dishwashers, microwaves, washing machines, dryers, and much
more.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">So why are our lives more harried and hurried than ever? Why are we so stressed out?
There are probably a number of explanations. However, one reason is that we have accepted the
lie that we don’t have time to do everything we are supposed to do.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><b><u>The Example Set by Jesus
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The fact is, we have no more nor less time than any other human being who has ever
lived. No one, regardless of his position or responsibilities, has ever had more than 24 hours in a
day, 168 hours in a week, 52 weeks in a year.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">In fact, the Lord Jesus Himself was given only a few short years on earth to accomplish
the entire plan of redemption. Talk about a long “to do” list! Yet at the end of His life, Jesus was
able to lift His eyes to His Father and say, “I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the
work which thou gavest me to do” (John 17:4 KJV).
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I find that truly amazing. Rarely can I say at the end of the day that I have completed the
work I set out to do that day. To the contrary, I frequently drop into bed at night with a long,
mental list of the un- finished tasks I had hoped to take care of that day.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">How was it possible for Jesus to finish His life’s work, especially in such a short period
of time? In Jesus’ words we find a clue—a powerful truth that sets us free from the bondage of
hurry and frustration.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><b><span style="color: blue;">The Secret to Having Enough Time
</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Notice what work Jesus completed in the thirty-three years He was here on the earth: “I
have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” That is the secret. Jesus didn’t finish
everything His disciples wanted Him to do. (Some of them were hoping He would overthrow the </span><span style="font-family: TimesNewRoman; font-size: 12pt;">Roman government!) He didn’t finish everything the multitudes wanted Him to do. (There were
still people who were sick and lonely and dying.) But He did finish the work that God gave Him
to do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">There is virtually never time in a twenty-four hour day for me to do everything that is on
everyone else’s “to do” list for me. There is seldom time to accomplish everything that is on my
own “to do” list. What a relief to realize I don’t have to do all those things!
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The truth is that all I have to do is the work God assigns to me. What freedom it has been
for me to accept that there is time for me to do everything that is on God’s “to do” list for my
day, for my life!
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><b><u>Freedom from the Tyranny of Busyness</u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Frustration is the by-product of attempting to fulfill responsibilities God does not intend
for us to carry. Freedom, joy, and fruitfulness come from seeking to determine God’s priorities
for each season of life and then setting out to fulfill those priorities, in the power of His Spirit,
realizing that He has provided the necessary time and ability to do everything that He has called
us to do.
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<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;"><i><b><span style="color: blue;">Do you feel that you don’t have time to do everything? Seek God for what He wants you to do.
Then prioritize that and let the rest go</span></b></i>. </span></div>
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hooi chinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961565016530264053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144085987312615403.post-6021750911858339732014-11-23T16:54:00.001+08:002015-04-04T18:24:03.960+08:00Five loaves and two fishes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">"Take my five loaves and two fishes</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">Do with it as You will</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><i><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">I surrender</span></span></i></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">Take my fears and my inhibitions</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">All my burdens, my ambitions</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;">You can use it all to feed them all"</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A song that convicts me abundantly. We often look down on ourselves when it is actually our disbelief that hinders us from resting on the sovereign and perfect leading of God. Contrary to what we've been so habitual in thinking and believing, God has never left us - He's there when we're in our ups, and He's there when we're in our downs. But often, we have become so absorbed into the information of the world, the voices and remarks of Satan that we forget that Our Father God is above all these. Therefore, it's indeed the grace of God that never stops lavishing on us that in our ignorance, God chooses to awaken us from our spiritual stupor with His truth. Even when we're in doubts, just as the disciples, Jesus performed the miracle of five loaves and two fishes to feed the five thousands, showing us it is not how great our faith is but His grace that gives us the faith, including the faith to follow Him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">God has never intended us to be children with great faith and great abilities, no matter how small our faith is, even as small as a mustard seed, God wants us to use this faith to follow Him, again and again. God does not heal the sicks through great preachers and pastors, nor great doctors, but God heals the sicks holistically starting from their souls, through the prayers of convicted believers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If our struggle is on the five loaves and two fishes (physical needs), we will only be satisfied by the five loaves and two fishes (visible and tangible things). If our struggle is on fighting with our disbelief and still desiring to follow God in our weakness and powerlessness, God will satisfy us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our day-in day-out miracles begin from our spirits -> when we see the truth of God and live in the convictions of these truth, we will rely on the Holy Spirit in all times. The miracles God wants to give us is more than the mere five loaves and two fishes, He wants us to live in the ever-present and ever-active love and power of God, putting our contentment not on the tangible things the world tempts us but the infinite love and grace that our souls need, yet only Christ can satisfy.</span></div>
