30 Aug 09 Does Jesus care?

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30 Aug 09 From the mouth of babes

It was a blistering hot day, the house was full of guests, and things weren’t going well. Finally, the hostess got everyone seated for dinner and asked her seven-year-old daughter to say grace.

“But mother,” said the little girl, “I don’t know what to say” “Yes you do,” said her mother, “Just say the last prayer you heard me use.”

Obediently, the child bowed her head and recited hesitantly: “Oh, Lord, why did I invite these people on such a hot day?”

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29 Aug 09 Human can opener

Isn’t it marvellous to know that God made us with so many gifts? This youth can open a can with his teeth!

Psalms 139:14
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.

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29 Aug 09 A Surrendered Life

General William Booth of the Salvation Army once said, “The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender”

Indeed the mark of a spiritual life is the submissive, surrendered life, and the surrendered life is the powerful, blessed life.

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28 Aug 09 Brokenness

God uses broken things. It takes soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume… it is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.

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20 Aug 09 Our weakness, His strength

The folklore surrounding Poland’s famous concert pianist and prime minister, Ignace Paderewski, includes this story: A mother, wishing to encourage her young son’s progress at the piano bought tickets for a Paderewski performance. When the night arrived, they found their seats near the front of the hall and eyed the majestic Steinway waiting on the stage.

Soon the mother found a friend to talk to, and the boy slipped away. When 8pm arrived, the spotlights came on, the audience quieted, and only then did they notice the boy up on the bench, innocently picking out, “Twinkle, twinkle little star.”

His mother gasped, but before she could retrieve her son, the master appeared on the stage and quickly moved to the keyboard. “Don’t quit – keep playing,” he whispered to the boy. Leaning over, the master reached down with his left hand and began filling in the bass part. Soon his right arm reached around the other side, encircling the child, to add a running obligato. Together, the old master and the young novice held the crowd mesmerized.

In our lives, unpolished though they may be, it is the Master who surrounds us and whispers in our ear, time and time again,”Don’t quit, keep playing.” And as we do,he augments and supplements until a work of amazing beauty is created.

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15 Aug 09 Why we must bridle our tongue?

Doctors are held in high esteem and patients can trust their personal and medical information with them without fear of it being repeated to anyone else (not even their spouses, friends, parents or employers)

Lawyers are also governed by similar set of ethical codes. In fact both doctors and lawyers could be suspended or even sued for breaching such ethical codes of their profession.

There are no such strict guidelines for maintaining confidentiality of information among friends and even religious leaders. How can we be assured that our friends, colleagues or even our religious leaders who provide counselling to their flocks maintain the same level of confidentiality when we share information with them?

Strictly speaking I have not heard of any law that cover this area of ethics with regards to confidentiality. However I do believe that the trust among friends, colleagues and even with our religious is sacred.

Under normal circumstances, true love and genuine concern for each other would be a good enough constraint to keep confidential and private the information we heard from friends or the people we care for. This trust has to be upheld because it is sacred to maintain the friendship and the trust with have with the leaders.

What does the bible say about this matter? It is stated very clearly that if a man claims to be religious and he shut not his mouth to keep secrets availed to him in private, his religion is in vain. This will definitely dishonour God.

A loose tongue that does not know how to keep secrets can set a fire, defile the whole body and create havoc to an organization (James 3:6)

What is friendship if friends could not even keep secrets out of love for each other? I would rather share my secrets with my enemy. At least I know I did not trust him rather from the start and I would be on my guard not to reveal anything more that what I want him to hear.

How scary it is when friends start to gossip about things and it returns back to your ears?

If you are troubled and have no one to turn to share your burdens you can definitely share it with my friend who is a Jew. His name is Jesus.

Unlike sinful man who can beguile you and lie to you, Jesus is always true and faithful. Call on Him and pour out your trouble and sorrow to Him. He will never fail you nor betray you because He has died for you. He is your true friend indeed!

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion [is] vain. James 1:26
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! James 3:5
And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. James 3:6
But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. James 3:8
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: 1Peter 3:10
My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. 1John 3:18

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13 Aug 09 Resolution made by my daughter

My daughter made the following resolution after attending a church camp.

I promise my LORD

Not to make any provision for the lust of the flesh, lust of the ey, and the pride of life but instead to flee from youthful lusts as Joseph did in moments of temptations

To spend time in prayer everyday

To increase in the knowledge of God and to delight inHis Word

To do unto others what I would others unto me

To let my speech be seasoned with salt and grace so thatI may answer every man in a manner that pleases God

And finally, to please God rather than men

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