Sundaysnippets #16 Much ado about nothing (26th June 10)

Dear…

‘Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, Who giveth us richly all things to enjoy, that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute…’

1 Timothy 6:17-19

Things are starting to go awry again. At least in the once bubbly financial and property markets. As I took time with the Lord, the thought came to my heart that indeed, now are many who are starting to fret again, not that they have not been doing it past few months, difference is, now is about culminating losses, prior to that was about missed profit opportunities. It there a better tomorrow? Afraid not, if like the Chow Yuen Fatt's gangster film “A better tomorrow,” things got blazingly worse.


'A man's heart deviseth his way, but the Lord directeth his steps.'

Proverbs 16:9

As I moved from thinking to reading a message a dear friend sent me from Chiangmai. She reminded me that Chiangmai is an epicenter where about two thirds of the world population live within a three thousand mile radius. And having moved out from Down Under, where one is fairly insulated from the reality of human suffering and material deprivation that weighs on a disproportionate majority of the human race, she felt the imminent return of our Lord Jesus Christ, to rule this sinful world that the carnal man has, without God, brought spiraling down to near total destruction. So, would it not be better to seek to live a godly present, then strive for a sinful tomorrow?

Just today, I truly felt the Spirit of God reminding me to now take a hiatus from the recent trend of investments that He has led me to make, both in the financial and the real assets spectrum. But assets are looking cheap, my mind questions, but I have learned to obey the prompting of the Spirit of God residing in my heart. Continue to invest, yes, but in His Kingdom as God leads, be ready to distribute as the Word of God exhorts us in the above verse in 1 Timothy 6:17-19

‘Take therefore no thought for tomorrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil therof.’

Matthew 6:34

And if one needed a further affirmation to dispel any doubts about following God, I received an unexpected email, right after the above message, from another dear friend in Thailand, a non-believer, who forwarded a very Christian message on the need to follow God, as He leads. The title was “Bike ride with God”

Many of us as believers, know the Sovereignty of God, but it stays just that, as head knowledge. When life is dandy, we tell God to just be the passive passenger on our tandem bike, while we cruise along. When we start to hit some painful road bumps, we ask God to take the front seat, but we still very much act as the navigator. It is no wonder life is rather fretful for so many of us. Would it not be nice to just sit back and let God lead, and we simply ride along? We will save ourselves a lot of grief, and yet enrich our lives wonderfully with the many joy and peace that God will provide, even as we speed along the smooth roads of life or as we are uplifted over the inevitable humps and bumps that do line this same road.

‘He remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it and it is gone. And the place thereof shall know it no more.’

Psalm 103:14-16

Life need not be this way(as in Psalm 103:14-16). Like a sudden burst of intense flame before it burns off into ashes. God is preparing us for eternity, much as we often are so enamored with the temporal.

‘But the lovingkindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him. And His righteousness unto children’s children. To such as keep His covenant. And to those that remember His precepts to do them. Jehovah hath established His throne in the heavens.’

Psalm 103:17-19

God is faithful. Woes there will be in this fallen world. But we need not droop like a dog wet in its tail. Nor need we be like the mad hatter in Alice’s Wonderland, always fretting and hyperventilating. God will draw near to us, when we draw near to Him. Once we understand and acknowledge the will of God, His very Spirit will permeate our very being, and nothing of this world can ever gripped us ever.

‘Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.’

1 Timothy 2:4

God Blesses

Eng Hieang

(10th June 2010)

An afterthought

This sharing was written back in 10th June 10. But only today ie 26th June as I pondered or more like fret a little about an issue, almost a déjà vu like twelve years back, that could impact my business, that the Lord brought me a few days reading ahead to the Daily Bread dated 1st July 2010 titled “worry list.” And indeed, much as we cannot control present events nor fathom what will be in the next second, all of us spent an undue part of our life worrying about the extrapolated future. In Matthew 6:34, God reminded us “Do not worry about tomorrow.”


'The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.'

Proverbs 16:1

If this reassurance is from men, it will be fallible, much like the singer of the song “Don’t worry, be happy” who was rumored to have subsequently killed himself, when he stopped believing in his own rationalization. Thankfully the rumor was not true, but for many, to just cling on to these words alone will not remove that nagging doubts in their hearts. But with God all things are possible and this reassurance from Matthew 6:34 is from God. In fact, it is a command.



For with God, it is not just His words, but in His works and like all who have in our own imperfect ways seek that close relationship with God, we are fully cognizance that indeed God is Sovereign and He is fully in charge and He has and will provide.

What then should be our response? Like the Aussies love to pepper every reply of theirs with “no worries” indeed, let us not be sorry about leaving the worry bug behind, but instead, lets honor God in our lives by doing what He has commanded us to do.


‘But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.’

Matthew 6:33


And indeed God will take care of our needs, but will we take care to stay faithful to His command to be a living sacrifice, to be made ready by Him? God is good. He not only brought me back, in my quiet time yesterday morning, to this verse in Matthew 6:33 to bring me out of my own miasma of confusion, but for an affirmation, on the way home yesterday evening, the words from the radio was exactly from Matthew 6:33.


How great is our God indeed.