Promised land to me today, talks about deliverance, blessing, God’s will - His planned gift. It’s about His blessings and goodness.

As similar as it can be and as relative as it can be, I find that many Christians are in the same walk as me.

We were in bondage for as long as we live and crying out to as many gods as we know ever since we were born. The gods of luck, gambler, money, love and wat-so-ever. Then somebody came in the name of God(EL Shaddai) and try to bring us out of our bondage and slavery. This very step will cause a warfare as the evil one wants to trap us and to own us.

After we got out of Egypt, which means we have believed in Christ and born again, this is usually where our journey really begins.
We often hear about God’s promise on our lives before we believe in Christ, but after believing in Christ and not seeing the good things, we start complaining / doubting about His promise. Like the people in the wilderness, they complain about any and everything. When Moses told about the 10 commandments, people don’t follow. When Moses goes up to mountain, people start worshipping other gods. When Moses build Tabernacle, people ask about promised land. When God rain bread, people say Egypt and slavery is better. Many of us, we are the same. We focus so much on God’s promises alone until we got blind about His presence, His goodness and His love. 40 years is a long time, but what should seperate us from God? Should distress or suffering or pleasure? Nothing should seperate this bond Jesus Christ suffered for.

More often than not, we get to the promised land even though the complaining and cursing along the way. And we often thought that life should be a bed of roses after we get there - not. We start to panic and complain when our promise land is filled with giants and fortified cities. Other than Caleb and Joshua, no one actually have the faith to believe our God is bigger than the giants. And there, we say to ourselves, Egypt is better. We complain again, “God! why you give me the land but still put giants in it? You bluff me!!” I guess faith is for us to make right decision in believing. In every of our situation.

After we enter our promised land, we still can’t sit back and watch, we need to do things(sometimes with no logic) and fight before we can possess our promised land and truely enjoy His blessings. Those who chickened out didnt get to enjoy the land filled with honey and milk and it shall be the same for us in our walk.

I come to understand that, receiving God’s ultimate blessing for us in our lives may not be an easy task. We are often so focus and impatient for blessing until we got foolish and faithless. There are much to do in our lifes, preparation, repentance, charater development, clearance of obstacles, and so on. Be it the promised land of your life be your destiny in Christ according to will of God, Paul says we never stop running, never stop fighting, win the prize that will last eternally.

No matter which step you are in now, always remember, God is doing your things ahead of you, and He is all you need in your race.

But again, this box might be the earth, and all that mentioned are His tools…
(and so, this box should not be where I belong ultimately)

Your water brings life, work brings glory, love brings joy, heart brings mercy, joy carry strength, word brings revelation, presence bring comfort, grace bring salvation, awesomeness bring praises, spirit brings overflowing of who You are and You are for my abundance living.

You hasn’t change the situation, just telling me that You are near, with You near, there is hope and strength and power and glory and love and truth and faith and life and so much more than those which I thought I needed, and from here, I can experience what I need to experience in order to understand what that is needed to be understood. With experience, understanding, meaning, knowledge, I will be able to attain a new life, a new type of life.

It may never be complete here because the more we know about our experience will increase the lack of knowledge of others, so there will be this pursue of understanding which the meaning of all these is inside the experience and understanding itself. If life may never be complete, then it will be empty unless there is a purpose.

And my purpose is the reason of how and why I felt this today…

I do agree to some of the saying above, but i choose to think an extra step furthur..

I always believe anniversary, holidays and other meaningful dates are opporunity to show appreciation. We are living in such a fast pace and stressful world until we often forget to value the people close to us. They are so near until we lost focus on them. I believe meaningful dates serve us a reminded on have we forgotten about someone, or to take a break and spend effort appreciating someone.

To me, these dates are also reasons to create miracles. For example, to salvage a relationship? to apologize? to visit a long lost person?

Lastly, have we forgotten to prioritize the value of each date? Is Christmas for partying only? Is chinese new year for ang baos & food only? Is valentine’s day about flowers and dinner only?

Friends, Lover, Family, Goals, Career, Spiritual, Love.

Of everything that has ended, love lingers….

When the going gets tough, the tough wakes up and laugh.
Enough of hiding and being cuffed, good time to lead a new path.
Prepare all the neccesary stuff to face the sea which is rough.
Enjoying the pain to plan and draft, ignoring the cuts as result don’t bluff.

But, are we really that tough?
It is a decision by us.

When you know there is no way to stop something from ending, what would you do NOW?
When you are able to stop something from ending, what else could you do other than focusing on solution alone?
When you are not sure if you can stop something from ending, what would you focus on NOW?

Is there anything precious and might have an end other than life?

