Super Power of Charcoal 

Charcoal, wonderful charcoal!!!

It is interesting to note new uses for charcoal. Apart from being used as fuel for cooking nice Chinese dishes, it can also be put in the rice while cooking. It makes the rice fluffy and nice. It also add minerals and energy to the rice! If it is put in the drinking water, it can restore bad water into good, balanced and minerals-enriched water. It can be used for clearing up bad environment by neutralizing the bad radiation and magnetic field around us, it can also restore and preserve our cells and bodies!

The best charcoal is the hard type, processed to 1000 deg Centigrade! Most of it is imported from China. Japan is a big importer of such charcoal.

Prov. 31:10 Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies.

He who finds a good husband finds a good thing, for he is better than "charcoal"!

Bye and be in good health!

THE CROSS AND OUR EATING HABITS

Why I blog about eating because when the Chinese meet each other, the invariable greeting is “Have you eaten?”

Remember what our Lord Jesus said in Luke 9:23 (NKJV)
Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.”

We are to deny ourselves and follow Him in everything we do. One of the areas we fail and fail miserably is the area of eating. In our affluent society, it is not the lack of food but the over-abundant of it. Every time when we go to the eating stores, we are just spoilt for choice!

A disciple of Christ is a disciplined person. When the Bible talks about self-control, many people think it is only in the area of fleshly desires. But fleshly desires also include the desire to eat. No wonder the Chinese sage Confucius equated eating and sex”Eating and sex are habitual.”食色性也” People like to eat what is tasty, not nutritious! Professor Luke Lin of Taiwan says:” Tasty food is not Healthy, Healthy food is not Tasty!” One of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. (Gal. 5:24) Why many have fallen sick? One of the main reasons is because they do not exercise self-control in what they eat and how much they eat. If we deny ourselves of all the favourite foods like fries, burgers, KFC, big Mac, coke, Maggie mee but eat the healthy fruits, vegetables and grains, we shall be healthier!

Have you noticed whenever there is a buffet lunch or dinner? How the people took a mountain full of the delicious food leaving nothing for others and how they gobble up the food like they had not eaten in a month! You think this only happen in the civil setting? Sad to say I have also noticed this in the church functions! Gluttony is a sin like idolatry!

What to eat is healthy? As a person who denies himself and takes up his cross daily to follow Christ, it is natural to follow what the Bible says about what to eat.

Genesis 1:29 (New International Version)
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. "

Every vegetable with seed and every fruit with seed is our food of choice. Do not eat any of the genetically modified food; you do not know what will happen to you. Neither do you eat the fruits without seed; these are only for the lazy people! The Bible says the seed of the fruits and vegetables is life as blood is to the animals. Do not eat fruit and vegetable that have no seed because they have no life. No wonder when we start to eat more fruits and vegetables instead of meat, we become more healthy! Many modern day terminal sicknesses are caused by eating meat. These include cancer, heart diseases, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and obesity. I am NOT a vegetarian, but the less meat we eat the better!

What about meat? In Genesis 1:29, God did not say to eat meat. Then when did God allow men to eat meat? Not in Acts of Apostles as popularly believed. It is in Deuteronomy 12:20 "When the LORD your God enlarges your border as He has promised you, and you say, "Let me eat meat, 'because you long to eat meat, you may eat as much meat as your heart desires.'" Notice that it is man’s desire to eat meat that God allowed them to eat! It was only after Noah had left the Ark that God allowed man to eat meat. “Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green herbs.” Genesis 9:3 (NKJV) This was the first time man was allowed to eat meat! Do you notice that animals are also to eat vegetables and fruits? Don’t believe? Please read Genesis 1:30 “Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food"; and it was so.” See, every living thing (animals and birds) were given green herb (vegetables) for food! The animals that eat meat are very fierce and easily agitated. Those animals that eat only grass are more tame and gentle. Many times in the Bible, I read about the lions and tigers lying together with the lambs and do not harm them. I have also read about the man of God, Sanda Sunder Singh in India. Many times the poisonous snakes, tigers and lions will come and sit beside him! This was the picture in the garden of Eden until man sinned! The day will come that animals and man no longer eat meat and all will stay in peaceful coexistence, heaven on earth (Revelation 21:1-2). That will be so when Christ returns. Come, O Lord, Please come quickly!

I have one concern though. If I do not eat meat, do not drink milk or eat dairy products and eggs, where do I get my protein? When I read Professor Luke Lin’s book on 21 days to a toxic-free body, then do I realize that some vegetables like celery, sea weed actually contain more calcium and protein than milk! I did not realize until now that the proteins in cow milk actually turn into something bad for the body when pasteurized! The only milk we can drink is mother’s milk! Or the closest is maybe goat milk, but then you have to keep a mother goat in your house.
The other things to do for health are also Bible-based. Drink good water without chlorine and boiling. Don’t drink reverse osmosis or distilled water. Many times the Bible compared water to life! "And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the rivers go, will live." Ezekiel 47:9 (NKJV) "So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you." Exodus 23:25 (NKJV)

Pray and you shall have peace, and this peace shall bring you health. Isaiah 26:3 "You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You." When we have a cheerful heart, it does good like medicine! Proverbs 17:22 "A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones." Cast all your worries, troubles and heartaches to Jesus and you shall have peace. “Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.” I Peter 5:7 (NKJV)

Confess your sins. You sin because you are a sinner. You are not a sinner because you sin. Many Christians are not truly Christians because they have not really confessed their sins and repented. "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." I John 1:9 Many cancers are caused by people harbouring hatred against others. In New York, while praying for a middle-aged woman in the Methodist Church, the Holy Spirit showed me that she has arthritis in the fingers because she harboured hatred against her elder sister. I asked her to go and make up with her sister if she wants to be healed of her arthritis.

