08 Aug 09 A Love Song from my wife
Is been a long long 20 years to write this song for you
We journeyed through valleys and hills, surviving every storm
Looking back the yester-years seems just like a dream.
Wondering how we come these far.
Chorus
Thank God for sustenance. Thank God for His mercy
Thank God for His grace that helps through and through
Thank you for your prayers.
Thank you for your faithfulness
Most of all I thank you for your love.
As I look at the way ahead I see more and more unsure
The health of each one of us failing day by day.
But the God whom we have trust, same forever more
His love will see us through.
Now be pain and sorrow, Now be misery
Now be broken dreams and pathways full of tears
But God is sovereign. He is in control. His word will stand firm always
Let’s keep the love of God in our hearts. Let’s keep the love for each other strong
The Lord will guide us all the way. And I am with you to the end.
Chorus
Thank God for sustenance. Thank God for His mercy
Thank God for His grace that helps through and through
Thank you for your prayers.
Thank you for your faithfulness
Most of all I thank you for your love.
Thank you for your prayers.
Thank you for your faithfulness
My dearest, dearest, I love you…
(20 September 2008)
29 Jun 09 Spare the rod spoil the child
If you spare the rod you spoil the child. Many cases of parental abuse are now surfacing as families could no longer suffer in silence. Could these unfortunate cases be avoided if parents stick to the time test method of disciplining their children?
720 youths were referred to the Singapore Children’s Society last year because they were beyond parental control. Almost half of them have turned violent against their parents.
Last year the following adult children were jailed for hurting their parents:
- A 47 man threw a wooden dining chair at his 67 yr old mother for nagging at his young niece for refusing a bowl of hot porridge.
- A 22 year man whacked his mother’s head with a hammer because he was frustrated with his mother’s nagging.
- A 39 year old woman hit her 79 year old father after he tried to stop her from shouting at her maid.
Last week a young man kicked his 82 year old grand mother and threatened his father with a chopper because they refused him money.
One 69 year old man needed 7 stitches after his son smashed a ceramic flower pot over his head. His 30 year old son had been in and out of jail for drug offences and would hound the family for money to feed his habit.
In Britain plans are being made to give schools more powers to make students behave. Parents have been warned to keep kids in line or be fined
Soon teachers in Britain will be able to take parents of disruptive pupils to court under government plan which will be unveiled soon.
Schools will get stronger powers to ask for the imposition of parenting orders which could mean families being forced to attend classes to learn how to control their offspring.
A parenting order requires parents to take specific steps to control a child’s behaviour- including attending parenting courses or counselling sessions to ensure their children are at home at a certain things, or avoiding certain situations and people.
If they still fail to keep their children in line, they would face a $2,400 fine and a jail term if they do not pay.
What has happened to our society today? What has happened to filial piety? Advocates who claim that we should not use the rod on the child are terribly wrong. Look at the outcome of such teachings in our society today.
We should follow what the bible teaches which has been time tested since the beginning of humanity.
Children are commanded to honour their parents.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. (Exodus 20:12)
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise; (Ephesians 6:2)
If you don’t teach them and cane them while they are still teachable, beware that they will turn around and “hammer’ you when they are old enough!
Proverbs 22:15 Foolishness [is] bound in the heart of a child; [but] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
As the Bible tells us:
“Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.” (Proverbs 23:13-14)
“He who spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes” (Proverbs 13:24)
Tags: Disobedient children, fillial piety, honour parents, parent abuse, Proverb 13:24, Spare the rod, spoil the child
23 Jun 09 Have you written your epitaph?
Here is the translated epitaph of my father in law to be read in the future
My Christian testimony (To be shared in the future)
I don’t receive much education so I couldn’t write much. But I thank God that He has enabled me to write this testimony. It is by His Grace that I am redeemed to become His child.
I come from a traditional family background and we had been worshiping idols in our family for many generations.
My only daughter became a Christian when she was in her secondary school. This was a very serious setback to our family which had held on to our tradition of idol and ancestral worship for many generations.
I got very angry when my daughter brought home her bible. I scolded her and even caned her. I eventually chased her out of our house. Fortunately there were understanding and caring neighbors who intervened and calmed me down.
But my daughter did not give up her faith because of my persecution. Instead she persevered to pray for my wife and me. She prayed everyday for our salvation.
A miracle finally happened! One Sunday, my wife and I picked up our courage to follow my daughter to her church. We wanted to find out what the church is all about. But I never expected to find so many brothers and sisters who were so friendly and caring. We received a warm welcome from the church members. We didn’t feel like we were strangers to the church. We finally realized that the God whom my daughter trusted is the true God.
The messages preached by the speaker helped to encourage us. I didn’t know that God’s love is so great. I was touched by the hymn “Amazing Grace”. Both my wife and I decided to accept the Lord Jesus as our Savior on that day. Hallelujah, praise the Lord! We even had all the idols in our home removed immediately.
