To fall in love with God is the greatest of romance, to seek Him the greatest adventure, to find Him the greatest achievement. Without passion, without zeal, without fervor, we are lifeless and faith is so easily cast aside. We have lost the fervor of our affection for God because we have become deadened to the meaning of real love.
Love gives, Love is not self-seeking, Love cannot keep anything for itself. This kind of love is increasing foreign to us. It is this love that gives us courage and compels us to be faithful no matter what the cost. The moral courage and conviction we lack, the absence of zeal and fervor in our faith is easily cured, if we purposely incline ourselves towards God.
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I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Fear is a feeling of reverence, awe and respect, or an unpleasant emotion caused by a sense of danger. Fear may be directed toward God or people, and it may be either healthy or harmful.
A healthy fear is reverence or respect. For instance, children are to respect their parents. It is a valid affirmation that "the fear of God is the beginning of divine knowledge" as well as "the beginning of divine wisdom". A harmful fear is a sense of terror or dread. Believers, in God are instructed not to fear human beings because they cannot ultimately harm us. Wicked people, however are constantly fearing other people, especially the righteous and the holy. Such fear causes them to act deceitfully in a attempt to hide their sins.
On the other hand, the unbeliever, in God has every reason to be panic - stricken at thoughts of God, for he and she stands condemned before Him. And yet, this kind of fear of God does not often lead to repentance. It normally leads to a feeble attempt to hide from God or worse to a denial of God's existence and His claims on a person's life. But, do not be despair. Prayer has power over everything. Because God is personal, all people can offer prayers. Prayer meets inner needs.
One who prays will receive freedom from fear, strength of soul, guidance, wisdom and understanding. Is prayer effective only in the inner lives of those who pray? No, prayer can make a difference in the lives of others. The most meaningful prayer comes from a heart that places its trust in God. Our prayers do make a difference in how God acts in peoples and the world.
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
A healthy fear is reverence or respect. For instance, children are to respect their parents. It is a valid affirmation that "the fear of God is the beginning of divine knowledge" as well as "the beginning of divine wisdom". A harmful fear is a sense of terror or dread. Believers, in God are instructed not to fear human beings because they cannot ultimately harm us. Wicked people, however are constantly fearing other people, especially the righteous and the holy. Such fear causes them to act deceitfully in a attempt to hide their sins.
On the other hand, the unbeliever, in God has every reason to be panic - stricken at thoughts of God, for he and she stands condemned before Him. And yet, this kind of fear of God does not often lead to repentance. It normally leads to a feeble attempt to hide from God or worse to a denial of God's existence and His claims on a person's life. But, do not be despair. Prayer has power over everything. Because God is personal, all people can offer prayers. Prayer meets inner needs.
One who prays will receive freedom from fear, strength of soul, guidance, wisdom and understanding. Is prayer effective only in the inner lives of those who pray? No, prayer can make a difference in the lives of others. The most meaningful prayer comes from a heart that places its trust in God. Our prayers do make a difference in how God acts in peoples and the world.
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Sin is lawlessness or transgression of God's will. Mankind originally fell into sin at the temptation of Satan. As a tempter, he continues to lure people into sin, nevertheless, people remain fully responsible for what they do. God is not the author of sin, but His plan for world redemption does include His dealing with the reality of sin. Sin involves the denial of the living God from whom human beings draw their lives and existence, the consequence of this revolt is death and the torment of hell. Death is the ultimate penalty imposed by God for sin.