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<u>Five loaves and two fishes by Corinne May</u><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">A little boy of thirteen was on his way to school</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">He heard a crowd of people laughing and he went to take a look</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">Thousands were listening to the stories of one man</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">He spoke with such wisdom, even the kids could understand</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="line-height: 23px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">The hours passed so quickly, the day turned to night</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">Everyone was hungry but there was no food in sight</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">The boy looked in his lunchbox at the little that he had</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">He wasn't sure what good it'd do, there were thousands to be fed</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="line-height: 23px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">But he saw the twinkling eyes of Jesus</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">The kindness in His smile</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">And the boy cried out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">With the trust of a child</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">He said:</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="line-height: 23px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">"Take my five loaves and two fishes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">Do with it as you will</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">I surrender</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">Take my fears and my inhibitions</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">All my burdens, my ambitions</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">You can use it all to feed them all"</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="line-height: 23px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">I often think about that boy when I'm feeling small</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">And I worry that the work I do means nothing at all</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="line-height: 23px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">But every single tear I cry is a diamond in His hands</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">And every door that slams in my face, I will offer up in prayer</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="line-height: 23px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">So I'll give you every breath that I have</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">Oh Lord, you can work miracles</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">All that you need is my "Amen"</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="line-height: 23px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">So take my five loaves and two fishes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">Do with it as you will</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">I surrender</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">Take my fears and my inhibitions</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">All my burdens, my ambitions</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">You can use it all</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">I hope it's not too small</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="line-height: 23px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">I trust in you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">I trust in you</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="line-height: 23px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">So take my five loaves and two fishes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">Do with it as you will</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">I surrender</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">Take my fears and my inhibitions</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">All my burdens, my ambitions</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">You can use it all</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 23px;">No gift is too small</span><br />
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hooi chinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961565016530264053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144085987312615403.post-71869892386733367682014-10-07T14:21:00.003+08:002014-10-07T14:24:39.455+08:00Who Am I<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello, it's my night shift week and i realised the sleep cycle is a little distorted. Thank God for a good first night at work, began in turbulence, but it progressed to a peaceful and wonderful night shift.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Would care to know my name,<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Would care to feel my hurt?<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Who am I, that the Bright and Morning Star<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Would choose to light the way<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />For my ever wandering heart?<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Not because of who I am<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But because of what You've done.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Not because of what I've done<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But because of who You are.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I am a flower quickly fading,<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Here today and gone tomorrow.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />A wave tossed in the ocean.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />A vapor in the wind.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Still You hear me when I'm calling.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Lord, You catch me when I'm falling.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />And You've told me who I am.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I am Yours, I am Yours.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Who am I, that the eyes that see my sin<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Would look on me with love and watch me rise again?<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Who am I, that the voice that calmed the sea<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Would call out through the rain<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />And calm the storm in me?<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Not because of who I am<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But because of what You've done.