Blessed Steps

Most of us don't like to wait. Especially when it concerns moving forward our very own agenda. I personally like to get things done, I enjoy checking things off my list, so that when it's done it won't linger in my mind anymore. But after being in ministry for a while I realized that sometimes it is very necessary to wait on things before making a decision, Especially since ministry concerns people.. Many different people with many different opinions It is hard to move things forward when two parties' wills are not aligned. But it is also true that When man has unified will with God, they will have unified will with each other. I asked myself then, Why should I wait when I already have a decision? Why be so inefficient? Then I realised that... Waiting... is giving God space to work. When I go ahead and make decisions, a lot of times there isn't space for God to drop me notes or nudge me or speak to me. But when I wait....

John 11:45-57 Why did the pharisees think that if Jesus goes on performing miracles, people will believe in him then the Romans will come and take away their place and their nation? There's 2 strands of thoughts here:  A .  Jesus goes on performing miracles, people will believe in him B .  Romans come and take away the chief priest and pharisees' place and nation How do they link?  The chief priests' positions are given to them because they are the religious leaders. So if people believe in Jesus, Jesus becomes the religious leader and Jesus will be given the title instead. Is it that simple? Then why would the nation be taken away as well?  Because the chief priests believe that they hold the entire Judaism and Israel with the structure that they currently have. The priestly structure. It's given by God. In their mind, the structure has to be in place then only the religion and the nation can function.  But this one man who doesn't represent...

Author Anne Ortlund in her reflection upon the passage of the women who broke her alabaster jar draws this comparison: "Christian file into church on a Sunday morning one by one they march in  - like separate alabaster vases. Contained. Self-sufficient. Encased. Individually complete. Contents undisclosed. No perfume emitting at all. Their vases aren’t bad looking. In fact some of them are the beautiful people and they become vase-conscious: conscious of their own vases and of another’s. They are aware of clothes, of personalities, of positions in this world. They are concerned with the exteriors. And so before and after church (maybe even during) they are apt to talk vase-talk. This woman broke her vase. Broke it? How shocking. How controversial. (Perhaps some even considered it scandalous) Was everyone doing it? Was she at some vase-breaking party? No she just did it all by herself. What happened then? The obvious: all the contents were forever rele...

One thing that really cheers my heart up is when I take my time reading the newsletter I receive monthly from my friends all around the world.  Who would have thought that by going to Texas, I will bump into fellow future missionaries, evangelists and ministers and become one myself.  The friendships that I have made in Texas don't just stop the moment I leave that land. 5 years down the road, I am still rejoicing at how God is working through the lives of these people all around the world. The challenges they face in life are unlike those I have here back home. The culture, the people, the context are entirely different but yet we still could relate to what each other is doing because we are all serving the same God.  Now I understand what Paul meant when he wrote these to the Ephesians...  " For this reason,  because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,   I  do not cease to give thanks for you...

What we call 'being in love' is a glorious state, and, in several ways, good for us. It helps to make us generous and courageous, it opens our eyes not only to the beauty of the beloved but to all beauty, and it subordinates (especially at first) our merely animal sexuality; in that sense,  love is the great conqueror of lust.   No one in his senses would deny that being in love is far better than either common sensuality or cold self-centredness. But, as I said before, 'the most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of our own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs'.  Being in love  is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it.  You cannot make it the basis of a whole life.  It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling.  Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all.  Knowledge can l...

“The rule for all of us is perfectly simple.  Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did.  As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets.  When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him…  There is, indeed, one exception.  If you do him a good turn,  not to please God and obey the law of charity, but to show him what a fine forgiving chap you are,  and to put him in your debt,  and then sit down to wait for his ‘gratitude’,  you will probably be disappointed.”  Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

耶稣基督， 你是我的全部。你真的是我的一切。有了你，我并不缺乏。 On hindsight.... "When I look back on this road i've traveled. i've seen so many times you've carried me through and if there's one thing that i've learnt in my life is my redeemer is faithful and true. My redeemer is faithful and true. everything he has said, he will do. every morning his mercies are new my redeemer is faithful and true Jesus is faithful and true." On hindsight... Only then that I realized, I've been through quite a few episodes in my life I have broken up I have left my job I have migrated countries I have changed and restructured so many perspectives in my life and it still remains true that MY REDEEMER IS FAITHFUL AND TRUE EVERYTHING HE HAS SAID HE WILL DO He is always trustworthy. He has never left me. I can forever trust in Him. AMEN. Click on the link below to allow God to minister to you as you reflect upon the lyrics: My Redeemer is Faithful and True - St...