The 3 Birthday kids 

Birthday cakes 

Lik Xiong and Lik Xiang 

Joel's Birthday

Hey, its birthday time again! Joel---April 17, Boey Chew---April 15, Soo Tot---April 11.
Click to see the picutres in MSN The Cherith Family Web site!

http://www.msnusers.com/TheCherithFamily

THE CROSS AND THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR

It is strange! What has investment to do with the cross? Not only in the area of investment, but also in other areas like nutrition and health; the pattern is strikingly similar. When you pursue a certain subject to its pure form; you will find few that agrees, much fewer are those that follow! No wonder the LORD Jesus says: 13"Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. (Matthew 7:12-14) New King James Version.

The way of the cross is not easy. For the LORD Jesus says in Luke Chapter 9: 23”Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. 24For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. 25For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?”

John Mak:” To be an intelligent investor, you need to be disciplined and capitalize on the folly of the speculators.” In other words, we do not follow the crowd that goes on the wide and broad popular road of speculation.

Similarly, a disciple of Christ who goes on the way of the cross cannot follow the trends and fashions of the world but choose the long and narrow way of being ridiculed, misunderstood, persecuted, scorned and finally enter into the narrow gate of eternal life!

The consolation is finally both attain victory eventually!

Warren Buffett: “When the tide subsides, then we know who has been swimming in the nude.” Referring to those who habitually speculates and occasionally makes a quick buck here and there but the final finishing line is the one that determines who are the champions!

Another similarity between the cross and the intelligent investor is contained in an email I wrote to the investment guru John Mak:

Dear John,

Thank you for your insights as contained in your latest book and emails to me. It strengthened once again the “intelligent investor” that is in me.

It reminded me of what Jesus did:”All these things Jesus spoke to them in parables; and without a parable He did not speak to them.” (Matthew 13:34)

For the disciples He explained everything to them but for others He spoke in parables so that hearing they may hear but shall not understand, seeing but will not perceive. What you are saying is the same exactly.

To the “intelligent investors”, what you say in your books could be understood easily, and the other readers may just condemn you or just throw your books away.

Remaining as investor,
Your Loyal Reader.

You see, how strikingly similar the way of the cross and the way of the intelligent investing.

I shall blog my thoughts on the similarity of the cross and nutrition in another post.

EGGBLOG

When think of eggs, many people think of birthdays. Funny that eggs are also associated with Easter! In fact, it should be. Resurrection is greater than Birth, so Easter should rightly be more important than Christmas; strange some churches don't even celebrate Easter!

Remember the Apostle Paul remarked:"For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified." (I Cor. 2:2) It is so important that some religion denies Jesus's death. Paul further said:" And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty. And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile, you are still in your sins!" (I Cor. 15:14,17)

Read this following message from Dayspring:

The Cross — Understanding Your True Worth

Jesus walked on many roads during his brief time on earth. The roads He walked on led Him through valleys and over hilltops, they brought Him through crowded city streets and quiet villages, they guided Him to people’s homes and festive celebrations, but the road that led Him to the place of crucifixion was the one He was born to travel.
The Father watched from heaven as His Son, beaten and bruised, staggered under the weight of the cross on His way to a place called Golgotha. Jesus knew that this road was the only way that His love could find a place in our hearts. If God would have set a roadblock on this road and said to His Son, “Road closed,” we would never have found our way to Him.

It is Jesus’ journey to the cross and His crucifixion upon Golgotha’s hill that opens our understanding to the meaning of love at its deepest level. Salvation is our free gift that cost Jesus everything—His brokenness means that we can be made whole; His sorrow means that we can have fullness of joy; His rejection means that we can be accepted; His pain means that we can be healed; His death means that we can have life everlasting.
The devil has convinced so many people that they are worthless. Each of us needs to stop and remember the cross—at the cross we will discover our true value— for it is here that we discover the price God was willing to pay for us, the depth of His love, and how much we are worth to Him.
—Roy Lessin, Co-founder DaySpring Cards

"and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power, which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, " (Eph. 1:19-21)

And now this resurrection power is in those who acknowledge Him as Lord ans Saviour!

The mystery of the Gospel is:"Which is Christ in you, the hope of glory!" (Col. 1:27)

May you also discover what I discover as the mystery of the Gospel that the power that raised Christ from the dead is now in you and me, working to bring us to completion at the day of Jesus Christ! (Phil.1:6)

Wow, what an explosive power. There is power in you! This is Easter power!

Wedding of my niece Cass Lai