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17/10/2006
What a day to be able to begin a blog here! All praise and glory be to God!


My New Lease of Life

Through the LORD's mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not,
They are new every morning, great is Your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3 : 22 - 23
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A matter of God
Both my parents were faithful followers of Buddhism and traditional Chinese Taoism and so in a way I was very much attached to the practice. When I went to England to further my studies I used to scorn at Christianity and mocked at Christians in the 70's & early 80's. I saw myself as a free thinker.
Even after I returned to work in Malaysia in a Financial Institution from the mid 80's I still made fun of all my Christian colleagues.

The following event has changed me forever:-

Man in darkness 17/10/1989

17 years ago today I had almost jumped off a tall building if the event had not been intervened just at the right time. The sky was so dark at 3am that morning exactly matching the depression that had surrounded me for such a long time. I was so sick and tired of wearing different masks to face different people. I had questioned the existence of God,if he has anything to do with me, well, for that matter, any god at all.

A supernatural encounter

All of a sudden I saw a gentle light iluminating in the sky. At that very moment I felt someone had written 2 alphabets on my mind - LA. As I pondered I thought a supernatural force had made a visitation that I should not end my life yet but to seek a new life in perhaps Los Angeles, USA. The alphabets soon formed into 2 words - Love & Affection. I went back to bed tossing and turning thinking about the car alignment and car wheel balancing. The suicide attempt was aborted !
However, one question still unsolved- who is that supernatural force that apparently wrote in my mind ? Could that be the goddess of mercy that my mother has faithfully worshipped all but the last year of her life ?

Second rendez- vous 11/1989

3 weeks later a colleague invited me to his church and at the end of the service, the pastor said he felt God had impressed upon him to pass on a message to someone in the congregation. He said God is telling you to take down your masks; you are to first build a vertical relationship with God and then a horizontal relationship with man. You are to do it with love and affection.

Now any fool can tell the car alignment represents that vertical relationship with God. Without proper alignment the car will simply move side way and becomes difficult to drive to get us to our destination. So it is without a proper relationship with God, we will just wonder about and be tossed around by every worldly principle and never really realise our full potential in peace.

In the like manner, the car wheel balance represents our horizontal relationship with man. Without proper balance the car will jerk violently at higher speed. So it is without healthy relationship with man, we will have lots of problems trying to live together.

Convictions

That morning my life took a complete turn. From total depression to total joy; from total despair to total hope; from total anguish to total peace. Jesus had entered my heart. It was not what I had thought the goddess of mercy. Jesus had intervened at the nick of time. I was given a new lease of life.

That morning I walked out that church with the following convictions deep in my heart and over the years I am made even more certain when I read the Bible, God's revealed words :-

1) God is real and there is only one God.
For there is only one God and one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
1 Timothy 2 : 5 - 6

You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe and tremble !
James 2 : 19

2) God loves us.
for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
John 3 : 16

But God demonstrates His own love toward us , in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5 : 8

3) God cares for us.
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. Jesus has come that we may have life, and that we may have it more abundantly.
John 10 : 10

Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
1 Peter 5 : 7

4) God is searching for all of us.

For the Son of man has come to seek and save that which was lost.
Luke 19 : 10

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
1 Timothy 2 : 3-4


Yes, It is indeed a joy and a privilege to be able to bring to remembrance of the saving grace of God. Yes times may be different, we all may be different, but we will never forget that the mercies and the compassions of God are new and available every morning !

Men have made lots of all kinds of religions with all kinds of rules and rituals to follow, like what to do & what not to do; what to eat & what not to eat; what to wear & what not to wear; How to pray & when to pray & what language to use to pray etc etc. The truth is God wants to have a simple meaningful PERSONAL relationship with everyone of us, not any religion.

Religions divide the people with hatred & violence, God unites His people with love & Affection. Please read HERE

We have a faithful God! 3 cheers for Jesus !!!

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