Dear...
'Thou art my God, and I will praise Thee, Thou art my God, I will exalt Thee.' O give thanks unto the Lord; for He is good; for His mercy endureth forever.'
Psalm 118:28-29
If you were in Manila this evening, will you not continue to wallow in the watery misery of the aftermath of Typhoon Ketsana or will you look to the rain drenched sky and thank God for His mercy, in shifting at the last minute, the full brunt of the even more devastating super-typhoon Parma, away from you?
This is not yet Sunday in Singapore, though it is in the Antipodean countries. But there is this stirring in my heart, that I must put pen to paper, or more like fingers to the keyboard, to express the thoughts that the Lord our God is placing in my heart right this moment.
By now, the proof for the Sunday papers tomorrow should already have been set to go to print, and we will likely read more of the woes our neighbors are being subjected to, be it typhoon and floods in Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, Laos and faraway Sicily - Italy, or the equally impactful earthquakes in Padang- Sumatra and Samoa. And not forgetting an almost a day new earthquake the past one week, in Gansu - China, California - USA
Are the stirring of the seismic plates a hint of things to come in the economic and social spectrum of global society?
'Waves of enemies will rage like great waters; the roar of their voices will resound. A destroyer will come against Babylon; her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken. For the Lord is a God of retribution; He will repay in full.......
This is what the Lord Almighty says: Babylon's thick wall will be leveled and her high gates set on fire; the people exhaust themselves for nothing, the nations' labor is only fuel for flames.'
Jeremiah 51:55-58
Much as one's sinful self would love to stand on the high moral ground and castigate the sinful world on their impending doom or even possibly join David Letterman in the late night show to talk about the juicy details of his affairs of the heart, and while it is indeed about our heart, it is not about the flesh, but the spirit that must capture our full attention, like now.
Just as Babylon might be present day Iraq, and Israel the present homeland for the once Jewish diaspora. In a different context, Babylon is the sinful lifestyle we indulge in when God is no longer the centre of our heart and where we, believers or not, are all God's chosen people, choose not to follow Him, but rather like the disobedient Israelites of old, wandering in the desert, drinking in lustfully the mirages that the devil happily feed us.
'But some of them said, Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?'
John 11:37
Many of us believe in our Lord Jesus Christ, for you call yourself a Christian. But why are you still like the blind man, who though you have seen the grace of God, continue to harden your heart, knowing that eternal damnation awaits the disobedient?
Have you consigned to history that wonderful sense of joy and peace, when your heart and very being stirred in response to the sanctifying love of God?
Tomorrow's news in the Sunday papers will already be history by the time you read it. And would you rather be part of the future news should the shaking intensifies and you find yourself no longer a spectator but in the midst of the cauldron?
'Now this is what the Lord Almighty says, "give careful thought to your ways. You have planted much, but have harvested little...'
Haggai 1:5
The good news of the gospel is ever fresh. And it remain valid till you meet God on judgement day
But will it be bad news or good news for you? Christ is the author and finisher of our faith, and if you are willing to be still, you will know God, for He is stirring in your heart.
God Blesses
Eng Hieang
(Sat Oct 3rd Spore time)
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