All these happened in the year 1982. The Gospel is so amazing. We subsequently joined our daughter to attend New Life BP Church in Woodlands New Town and took part in the church activities.
Of course we still encounter problems, difficulties and discouragement as Christians but our loving God always listen and answer our prayers.
Our life becomes more meaningful and our heart was filled with joy and peace.
How I wish my relatives who have not believe in Jesus would quickly come and believe in Him. Jesus can save you and give you joy and peace. God’s word is our light to our path. Let Jesus be your Lord and Savior so that you too can escape from hell.
Jesus is now seated in heaven and has prepared for us a beautiful home. Which road will you take when you die? Heaven or hell?
Thank you for attending my funeral service. Good bye! Hope to see you in heaven.
Remember to believe in Jesus. See you in heaven!
Thum Mun Hun
Tags: Blogs, Brevity of Life, Death, epitaph, heaven, insight, kingdom of God, Life, tituslow, views
21 Jun 09 Father’s day message – lost in the deep
A sad story about a father losing his boy
I read some time ago of a vessel that had been off on a whaling voyage, and had been gone about three years. I saw the account in print somewhere lately, but it happened a long time ago.
The father of one of those sailors had charge of the lighthouse, and he was expecting his boy to come home. It was time for the whaling vessel to return.
One night there came up a terrible gale, and this father fell asleep, and while he slept his light went out. When he awoke he looked toward the shore, and saw there had been a vessel wrecked. He at once went to see if he could not yet save some one who might be still alive.
The first body that came floating towards the shore was, to his great grief and surprise, the body of his own boy. He had been watching for that boy for many days, and he had been gone for three years. Now, the boy had at last come in sight of home, and had perished because his father had let his light go out.
I thought, what an illustration of fathers and mothers to-day that have let their light go out and haven’t instructed their children in the word of God, prayed for them or shown them a Christian life and witness.
Fathers, will you get to heaven? Will your beloved children get to heaven? What are you doing about it?
Tags: father, lost in the deep
08 Jun 09 I need more pocket money
A student called up his Mom one evening from his college and asked her for some money, because he was broke.
His Mother said, “Sure, darling. I will send you some money. You also left your economics book here when you visited two weeks ago. Do you want me to send that up too?”
“Uhh, oh yeah, O.K.” responded the kid.
So his Mom wrapped the book along with the cheques up in a package, kissed Dad goodbye, and went to mail the money and the book. When she gets back, Dad asked, “Well how much did you give the boy this time?”
“Oh, I wrote two cheques, one for $50, and the other for $2,000.”
“That’s $2050!!!” yelled Dad, “Are you going crazy???”
“Don’t worry hon,” Mom said, kissed Dad on the on top of his bald head, “I taped the $50 check to the cover of his book, but I put the $2,000 one somewhere between the pages in chapter 15!”
Tags: money
08 Jun 09 Parents’ greatest fears
Dear Mother and Dad:
It has now been three months since I left for college. I have been remiss in writing and am very sorry for my thoughtlessness in not having written before. I will bring you up to date now, but before you read on, please sit down. You are not to read any further unless you are sitting down… Okay?
Well, then, I am getting along pretty well now. The skull fracture and the concussion I got when I jumped out of the window of my dormitory when it caught fire shortly after my arrival, are pretty well healed now. I only spent two weeks in the hospital and now I can see almost normally and only get three headaches a day.
Fortunately the fire in the dormitory and my jump were witnessed by an attendant at the gas station near the dorm and he was the one who called the Fire Department and the ambulance. He also visited me at the hospital, and since I had nowhere to live because of the burnt-out dorm, he was kind enough to invite me to share his apartment with him. It’s really a basement room, but it is kind of cute. He is a very fine boy and we have fallen deeply in love and are planning to get married. We haven’t set the exact date yet, but it will be before my pregnancy begins to show.
Yes, Mother and Dad, I am pregnant. I know how much you are looking forward to being grandparents and I know you will welcome the baby and give it the same love and devotion and tender care you gave me when I was a child. The reason for the delay in our marriage is that my boyfriend has some minor infection which prevents us from passing our premarital blood tests and I carelessly caught it from him. This will soon clear up with the penicillin injections I am now taking daily.
I know you will welcome him into our family with open arms. He is kind and although not well educated, he is ambtious. Although he is of a different race and religion than ours, I know you expressed tolerence will not permit you to be bothered by the fact that his skin color is somewhat darker than ours. I am sure you will love him as I do. His family background is good, too for I am told that his father is an important gunbearer in the village in Africa from which he comes.
Now that I have brought you up to date, I want to tell you that there was no dormitory fire, I did not have a concussion or skull fracture, I was not in the hospital, I am not pregnant, I am not engaged, I do not have syphillis and there is no boyfriend in my life. However, I am getting a “D” in History and an “F” in Science, and I wanted you to see these marks in the proper perspective.
Your loving daughter,
Chloe
Tags: Parents' greatest fears
