A Refocus On Blessed Family Culture
Family is the dearest to us, yet as we spend longer hours than usual with our families during this circuit breaker, we may need to deal with more tensions. However, important lessons and new divine grace are also in store for us. Since God surely has His reasons to let us stay home with our families this season, let’s refocus on deepening the gospel culture in our families and restore the bliss and purpose God has for our families.
The Pride Of COVID-19
As COVID-19 becomes widespread, what is one that one common nature you could see among men? Pride. Blames and criticisms go around also, leaders get defensive, while well intentioned people try to offer solutions. Find out why are these prideful inclinations.
Fear Says “What If”, Faith Says “Even If”
“What if…?” is a question that always pops into our minds. Consequently, we will become highly anxious and fearful, if we fail to guard our hearts. Fear likes to ask, “What if”, but faith says, “Even if”. Certainly, our God can stop this pandemic, or grant us our wishes, if He wants, BUT even if He does not, let us still consider Him God and trust in Him. Though we may never reach a stage where we can be totally without fears, yet even as we still have fears, we can choose to follow God by faith. Instead of focusing on the “what-ifs” that we do not know, let us hope in the God whom we do know!
Facing The Extended Circuit Breaker
Why is the circuit breaker so difficult for us? What does it show us about our sin? How can we face it with God’s help?
Not Designed To Control But To Trust
No matter how remarkable a person is, man cannot control his own destiny. Because there are at least two things which man cannot control: Time and Chance. Only when a person comes to terms with this reality, then he will not over-rely on his own intelligence, but will realise his need for God, for divine power outside of man himself.
Can I Be Peaceful When God Allows Calamity?
The question in most people’s mind now is if God is both sovereign and good, why did He ordain the current pandemic which brought about so much hardships and deaths? Find out what great things HE could be doing beyond the goodness we perceive to be. Find out how you can enjoy the peace that HE promised even in these times.
Confronting Our Idols And Idleness
The COVID-19 pandemic tears down man’s idols. We trust in medical science, yet it offers no cure for the novel coronavirus; we worship wise human leaders and experts, yet they are helpless in the face of one very contagious virus; we run after money as if it is the treasure of our lives, yet one virus brings the global economy down. The pandemic is good reminder for us to turn from our idols and seek God earnestly. Yet, as the pandemic silences the empty promises of idols, it also brings the potential trap of idleness, as the world slows down because of COVID-19. As “an idle mind is the devil’s playground”, we must pray that we “never tire of doing what is good”.
Possessing Hope In Bleak Situation
If we leave things to chance or put our hopes in man, what hope can they be? In a pandemic, everyone’s guess is as good as one another. Yet, be reminded that God did not leave His loved ones and His promises offer true hope in the most dire situation.
Put Your Hope Not In The End Of The Pandemic, But In The Risen Lord!
Let us put our trust and hope in this risen Lord Jesus who conquered humans’ worst enemy – death, and He too can give His believers eternal life and sufficient grace to deal with every good or bad encounter on earth.
What Does The Cross Mean To A World In Turmoil?
I believe God our Father will not want His children to fear in whatsoever situation, and the most often mentioned negative prohibition by our Jesus in His ministry on earth is: “Fear not”. “Do no fear, do not be afraid”. You hear this all the time from the Lord’s mouth. God knows how helpless we could be, and how paralysing fear can be. And just as the world is hoping for good news, for infections to go down, for vaccines to be developed, let us, who are called Christian, to wholeheartedly remember the Son of God.
