The Children of Abraham are slaughtering one another

Looking at the new of what's going on in the middle east, I would say that it is kind of sad. Sad to see that the Children of Isaac andIshmael are slugging it out with one another. Lets get the meaning of the names, Ishmael "God hears", Isaac "He laughs"

Put together sounds like God hears about what is going on and he laughs about it? Haha ok Jokes aside, but in the plan of history, God established his will throught the Jews, then the christians and finally the muslims. God is ever merciful to his children, but the senseless slaughtering is definitely not what he calls for.

The children are fighting, and they are all pointing out to one another's fault. What is going on, where is the love for life and for humanity? Israel starting a war over 2 captive soldiers and they lost 6 soldier's life in the process? A Fair trade? Many more will die if this senseless killing proceed. Why is there no room for love and peace, is war really the answer to this solutions, people are dying and crying, my friend just mentioned that and incendiary bomb has dropped unto a resident area. There was this woman who was burned and she was enclothed in flames, crying and running around in pain.

What happen to negotiations? Are guns the only way out? Can't there be any other way then to these endless violence? Is war really the only way out

I invite all my brothers and sisters to pray for an end to this endless and needless fights, that peace will flourish in the middle east, that the children of Abraham will be united rather than divided. That no matter what happens the peace of god be upon Israel and Palestine

Amen

Total Surrender

What on earth is total surrender? Surrendering ourselves to God? Opening ourselves in front of him? Or saying I'm your thrall/slave/zombie, my lord, u ask me to die, i shall die for u.

Hmm, I just guess it's a mix of all this factors. Hmmm, but wait there is a difference here, our god does not want us to be his thrall/slave/zombie, he calls us his sons and daughters. And what do children do, they obey their parents haha.

And obey we must, for as certainly as our God can see, what we view as good for the time being might not necessarily be good for us in the long run. But ultimately our god being omniscience, sees ahead of our future, and he knows what our current decisions will lead on to.

Ultimately, which parent would give his child a snake when he asked for a fish, which parent would give his child stones when he asked for a loaf of bread? For as our parents love us, God loves us too, and he asks that we listen to him and obey him, for his plans are not for us to falter, but for us to prosper. That would be the call and reason to surrender, to offer our lives, to seek him first and place him first in our hearts, to seek ye first the kingdom of god, and not to put our studies, our career, our family in first place. For when we put god as the centre of our hearts, we gain his favour, and we gain blessings upon those whom we decided as second priority and forth.

The decision to give up all that we have is a tough decision. We are bound physically and emotionally to the things that we have, and we are unwilling to let them all go. Things like our family, our friends, our girlfriends/boyfriends, spouses. But the lord calls us to put these all aside, and to listen to his will and to trust in him. For he truely knows best what is best for us, so many of us are focused on the gifts and not on the giver who have many more plans for the person who recieves these gifts. And we are so constraint that we can never fully realised about the plans that he has for us. Plans to use us to bring others closer to him, plans to draw people into his love, plans to stop wars and to create peace and universal brotherhood, plans to bring HEAVEN down to earth.

My brothers and sisters who read this, everytime we say the our father, have we stop to check on the meaning of the words?

At the Our father, we said that your will be done, everytime we say the prayer is this really in our hearts?

God's blessing be upon all of you my brothers and sisters Amen!!!

The wonderful painting of Life

Hmmm, hello everyone. I feel the need to write the blog again after so many, so many days of not doing anything. My hand itches, haha

Well oh well, my project to me is officially over, what is left is the presentation on August itself, but well that's far off. Time for ministry work to resume.

I was thinking and pondering about our roles in the universe, why on earth are we created here for? Possibly too much talking about the great Conspiracy with a friend of mine, has got me thinking about a lot of things, but in the end, i just guess at the end of it, we cant do much, haha

But with regards to our role in the universe, I would like to thank god for the uniqueness that he has instilled in each of us. Whereby no two person in the universe behaves exactly the same way, yes even for identical twins, as for twins who can talk and act at the same time, i have no answer for that...

Well I would invite all of you to imagine this, God is the master painter( for those of you who went to the youth rally and probably heard of this song, Jesus Master Painter of my life), I was thinking that the way each and everyone of us were made. We are like the master's paintbrushes, and the unique and funny thing is no paintbrush that the master used to paint this canvas or the life that we live in is the same. Reason? Certain paintbrushes are good to paint with and they absorb gold colour easily, others red colour, others cyan, orange, blue, purple and unlimited amount of colours. Its what the lord that has put uniquely into us that what we call talents. Certainly a painting with just a single colour would look plain.

But when the master starts to take all the paintbrushes and use them, a beautiful picture starts to form right in front of our eyes. But there's something unique about these paintbrushes, they have a mind of their own, and they paint on their own will. Sometimes the paintbrushes made a wrong stroke and paint wrongly. The master just chuckles and using that error, he painted a whole new beautiful picture out.

Have you ever heard of the story of the drunkard master artist? The king commisioned this young man to paint the best painting in the world. The young man soon went home, but he had a bad habit, he loves to drink and he accidentally spilled a drop of ink on the precious white paper that the king has given him. He started to fluster, but eureka, haha, and idea came to his mind, he proceed on with him painting.

The next day the young artist presented the painting to the king. The painting was a basket of fruits, it looked so real that even a fly came to rest on the painting. The king tried chasing the fly away, but apparently it would not budge, on a closer look, the king realised that the fly was actually painted on the paper. The king was amazed and gave the young man any reward that he desires.

Strange eh, haha, we made mistakes in our lives and God uses them to become a wonderful part of the picture, a dot of error that we make in our lives, god turns them into something wonderful, maybe better than a fly? haha

God Bless all of you!!!

A new Idea!!!

Hmmm, an idea actually popped through my head yesterday at Brother Adam's house. We suddenly had a weird idea on opening a place where soul meets soul, we are planning to open a restaraunt. I was like thinking of all kinda funky names for the restaraunt, like Saddam's Singaporean Outlet(Btw my friend Adam is an Iraqi Eurasian). And he was like thinking of serving authentic Iraqi Dishes blended with a spice of Singaporean taste. And I like wanna go learn how to cook from my parents and give out the best tasting food out there. The dream of every chef, to see those who eat your food be happy and content with it. For there's no greater joy than to see someone enjoy your food that you created with soul and effort.

Well, we are gonna face several problems here, whether the plan is feasible? And like many other issues. Dang the feeling of Adam cooking kembeng Burgers just make my mouth sizzle, basket. Haha... I wish I could take a photo of us both cooking. That will be damn cool la!!! Haha, I just hope that this is part of God's plan to bring the youths back to him. Its really a funky idea, haha, and honestly I would not mind working in such an environment. Gosh imagine the fun, I'm inviting my classmates and see whether this plan is feasible. Maybe after NS we can start the business venture? Muahahaha, Food Galore, Here I COME!!!!!!

God's blessing and hmmm, maybe the smell of heaven is the smell of good food? Hahah, K kidding, shall not be too blasphemous, God's blessing be on all of you!!!

Hmmm, interesting things to take note of...

I've realised something quite interesting

Superman Returns, Finding Nemo and the wild have in common? They can be used in the teachings of christianity/cathechism. Finding Nemo and the wild shows of the father's love for his child, Superman Returns shows the father's plans for the child... Hmmm interesting eh?

That's all for now, till then, when the inspiration comes up, my thoughts will be here again=)