Dear…
Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
John 14:27
I love documentaries, especially those on history, for the past evokes nostalgia and more importantly, the past helps one understand the present and better fathom the future. For one thing consistent about human behavior is our consistent irrationality.
With great visuals, history on the screen brings to life the vivid colors of the past. But the danger lies in our being distracted by the lusts, the violence, the plotting that we missed the thrust of the narrative. Worse, filmmakers do often take liberty with their interpretation of historical facts, and often distort the truth.
Come to Me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28
Setting aside the histrionics of filmmakers, one underlying truth that history records is the need to seek power and control for many of the past has this deep seated fear that without it, they and their loved ones will meet an untimely end at the hands of those who possessed it.
In contemporary society today, where dictators and absolute rule by a few are less of a majority, yet the same human insecurity and strife still plays out, be it in the same platform of the past as epitomised by North Korea or in so called civilized democracies. For the latter, killing no longer is in the flesh but in more subtle ways.
For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again, to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by Whom we cry out, Abba Father.
Romans 8:15
The finite us look for utopia, and we are never at peace till conditions as defined by us are in place. Even then, that is temporal, for new desires and fears will creep in, and set in motion, the same strife and strive that were driving us not too long ago. And till death stop us in our tracks, this self-inflicted behaviour will persist, and possibly be handed over to our next generation.
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7
But it need not be. This fear of the encapsulating darkness and our seeking to reach for the elusive light at the end of the dark tunnel. For within us who believes, resides the glorious light of the Lord our God.
If we only pay attention, and be willing to come to His presence. For darkness is the absence of Light.
Your God, Whom you serve continually, He will deliver you.
Daniel 6:16
Be bold for God is with us even as He allows us to be in the refinerś fire.
你何时曾在困难的试炼中感到受到上帝的同在
When was the last time that you felt the love of God encompassing your very soul and heart?
It has been a while for me. For as much as I know the truth of His Words, my mind often wanders off with my troubles, and my heart never truly feels at ease. Till a couple of weeks back, as I was watching Sunday service online and the song Still was sung. I felt this swelling of His reassuring love upon my very being, a peace and joy for His presence was upon me.
You have made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of joy in Your presence.
Acts 2:28
Does it mean my troubles are over? Matters not for it is not the conclusion that I need to seek, but God Whom I must trust and obey, for He is Sovereign, and His ways are always better than ours.
A Hymn of Faith
Though the fig tree may not blossom. Nor fruit be on the vines. Though the labour of the olive may fail. And the fields yield no food. Though the flock may be cut off from the fold. And there be no herd in the stalls -
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord. I will joy in the God of my salvation…..
Habakkuk 3:17-19
God Blesses
Eng Hieang
1st July 2021
An afternote : Of deep blue skies and burning pyres
...all of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind
Ecclesiates 2:17
All go to the same place, all come from dust, and to dust all return.
Ecclesiastes 3:20
For all the scheming and gore, it seems that the shaman worshipping Mongolians of old believe that upon death, the soul departs for the deep blue sky, where peace and serenity prevails. And may the carrions pick clean the rotting flesh of the departed so that nothing is left behind in this painful world. Starting afresh( or rather without flesh but just clean picked bones)
For the Romans of old, a fiery pyre reduces to ashes a body that was wracked by subterfuge and ambition, and again may the soul be up amongst the pagan gods.
Shangri La, a place of bliss and joy is what many imagined a life they desire and seek to attain, but always fall short. For what man defines, God provides, and while Christ has already provided a place for us with His Father, where there will be no griefs and pain that afflict our fallen world.
If only we look to God our Father, the present world we are in might be full of troubles, but God is with us, He shelters us, and there is no need for the utopic Shangri La on earth, for the shelter of God our Father is sufficient till HE brings us home.
I have come down to rescue them.
Exodus 3:8
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