THE PERFECT GOD - PART 1

From creation, God already knew the end from the beginning. Some wonder why He tolerates sin and the devil, and tend to think God might be a weak one if He has not  been able to totally defeat the devil. Others even consider His existence as hog wash.

With our human minds, we try to interprete happenings around us, and fail miserably. God has a perfect world in mind, and is only orchestrating its making- the good and bad of this imperfect world is only a part of the story. For in due time, the present Earth will pass away. Anyone who believes the message of the Cross, that Jesus died in our stead, so that we who knew sin might know no sin, shall be saved.

In the end, the end of the end shall be the creation of a new Earth and a new Heaven, without evil forces, where the righteous shall reign with Jesus.

Does this sound gibberish to you? This is the simple message of what is and is to come. Just as we cannot totally control the earth and all that befalls us here, so are we incapable of grasping the wisdom of God. To be able to interprete God's language and even understand the mysteries of this world and what is beyond, you have to act like a child and accept the key to breaking the code of God's language. FAITH IS THE KEY!

The fact that you do not understand a language does not make that language meaningless. Please ponder on this. TO BE CONTINUED........




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MERRY CHRISTMAS

FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. John 3 :16

The message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is not fiction as many would have us believe. Neither is it mere religion. It is a truth that must not be abhorred. For it carries with it the power to save you and I, and to grant us a much clearer meaning to life, and life eternal.

Before it is too late, please carry on and read this story :

A young man was getting ready to graduate college. For many months he had admired a beautiful sports car in a dealer's showroom, and knowing his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.

As Graduation Day approached, the young man awaited signs that his father had purchased the car. Finally, on the morning of his graduation his father called him into his private study. His father told him how proud he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautiful wrapped gift box.

Curious, but somewhat disappointed the young man opened the box and found a lovely, leather-bound Bible. Angrily, he raised his voice at his father and said, "With all your money you give me a Bible?" and stormed out of the house, leaving the holy book.

Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, but realized his father was very old, and thought perhaps he should go to him. He had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could make arrangements, he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away, and willed all of his possessions to his son. He needed to come home immediately and take care things. When he arrived at his father's house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart.

He began to search his father's important papers and saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. As he read those words, a car key dropped from an envelope taped behind the Bible. It had a tag with the dealer's name, the same dealer who had the sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the words...PAID IN FULL.

How many times do we miss God's blessings because they are not packaged as we expected?

I stumbled on the above story, and its resemblance to the Gospel of Jesus Christ brought tears to my eyes. Can you imagine buying and presenting a very expensive piece of jewellery to your loved one. But to your dismay she keeps it all wrapped up, stealing glances at it yearly and making a fuss, yet never unwrapping it? THAT IS HOW THE WORLD TREATS JESUS AND HIS PURCHASED GIFT OF SALVATION. PLEASE DON'T BREAK HIS HEART!

If you do have a heart, and this shared story touched you, then please do not spurn the beckonings and pleadings of Jesus to save you through his shed blood on the cross of Calvary. All God expects you to do is to accept His Gift of Salvation - Jesus Christ. If you believe the message of Jesus Christ, and accept Him in your heart, and confess Him with your lips, you shall indeed be saved.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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JUST START!

There is not always a favourable time or a perfect timing for a dream to come true, or to be realised. Life does not always present the best of conditions for us.  Yet the Creator of the Universe uses the odds that stand against us to His glory.  


He manipulates situations for our good, and virtually sifts out the wrong in us through the somewhat painful experiences that we go through. Gideon did not see himself as a warrior, nor even capable of leading the army of God against their foes. The time the angel of the Lord found Gideon happened to be a time and phase of Gideon's life when his weaknesses stared at him in full glare: JUDGES 6:11 -15 reads :

¹¹ The angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. ¹² When the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon, he said, “The LORD is with you, mighty warrior.”
 ¹³ “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our ancestors told us about when they said, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian.”
 ¹⁴ The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?”
 ¹⁵ “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.”

Gideon showcased himself as a man of low self esteem, who did not believe he could amount to anything good.  Contrarily, God saw Him as a mighty warrior, and urged him to go in the strength he had to save Israel. The question I suppose was on Gideon's mind at this point was - 'Go in what strength? I have no strength, I am a weak man from a weak family, and the least in my family.'

In response to Gideon's excuses, God assured Him -  ^{Judges 6:16} The LORD answered, “I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites, leaving none alive.” 

Gideon acted in obedience and faith. He  believed the Word of God and saw what was not as though it was, plunged into action, and the rest was history - a great historical feat! This is recorded in the sands of time and documented up until this generation - In Judges 6:27  we read about an obedient Gideon who still harboured certain fears, yet threw caution to the wind to start what God had instructed him to do - 'So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the townspeople, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.'

Gideon's obedience to God sent a war cry to the camp of the enemy  who prepared for war against Israel - ^{JUDGES 6: 33} Now all the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples joined forces and crossed over the Jordan and camped in the Valley of Jezreel. ³⁴ Then the Spirit of the LORD came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet, summoning the Abiezrites to follow him. ³⁵ He sent messengers throughout Manasseh, calling them to arms, and also into Asher, Zebulun and Naphtali, so that they too went up to meet them.  

God did not forsake Gideon,  He was with him and it is engraved in history that Thus Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During Gideon’s lifetime, the land had peace forty years (JUDGES 8:28). And all these Gideon accomplished in the midst of exhibitions of his own fears and human weaknesses that crept up every now and then. His secret formula was to move in faith and obey God rather than succumb to his fears. He faced his fears and took practical steps and actions to do what God had laid on his heart .

What is it that God is beckoning to you to do? You may feel you are not qualified to do it, or may think you do not have the resources to accomplish it. Take a cue from Gideon and just take the first step, and the rest will follow, as long as you keep communicating with God every step of the way.

The Chinese Philosopher Laozi  sums it all up in his great saying - A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

God bless you!



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