Forgetting To Remember
‘The person who lacks these qualities… has forgotten the cleansing that he has received from his past sins.’ 2 Peter 1:9 ISV When I park my car at night, I take a picture of it. Sounds strange, I know. But there are no designated parking spaces where we live. It could be at Block A, or B, or on seven different levels of a multi-storey car park. If I don’t take a picture, I won’t be able to find it […]
The Writing On The Stone
Of late, I’ve been musing over an epitaph. You know, those things people write on your gravestone when you die? Sounds a little morbid but hey, it’s never too soon to think ahead. So I figured, instead of leaving others to crack their brains and think of how best to surmise my life in a sentence, why not do everyone a favour and craft one for myself? So I started looking around for ideas. Here are a few that stood […]
Learning To Hear
When I was a young believer, I was deeply fascinated whenever I hear men and women of God share how God spoke to them. The stories of how they heard the voice of God were powerful and real. They birthed a desire in my heart to hear God and relate to Him in a similar manner. Yet, for a long time, I felt like I never heard God’s voice and began to wonder if it was really possible to hear […]
Loathsome Lukewarmness
I’m certain that the Epicurean Church, usually in her finest element when discussing prime restaurants to indulge her gourmet as well as gourmand appetites, would wholly concur with this biblical statement of fact: lukewarmness is revolting! To this end, the Church and her Christ would be in complete and perfect agreement. There’d be no avenue for splitting interpretative or prophetic hairs here and no scope for creating rival theological camps. Clearly and simply stated, the Lord loathes lukewarmness! Now, while […]
The Brevity of Life
You could be planning your wedding yesterday, and tomorrow the wedding of your child. It may seem like you were only formed in your mother’s womb yesterday, and tomorrow, your friends are mourning your demise. The world did not know of your existence yesterday, and tomorrow, it’ll forget that you were ever born. This is the brevity of life, the fact that we may die today or tomorrow – life is not just uncertain, it can be short and very […]
The Overcoming
I turned 60 this March, and was one excited sexagenarian, anticipating what this next decade would bring my way, and extremely eager to have a glimpse of where the Lord would lead in this new season. My fifties had been an absolute blast, and I attribute this totally to visiting Israel in my Jubilee year in obedience to the Lord for something difficult He had been prompting me to do. The rewards for that step of obedience had been immense. […]
Faith-wrestling Matches
Do you possess a heart that’s being challenged and changed under the weight of what you don’t yet understand? It could be expectations that automatically come from your thought process without conscious effort – like when we see the eastern sky grow orange-pink, we expect sunrise soon. When flaws in our logic or biasness arise, such expectations may be incorrect. When they’re not met, we blame someone or something even if our expectations were unreasonable, and pain ensues. Managing our […]
Not Sympathy, But Faith!
Have you struggled with how God had let you down? Where was He when you needed Him? When everything kept disintegrating, why did it seem like it didn’t matter what you did? Maybe something as simple as buying petrol is stressful as prices keep rising. Things aren’t as they should be, life isn’t as stable as before when you thought the insurance was forthcoming. ‘Jesus turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for […]
Cells – The Cradle of Circumcision
Ever wonder why Jesus chose to become a ‘Cell Leader’ for a group of 11 temperamentally-diverse tradesmen, and 1 morally-challenged treasurer? By the anointing of the Holy Spirit, He was already perfect and powerful, so why would He want to fraternise with this ragtag bunch of disciples? I guess it was for the same reason that He chose to get baptised, even though He was sinless, and allowed Himself to be cruelly crucified, loving His enemies right to the end. […]
Thirst No More!
Many of us are familiar with Psalm 42:1-2, ‘As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You. O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?’ Paul tells us, ‘For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face’ (1 Corinthians 13:12). When we can finally ‘come and appear before God’ and see the face of God, it’ll be an incredible moment. […]
