Netflix, MacDonalds, WhatsApp. We live in an instant world. Movies on demand. Food in minutes. Instant messages. While this is amazing, it has resulted in us losing a vital characteristic, persistence. We start things and give up before we reach the end. How are your New Year’s resolutions going? However, there is one thing we… Continue reading Rom 2:7 – Persistence
Have you ever been so excited about seeing someone that you can think of nothing else? You’re so looking forward to seeing them that you can’t even eat. It has to be someone really special to make us feel like this. Someone you know really well. Someone you really love. Have you ever felt like… Continue reading Psa 84:2 – So excited
“How happy are those who fear the LORD– all who follow his ways! You will enjoy the fruit of your labor. How happy you will be! How rich your life!” (Psalm 128:1-2) – People everyday, everywhere, seek happiness. They pursue happiness through their careers, wealth, hobbies, relationships, etc. However, sadly when it eludes them many… Continue reading Psa 128:1-2 – Happy fear
I remember once having a vivid dream where I was locked in a dungeon and Jesus appeared and led me out. We then got into a car and he drove at a crazy speed up a winding mountain pass around hairpin bends. Yet I felt no fear at all, just total peace. And then at… Continue reading Mar 8:34 – Driving with Jesus
I only received one prize in all my school years – “the progress prize”. I suppose it was given to motivate low achievers to try harder. It might not have been the “top of grade” prize but I was nonetheless very excited getting a prize even if I wasn’t the best. Winning prizes is a… Continue reading Phi 3:14 – The prize
I remember a school friend who used to joke, “the winner is he who dies with the most toys”. Sadly this is a philosophy many in our world follow – the pursuit of possessions. In fact most media – TV, social media, magazines, has one goal, to get you to buy things. And the way… Continue reading Luk 12:15 – Abundance of possessions
The pursuit of happiness is a strange thing. It seems the more we pursue it, the less we are able to catch it. Yet, maybe that is because happiness is just luck after all. In fact, the word “happiness” comes from the root word “hap” from where we get words like haphazard and happenstance. It… Continue reading Psa 19:8 – Life maps
What is it the Lord has done this very day? To start with He has given you life. He has given you another day to hear Him. But it is more than this, as we read in the verses before. “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the LORD has done this, and… Continue reading Psa 118:24- Rejoice today