Sin deserves divine punishment because it is a violation of God's holy character, but His pardon is gracious. In order for God to forgive sin, two conditions are necessary. A life must be taken as a substitute for that of a sinner and the sinner must come to God's sacrifice in a spirit of repentance and faith. Since He bore the laws death penalty against sinners those who trust in His love and laws are freed from that penalty. God's forgiveness of us demands that we forgive others because grace brings responsibility and obligation. Through God's atoning grace and forgiveness, we are reinstated to a relationship of atonement with God. Therefore we must love our Lord, your God's with all your soul, with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
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I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
Sin deserves divine punishment because it is a violation of God's holy character, but His pardon is gracious. In order for God to forgive sin, two conditions are necessary. A life must be taken as a substitute for that of a sinner and the sinner must come to God's sacrifice in a spirit of repentance and faith. Since He bore the laws death penalty against sinners those who trust in His love and laws are freed from that penalty. God's forgiveness of us demands that we forgive others because grace brings responsibility and obligation. Through God's atoning grace and forgiveness, we are reinstated to a relationship of atonement with God. Therefore we must love our Lord, your God's with all your soul, with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
Saturday, June 27, 2009
The 3 things that last; Faith, Hope, Love and the greatest of these "is love". It's obvious that this thing called love occupies the mind, hearts, emotions and lives. Living without God today means facing life and death as no generation before us has done. It entails giving meaning to our lives not only in the absence of a super being, but now without the forces and trends that gave hope to the past several generation of secularists.
By beginning of the 21st century, the modern faith that human life is heading in a positive direction has been undone, giving way to the earlier religious faith it replaced, or to no faith in God of all. Today life is much too much trouble, far too strange, to arrive at the end of it and then be asked what you make of it and have to answer, "Scientific humanism". That won't do. A poor show. Life is a mystery, love is a delight. Therefore, I take it as axiomatic that one should settle for nothing less than the infinite mystery and the infinite delight, that is, God. Of course, the most convincing explanation for human love is divine love. More accurately, all we need is the One Who is Love. God is Love.
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
By beginning of the 21st century, the modern faith that human life is heading in a positive direction has been undone, giving way to the earlier religious faith it replaced, or to no faith in God of all. Today life is much too much trouble, far too strange, to arrive at the end of it and then be asked what you make of it and have to answer, "Scientific humanism". That won't do. A poor show. Life is a mystery, love is a delight. Therefore, I take it as axiomatic that one should settle for nothing less than the infinite mystery and the infinite delight, that is, God. Of course, the most convincing explanation for human love is divine love. More accurately, all we need is the One Who is Love. God is Love.
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Faith . Hope . Love - Welcome donation. Thank You. God bless.
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
We may be ask, "Are you saved?" and those from the secular culture will tell us "There is no God." We cannot deal with this challenges unless we believe in God and then by God's grace we may understand, the basics of Faith, Hope and Love, in God. At times, we may ask "what is the purpose of life?" and "why did God make us?" The answer "God created us to know him, to love him, and to serve him in the world and be happy with him for ever in the next." And it is the reason for our existence. God constantly uses material things to show his love and power.
After all, matter is not evil, when God created the physical universe, everything God created was "very good." God plan for us is simple. Our loving God wants to give us all good things - especially eternal life.
Best of all, the promise of eternal life is a gift, freely offered to us by God. When we come to God and are justified ( that is, enter a right relationship with God ) nothing preceding justification, whether faith or good works, earn grace. But then God plants his love in our hearts, and we should live out our faith by doing acts of love. Even though, only God's grace enables us to love others, these acts of love please Him, and He promises to reward them with eternal life.
Thus, good works are meritorious, when we first come to God in faith, we have nothing in our hands to offer Him. Then God gives us grace to obey his commandments in love, and He rewards us with salvation when we offer these acts of love back to Him. Since no gift be forced on recipient - gifts always can be rejected - even after we become justified, we can throw away the gift of salvation, we throw it away through grave sin. "The wages of sin is death." The grace filled relationship with God and our obedience, hope and love in him, combined with our faith, will be rewarded with eternal life.
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After all, matter is not evil, when God created the physical universe, everything God created was "very good." God plan for us is simple. Our loving God wants to give us all good things - especially eternal life.
Best of all, the promise of eternal life is a gift, freely offered to us by God. When we come to God and are justified ( that is, enter a right relationship with God ) nothing preceding justification, whether faith or good works, earn grace. But then God plants his love in our hearts, and we should live out our faith by doing acts of love. Even though, only God's grace enables us to love others, these acts of love please Him, and He promises to reward them with eternal life.
Thus, good works are meritorious, when we first come to God in faith, we have nothing in our hands to offer Him. Then God gives us grace to obey his commandments in love, and He rewards us with salvation when we offer these acts of love back to Him. Since no gift be forced on recipient - gifts always can be rejected - even after we become justified, we can throw away the gift of salvation, we throw it away through grave sin. "The wages of sin is death." The grace filled relationship with God and our obedience, hope and love in him, combined with our faith, will be rewarded with eternal life.
