Trusting in God
I personally find it hard to trust God in everything. During this particular COVID season, I found it much harder to leave everything to God especially when the impact on our lives feels so prominent. We suddenly find ourselves in a very different world with many different rules. Many of us are not able to carry out some plans, are not able to meetup and have fellowship or even go to church without a nagging feeling that it may become a spreader event. Some of us have been re
Love one another as He loved us
In the midst of this pandemic, it may be easy and perhaps even reasonable to get upset and point fingers at the people who may be responsible for the inconvenience – physically, financially or emotionally – that we may have experienced. In fact, I have recently been in that situation. Let us, however, consider what Jesus says in Matthew 5:23-24 “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leav
Fear and Love
I have been thinking about what it means to love God with all our hearts. Jesus taught us that if we love Him, we would keep his commandments (John 14:15). But sometimes the concept of loving God becomes a little abstract, and it becomes convenient to determine one’s love for God by evaluating how much one has or has not kept his commandments. Coupled with the very real existence of heaven and hell, it soon becomes unclear if it is truly love for God that motivates us, or fea
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