Our Holiness and God’s Work
A lot of believers desire to serve God and be used by God. However, we have also heard of stories of believers serving in church and grew lukewarm and cold in faith as they serve. We have also seen ministers in church living a life that is not aligned to the truth of God. In Paul’s final letters to Timothy, we would understand that as a worker approved by God, what we are comes before what we do. It is important to pursue personal holiness and be saturated with God’s Word to impart them rightly, if one desires to be vessels of honorable use in God’s kingdom.
God’s Will and My Choice
We make choices everyday. The choice we make, big or small, take us down a particular path. As Christians, when we are faced with the need to choose, we often ask, “What is the will of God?” However, is the will of God obscured from the children of God?
Christians’ Dollars And Sense
The Bible is full of instructions on stewardship of money, and we are reminded that the way we handle money is ultimately a spiritual issue. As Christians, it is important to be sensitive and vigilant of the influence of sins on our views on money, and our hearts disposition towards it. These, coupled with the threats of materialism, often make both Christians and non-Christians struggle to properly manage their finances, or to be contended in it. Unless we restore a biblical attitude and pursuit towards our stewardship of money, it is difficult to present a righteous alternative to the fallen world on matters concerning money.
Trusting God In Our Perplexities
As Christians, we often grapple with some existential issues, in particular why bad things happen to God’s people, or why didn’t God shield His people from cruelty of wickedness? Through a short survey on the book of Habakkuk, may we deal with life’s perplexities rightly by bringing it God, trusting, and waiting in God who works out all things for God’s glory – even though things are at times beyond our comprehension. The righteous will live by faith, and this summaries the path of life God sets for His people.
Living As Committed Christians In This World Today
We live in a world that promotes keeping options opened. Such non-committal spirit is also prevalent in church and our faith living, diverting Christians from an authentic Christian living. As children of God, we need to return to biblical integrity and understand what it means to live as committed Christians who glorify God. It is counter-cultural and unpopular, but it’s the way to a fruitful and genuine Christian living.
The Brevity Of Human Life (Time)
Have you considered the possibility of your own or others’ death? In Asian culture we are in, death is such an unpleasant topic, so much so that we sugarcoat it at times or avoid the topic completely. But the Bible has never kept us ignorance about our death, neither did God sugarcoat it. Human life is shorter than we know, and often full of toil and trouble. As the psalmist prayed, we truly need to restore the earnest prayer of “numbering our days, so that we may get a heart of wisdom.”
Finding True Resilience To Live In Adversity
Let us find true resilience so that we can be strong in His grace and edify the weak around us.
Pray And Do Not Lose Heart
Let us be encouraged by the unchanging goodness of God despite perplexities and keep the faith strong by pressing on in prayers.
When The Reality Is Far From Our Expectations
When the reality is far from our expectations, our response to God and men will reflect what we truly hold onto in our Christian walk. If it is the promise of God that we hold on to, regardless of unfulfilled expectations, we will pray that God’s grace and truth work in our hearts until we can again be in partnership with God in the things He has set out to accomplish.
Sin Hurts, Truth Heals
We must realise it is not Truth, but sin that hurts. Men, blinded by sins, cannot be broken and healed unless the Light of Truth opens up their spiritual eyes to see the uncleanliness within.
