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Quiet Time - The Song of Moses
Ever wonder how these songs in the Bible are actually sung? In fact, if you turn to the book of Psalm, the whole book was sung out by the choir of the old kingdoms. Now, what exactly was used? I mean the instruments! They just crossed the red sea with their lives! The exhaustion is staggering. Imagine walking down to the sea bed and crossing that divide that's believed to be over eleven miles!
Music is inherent to both God and His creations. Its a key component in living beings and it does not requires elaborate instruments to begin, just our voice boxes. And I believe that's how it was done then (with timbrels). In hebrew, Moses sang. And in the aftermath of God's deliverance, all the neighboring countries trembled.
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Quiet Time - The Passover
Within the intricate steps to prepare the passover lies a deeper truth of a "substituitionary" death. A physical lamb that symbolically represents Christ is to be slain and its blood, averting the angel of death, who will soon descent upon mankind.
Yeast, an agent associated with uncleanness and sins is to be totally abstained in the household of God while observing the feast of the unleavened bread. From my point of view, this signifies the need of oneself to be cleansed and made right with the Lord, prior to witnessing the act of God in our lives, as He intended.
Living at large in our unsanctioned liberty would naturally cause a gradual departing away from the Savior...a sight not desired.
Posted in: Quiet Time on Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 0 comments
Quiet Time - God Has All the Time in the World to Deal with Man!
For one, I admire the stubbornness of Pharaoh. For another, I admire the determined, progressive approach God deals with humans. Well, for one, God has all the time to deal with us, to break the stubborn will of ours in the most "gentle" of ways.
The now destitute Egypt has all her crops wiped out, water supply poisoned with blood, frog-invested stench landscape, livestock destroyed and human deaths (from the hail). You name it. The pride of Egypt been slowly removed from Pharaoh, on a piece by piece torture.
What does it take for the Lord to remind us precious lessons at times? Do we need to go through such a tedious ordeal to learn too?
Posted in: on Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 0 comments
Quiet Time - Progression of the Lord's Display of His Power
From the simple act of turning a rod into a lively serpent, we not only witness an increase in the sphere of impact of God's revealing judgement onto Pharaoh, but also in their severity. It is also interesting to note that the Egyptian magicians have finally met their match when they no longer could replicate the signs of Moses and Aaron on the fourth judgment - Lice.
It is also clear to note of the Lord's dealing with man, that it usually provides an opportunity to response to. If that opportunity is not seized, the time window will lapse towards a new event, activity or cycle. But also be mindful that it was the Lord who "manipulated" Pharaoh's heart, giving us a glimpse into how the Lord so choose to work to glorify Himself through eternity.
God's sovereignty rules!
Posted in: Quiet Time on Tuesday, June 09, 2009 at 0 comments
Health Recommendation - Bovine Colostrum
Being a strong health advocate, part of my life has been devoted to discovering what governs our health and what makes it stronger. I have tried Lingzhi, Aloe Vera, Shiitake mushrooms and performed extensive research on their efficacy.
A good friend of mine recently introduced Bovine Colostrum, a form of transfer factor known to boost personal immunity. Companies like 4Life has pioneered the extraction of bovine immunity factors and my consistent use of a variant - Bovine Colostrum has proofed a very good to have in these pre-pandemic health risk we are surrounded in.
They usually come in tablets form and cost less than $15 per bottle. I highly recommended this to those who believes that prevention is still better than cure.
Posted in: on Sunday, June 07, 2009 at 0 comments
Quiet Time - Perception of God in Man
Cynically, God opened Exodus 7 with a quick mention that He has just made a god out of Moses in the sight of Pharaoh! It sure brings me a quick reminder how cheesy Man's view on God really is. As long as you can do something extraordinary, either with a talent, skill or capability. You are a god!
So much for that. Now, comes the interesting part of this chapter - a race to display miracles! When you first read them, it's somewhat puzzling to see that the sorcerers and wise men of Egypt could do exactly what Moses did - in both the rod-to-serpent and bloody rivers.
Well, the only lesson I could derive from them is that the apparent similarities of truth does not necessarily mean absolute truth! This can be applied to the world's understanding of religions and faith today. Everyone seems to be correct but there lies only one absolute - Jehovah God, Yahweh. From the commonalities of facts and figures of religion, a critical twist stands out among all others - Jesus Christ gives. Every other religions I was brought up with, asks for something in return, with a hope of a possible reward. You must do good first, be a good person first...then maybe, you will be fine.
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Holiday Trip to Someway Cooling!
Its June. And the heat wave is just warming up to visit the equator once again. To escape it for a week or so, a trip is due to haul everyone to the safety of some cool mountains. No idea where it will be but it has to be cool... as my boys would say it.
Well, Australia is now freezing.
Posted in: Fun on Monday, June 01, 2009 at 0 comments
New Toy - Nokia E51 Camera Less Phone
Just got this to replace my Sony Ericsson P1i. Not surprisingly, the new upgraded camera-less model which I got no longer supports Blackberry! I am thankfully able to get the new Nokia messaging push services working on it.
Apart from them, first impression of the phone is that its much better built than my old Nokia E90 Communicator, all in a whole lot thinner package! In a way, I am giving Nokia one more chance to redeem herself after that big E90 blunder last year...
Let's see how it fares in the battery life department in the next few days.
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