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Not because of what I've done<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But because of who You are.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I am a flower quickly fading,<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Here today and gone tomorrow.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />A wave tossed in the ocean.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />A vapor in the wind.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Still You hear me when I'm calling.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Lord, You catch me when I'm falling.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />And You've told me who I am.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I am Yours.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Not because of who I am<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But because of what You've done.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Not because of what I've done<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />But because of who You are.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I am a flower quickly fading,<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Here today and gone tomorrow.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />A wave tossed in the ocean.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />A vapor in the wind.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Still You hear me when I'm calling.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Lord, You catch me when I'm falling.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />And You've told me who I am.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />I am Yours, I am Yours, I am Yours.<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Whom shall I fear?<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Whom shall I fear?<br style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />'Cause I am Yours, I am Yours.</span></div>
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It's never by works that you're saved, it's by grace we have been saved, through faith - that is not from ourselves, but the gift of God, so that no one can boast. May we truly be made alive in Christ all over again, because of what He had done on the Cross, and also because we're God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to live in His perfect will today so that we will be most satisfied when we are walking in His will.</div>
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We often think that we are unworthy of God's love. Sometimes, we even lose the assurance of our salvation because of the works of our hands - we are always doing things for our own benefits and not others; we only care about the fleeting joy and put our joy on others' sufferings; we only want quick fix and as a result we resolve to many solutions our human brain can think of, forgetting who we are - children of God, and thus in problems it's not the solutions that we need to look for but God our Lord, who is sovereign and always having the good and perfect will for His children. </div>
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It is for you to know Him, realise the need for Him in your life through your setbacks and problems, and surrender the lordship of your life to Him. Only then can you be reconciled with God, restore your original identity as His precious child, carry His purpose in life and be led by the Holy Spirit in all things. </div>
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hooi chinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961565016530264053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144085987312615403.post-29297538103881046372014-06-22T23:03:00.001+08:002014-06-22T23:04:29.961+08:00Beyond our knowledge and imagination. Such is the love of God<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.” - C.S Lewis</span><br />
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hooi chinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961565016530264053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144085987312615403.post-40612242444018261612014-05-21T22:38:00.004+08:002014-05-21T22:41:31.806+08:00Grace<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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“If I stand, let me stand on the promise of God.<br />
If I fall, let me fall in His grace”<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Once i saw wei en posting this on Facebook and i was touched by it. To me, this sums up the reason behind courage I am made able to have in the face of the the trying and relive situations, and also the relentless love God has to me, when I keep falling short of His glory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Many people like the word “Grace”, me too. The word grace sounds beautiful and full of love. To many, grace from God could mean the pardoning of sins. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Once, someone asks me - on what grounds can we christians claim that God takes away our sins, and thus we are sinless and can enter into the kingdom of God? If the deal is so good, then all the criminals in this world will continue sinning then repent to God thereafter - this world is disastrous!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While many think that grace is the forgiveness of sins, grace also gives birth to a heart that is forgiven of sin. When a person truly understand the grace of Christ, transformation will happen in his heart according to the truth of God.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For example, if I have wronged my father and stolen his money, the forgiveness i receive from him and the contriteness will propel me into hating doing wrong in future, and seek to follow my father closely and his ways of being good. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Similarly, the grace of God does not only wash away your sins so that you can stand before Him as His child, it also gives us a contrite spirit that realises our sins each time we hear the gospel. Instead of dwelling in sadness and eroding in self-pity for failing God, grace helps us to come before God and open ourselves to prayer even in weakness, so that we see our weakness with God’s plan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Indeed, without grace, genuine transformation will not occur in one's life in Christ.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sharing with you a song from Laura story: <b>Grace</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">My heart is so proud. My mind is so unfocused.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I see the things You do through me as great things I have done. And now You gently break me, then lovingly You take me and hold me as my father and mold me as my maker.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Chorus:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I ask you: "How many times will you pick me up, when I keep on letting you down?