Before you Speak, Listen
Before you Retire, Save
Before you Die, Give
Before you Invest, Investigate
Before you Write, Think
Before you Spend, Earn
Before you Criticize, Wait
Before you Pray, Forgive
Before you Quit, Try!!!
Friday, 18 November 2011
You are the heir!
A discouraged new convert once came to talk with a Chinese Christian Watchman Nee;
“No matter how much I pray, no matter how hard I try, I simply cannot seem to be faithful to my Lord. I think I’m losing my salvation." Nee said, "Do you see this dog here? He is my dog. He is house-trained; he never makes a mess; he is obedient; he is a pure delight to me. Out in the kitchen I have a son, a baby son. He makes a mess, he throws his food around, he fouls his clothes, he is a total mess. But who is going to inherit my kingdom? Not my dog; my son is my heir. You are Jesus Christ’s heir because it is for you that He died."
So live like a bona fide son of the King...God bless!
Friday, 30 September 2011
Saturday, 3 September 2011
Lessons to humanity from the wild!
I am often fascinated by the life in the jungle. A dynasty where the life governing rule - survival for the fittest, or if you like, God for us all, but each individual for themselves - supremely reigns. Every creature from huge to the tiniest is always on the look-out for an unprecedented source of prey, which is for sure imminent at all time.
That said, picture this; a hungry lioness in a hunt for prey, decides to go against all nature's design and expectation, and adopts the little orynx that should have constituted a sumptuous meal like no other, that later meets its death by starving! (okay, I added the last part!). Nothing but world wonder material in my view.
Despite all these instabilities of existence, creatures in the wild thrive in their respective rights as designed by the Almighty Powers! This in the sense of nature keeps the ecosystem balance, in perfect tandem with the law of natural selection: "Nature selects individuals which are best fit and lets them survive, while the frail die off and/or fail to survive (read- are eaten up!)"
What fascinates me the more however is the symbiotic relationship that is accrued from this 'curse' - as the lesser animals in the preying pyramid would think! This too extends to the plant kingdom.
In their diversity, the animals keep each others' existence alive, with acts that are intended to annihilate others from the scene - what a conundrum!
Take the elephant's feeding habits for instance; it is a pure herbivore, that feeds on a variety of greens virtually all day, with breaks to water its system . Upon quenching its thirst along shallow waters, it thinks of no tomorrow, so it leaves along its heavy droppings by the same waters, some of course sinking deeper into the water. Upon the landing of the dung, the fish say a quick little thank-you prayer and get down to feasting on the rare nutrients that are contained herein. And at the shallow end, the lower placed herbivores that can't swim nor graze search for their nourishment. This process excites a swam of insects that follow what to them is the 'aroma' from the elephant dung. As they do this, the agility of the birds lands them at the scene for a catch from the feasting insects. Before long, the seemingly lazy baboons hanging around for their time, walk in to the 'unwatching' birds, that consequently makes their meal along with the hyenas and vaulters - what a sequence!
This only tells me one thing; God is in control of his creatures the best way he knows how! among the millions of species He created, He assigned each a role to play to better the life of the other, and through this, the ecosystem is maintained!
Imagine then for a moment...the humans of the SAME SPECIE!!! How well do we co-exist among each other? The lion and the orynx were created not to see eye to eye, but man was created for exactly the opposite of that...to support each other, but here are reversed roles, where animals are outdoing us in our own game!
Instead of embracing the privilege of the precious diversity bestowed upon us by the Almighty, we concentrate on our ethnicity, race, skin color... so much that we begin to see ourselves as each others' enemies! and true to fact; what the brain considers through a considerable duration of time, it later considers true, and adopts, thereby making habits, and as it were, the forces of habits are initially too weak to be felt till they are too strong to be broken. So we concentrate so much on that which divides us instead of looking on the bigger picture that we are all the homo sapiens, and that right there unites us all under its umbrella!
This is the disease that ails humanity!
All is not lost though, we can borrow a leaf from the life in the wild and how diverse creatures co-exist to make amends to procreate a united race.This can as well begin with you...remember the power of one!
That said, picture this; a hungry lioness in a hunt for prey, decides to go against all nature's design and expectation, and adopts the little orynx that should have constituted a sumptuous meal like no other, that later meets its death by starving! (okay, I added the last part!). Nothing but world wonder material in my view.
Despite all these instabilities of existence, creatures in the wild thrive in their respective rights as designed by the Almighty Powers! This in the sense of nature keeps the ecosystem balance, in perfect tandem with the law of natural selection: "Nature selects individuals which are best fit and lets them survive, while the frail die off and/or fail to survive (read- are eaten up!)"
What fascinates me the more however is the symbiotic relationship that is accrued from this 'curse' - as the lesser animals in the preying pyramid would think! This too extends to the plant kingdom.
In their diversity, the animals keep each others' existence alive, with acts that are intended to annihilate others from the scene - what a conundrum!
Take the elephant's feeding habits for instance; it is a pure herbivore, that feeds on a variety of greens virtually all day, with breaks to water its system . Upon quenching its thirst along shallow waters, it thinks of no tomorrow, so it leaves along its heavy droppings by the same waters, some of course sinking deeper into the water. Upon the landing of the dung, the fish say a quick little thank-you prayer and get down to feasting on the rare nutrients that are contained herein. And at the shallow end, the lower placed herbivores that can't swim nor graze search for their nourishment. This process excites a swam of insects that follow what to them is the 'aroma' from the elephant dung. As they do this, the agility of the birds lands them at the scene for a catch from the feasting insects. Before long, the seemingly lazy baboons hanging around for their time, walk in to the 'unwatching' birds, that consequently makes their meal along with the hyenas and vaulters - what a sequence!
This only tells me one thing; God is in control of his creatures the best way he knows how! among the millions of species He created, He assigned each a role to play to better the life of the other, and through this, the ecosystem is maintained!
Imagine then for a moment...the humans of the SAME SPECIE!!! How well do we co-exist among each other? The lion and the orynx were created not to see eye to eye, but man was created for exactly the opposite of that...to support each other, but here are reversed roles, where animals are outdoing us in our own game!
Instead of embracing the privilege of the precious diversity bestowed upon us by the Almighty, we concentrate on our ethnicity, race, skin color... so much that we begin to see ourselves as each others' enemies! and true to fact; what the brain considers through a considerable duration of time, it later considers true, and adopts, thereby making habits, and as it were, the forces of habits are initially too weak to be felt till they are too strong to be broken. So we concentrate so much on that which divides us instead of looking on the bigger picture that we are all the homo sapiens, and that right there unites us all under its umbrella!
This is the disease that ails humanity!
All is not lost though, we can borrow a leaf from the life in the wild and how diverse creatures co-exist to make amends to procreate a united race.This can as well begin with you...remember the power of one!
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