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
Monday, June 22, 2009
Greed is the discovered love of material riches.
We should love God above all things and our neighbour as ourselves, but we can begin to love money than God and more than our neighbour. Greed or avarice is called a "deadly" or "capital" sin because it gives rise to other sins.
Of course, money and material goods are not evil but good indeed, we really need money - to purchase food, clothing and shelter - to survive. There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to secure the physical well-being of yourself and your loved ones through the use of money. In fact, the desire is good. Why should God care if people love money more than God and neighbour?
God cares about these matters because God cares about us. Exaggerated love of money does not hurt God - it does not diminish God himself in the least if we do not worship him. No, excessive love of money hurts us. It often leads to actions that are obviously sinful, such as cheating, stealing, bribing, and corruption.
But even if avarice did not lead to other sins it will still be harmful to us. Simply put it, we love money more than God and more than other people, we make ourselves - usually sooner rather than later - miserable, thus most of us have to struggle against avarice, a grave impediment to our own happiness of others.
We tends to forget that God loves us not only more than we love anyone else, but more than we love ourselves. Because of his great love for us, God urges us to ponder and have the 3 things that last; Faith, Hope, and Love.
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We should love God above all things and our neighbour as ourselves, but we can begin to love money than God and more than our neighbour. Greed or avarice is called a "deadly" or "capital" sin because it gives rise to other sins.
Of course, money and material goods are not evil but good indeed, we really need money - to purchase food, clothing and shelter - to survive. There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to secure the physical well-being of yourself and your loved ones through the use of money. In fact, the desire is good. Why should God care if people love money more than God and neighbour?
God cares about these matters because God cares about us. Exaggerated love of money does not hurt God - it does not diminish God himself in the least if we do not worship him. No, excessive love of money hurts us. It often leads to actions that are obviously sinful, such as cheating, stealing, bribing, and corruption.
But even if avarice did not lead to other sins it will still be harmful to us. Simply put it, we love money more than God and more than other people, we make ourselves - usually sooner rather than later - miserable, thus most of us have to struggle against avarice, a grave impediment to our own happiness of others.
We tends to forget that God loves us not only more than we love anyone else, but more than we love ourselves. Because of his great love for us, God urges us to ponder and have the 3 things that last; Faith, Hope, and Love.
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
By bank transfer/cheque deposit:
Name: Alex Chan Kok Wah
Bank: Public Bank Berhad account no: 4076577113
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Genuine faith in God leads to moral uprightness, to exhort people to a more personal and more interior relationship with God, based on love of Him.
"God is love." The words are so common, so obvious, so innocuous. Love is not merely a sentiment. Sentiments come and go. A sentiment can be a marvelous first spark, but it is not the fullness of love. Then how can we experience God?
"Love your neighbour is a path that leads to the encounter with God, and closing our eyes to our neighbour also binds us to God". In helping other people, you'll not only be helping them, you'll also be helping yourself know and love God more. The "giving love" should not be limited to hours volunteering for various good causes, but must include serving in everyday and ordinary ways those with whom we have daily contact.
Free will is sacred. God never forces you against your free will. Yet doing evil not only hurts you; it also hurts others. Love inevitably leads to God. God offers his divine grace, and the people must accept it and then cooperate with it.
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
"God is love." The words are so common, so obvious, so innocuous. Love is not merely a sentiment. Sentiments come and go. A sentiment can be a marvelous first spark, but it is not the fullness of love. Then how can we experience God?
"Love your neighbour is a path that leads to the encounter with God, and closing our eyes to our neighbour also binds us to God". In helping other people, you'll not only be helping them, you'll also be helping yourself know and love God more. The "giving love" should not be limited to hours volunteering for various good causes, but must include serving in everyday and ordinary ways those with whom we have daily contact.
Free will is sacred. God never forces you against your free will. Yet doing evil not only hurts you; it also hurts others. Love inevitably leads to God. God offers his divine grace, and the people must accept it and then cooperate with it.