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And each time I will fall short of Your glory, how far will forgiveness abound?"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And you answer: " My child, I love you.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And as long as you're seeking My face, You'll walk in the pow'r of My daily sufficient grace."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">At times I may grow weak and feel a bit discouraged, knowing that someone, somewhere could do a better job. For who am I to serve You?I know I don't deserve You. And that's the part that burns in my heart and keeps me hanging on. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I ask you: "How many times will you pick me up, when I keep on letting you down?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And each time I will fall short of Your glory, how far will forgiveness abounds?"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And you answer: " My child, I love you.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And as long as you're seeking My face, You'll walk in the pow'r of My daily sufficient grace."</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">You are so patient with me, Lord.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">As I walk with You, I'm learning what Your grace really means. The price that I could never pay was paid at Calvary. So, instead of trying to repay You, I'm learning to simply obey You</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">by giving up my life to you For all that You've given to me.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Chorus: </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I ask you: "How many times will you pick me up, when I keep on letting you down?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And each time I will fall short of Your glory, how far will forgiveness abounds?"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And you answer: " My child, I love you.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And as long as you're seeking My face, You'll walk in the pow'r of My daily sufficient grace."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A conversation between God and Joan in the movie Evan Almighty. Came as a timely reminder to me - Let me ask you something, <b>are you always asking God for answers to certain things in life, yet things still remain unchanging?</b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We often say that we need to start praying, we need to love others, we need to forgive, we need to endure sufferings because Jesus too endured sufferings. But despite knowing all these, we do not seem to love praying, we still look at others' shortcomings, we still cannot forget the feeling of being wronged, we still feel painful in trials and hope it ends just there.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought, perhaps like me, you could also be blinded by the things we see, missing the God who is working faithfully at the background. When things do not change, when we do not become more joyful and continue to lose grace in all aspects of our lives, could we also have overlooked the opportunities God is giving us right now - the opportunity to truly discover His leading in our lives? The plans that prosper us and not to harm us, plans to give us hope and a future. </span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I realize God is asking me something today.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I pray to be able to pray deeper, does God give me more prayers or opportunity where I am left with nothing but to draw strength from Him through deep prayers?</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If me, God's dear child pray to be able to love, does God give me love, or does He give me the opportunities to experience His love and open my eyes to see how others also need God's love that flows through me?</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I pray to be able to forgive, does God take away the "Wronged" moments in my life, or does He give me the opportunities to experience how He's always by my side and be my judge? I, being the sinner of all sinners, is greatly chosen by God in His sovereign grace and therefore I'm no longer condemned; all I need is to live before God and be accountable to Him as I have been justified through faith and have gained access into His grace in which I now stand. As much as I've been forgiven, others also need His sovereign grace and be forgiven too. God is giving me the opportunity to experience the power of His sovereign grace indeed - whoever is forgiven little loves little, whoever is forgiven much loves much.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I pray to be able to endure sufferings, does God discount us on our sufferings or does He give us the opportunities to go through suffering because it produces perseverance, character and hope in us?</span> </blockquote>
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<i style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If things remain unchanged, why don't we change our prayers?</i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I realised that the blind spot in many of our lives comes from our failure in inscribing the truth of we are children greatly loved by God in our hearts. If we had, we will see things from a perspective of being loved and able to see the God who is always standing by our sides all these while, working mightily to complete the good works He has started in us.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If we pray to know more God's word, God being who He is, will He not also let us experience how infinite and transcending His word is, so that we truly know that He indeed is our Lord, the Father Almighty? </span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text Isa-41-10" id="en-NIV-18462" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">So do not fear,<span style="font-size: 0.65em;"><span class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-size: 0.65em; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-18462AF" title="See cross-reference AF">AF</a>)"></span></span> for I am with you;<span style="font-size: 0.65em;"><span class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-size: 0.65em; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-18462AG" title="See cross-reference AG">AG</a>)"></span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Isa-41-10" style="position: relative;">do not be dismayed, for<i><u> I am your God</u></i>.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="text Isa-41-10" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">I will strengthen <span class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-18462AH" title="See cross-reference AH">AH</a>)"></span>you and help <span class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-18462AI" title="See cross-reference AI">AI</a>)"></span>you;</span><br style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;" /><span class="indent-1" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span class="indent-1-breaks" style="font-size: 0.42em; line-height: 0;"> </span><span class="text Isa-41-10" style="position: relative;">I will uphold you <span style="font-size: 0.65em;"><span class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-size: 0.65em; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-18462AJ" title="See cross-reference AJ">AJ</a>)"></span></span>with my righteous right hand.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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hooi chinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961565016530264053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144085987312615403.post-59555763002095838862014-02-20T02:39:00.004+08:002014-02-22T01:19:03.530+08:00What man truly need in life is God<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“I don’t want to end up in nursing home. I am just thankful that my son said he won’t
