Which Is Better?

Which Is Better?

To carry a cute baby or a big fat grown up in an adult diaper?

To move a small pot of plant now or a grounded giant tree later?

To start running when you are slim or when you are fat and chunky?

To go for a holiday when you can walk and see or when you can't walk and your eyesight is poor?

To start eating right now or when you are full of sickness?

To live life now or to regret living later?

To take a step of faith now or regret later not doing so?

To have tons of money and no peace or have peace even though have no lack?

To have a nice car with loads of debt or take MRT with time to read and sleep?

To say Yes to pleasure now and suffer later or to say No now and enjoy later?

To enjoy 5 minutes of pleasure and bear 50 years of pain or bear 5 years of waiting and enjoy 50 years of pleasure?

To experience a gentle cane of pain and learn or to be sentenced to years of jail after a rod cane on the bottom?

And many more ...

Alternative title:

Choose Wisely

The Gospel for you and me

The Gospel for you and me

The Gospel for you and me

Good news to remind me

God, His magnificent presence

His love, His mercies, His gifts

His Son, His Spirit, His people

This world and cares, I lay at His feet

His precious Word I daily seek

I feast, I delight and I read

His instructions my daily need

I memorize, meditate and feed

Lest I forget by daily squeeze

By busyness, Satan's schemes

He lives, He lives, He lives

Though He died, was buried,

But on the third day, He rose

That's the Good News

That's His Promise, Our Hope

Through all of our daily strife

Through all our ups and downs

Through all our thick and thin

Song - Rejoice

Song - Rejoice

Re-joice

Re-joice

Rejoice in The Lord

Rejoice in The Lord

Repeat

Wonder

Wonder

Wonder in The Lord

Wonder in The Lord

Delight

Delight

Delight in The Lord

Delight in The Lord 

祷告

祷告

亲爱的天父，上帝

我们深深的感谢你

今天能够聚在这里

让我们可以赞美你

我们深深的请求你

当我们一起赞美你

愿你让我们能够

体会到您的恩惠

恩慈，恩爱，恩福

谁有耶稣，谁就有生命

我们深深的祷告

奉耶稣的名请求

阿们。

A Faithful Day

A Faithful Day

The breath of life

O I breathe again

The rising sun

My breakfast bun

My ironed clothes

Before the mirror

My hairs longer

Oops grown fatter

There my mother

Reminds me bring

Umbrella and water

Case thirsty raining

The trees dances

By the wind embraces

The birds flutter off

The sky to new places

The walk to the station

Pathway swept and neat

The gate's like a mansion

Welcome, take a seat

The train arrives timely

The tracks no squeaking

The doors slide smoothly

The air-con's a freezing

Without fail most heads

Gazing gadgets swiping

Traveling fingers instead

Touchscreens skating

The tunnels daily enter

In comfort no one wonder

How before they were dug

Above sea, life, below bug

I arrive, I work and work

One task after another

Through noon and look

O night, time to off computer

Dinner yummy is ready

Come round the table

O children o get daddy

Mum's meal o so noble

Night I lay down and breathe

A day passed and I still live

Has He been visible or not

In moments past He gave a lot

I close my eyes and dream

Of stories trees and streams

Of wonder why He save

Another faithful day gave

赞美歌

赞美歌

今天让我认识你，我主

今天让我认识你，我主

今天让我认识你，我主

今天让我认识你。

天天让我认识你，我主

天天让我认识你，我主

天天让我认识你，我主

天天让我认识你。

耶和华是我救主，

耶和华是我救主，

耶和华是我救主，

耶和华是我救主。

我要举手赞美你，我主

我要举手赞美你，我主

我要举手赞美你，我主

我要举手赞美你。

Loving God Wholehearted

Love God with all you've got

God is most glorified when

We are most satisfied in Him

What does it mean to be most satisfied in God?

Who are some of the example of people who were most satisfied in God?

Jesus

Paul

Peter

The disciples

Stephen

The women

The Saviour and The Savour

There are many questions in life which many of them we will have no answers. But some of them we catch a glimpse of the answers through revealed sources like books and researches and personal experience. But today let us see if we can get some answers to these questions - Why Christmas? Why celebrate Christmas? 

This is the Bible. Christians hold it and believe it as the word of God. I would like to share two verses from the Bible. 