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
Friday, June 19, 2009
PENANCE has been part of the true religion. Penances can be formal or informal, but they amount to the same thing - expressions before God of sorrows over one's sins, which is not only required by God but also by human nature; human being have an innate need to mourns tragedies, and their sins are tragedies. For instance:
Abortion is a grave sin, "God alone is the Lord of life from the beginning until its end. No one can under any circumstances claim for himself and herself the right directly to destroy an innocent human being."
The person murdered through abortion has the same right to life as those who conspire to kill him or her - his mother, the abortionist, and the politician who legislates the "right to kill."
To speak of one's right over one's body as justification for abortion is sophistry. There is not one body but two, not one person but two, both with an equal right to life. Since it is a grave sin, it carries with it, unless there is repentance, the frightful sanction of eternal death.
Abortion kills the body of the victim and mortally wounds the soul of the killer, but the soul of the victim is unharmed. The crime of abortion is nearly always a chain sin. A cluster of persons share the guilt - abortionist, assistants, office staff, hospital management, advertisers, politicians and those who remained passive when they should have spoken or acted or prayed.
Prayer and penance would save. "Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God". We can choose life and death. Is there enough faith left to choose life?
Abortion is a grave sin, "God alone is the Lord of life from the beginning until its end. No one can under any circumstances claim for himself and herself the right directly to destroy an innocent human being."
The person murdered through abortion has the same right to life as those who conspire to kill him or her - his mother, the abortionist, and the politician who legislates the "right to kill."
To speak of one's right over one's body as justification for abortion is sophistry. There is not one body but two, not one person but two, both with an equal right to life. Since it is a grave sin, it carries with it, unless there is repentance, the frightful sanction of eternal death.
Abortion kills the body of the victim and mortally wounds the soul of the killer, but the soul of the victim is unharmed. The crime of abortion is nearly always a chain sin. A cluster of persons share the guilt - abortionist, assistants, office staff, hospital management, advertisers, politicians and those who remained passive when they should have spoken or acted or prayed.
Prayer and penance would save. "Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God". We can choose life and death. Is there enough faith left to choose life?
- WELCOME TO SACRED SCRIPTURE / WORD OF GOD / HOLY BIBLE READER'S COMMUNITY -
Wishing you, 'Happy Reading', and may God, the Father, the Son of the living God, Jesus Christ, fills your heart, mind, thoughts, and grants you: The Holy Spirit, that is, Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Counsel, Piety, Fortitude, Fear of the Lord, and also His fruits of the Holy Spirit, that is, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Trustfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control. Amen! God blessing be upon you!
Why do you call Me, "Lord, Lord" and not do what I say?' "Everyone who comes to Me and listens to My words and acts on them - I will show you what he/she is like. He/She is like a man/woman who when he/she built his/her house dug, deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built. But the one who listens and does nothing is like the man/woman who built his/her house on soil, with no foundations: as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!" - Luke 6:46-49 -
If we live by the truth and in love, we shall grow in all ways into Christ Jesus, who is the head by whom the whole body is fitted and joined together, every joint adding its own strength, for each separate part to work according to it function. So the body grows until it has built itself up, in love." - Ephesians 4:15-16 -
I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now. But when the spirit of truth comes, he will lead you to the complete truth, since he will not be speaking as from himself, but will say only what he has learnt; and he will tell you of the things to come. He/She will glorify me, since all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine." - John 16:12-15 -
Your generous contribution and support is profoundly cherish. I sincerely pray that: God blessing be upon you, always. Amen! Bank transfer: Name: Alex Chan Kok Wah - Public Bank Berhad account no. 4076577113 - Country: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Every human being is called to receive a gift of divine and to become a child of God by grace. However, to receive this gift, we must reject sin. There are two primary categories of grace; Actual grace and Sanctifying grace.
We might have the impression that 'Sanctifying grace' is nearly identical to 'Actual grace.' Not so.
Sanctifying grace stays in the soul. It's what makes the soul holy, it gives the soul supernatural life. More properly, it is supernatural life.
