Strength of Compassion

I am not sure what sort of feeling you bear as you listen and watch the tragedies in Myanmar and Sichuan. In me, it has stirred not just emotional sadness, but it has brought about a heart wrenching burden, which I can't express with words. I want to do more than just donation alone, but it has stirred in me to want to be part of re-building the lives of people.

I was watching the coverage of the Sichuan earthquake, and seeing the loss and grief that people have gone through has broke my heart. However the more touching scene, is seeing the love of the workers, who have lost their own families, stepping out to show love and rescue all those out there. Looking at it, made me realise that there is such strength and resilience in the love and compassion of human. No matter how selfish a person may be, in the light of suffering, there seems to be many who would still care for one another.

I'm sure God hears the prayers of many Christians, crying out for the lives of people in Sichuan and Myanmar. Our God is a compassionate God, I have no answer why such tragedies have to happen, just like the 9/11 at WTC, I have no answer. But I know that God is a compassionate God, and that He will desire to bring healing and love into the people who have gone through such. However, these people will never experience God's healing and love if we as Christians do not step out to bring the physical healing, hope and life back into these ones. It really challenges one ...... what would we do to step out to bring God's love practically unto others.

The question that is burning in my heart.............How can we rebuild the lives of all these ones? I've got a pair of hands, and just a simple heart, God .......... use me. This is my prayer, I don't know what to do, but pray. I don't know how God can use this situation to turn people back to Him. But I believe in the compassion of God, that He loves all these ones who are hurting and grieving. Psalm 86 tells of God's compassion, and that His love and mercies are everlasting.


Psalm 86
A prayer of David.
1 Hear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
2 Guard my life, for I am devoted to you. You are my God; save your servant who trusts in you.
3 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I call to you all day long.
4 Bring joy to your servant, for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
5 You are forgiving and good, O Lord, abounding in love to all who call to you.
6 Hear my prayer, O LORD; listen to my cry for mercy.
7 In the day of my trouble I will call to you, for you will answer me.
8 Among the gods there is none like you, O Lord; no deeds can compare with yours.
9 All the nations you have made will come and worship before you, O Lord; they will bring glory to your name.
10 For you are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are God.
11 Teach me your way, O LORD, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.
12 I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will glorify your name forever.
13 For great is your love toward me; you have delivered me from the depths of the grave. [a]
14 The arrogant are attacking me, O God; a band of ruthless men seeks my life— men without regard for you.
15 But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.
16 Turn to me and have mercy on me; grant your strength to your servant and save the son of your maidservant. [b]
17 Give me a sign of your goodness, that my enemies may see it and be put to shame, for you, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me

Let the love of God flow. My heart goes out to all the children who have lost their parents, and as well to all the parents who have lost their children. If that's your burden too..........why don't you spend time, right now, to pray together, for all these ones - that their lives can have hope, that they can once again find strength to live because of the love and compassion of God.

Creation of man vs Creation of God

How ingenious man are today............I visited the Singapore flyer today, and was awed by the intricacies of the engineering of this Singapore icon. Amazingly today, when you think about it, man could almost engineer anything as long as the brian could think up of it. I don't study architecture or civil engineering, but I can see that so much details need to go into the building of any structure. This brought me to really think and be even more amazed at how then God has created us. So perfectly He has made us to be, how our organs, and features of the whole body seems to be so in place, but when you look into it in detail, there is so much that has gone in to it to create such a beautiful human person.

Be more in awe when you think............all those buildings and structure (olympic stadiums, tall buildings, the Singapore flyer and etc.....), requires heaps and heaps of teams of engineers, designers, builders, and etc..... to build it, and I'm sure the make up of a human body will be as detailed as all those buildings and structure......but it is created by God alone. Isn't that amazing, and beyond human understanding? I can never understand how the human body and everything that is required to make it function could be so perfectly planned out. Well, it is not human engineers who did it, but it is God........and hence how wrong it is for people to try to clone human beings today, because it will never be possible, and it is going against the plans of God, to try to act like God. Only God can create such beautiful beings like you and me.

Here's some photos for you to be in awe about:









so many bits and pieces of steel.........











can't really see it in the photo, but it's really complicated










the final product - SINGAPORE FLYER










Inside the capsule...........it can take up to 28 people in 1 capsule, fully air-conditioned











the tallest point

the capsule next to us........this point can only be achieved when we are at the highest point, next to each other

behind me.......they are building the floating soccer field

Take a Break, Have a cup of coffee

This is something that I have been wanting to share. I think it is so wrong when we look at what it says.........but when we learn to look at it in a different perspective, it brings us to realise that it is a whole new ball game.

