Rising Sun

Sunrise as seen from my office.

I like sunrise especially when the sky is beautiful too. It signals the beginning of a bright day just like the Bible says:

Malachi 4:2 (NIV)
But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall.

What a wonderful thought to begin the day with!

It's her birthday!

Yesterday was Mary's birthday and we had to attend a house fellowship leaders get-together at the house of the leader, Robert Cheah. So we thought we may not be able to have a birthday dinner with Mary. However, as it turned out that it was also Robert's birthday, Michael Ho's birthday and birthday for another sister from the main church!

Robert catered food (including a NZ roast lamb) and orderd a large birthday cake!

So Mary got more food and friends than she would have celebrated her birthday at home! God moves in a mysterious way!

When we came home, we had this baked cheese cake I bought for Mary!

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow those celebrated birthday yesterday all the days of their
lives!

A Thing of Beauty, a Joy Forever!

Look at this beautiful flower, I think it's lily.

My wife planted it long ago, it only flowered two days ago!

Life is like that, wait for it, it will surely come.

My wife and I are attending a night class in the Bible College of Malaysia on "Introduction to Christian Counselling". We are really blessed to know that we are in a big family and everyone of us are like building blocks in a building and Christ being the cornerstone.

1 Peter 2:5-7 (NKJV)

5 you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture, “ Behold, I lay in Zion A chief cornerstone, elect, precious, And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame.” 7 Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient, “ The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone,”

As members of the big family, we are to support one another by encouragement, comforting, bearing one another's burden. This is the basis on which we can together grow into Christ's image, to be holy.

Ephesians 4:15 "but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— 16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love."

What a beautiful picture! If all of us can join together like that, the Lord Jesus shall be very pleased when He shall come for His Bride one day for the Church is His Bride!


We can start from ourselves! When we want others to be nice to us, we have first to be nice to others!

Happy Mid_Autumn Festival

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Njoy!!!

Poem by Russell Kelfer

I found this poem to be very apt, do you ?

You are who you are for a reason.
You're part of an intricate plan,
You're precious and perfect unique design,
Called God's special woman or man.

You look like you look for a reason.
Our God made no mistake.
He knit you together within the womb,
You're just what he wanted to make.

The parents you had were the ones he chose,
And no matter how you may feel,
They were custom-designed with God's plan in mind,
And they bear the Master's seal.

No,that trauma you faced was not easy.
And God wept that it hurts you so;
But it was allowed to shape your heart
So that into his likeness you'd grow.

You are who you are for a reason,
You've been formed by the Master's rod.
You are who you are, beloved,
Because there is a God.