Actual grace, by contrast, is a supernatural push or encouragement. It's transient. It doesn't live in the soul, but acts on the soul from outside, so to speak. It's supernatural kick in the pants. It gets the will and intellect moving so we can seek out and keep Sanctifying grace.
To regain supernatural life, you have to receive actual graces from God. Think of these as helping graces. Such graces differ from the Sanctifying grace in that they aren't quality of the soul and don't abide in it.
Rather, Actual graces enable the soul to perform some supernatural act, such as an act of faith or repentance. If the soul responds to the Actual grace and makes the appropriate supernatural act, it again receives proper natural life.
Sanctifying grace implies a real transformation of the soul. Our souls don't become something other than souls when God cleanses them and pours his grace into them. They don't cease to be what they were before when grace elevates nature, our wills are given the new powers of faith something they don't have at the merely natural level. Our wills are given new powers of hope and charity, things also absent at the merely natural level.
We might have the impression that 'Sanctifying grace' is nearly identical to 'Actual grace.' Not so.
Sanctifying grace stays in the soul. It's what makes the soul holy, it gives the soul supernatural life. More properly, it is supernatural life.
Actual grace, by contrast, is a supernatural push or encouragement. It's transient. It doesn't live in the soul, but acts on the soul from outside, so to speak. It's supernatural kick in the pants. It gets the will and intellect moving so we can seek out and keep Sanctifying grace.
To regain supernatural life, you have to receive actual graces from God. Think of these as helping graces. Such graces differ from the Sanctifying grace in that they aren't quality of the soul and don't abide in it.
Rather, Actual graces enable the soul to perform some supernatural act, such as an act of faith or repentance. If the soul responds to the Actual grace and makes the appropriate supernatural act, it again receives proper natural life.
Sanctifying grace implies a real transformation of the soul. Our souls don't become something other than souls when God cleanses them and pours his grace into them. They don't cease to be what they were before when grace elevates nature, our wills are given the new powers of faith something they don't have at the merely natural level. Our wills are given new powers of hope and charity, things also absent at the merely natural level.
- WELCOME TO SACRED SCRIPTURE / WORD OF GOD / HOLY BIBLE READER'S COMMUNITY -
Wishing you, 'Happy Reading', and may God, the Father, the Son of the living God, Jesus Christ, fills your heart, mind, thoughts, and grants you: The Holy Spirit, that is, Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Counsel, Piety, Fortitude, Fear of the Lord, and also His fruits of the Holy Spirit, that is, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Trustfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control. Amen! God blessing be upon you!
Why do you call Me, "Lord, Lord" and not do what I say?' "Everyone who comes to Me and listens to My words and acts on them - I will show you what he/she is like. He/She is like a man/woman who when he/she built his/her house dug, deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built. But the one who listens and does nothing is like the man/woman who built his/her house on soil, with no foundations: as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!" - Luke 6:46-49 -
If we live by the truth and in love, we shall grow in all ways into Christ Jesus, who is the head by whom the whole body is fitted and joined together, every joint adding its own strength, for each separate part to work according to it function. So the body grows until it has built itself up, in love." - Ephesians 4:15-16 -
I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now. But when the spirit of truth comes, he will lead you to the complete truth, since he will not be speaking as from himself, but will say only what he has learnt; and he will tell you of the things to come. He/She will glorify me, since all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine." - John 16:12-15 -
Your generous contribution and support is profoundly cherish. I sincerely pray that: God blessing be upon you, always. Amen! Bank transfer: Name: Alex Chan Kok Wah - Public Bank Berhad account no. 4076577113 - Country: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
We are to love the world and in loving (the world) bring the salvation of God to the ends of the world.
The love of God and love of neighbour - in such a way that to love God without necessarily mean that one ought to love one's neighbour. In short, love of neighbour is the fruit of one's love for God.
However, the commandment that one should love God and neighbour is not revolutionary. In fact, to talk about love is perhaps redundant. Why?
This is because we are by nature lovers. God create us with love and in love. It is natural that the creature should show the characteristic or features of the Creator. God is love and so are we, created loving.
The challenge we face is how to define love. But love is to be more than lust, it may be passionate but it is more, and love in actions means that we often love even when not feeling it, but if we fail to love then it is an indication that we ought to pray even more to discover and fall in love with God.
