Narnia - Edmund Pevensie

Edmund Pevensie was a boy who met the white witch in the movie of “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”. The witch offered him his favourite turkish delights and the prospect of becoming king. For that, Edmund Pevensie lied to his brother & sisters that he did not know about Narnia. His ears & minds were shutdown when he heard about how wicked witch was. At the end of it, he realised how wrong he was when he was captured by the witch.

I am just like Edmund Prevensie, I am blinded by my desires and egos. I need God to give me wisdom to guide me to see the path clearly daily. How about you?

Big Brother

When I was a child, I felt my life was not complete without having a big brother. I have a big sister, younger sister & brother but I do not have a big brother. How greedy I was! I felt envy to my friends & cousins who have big brothers. Ideally a big brother to me is someone who can protect, support and care for me. :)

Amazingly when we are in Christ, we have a big family in God. We have brothers & sisters in Christ all over places.
Now I have grown up, I have my ideal & perfect big brother who is Jesus Christ. In Mark 3:35, Jesus said: "Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother."

Do you have big brother? :)

Introduce A Friend

Stella and Bob know each other from a common friend. Bob's task is to introduce a friend to Stella. Bob asks a lot of questions in order to find the best match for her. After long chats, Bob starts talking about himself. Stella confuses and asks: "Are you suppose to introduce your friend or yourself to me?" :)

This scenario is very commonly happened to us. Sometimes we want to introduce a friend to Jesus. Unawareness we talk too much about ourselves and we lose the focus. Let's set our focus right and point to the target!

Mini Plant

I went for tea appreciation with a group of friends. The tea is tasty & fragrance with soothing ambience. What a relaxing day Saturday! :)

After that we proceeded to Tea Chapter shop. While my friends admiring different types of tea leaves and antique hand-made tea pots, I was caught by the mini plants next to the tea pots.

Curiously I asked the shop-keeper if the mini plants were tea leaves. The shop-keeper explained that they were all fruits plants whom the seeds from fruits they ate. Patiently she introduced to me one by one: "This plant of apple, grapes, orange, etc".

Wow!!! I was so awestruck, and dumbly I asked her: "Can they bare fruits?"
She answered me with a big smile: "No, they cannot bear fruits with this small pot!"

I thought it deeply: “If I were a fruit plant, I would like to bear fruit. If I were a strawberry plant then I should bare sweet and delicious strawberries. Isn’t that our creator want us to be?”

As Matthew 7:18-20 was written: “Good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.”

Then how can I bare good fruit?
In John 15:3-5 Jesus says: "You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me (Jesus), and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing."

Heroes – 0.07%

Heroes TV series is about ordinary people who have superhuman ability to prevent disaster and saving humanity.
Heroes’ episode with title “0.07%” was fascinated.

The bomb exploded in New York City, then Hiro Nakamura who has ability to manipulate time, went back to previous time and the story goes ….

There were conversation between Mr. Linderman and Nathan Petrelli.
Mr. Linderman: “We have to save New York City”
Nathan Petrelli (In deep thought as he was about to be elected as American President)
Mr. Linderman: “People need HOPE!”
Nathan Petrelli: “How much can we save?”
Mr. Linderman: “0.07%!”

The “0.07%” was mentioned about three times in that episode.

As believers of Jesus Christ, we are like Heroes who have superhuman ability (The power of God Jesus Christ). We are saints. We are given the power and different spiritual gifts.

The Question is: Do we care for others?
People need hope! People need Love!

Truly salvation is in God’s hand. However for those who accepted Love from God, have we shared the Love to others or we keep it to ourselves?
Or we may be thinking others will do it then why should I care?

I am asking myself: “Have I done my part as believer?”
“God have given me spiritual gift as faith and evangelism, have I used them fully?” “I have a chance to meet different races of people in Office or outside, have I share the LOVE of JESUS CHRIST to them?”

Certainly we cannot avoid death or stop the end of the world from happening and we cannot share the LOVE to everyone in the world either. Nevertheless we can share Love to people surrounding us although it is only 0.07%!

Love starts with God, now you have it, let’s pass it on!

SK-II

The SK-II TV commercial was promoted by QiQi (the Hong Kong Model).
Interestingly the last comment QiQi said: "If the only thing I can choose, I will choose SK-II". Then her husband (Simon Yam - Hong Kong Actor) appeared and asked: "How about me?"

After watching the advertisement, I was asking myself: “If I can only choose one thing in the world. What will I choose?”

My answer to the question is: The word of God Jesus Christ!
[Psalm 119:103 How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!]

Praying Mantis

A night when my sister and I were about to sleep, an insect came to our room and hanged at the chain which attached to the light. We were terrific because it was first time we saw the green creature and we had no courage to catch it. Instead we tried to switch off the light but yet it did not move.

Later on I found out the insect was called ‘Praying Mantis’.
In Greek word meaning "Prophet" or "fortune teller" and the appearance of the front legs is prayerlike manner.

All of a sudden my sister urged me to pray asking God to get rid of the mantis. We both prayed. After some time the mantis was still there but moving slightly lower part of the chain.

Then I had no choice and prayed to God to give me courage and bravely caugh the mantis using a plastic bag.
My sister was so happy that I could catch it, she normally braver than me. :)

Surprisingly she asked "I wonder why the insect did not move when you tried to catch it. I simply answered "prayer".

WOW!!! I wanted to cry, my sister urged me to pray and reaffirmed by asking me a question. It was just her simple faith.

One thing I learnt, when we pray to God, God is listening and sometimes God also wants us to be His partner to accomplish the task! :)

Pau

In Kung Fu Panda movie, Po the Panda was picked by destiny to become a martial art master. He had to learn variation of kung fu moves, the only way to motivate him was using food (Pau – Chinese word for Bun).

I ponder about myself, what motivate me in life?
Money? Status? People?
Do I behave well because I want to be seen as good person?
Will I still do well when people treat me badly?

Finally I found the only motivation that I can rely on is the unconditional Love of Jesus Christ (The Cross).

How about you?