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDQKZbPwrdkHnuaF2DJo5OIPDspmt0j8LQYF5n8J4LXlTrirViVYep7PvM6YBUK6ImkRFwm6r3CMw7FKnGPaVfd0rhW55cozyitjvIcmZ9y5E9GJ-gk7UBKMQ6tU-y1G41osRXJ591EhM/s1600/pic+1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDQKZbPwrdkHnuaF2DJo5OIPDspmt0j8LQYF5n8J4LXlTrirViVYep7PvM6YBUK6ImkRFwm6r3CMw7FKnGPaVfd0rhW55cozyitjvIcmZ9y5E9GJ-gk7UBKMQ6tU-y1G41osRXJ591EhM/s1600/pic+1.png" height="182" title="" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, I was talking to a patient about a medication we are
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with it, I realized there’s no tinge of hope or happiness, or comfort, or peace
in his eyes. Unable to ignore his sorrowful scent, I looked at him and asked –
Uncle, don’t look at me as a pharmacist, look at me as a person who wants to
know you – how are you feeling?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then I saw tear started to well up in his eyes, and he
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I removed my nametag, knowing the medication I am talking to
him about can never take away the pain. The pain will persist, it haunts him,
it will continue to remind him that there’s an unstoppable pain in life. And I
realized it is not the physical pain that is most dreadful in him, or in any
man. To him, it is the pain of life – the not knowing why I have to suffer all
these for, why this pain come to me, why me, why am I living with all these
things which will never ever go away… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking truth in honesty. I realized often, almost always, what rob my patients’
“ lives” has never been the illness itself but the <b><i>fear</i></b> of the complications from the illness, the <i><b>fear</b> </i>of
death, the <b><i>fear </i></b>of suffering that may or may not come. The <b><i>fear</i></b>
of not knowing where they will go after death, the <b><i>f</i>ear</b> of the ending of
life may not be the end, after all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I asked the spirit within me – God, help him will You?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Uncle, what do you live for in life? What makes you want to
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Can I mandarin?" He said. And I nodded my head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said he didn’t know. “I don’t want to end up in nursing
home” He teared. “I am just thankful that my son said he won’t put me there”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet knowing the son will not leave him at nursing home now did not remove the deeper pain and loss of hope within him - an unspoken message radiated from him that no one can ignore. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Uncle, do you believe that
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many people may ask – where do man come from? Is it from
evolution? From monkey? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet monkey itself is a creation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Man comes from God. Man is created in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">glorious
image</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u> </u></i>of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like how God told me <i>about myself </i>right
from the beginning of His book to me, also called the <b>Bible. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“ Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our
likeness, so <b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky,
over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that
move along the ground</i></b>.”</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So God created mankind in his own image, in the
image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God <i>blessed </i>them
and said to them, “<b>Be fruitful and
increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea
and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that</b> <b>moves on the ground.”</b> And to all the
beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that
move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every
green plant for food.” And it was so. (Genesis 1:26-28, 30 NIV)” </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When God creates man, He wants to bless them, not to give
them sufferings. He blessed them with authority and richness – to rule over the
fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, everything in this world. The
creation of God, man, has such blissful identity – such is the
<i>principle of God’s creation</i>. God creates man to be above the money, power, relationships and knowledge of the world - yet what we see today is man are being seized by money, pursuit of power and knowledge, and fallen into bondages of blurred relationships. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remember when I bought my first laptop – I eagerly opened
the box wanting to read the manual because I want to know how the laptop can
function to its created ability. The manual written by the creator of the laptop –
telling the user how to use the laptop to its fullness. And then slowly, as I follow the instruction, the laptop just worked. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Similarly, how can man receive all original blessings<i>
rightfully theirs</i> if they do not go back to their Creator and abide in Him? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, man has been separated from God, the One who gives them joy, love and happiness in life - and they become unhappy,
sorrowful, full of burden and worries. And the reason why man depart from God
is because they are being deceived by Satan – the proud angel, the disobedient
angel and one who wants to be the <i>god</i> himself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fall of man began when he believed in Satan more than
God. </span></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple;">“ Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals
the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Did God really say</b>, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the
garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We
may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat
fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch
it, or you will die</b>.’ ” “You <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">will not certainly</b> die,” the serpent
said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be
opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw
that the fruit of the tree was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">good for
food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom,</b> she
took some and ate it. She <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">also gave some
to her husband</b>, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of
them were opened, and they <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">realized they
were naked</b>; so they sewed fig leaves together and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">made coverings</b> for themselves. (Genesis 3:1-7 NIV)”</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To most, Satan may seem imaginative. Yet, the truth is, the
bible said he’s more real than you can imagine. Satan works in the most shrewd
and discreet manner. The scariest thing about Satan is <b>he plants the disbelief thoughts in God’s children, causing them to
doubt God’s unchanging love to them. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>“</b>Did God really
say?” “You will not certainly die”<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Silly it may seem, yet h<b>e works in the most normal and
undetectable ways in all aspects of our lives. </b></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Does God really love
you? if He does, why does he allow you to have so many problems in life?” <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It is not murdering,
gambling is okay because you are not committing crime like robbery or killing”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Relax, it is common
to date many simultaneously these days – silly, by doing so you are increasing
your probability of meeting the right one do you know that?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Everyone does that –
don’t be the deviant!”</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i>
<i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Having many relationships and adulteries are common - it is for the happiness of every party. Everyone is moving towards that."</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No wonder Eve is tempted by the fruit of the tree – because
they were all so good and pleasing to the eye, so desirable. Just like any of
the examples mentioned above, they are all so tempting, so desirable, so
pleasing to the eyes – apart from <b>the
starting point of all these longings stem from the heart of not
knowing she or he is already most blessed in the kingdom of God.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Such is the work of Satan, he made man feel unloved by God,
man needs to work for his own good, and man does not need God. As a result, by following Satan’s
leading, man end up in greater misery.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHwF7uiQwXWPm6LQO3z6Bt6cC1YBNMnle3M3MesAJXPGEZyFdGtObcvMKgU8c4LGT01YrivNbxxxvgWP2-u-PbmpKo1mjED-7vE252Bqh7PJZFJj7lQcOV5tseagb6nzmGLXBsh5x0JnY/s1600/pic+5.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHwF7uiQwXWPm6LQO3z6Bt6cC1YBNMnle3M3MesAJXPGEZyFdGtObcvMKgU8c4LGT01YrivNbxxxvgWP2-u-PbmpKo1mjED-7vE252Bqh7PJZFJj7lQcOV5tseagb6nzmGLXBsh5x0JnY/s1600/pic+5.png" height="161" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They need to create things to satisfy their own needs. They seek for love, blessings, and prosperity because of their lack of love, blessings and prosperity. They start to create <b>idols of their own needs</b> – god of war,
god of money, god of abundance and fertility and many more – because there is
insatiable needs in man all eagerly waiting to be satisfied. Man is created in
the glorious image of God, but man no longer see it this way – therefore they
resolve to many ways of beautifying themselves, first with jewelries and
perfumes, next with surgeries, and many more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When man sees the need to work for their own good, they
start to live in a state of fear and anxiety, because what if <u>my good is not good enough and I lose all these?</u> They are always wearied and
burdened mentally, quenched in the spirit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When one does not know the God who
has been to his tomorrow is here leading him today, He is guiding him and preparing
the blessed path for him – man will start to <b><i>fear – fear of the unknown tomorrow, the uncertain future that is beyond his control.</i></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The sin has led to more problems in man, and even spreading
to the loved ones around them, just as Eve passing fruit to Adam and both realized they were in need - in need of a cover up on themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the truth is – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God
has never left us.</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just like the patient whom I talked to, there is only One
way – Jesus Christ. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Born humbly in Bethlehem, He came to show the world that
God has never left His children, and in His flesh, He showed that it is by
restoring the relationship with God can man be more than conquerors in our money problems, physical problems, relationship problems etc…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He is the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Great King
– </b>He came to restore the complete victory in all Satan’s works - <i>The one
who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning
from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the
devil’s work. (1 John 3:8 NIV).</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He is the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Great
Prophet</b> - for God has made His words known through becoming flesh in Jesus
Christ, so that people can understand God’s perfect will in all circumstances. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He is the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Great
Priest -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>because He had paid
it all, all sins of man – so that Satan cannot use our sins and transgressions
against us before Lord – for Jesus had died on the cross to take away our sins,
while we are sinners – when we still do not call Him Lord. Therefore we are no longer sinner, there's freedom in lives. He gave us a spirit of sonship, one who receives love and able to manifest love, not spirit of slavery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These is gospel, God's good news to the mankind - to myself, to uncle, to all of us.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->“ But now apart from the law the righteousness