伤痛无声悲又哀
面对伤口独自行
痛累伤感何时了
恐怕坠落无限界

There’re values to keep, great plans installed.
But acted unwillingly, no courage to explore.
Of what we missed, we questioned what is it for.
Should we cherish? Or smash it down to the floor.

Gap still persist, neglecting our thoughts.
Nobody insist, to know what went wrong.
Lack of maturity, accountability at fault.
Responsibility’s list, no effort to sort.

Respect created these? I believe it did not.
Reason for unpaid fees, we are running short.
Resting on green leaves, believing knot is gone.
Reached the deepest pit, it will be back to haunt.

Lips service, kiss the lists, lonely emptiness now insists.
In control, being controlled, through it all, did not owe.
Fail to quit, climb from pit, retaliate against the bandit.
Did my job, no one’s fault, missed your chance and now it’s locked.

We often heard, “开心就好，你管这么多做设么？” but does it really work? I believe when you are reading this, there will be many instants that come to your mind when you say that phrase. I remember many instants which i use the above in decision making, over a home visitation or a party, over a branded wallet or savings for future, over a bottle of martell or stay sober. It may sound perfectly fine just to have fun, but there are some situation where this phrase become selfish. We often think of our own pleasure and cause pain to people around us. I notice this phrase often bring pleasure that doesn’t last for long and people will keep using this phrase again and again because they need to rekindle the pleasure again and again for the fact that it doesn’t last.

When making a decision, to buy a sports car or a family car, we need to plan for long term, see our level of commitment and plan for the worst. If not, we will be in trouble when things turn bad and trust me, things always turn bad in this world. When we make a decision over to home visit a relative or a party, we might want to think of the value of each situation and be unselfish to our decision. When you need to go for a meeting in office tomorrow morning, and your good friend ask you to party with him and his chicks, will you use “开心就好，你管这么多做设么？” to see the big picture? I can think of 101 situations and you can see that after the whole process, you and your love ones will be the consequence of your decision. Are you really heartless enough to bring everybody through the decision you make? In the 1st situation, your family and yourself will be affected. In the 2nd situation, your relative, your friends and yourself will be affected. 3rd decision, your boss, your colleague and yourself will be affected.

The above are direct examples, there are many indirect situations which we use “开心就好，你管这么多做设么？” and neglected our love ones. I remember there was once, my grandmother told me to come home for dinner, i agreed but didn’t obey because i was out with girls. I left my grandmother waiting for me and re-heat the food for nothing. Although she didn’t make any noise and still smile when i go home, but what i just did was turning hope into disappointment. How would you feel if your lover do that to you? Or you heat up food for your mother just to know that she is too busy playing majong and neglected you? It may be tough for you to love somebody who don’t love you, but are you loving back people who are already loving you? Is there any extra mile involved?

I am not perfect and not a noble man of the earth, but i just want to share some values i learned recently and hope it can change my life. I am starting to look for love and pleasure which has a meaning and will last, not temporary. When you become unselfish, you will find yourself sacrificing all the time and very miserable. Hence the phrase, sow with tears and reap with joy. Find every opportunity to give and you will be the greatest receiver.

There are some things in life you can afford not to gain, but you cannot afford to lose.

Sometimes we work so hard, we forgot to live our life. We become slaves of materialism and wealth. We forgot that pleasure can come from other areas beside wealth and fame. We are looking forward to the next car, next house, next promotion, next bonus, next sales until we forgot about our next of kin. We can be so busy studying or working until we forgot there’s somebody lonely and waiting for us for accompany them for meal, we forgot that there’s somebody hurt and waiting for us to heal that hurt, we give so much pressure to each other until everybody is exploding.

When we are in difficulties in terms of wealth, people around us give us so much pressure until it paralyse our ability in loving. We forgot how to love our frens, family, pets, lover and sometimes they are the ones who give us the pressure. How wonderful would it be if everybody were to step a step back and see the whole picture?

Can you really afford to neglect everything else other than wealth?

We are in the world but not of the world.

Being sheeps among wolves, we might be vulnerable and weak externally.
So in order to not to be crushed when we are being hard pressed, we need to equip ourselves with the right knowledge, values, mindset, behaviour, rules and commitment; so we will not be shaken or destroyed internally. Inside us, we are upset but hopeful, we are vulnerable but protected, we will be broken down but rebuilt stronger, never insecure but confident.

Don’t avoid the wolves, in your life; you cannot be the hero if there is no war and there will be no light if you don’t shine.

Choose for yourself, be evil wolve or sheep who bring hope? But! are you ready for it yet?

If the heart is hardened and cold, the world will feel him hardened and cold..
If the heart is soft and relax, the world will feel his friendliness and kindness..
If the heart is evil and cunning, the world will seek revenge at him on his work..

If you want to give and receive the world with values, then guard your heart more than anything else, because the source of your life flows from it.