Last nite in the midst of my slumber, I felt a rush of warmth blood near the spot where I had my Gideon cyst removed back in March this year. Instinctively I felt a sense of déjà vu, for I half suspected the Gideon cyst is back with me.
And Jehovah said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
Judges 6:16
By God's prescience, this morning's Daily Bread reading was on Gideon. Gideon, as shared previously has been very much part of my conversation with our Lord this past half year.
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Why does God again allow Gideon to surface twice over in my life these past 24 hours?
基甸 or Gideon. The 基 is the same 基 as in 基督 Christ.
Is our good Lord both reminding and reassuring me that He has never left me and is always with me?
At this point, the thought was impressed upon me. My new Gideon cyst will not go away but it will grow with my lack of faith and shrink with my renewed faith. Is this a whimsical silly thought?
I love Jehovah, because he heareth My voice and my supplications.
Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, Therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.
Psalm 116:1-2
It is good to be afflicted. Like a puppy wet on its tail, I felt a little sorry for myself today. For the weight of my circumstances is not exactly unbearable, yet some how, there are moments when one just wish one was on the proverbial greener side of the grass patch.
But thanks be to God, I know I can turn to Him, for our good Shepherd walks with us through the valleys of life, just as He is there with us in the hills of our euphoria. God is with us in the deserts of our life, He deserts us not.
'They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts.'
Isaiah 48:21
God our Father indeed watches over His children. This verse in Isaiah 48:21 that I read this morning is His affirmation of the thoughts I penned last night. 感谢主
Can I continue to sadden my watching loving Father, when I often succumb to the lure of sin in my moments of ease? Indeed afflictions keeps the imperfect us fully focussed on our Perfect God.
荒漠 This word evokes powerfully the sense of desolation in the vast and harsh emptiness of the desert. An emotion that saps our very being when one goes through burdensome circumstances, which none can avoid for men are born to trouble.
Stripped bare of our external accoutrements of self dependency, it is then will we remember and acknowledge that the Spirit of God resides within us. And that we can fully depend upon His grace not just for sustenance, but that our realigned hearts will be reinvigorated and empowered to move forth swiftly in His works. In His will and no longer ours.
主是我的心里的力量。 是我福分真到永远。
For in the stark landscape of the desert, we will see Christ in all clarity. A perspective that is often clouded in the multi hues of the riches of our delusory well watered world.
God blesses
Eng Hieang
11 July 2015
Typhoon Chan-hom hovers off China as a million flee
http://www.channelnewsasia.
It did not strike me until now that there was a big typhoon veering down on Shanghai.
I would have been in the eye of the storm for I was supposed to be in Shanghai this week through the weekend. Was it simply sheer fortuitous or a divine intervention of our loving Father that my trip was deferred?
Thank You Lord for watching over me
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