of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This righteousness is given through faith
in Jesus Christ to all who believe.</b> There is no difference between Jew and
Gentile, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God</b>, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and all are justified freely by his
grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God presented Christ as a sacrifice of
atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. “ (Romans
3:21-25)</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Therefore, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God’s love
is persevering</b> – when man had fallen short of His glory and desperately
finding various means to cover up their nakedness <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">[emptiness and sins]</i> just like Adam and Eve, He has already
prepared a way out for them – so that man can <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">turn to God once again</i></b>,
and restore the love and blessings from God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What good does man have to deserve a sinless man to die for
a sinful man? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nothing. Yet, the grace of God always transcends our
understanding and human conditions. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8mmz9OM5AApT5979EeWVmMKmgyWrfsxdeAvWThqQ5Sxofm3pu9HB02dAuySOXwshdkzXUjsIEjPer2IUwWvMrgyTv2r8F8oi-OwlMxE02pvnANG0jncyjthqfTmQvwEmecGRZ0b0DMnU/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8mmz9OM5AApT5979EeWVmMKmgyWrfsxdeAvWThqQ5Sxofm3pu9HB02dAuySOXwshdkzXUjsIEjPer2IUwWvMrgyTv2r8F8oi-OwlMxE02pvnANG0jncyjthqfTmQvwEmecGRZ0b0DMnU/s1600/images.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />I realized that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The
Cross</b> is really the peak of the entire history of mankind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Cross carried the sins of the world, the wrath of God
towards men – so tragic was the sins Jesus had to bear on the cross. Yet He
took it up, in submission to Father’s will – so that man live through reconciliation with God once again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jesus and His death on the cross made me realize that </span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqvwtU8NSnOdb4ohrxx1r1KIg5RlQxa5lsswcdvidH1bDnSS6Tnpib43fX978TnP-qDLPIDuWdT14Mi4pkDCkvj08Tbw_e39DcUgXJbaUdzqp6Rr3srdVqJgFrPHCLaGTKWPiT2C_a-1s/s1600/pic+9.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqvwtU8NSnOdb4ohrxx1r1KIg5RlQxa5lsswcdvidH1bDnSS6Tnpib43fX978TnP-qDLPIDuWdT14Mi4pkDCkvj08Tbw_e39DcUgXJbaUdzqp6Rr3srdVqJgFrPHCLaGTKWPiT2C_a-1s/s1600/pic+9.png" height="200" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I am chosen and loved by God</b>. Man in
their apparent good conditions will not know the poverty of their spirits until
they are brought low and helpless – when they come to realization that they are
hollow, unhappy in life despite all conditions, and they powerless. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">I start to
understand why God allowed trials in my life, and in this uncle’s life, that is to see
the limitation of man, and the need for the One who is beyond man – the need for
the true and living God. To be to hear the gospel and believe it, I
realized, is the greatest blessing God has given me.</span><br />
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Man has eternal life in Christ</b>- while
their flesh die, their spirit lives forever with God. When man is reconciled with God, Holy Spirit enters and work in accordance to the Word of God, renewing our hearts and minds. Therefore, one is no longer bounded by sins
and death but have hope for eternity despite the suffering on the flesh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">God has already fulfilled all on the cross</i></b>
- the death, the sin, and the deceiving spirit is being nailed on the cross
through Jesus's death and resurrection, such that whoever hear and believe, he is called the <b>child of God. </b>While the flesh is suffering, the spirit being in reconciliation with God will always have hope in the Creator and able to live in His will, knowing it is God who acts in him to will and act according to His good purpose. </span></div>
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</span></span></span></i></b><!--[endif]--><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">God
is with us</b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> – always leading and guiding us through His Word and Holy Spirit. When you have
the </span><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Right
Word, it gives you the Right need</i></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. It is not about not drinking, not
living life casually, indulging in fleeting joy of the world – rather, knowing you are dignified in God’s eyes, those
casual liberations of lives are no longer your desires because of the renewed heart in Christ. Even in
trying moments, God’s never left us – knowing that it is the most perfect time
to refine our faith. When we seem to face giants in lives – <span style="color: purple;">God is still with us, knowing that He will always work for the good of those who love Him, and n<span style="background-color: white; text-indent: 0px;">o temptation</span><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: 0px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: 0px;">has overtaken us except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful;</span><span class="crossreference" style="background-color: white; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-28581U" title="See cross-reference U">U</a>)"></span><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: 0px;"> He will not let you be tempted</span><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: 0px;"> beyond what you can bear.</span><span class="crossreference" style="background-color: white; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-28581V" title="See cross-reference V">V</a>)"></span><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: 0px;">But when you are tempted, H</span><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: 0px;">e will also provide a way out so that you can endure it (1 Cor 10:13)</span></span></span></div>
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the greatest realization God gave me is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">my
life has a purpose</b>. It is not to have great careers, happy relationships
and prosperity in all areas – it is to live with Christ, so that I can tell people that it is not that they are
in lack, rather, their greatest lack is that of not knowing God. Because of that, the
places God lead me to, the roles He gives me, and the problems in my lives –
are exactly where He will work through me. Although many times I may be weak, God is strong and He will mold me in His time and purpose, for the sake of gospel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When God is all you need, you already have everything you’ve