The love of God and love of neighbour - in such a way that to love God without necessarily mean that one ought to love one's neighbour. In short, love of neighbour is the fruit of one's love for God.
However, the commandment that one should love God and neighbour is not revolutionary. In fact, to talk about love is perhaps redundant. Why?
This is because we are by nature lovers. God create us with love and in love. It is natural that the creature should show the characteristic or features of the Creator. God is love and so are we, created loving.
The challenge we face is how to define love. But love is to be more than lust, it may be passionate but it is more, and love in actions means that we often love even when not feeling it, but if we fail to love then it is an indication that we ought to pray even more to discover and fall in love with God.
- WELCOME TO SACRED SCRIPTURE / WORD OF GOD / HOLY BIBLE READER'S COMMUNITY -
Wishing you, 'Happy Reading', and may God, the Father, the Son of the living God, Jesus Christ, fills your heart, mind, thoughts, and grants you: The Holy Spirit, that is, Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Counsel, Piety, Fortitude, Fear of the Lord, and also His fruits of the Holy Spirit, that is, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Trustfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control. Amen! God blessing be upon you!
Why do you call Me, "Lord, Lord" and not do what I say?' "Everyone who comes to Me and listens to My words and acts on them - I will show you what he/she is like. He/She is like a man/woman who when he/she built his/her house dug, deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built. But the one who listens and does nothing is like the man/woman who built his/her house on soil, with no foundations: as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!" - Luke 6:46-49 -
If we live by the truth and in love, we shall grow in all ways into Christ Jesus, who is the head by whom the whole body is fitted and joined together, every joint adding its own strength, for each separate part to work according to it function. So the body grows until it has built itself up, in love." - Ephesians 4:15-16 -
I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now. But when the spirit of truth comes, he will lead you to the complete truth, since he will not be speaking as from himself, but will say only what he has learnt; and he will tell you of the things to come. He/She will glorify me, since all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine." - John 16:12-15 -
Your generous contribution and support is profoundly cherish. I sincerely pray that: God blessing be upon you, always. Amen! Bank transfer: Name: Alex Chan Kok Wah - Public Bank Berhad account no. 4076577113 - Country: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Hell exists because God loves us. That may sound crazy but not if we stop and think about it.
Many people want nothing to do with God. They lives their lives ignoring God and pretending He doesn't exist. God loves us enough that He actually created a place where He isn't........Hell, without God, there is no hope, and so it is a very despairing place, without God, there is no good; and so it is a very evil place.
Nevertheless, it is what many have and will continue to choose rather than being with, and loving God, but what can one expect in a place where God isn't? It certainly will not be pleasant.
Those who choose to be apart from God in this life and the next are fools, but God do not drag anyone into Heaven kicking and screaming.
Peoples in heaven have a completely perfected connection to God which gives them perfect life and perfect happiness. Peoples in Hell have no connection to God at all which gives them pain and suffering from realizing what they threw away because they saw God for a little while during judgement.
The purpose of hell depends on what we think hell is, more correctly it is what we have been taught and learned what hell is. Those in hell are never going to improve. Then why keep tormenting them?
God is not tormenting them, they are tormenting themselves, then they torture what is convenient, each other.
Many people want nothing to do with God. They lives their lives ignoring God and pretending He doesn't exist. God loves us enough that He actually created a place where He isn't........Hell, without God, there is no hope, and so it is a very despairing place, without God, there is no good; and so it is a very evil place.
Nevertheless, it is what many have and will continue to choose rather than being with, and loving God, but what can one expect in a place where God isn't? It certainly will not be pleasant.
Those who choose to be apart from God in this life and the next are fools, but God do not drag anyone into Heaven kicking and screaming.
Peoples in heaven have a completely perfected connection to God which gives them perfect life and perfect happiness. Peoples in Hell have no connection to God at all which gives them pain and suffering from realizing what they threw away because they saw God for a little while during judgement.
The purpose of hell depends on what we think hell is, more correctly it is what we have been taught and learned what hell is. Those in hell are never going to improve. Then why keep tormenting them?
God is not tormenting them, they are tormenting themselves, then they torture what is convenient, each other.