In the last couple of weeks, it has been a personal challenge for me to really grow in trusting God for salvations of non believers, and it has brought me to a new sense of urgency to really step out and share. I was sharing with a friend of mine for a while, and things in life has cause my friend to draw further away from God. I have always said to her, I'll keep praying for her situation, and always encouraged her towards God. But things have taken a slight different route, and I knew that I got a little side tracked too and didn't talk to her more about God, and encouraging her in God. And I was "prompted" one day by God to write an email to this friend, and to really specifically tell her to trust God. And shared with her that it is God who will open the door. And amazingly, about 2 weeks now, this friend's situation has taken a turn for the better. Although there is no outcome yet, but I know that it is God who is moving in her life.

This day.........would we keep doing the work of God of sharing His love??? Hope you'll enjoy the video below. Because I did, and I thought it is such a good way to tell us to look at things from a positive and strengths way, so even when there is a negative word "give up", it can be turned around, when it is for God.

AIM LOWER, THINK SMALLER, GIVE UP, GO HAVE A CUP OF COFFEE

The Perfect Timing

In Ecc 3:1, it says," There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven;" Ever wondered when is that time for everything? And when God says everything, does it mean all good and bad? or even the easy and tough times? Sometimes we go through life and struggle through some seasons of our lives. We complain, we get frustrated, we feel lonely, we become upset, everything just don't seem to be in the right tune in that season. And we just resigned it to fate. But I realise that even in those times, we should not just leave it to fate, but we need to trust in God's perfect timing. That He has brought those trials into our lives, not for us to complain and get upset, but He has brought it, sowe learn that it is our attitude that will get us to "sing in the right tune".
God wants us to go through every activity, not just the good ones, but even the difficult ones. In the last few months of my life, I must say that it hasn't been the easiest times in my life. There were many challenges. It came to some point that I felt that maybe the sun wasn't going to rise again - I wondered about where the strength and hope is going to come from? But now when I look back, I realise that they aren't so difficult, but rather they were a preparation for me to move on to the next level of my faith in God. It had been tough, but I cherished the moments now because it has drawn me closer to God. It has spoken into my heart that God is faithful right to the very end. I realise that I will never have experienced God in such ways if I have never gone through those tough seasons in my life. Sometimes we fear so much to step into the challenges that God presents in our lives. We keep thinking "God, why me? why do I have to go through such things?" I do not know whether you realise then that all these is God's perfect timing to draw you closer to Him. And if you choose to keep staying in your frustration and complaining attitude, you will miss God's perfect timing.
God comes so that we can experience His revealation to us. He didn't just come to make you feel nice about Him. He came so that you can experience the truth through Him. When God brings to you the trials of live, learn to understand that it is the perfect timing of God. I'm sure God doesn't just want you to suffer, but He allows the suffering so that the victory and glory will be sweeter and glory at the end. It is His timing for you. Don't deny it, don't miss it. When I look back now, I realise that everything that has happened, happened at the right time. God knows very well what I can take and He knows clearly what He is doing as well.
Do not miss the perfect timing of God's work in your life. When God brings about it, He knows very well that that is the time you need to go through the trials. Let go of your rights to time (as in what you see as perfect timing), allow God to reveal His perfect plan to you in His perfect timing.

What is your value?

Have one ever thought what is their value? How much are you worth? Or even rather What sort of value do you place upon yourself? Are you PRICELESS? or Are you WORTHLESS? I don't know what you see yourself to be, but I know in God's eyes, I'm priceless, and precious. God places a huge value upon our lives, because He gave up His one and only son for our sins. Wow, do you realise that you are worth the live of another innocent man?

I was listening to a preaching by Dr. A.R Bernard, and he said that we are God's workmanship - God created every single bit within us, but more so, we are His workmanship (as what Ephesians 2:10 says) "For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." It is as if God wrote a poem about us.......He wrote about our lives, He has it all planned out that when He wrote that poem, it "rhymes", it is "beautiful" and it is "perfect". God's workmanship was for Him to enjoy, it was for Him to use. Do we realise that we are so "priceless" in the eyes of God, that even He will take time to "write out every single detail about our lives".

When I look at it, I realise then this "perfect" workmanship of God has been not so perfect, because of the value I put upon my own life. I don't see the perfect work that God has first created, and hence I don't value every single bit of my life and at times, get discontented with myself. But wow, when we learn to put great value upon our lives, we will treasure every single moment of it; we will grab every opportunity that comes up because it may be the only one; we will make every decision with great supplication before God because of fear that we may walk out of God's plan; we will love every relationship we have with people because it may be the last that you can show that love; we will run with urgency in all that we do, because we may not be able to finish everything we would like to do...........

When you truly realise the value that God has place on you, and coming to receive that same value yourself, you look at life differently. God values you greatly, He sees you with much more than you can comprehend........Don't give away that value that He has for you;

And I also want to add.......... in all things that you do, when you place value upon it, especially upon the Word of God, as you hear it preached to you......place a great value on it, because when you place a great value on it, you will take it seriously, and you will want to take it and run all the way until you see it come to past.

I don't know if it all makes sense, but remember, your value is determined by God, and when you see God's value on you, you will place great value on the things of God too