2015 has gone, 2016 has come!

One year of 365 days has gone yet again and it is time for me to reflect on my journey with Jesus in 2015. After many years of singlehood, 2015 is the year I got married and settled down with a godly woman whom God has graciously brought into my life. Married life is very revealing indeed. My ways as a natural sinner is very much obvious and alive in front of my wife! If single life is challenging to be pure before God, married life brings my spiritual journey to the next level. This is simply because my wife is always being used by God to point out all my weaknesses and how my heart is indeed deceitful above all things (Jer 17:9). Alas! What a sinner I am indeed.

The years which I had spent as a single man allowed me to be righteousness in my own manner and this indeed could blind me from knowing my true heart condition which is a sinner through and through before my God. Yes, I can deceive myself into believing that I am acing my spiritual journey with God. The truth is I am not. Being married opens my eyes to the ultimate reality of my heart condition and allows God Himself to continue to mold me towards Christ’s Character.

2015 is an interesting year for me as I kicked off this year, registering for a joint google email account together with my then girlfriend (now my wife) after being in a relationship for about 2 weeks. Subsequently, I proposed to her on Resurrection Sunday, began our wedding preparation and then got married on 21 Nov. We went for our honeymoon in New Zealand and now we are preparing to get our own place ready for move in. Everything seems to be moving in an extremely fast pace for us. I can really know that God’s Timing is always perfect.

This New Year, I look forward to spend more quality time with God in my daily devotion with Him as I seek to learn from Him firsthand on how to be a husband who loves his wife like how Christ loves the Church. As His Word continues to come alive before my eyes, I pray that you can also taste and see that The LORD is good (Psa 34:8).

Have a blessed 2016 and God Bless you!

The Day I am Married!

We are His eyewitnesses!

For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, such an utterance as this was made to Him by the Majestic Glory, “This is My beloved Son with whom I am well-pleased”— and we ourselves heard this utterance made from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.

So we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts. But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

- 2 Peter 1:16-21

The Journey Continues...

It’s been a long while since I last sat down and really wrote down some personal reflections of my journey with God. This spiritual journey goes on. There are still many things to learn and many issues in my own spiritual life which need to be molded and shaped by God’s Guiding Hand. Looking back at these last 6 months, I believe I have gone through the initial excitement of being involved in a loving relationship with someone whom God has brought to my life. The excitement has not diminished but has gone on to the next level where truly I learnt more about my own failures and weaknesses of my soul. God has taught and shown me many things in my spiritual life which needs pruning. The most amazing pruning comes practically through learning how to love someone unconditionally. This comes in a committed relationship leading to a lifelong marriage.

No one can truly know what real love is until one is able to demonstrate through actions about real love. The model of real love is shown to all of us through the death of Christ on the Cross. That’s the scene where unconditional love stands out as an unyielding light to shine into the darkness of human’s heart. This is also where I as a husband-to-be have to reflect constantly on how to love my wife unconditionally as how Christ loves the Church. It is a mystery indeed.

Till the day I see my LORD, this journey of learning from Him continues…

The Great Commission

The Sacredness of Marriage

And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

- Matthew 19:4-6

The Need to be Born Again

Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

- John 3:3

Micah 6:8

He has told you, O man, what is good;

And what does the Lord require of you

But to do justice, to love kindness,

And to walk humbly with your God?

The Oneness of the Trinity

For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.

- 1 John 5:7-8

Our Father in heaven...

How I Met My Partner?

In Heaven: We believe Our Almighty GOD, the Creator of the heavens & earth (Genesis 1:1) brought us together.

On Earth: We met online (SDN website).

The two of us were waiting for some undocumented period of time for the right person to come along while each of us strives to be the right person.

When we finally met each other, we felt like long lost friends who found each other and have lots to talk about.

The chemistry between us is definitely present and we hope to enjoy each other's presence while we honor Our Beloved GOD together as a couple.

Keep on Relating, Folks

Many Christians often said that Christianity is all about relationships. It is not a religion per se. It is about relating to the One and Only True God and Jesus Christ Whom He has sent (John 17:3). This unique relationship is made possible when God sent His Son to die on the cross for our sins. Therefore, our eyes are now opened and able to see Him for whom He really is. To some people who are perishing, the cross may be foolishness to them (1 Cor 1:18). However, nothing can be further from the Truth. The Cross is exactly the place where God’s Love is expressed to all of us in the climax.

My brothers and sisters in Christ, life is all about relationships. We are born because of the love relationship between our fathers and mothers. The root of it all is God’s Love. He is the Uncreated One Who created us – Adam’s Race. He breathed into us the breath of life (Gen 2:7). This is our God, let us all behold Him. The One who said to Moses, ‘I Am Who I Am’. The Only True Living God Who has revealed Himself to us and offer us this special, priceless and unique relationship in Christ. He has offered us His Own Son! He now empowers us through His Holy Spirit. The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit, the Source of All (Rev 4:11).

I thank God for bringing a special person into my life. At this moment of my life, I finally realized the preciousness of a unique relationship which I hold dear to my heart. God works in mysterious ways at times and I can only respond to Him by being amazed at the blessings which He has showered upon me. I do not deserve it at all and echoed with Peter, ‘Go away from me LORD, for I am a sinful man!” (Luke 5:8). Being a child of God, I am blessed because I am granted this opportunity to seek His Face (Psalm 27:8). By seeking His Face, I can learn directly from the Master of Relationships on how to keep on relating well to this special person and enable every moment which we spend together to be fond memories for the years to come. Keep on relating, folks. God Bless!