BSF - Matthew

This year BSF (Bible Study Fellowship) class has ended. During the last meeting, there wasn’t a discussion group or lecture but sharing voluntarily on what we have learnt.

I felt privileged for being able to share with the women group. I was nervous & my voice trembled but my heart was burning to share all the good things I have learnt.

This is my first year in BSF & the book of Matthew was not easy for me, because it talked so much about challenging applications especially lectures & notes questions that touched my inner heart like "How much do you love God?”, “How precious is Jesus to you?”, “Have you pleased God?"

Being a Christian for 10 years, I thought I had known a lot about God. As studied the book of Matthew, I am getting to know about God much more and I am falling in love with Him again and again.

So many things to discover & let me explain in 3 characters: BSF

B - Bride
God loves us unconditionally. People may like us because of our physical beauty, material wealth, intellectual, characters, etc but God loves us for who we are.
I was a bad person but God called me to be His bride. He clothed me with righteousness through Jesus Christ. How wonderful!

About the parable of 5 wise virgins & 5 foolish virgins, the wise virgins prepared the oil and were waiting for the bridegroom. I know it is not an easy path to follow Jesus but I am trying my best. To be His bride hence I am now standing here and waiting for my bridegroom (Jesus Christ).

S - Salt
We are called to be salt of the world meaning we have to be salt everywhere we go. Being a nice person to the people we love or our church mates is easy. However when it comes to difficult people or office work, it would be challenging. Am I the salt of the world for Jesus Christ?

F - Faith
I was amazed by the faith of a centurion, a sick woman, a woman whose daughter was sick and many more. Have Faith in Jesus!

Jesus said “…I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." [Matthew 17:20]

Let’s remember this BSF! May God bless us abundantly!

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek is a USA film starring Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning.
You can read the story line in wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hide_and_Seek_(2005_film)

This movie is about a person who has split personality (two different personalities at one time). On occasion he/she appears nice, helpful, a good friend and without warning he/she becomes selfish, arrogant and cruel. The sad thing is the person does not aware of having split personality.

Then I asked myself, do you have split personality? I think I don't but I will not know :) Nevertheless, sometimes I behave good and bad at the same time. Wasn't that worse than having split personality? The reason being is because I am conscious about it and I do it on purpose!

Oh! What should I do?
Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. [Romans 8:8-10]

But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. [Colossians 3:8-10]

Are you playing hide and seek? Do you have split personality? Do you have sinful nature?
Let’s pray & repent and let Holy Spirit be with us always!