ever needed. He will never let His children go ashamed.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Therefore I tell you,
do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body,
what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look at the birds of the air; they
do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds
them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying
add a single hour to your life? “[Matthew 6:25-27]</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two weeks back, my dad also told me the same thing. He
mentioned that he hope we don’t send him to the nursing home when he is old,
and he showed me an article that was published in the newspaper in Malaysia –
Ways to cope with aging. It listed a few ways; one of the ways caught my eye –<b>
find assurance in the spirit.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I told dad – "<i>Daddy, more important than nursing home
etc, what you need most is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to have
the right spirit from the right God. There’s a true God who gives you peace and
assurance on every breath you’re taking in life. That is most important." </i>Although the conversation couldn't carry on further, I believe God is still in control. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Indeed, man cannot be satisfied by physical things. Man is created with spirit - therefore what they gain in their flesh (money, love, power, knowledge) will not satisfy them but in return, lead to more bondages - there's a hunger spirit within. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Man's spirit can only be satisfied through Jesus Christ. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just like my father and the patient – I realized that the
greatest problem of man is not knowing the <b><i>anchor</i></b> of their spirits. My dad has
enough money, fairly good health and able to travel so very often; my patient
is crippled with illnesses and losing hope to live – yet despite good or bad
conditions, both have emptiness in the spirits irrespective of circumstances of
life, both have no assurance of who can provide for their future and where
their lives will truly lead to, what gives joy in man in trying and
smooth-sailing situations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once, someone of high authority tells me - " It is ok, I know I will go to <i>hell </i>after I die"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I couldn't rest on this statement, I asked - how could it be, God?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then realized something …</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heaven is not a place where good people will go after death</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hell is not a place where bad people will go after death.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hell is here with me when I live in a state of not knowing God - dwelling in my fear, inferiority and worthlessness - and continued to be oppressed by the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And heaven and hell are both eternally present.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heaven is here with me when I know God is with me. For He is love, peace, hope and beginning of all wisdom. I only need to live before God. Since He is with me, when I call for help, He will help me - by reminding me the four points above. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What man truly need
in life is God.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2e58rLF93eLi4ZbT1ikE6wWsWJGpanX3R908SQ2jarKm_jmRLBW_CstVsLJoLfxoXj5qkv-2GY-LVOP74k3uNrMRtXh79gISpTrXLDndOJ_E63QGll7VUcARri4Oih7HKkWEuywxxXUI/s1600/pic+12.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2e58rLF93eLi4ZbT1ikE6wWsWJGpanX3R908SQ2jarKm_jmRLBW_CstVsLJoLfxoXj5qkv-2GY-LVOP74k3uNrMRtXh79gISpTrXLDndOJ_E63QGll7VUcARri4Oih7HKkWEuywxxXUI/s1600/pic+12.png" height="196" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When all you need is God, you’re the most joyful person in
this world, whether you are well-fed or hunger, in plenty or in need – Because
the God who reigns supremely over all creations and triumphed over Satan - is with you
today. There’s greater blessing in the transient suffering, there is purpose in every breath you take, there is joy because He is constant in the relative situations you are in, leading you with His word. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we do not know what and how to pray, Holy Spirit pray for us in wordless groans, for the good of God's children, strengthening us from within. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I pray for you who read this.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I pray for uncle and my father - to know God and enjoy heaven here on earth. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? (Matthew 16:26)</span></span></blockquote>
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In Christ, we are already victorious. When we believe right, Holy Spirit will lead us into doing the right thing and the outcomes will surely be right! How often do we go back to the truth in this world that constantly engulf our faith in Christ?</div>
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Today, restore the 5 Solas (Only) of a believer. When you hold onto Sola Scriptura (Only Bible), Solus Christus (Only Christ), Sola Fide (Only Faith) , Sola Gratia (Only grace), and Soli Deo Gloria (All glory to God alone), victory is not an outcome but a state of our living. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it. [Mt 16:25] Paradox it may seem, yet such is the power of Holy Spirit, and everyone who believes in Him will never be ashamed. </div>
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You are already victorious in Christ. Cling onto the right anchor point today!<br />
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hooi chinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01961565016530264053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8144085987312615403.post-64472066032032729012014-01-13T23:31:00.002+08:002014-01-13T23:33:31.833+08:00Faith & Prayer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">我要像一棵樹按時結果 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">栽在溪水旁 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">喜愛袮的話語 晝夜思想 </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">袮就像葡萄樹 我是枝子 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">常在祢裡面 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">愛我疼我的天父 </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">永遠不分離 哦 永遠不分離 </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">世上沒有任何事能使袮愛隔絕</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">留心聽祢 側耳聽祢 </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">像一棵樹永不枯乾</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">常在祢裡面</span><br />
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