- WELCOME TO SACRED SCRIPTURE / WORD OF GOD / HOLY BIBLE READER'S COMMUNITY -
Wishing you, 'Happy Reading', and may God, the Father, the Son of the living God, Jesus Christ, fills your heart, mind, thoughts, and grants you: The Holy Spirit, that is, Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Counsel, Piety, Fortitude, Fear of the Lord, and also His fruits of the Holy Spirit, that is, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Trustfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control. Amen! God blessing be upon you!
Why do you call Me, "Lord, Lord" and not do what I say?' "Everyone who comes to Me and listens to My words and acts on them - I will show you what he/she is like. He/She is like a man/woman who when he/she built his/her house dug, deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built. But the one who listens and does nothing is like the man/woman who built his/her house on soil, with no foundations: as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!" - Luke 6:46-49 -
If we live by the truth and in love, we shall grow in all ways into Christ Jesus, who is the head by whom the whole body is fitted and joined together, every joint adding its own strength, for each separate part to work according to it function. So the body grows until it has built itself up, in love." - Ephesians 4:15-16 -
I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now. But when the spirit of truth comes, he will lead you to the complete truth, since he will not be speaking as from himself, but will say only what he has learnt; and he will tell you of the things to come. He/She will glorify me, since all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine." - John 16:12-15 -
Your generous contribution and support is profoundly cherish. I sincerely pray that: God blessing be upon you, always. Amen! Bank transfer: Name: Alex Chan Kok Wah - Public Bank Berhad account no. 4076577113 - Country: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Friday, June 12, 2009
We can try to limit suffering, to fight against it, but we cannot eliminate it.
It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and pain of pursuing truth, love and goodness, that we drift into a life of emptiness, in which there may be almost no pain, but the dark sensation of meaninglessness and abandonment is all the greater.
It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with God.
In the end, even the "yes" to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriations of my "I", in which I allow myself to be pruned and wounded.
Love simply cannot exist without this painful renunciation of myself, for otherwise it becomes pure selfishness and thereby ceases to be love.
It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and pain of pursuing truth, love and goodness, that we drift into a life of emptiness, in which there may be almost no pain, but the dark sensation of meaninglessness and abandonment is all the greater.
It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with God.
In the end, even the "yes" to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriations of my "I", in which I allow myself to be pruned and wounded.
Love simply cannot exist without this painful renunciation of myself, for otherwise it becomes pure selfishness and thereby ceases to be love.
- WELCOME TO SACRED SCRIPTURE / WORD OF GOD / HOLY BIBLE READER'S COMMUNITY -
Wishing you, 'Happy Reading', and may God, the Father, the Son of the living God, Jesus Christ, fills your heart, mind, thoughts, and grants you: The Holy Spirit, that is, Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Counsel, Piety, Fortitude, Fear of the Lord, and also His fruits of the Holy Spirit, that is, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Trustfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control. Amen! God blessing be upon you!
Why do you call Me, "Lord, Lord" and not do what I say?' "Everyone who comes to Me and listens to My words and acts on them - I will show you what he/she is like. He/She is like a man/woman who when he/she built his/her house dug, deep, and laid the foundations on rock; when the river was in flood it bore down on that house but could not shake it, it was so well built. But the one who listens and does nothing is like the man/woman who built his/her house on soil, with no foundations: as soon as the river bore down on it, it collapsed; and what a ruin that house became!" - Luke 6:46-49 -
If we live by the truth and in love, we shall grow in all ways into Christ Jesus, who is the head by whom the whole body is fitted and joined together, every joint adding its own strength, for each separate part to work according to it function. So the body grows until it has built itself up, in love." - Ephesians 4:15-16 -
I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now. But when the spirit of truth comes, he will lead you to the complete truth, since he will not be speaking as from himself, but will say only what he has learnt; and he will tell you of the things to come. He/She will glorify me, since all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: all he/she tells you will be taken from what is mine." - John 16:12-15 -
Your generous contribution and support is profoundly cherish. I sincerely pray that: God blessing be upon you, always. Amen! Bank transfer: Name: Alex Chan Kok Wah - Public Bank Berhad account no. 4076577113 - Country: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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