A Saviour is born and He is Christ the King ?

Who is this Saviour here referring to? Yes it refers to Jesus. What do a Saviour do? He saves. Saves from what, the next logical question to ask? God sent this Saviour Jesus to take the punishment of death for our sins (wrong doings, speech, thoughts and attitudes) and He was buried and on the third day, He was risen from death to life. This is what the Saviour do. What has this Saviour got to do with me? Notice the "i" in the word "Saviour". Let us take "i" out from the word, and what word do we have? It is the word "savour". It means "taste" and "enjoy" or "push to try out". This brings me to share the 2nd verse. The first verse is ....

The 2nd verse from the word of God is:

Taste (Savour) and see that the Lord is good. Psalm 34:8

The Lord refers to God; or the Saviour. The word "good" refers to God's blessings, past, present and future. 

How can we know that the Lord is good? Taste and see. Savour and see for yourself. How can I know that the Sin Huat apples @Tiong Bahru are good and juicy? Taste and see. Have a bite. How can we know that the durians from this supplier is good? Smell, Taste and see and you will recommend it or not. How did you know that the turkey was good? Take a bite and see. Savour it with sauce and pepper. 

This verse Taste and see that the Lord is good is an invitation. If I want to taste and see, how do I do it? I simply let the Lord know I accept the invitation through telling Him in words like this, "Dear God, thank you for Jesus. I want to taste and see that You are good. Let me experience Your goodness. I ask in Jesus' name. Amen." With that, we receive His invitation and God will show His goodness more clearly to you. 

This is one of the reason we celebrate Christmas; to celebrate His coming and to save us so we may savour Him. 

If any of you wants to taste God's goodness by saying the words just now, I am going to say it once more and you can repeat it in your heart. 

 "Dear God, thank you for Jesus. I want to taste and see that You are good. Let me experience Your goodness. I ask in Jesus' name. Amen." 

Welcome to God's family. 

How Could Christ Live Within My Soul

How could Christ live within my soul! Galatians 2:20

How could Christ live within my soul?

How could Christ live within my soul?!

How could Christ live within my soul?!!

And behold, He has made me whole!

Have you ever thought

How your soul He bought?

God becoming man

That's beyond me

I can't understand

Christ took all the pain

And bore it all alone

For only He qualifies

God's wrath to satisfy

Chorus

How could Christ live within my soul?

How could Christ live within my soul?!

How could Christ live within my soul?!!

And behold, He has made me whole!

Behold the boy in the cradle

Born for us in the stable

Not only will He make tables

He answers to all our riddles

The stone cannot hold Him

The soldiers couldn't bind Him

The seal hasn't authority on Him

How could the earth contain the Universe!?

Book Review : Title - Who Is This Man? by John Ortberg

“Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.” John 21:25

Pastor John Ortberg wrote on the numerous areas of impact Jesus had on human history, human condition and human relationships. What if Jesus didn’t leave his carpentry job and begin to teach? What if we take Jesus off our calendars, how will we account for our days and years? What if Jesus didn’t speak to the woman at the well, what would have become of the people of Samaria? What if there were no Jesus, how will our world be like? Hmm.

“Jesus inspired,” Ortberg wrote. “Jesus inspired a wealthy cheat named Zacchaeus to give away most of his fortune. He inspired a Samaritan woman to become an evangelist, and she inspired so many townspeople that they had Jesus – a Jewish rabbi – stay in their Samaritan town and teach them for two solid days. He inspired Peter to get out of his boat. … He inspired four friends of a paralytic to punch a hole through a roof to get their friend to Him. He inspired a woman who had been bleeding for twelve years to fight through a crowd just to touch the hem of his robe.” (pg 152)

Ortberg concluded one of the chapters on Jesus’ impact on the entire history of art – “Jesus had no place to lay his head yet became the primary shaper of architecture. We don’t know what Jesus looked like, yet he became the most recognizable figure in the world. He had “no form nor comeliness… no beauty that we should desire him,” yet he became the subject of more paintings and sculptures than anyone else. He never wrote a book, but he became the most written-about person ever and the greatest inspiration for global linguistic development. He is associated with only one unknown song but is the subject of more songs and music than any other human being. He died alone. Yet people die for him still.” (pg 163)

Ortberg ends the book with an invitation. Try Jesus. Come and see.