When you dig deep, what you found?

Wow! What a season in EPL! Liverpool is catching up on Man U! It is getting tigher each game! Liverpool won a game, top the table, within 24 hours Man U regain the top spot in soccer's most watched league.

Wow! This is my season I suppose! Definitely Man U is my current season! Things getting tighter each day, each day is a totally different challenge! When the demands for you to performance like a club like Man U, the fans and the management don't expect you to quit despite of its challenges like lacking in many top players who are injured and suspended, not forgetting that Liverpool is hot on your heels! Life in EPL must go on! You can't say that because of your players are injured and suspended, therefore the soccer race got to pause and stop!

Sir Alex Ferguson looks to his reserves and boy, he dig deep into his squad and found gold - Kiko Macheda, a 17 year old Portugal wonder kid who struck two goals in a week and allow Man U to top EPL. Digging deep when all is against you.

Digging deep. The grace of God is what I need. Digging deep, what does it means for me? When challenges coming my way like the wave is coming stronger, and the next wave is coming greater than the one before, like a Tsunami. It will hit you at where it hurts the most! This season had been really hard, essays deadlines are just one after the other, the demands of ministry is forever there, the need to be at home and spend time with family yet balance with my closest friends. "Bite the bullet, Ron!" encouraged by my friend. But my mind plays with my heart, "Go for a break, Ron! TTC should understand what you are going thru', you badly need a break, afterall you have not rested since 22nd Feb, you ought to rest!"

Digging deep when it hurts you the most...would there be gold? This season, I am learning what it means to dig deep, when all is coming my way at the speed unimaginable. But when there is a shortcut, would you do it to settle for something less? Boy, it is tempting I must say! When is my reserve? I do not have a squad filled with talented youngsters like Man U. O Lord, where is it?

"Were not our hearts burning within us while he taked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?" Found in Luke 24:32, which is a cross-reference to Psalm 39:3 and Jeremiah 20:9 in the OT.

Recently, this verse came to my mind as I reflect and read on the death and resurrection of Christ during this period of Easter. Digging deep seems to have a different meaning for me this season, for I did not found gold, but God! Digging deep into the word of God, that it would keep my heart burning! On the verge of burning out and throwing the towel, digging deep into the word of God is what it matter the most!

God Almighty, let thy word dwell richly in me, recharge my soul, renew my strength, ministered and refresh my heart, O Gracious and Most High God. Let Your presence be with thy servant as I go through each day, each moment with You is what it really matters. Let each passing day be a testimony of Your grace and love. In God's absolute word that is manifested in Christ I prayed, amen.

Jesus loves me! this i know, for the Bible tells me so...

Simple yet profound statement.
Simple truth yet easily forgotten.
Simple understanding but my heart fails to understand.
Simple to teach but hard to experience.
Simple teaching of grace yet could not comprehend in its totality.
Simple love but expensive cost.
Simple I LOVE YOU, but i doubt YOU, sorry.
Simple Cross but difficult passion to endure.
Simple promise but never broken!
Simple love...Simple grace...Simple assurance...
Simple words that touched my heart...
Thank you, Heavenly Father for these assuring words, I LOVE YOU...this is enough!

How is my heart?

The temple of God, when the Lord Jesus Christ enters the temple of God in the context of Mark 11, that i heard yesterday in chapel. What a scene, when the Messiah came, he was disgusted about what is happening in the temple where worship cannot be found, reading of Scripture was not the primary focus of the synagogue and definitely praying is not in the agenda of the church then. For their focus is definitely about earning money via buying and selling of doves.

The Old Testament's temple is where God Almighty dwell richly in, where his presence is with his people, and now we are living in the time of New Testament, so therefore where is the temple of God? Through the Rev Dr. Samuel Lee's message yesterday, he challenges how is our temple of God, for we are now in New Testament, which translates into our body.

Questions as challenge by him:

• How is my temple?

• What does the Lord looks at my heart?

• Do I only not sin the greatest sin but sin the smallest sin of my heart?