脚印
I found this story on the internet. It’s quite touching. I’ve heard it before but don’t know how about you, so I edited and reposted it here, just to share with you. Take your time!
有一天，一个女人因为一件个人的私事，情绪很低落，就独自一人在家附近的市场到处去逛一逛，以纾解心情。她走进一个卖照片的店里，接着看见一张照片拍着脚印留在沙滩上 – 有两双脚印。她一时好奇，又觉得有趣。
女人就问：“这是什么啊？”
卖相片的阿伯就说：“嗯……这两双脚印是一个老妇女在沙滩上拍下的，很有趣吧！她说她与耶稣在一起，一双脚印代表自己，另一双脚印代表耶稣 – 两双脚印让他怀念：‘我们曾一同行走在这世上，这是多么美妙的人生。’”
那女人听了，有些许感动，情绪舒畅一些。
数日后，又有事情发生了，这次很严重，那女人试着安慰自己，但那件事情还是不停地缠绕着她的心，她的情绪真的非常低落，感到好像一波未平，另一波又起这样。于是，就像平时一样，她又独自一人在家附近的那一个市场到处去逛一逛，要纾解心情。她走到那同一间的卖相片的的店的时候，看见一张照片，这一次是石头堆之中 – 只有一双脚印。她就感到非常好奇。
女人就问：“这又是什么呀？上次不是卖‘沙滩上有两双脚印’的吗？怎么现在是在一堆石头上啊？而且只剩下一双脚印而已，另一双呢？”
那阿伯就回答说：“哦，这也是那老妇人拍下来的啊！石头堆代表着她人生中最缕难的路程。那老妇人拍下这有趣的照片是因为这照片让她很怀念那段日子。”
当那女人想起自己所面对的问题，因情绪很不好，就自己在心中问：“怎么有人会怀念他人生中最痛苦的事呢？”
那阿伯继续说：“当时那老妇人感到很孤单，走了一段路，突然回头一看，想到沙滩上本有两双脚的脚印，但是在石头堆上行走的时候，却只有一双脚的脚印。她就不禁问主耶稣为何在她最困苦的时候离开她、不顾她、丢下她一个人。
“就在她正伤心痛哭的时候，有一个那声音对她说：‘妳仔细察看，石堆上的那一双双的脚印都是我的。’她仔细回想，才发觉到果然是这样，原来那一双双的脚印真的是主耶稣的！当那老妇人面对人生的难处时，是主耶稣亲自背起她走过那一段的日子。因此，就拍下石头堆上只有一双脚印来怀念那一段日子咯！”
女人听了很感动，好像眼泪要流出眼眶了，却又微微笑，在心里也感叹地、又轻声地对自己说：“Wow…………！”
我们人生不免会有如此对 神的误会，但将来一切都明白了，并会因而更多感谢 神暗中的保守。我们今生所学的有限，我们所明白的也有限，但当我们见主时，我可以问主关乎我们所不明白的。
主耶稣为我们而死。他战胜了死亡，他复活了！他永远地活着，他要永永远远与你同在，为的是要你认识他，要你知道他爱你。人生悲痛的日子因着主耶稣要成为令人怀念的日子。
Careless Thoughts
Note: Thoughts are often long. :)
Yesterday morning, after thinking about what was happening in Myanmar and China, I believe this is an sounding alarm to remind us that the sufferings happening there – hunger, sorrow, nakedness, sickness, diseases… are also happening around the globe! Therefore let’s keep them in prayer and do something about that. May God guide us.
On the other hand, while all these disasters are happening, I also thought of how God has actually blessed his church on earth so much. We can see a lot of churches around the world, and many of them having mega church buildings. Yet recently, I’ve always been reminded of one other verse in the Bible whenever I started to think that how richly blessed and big and beautiful is the church I’m attending in PJ. This verse is in Luke chapter 21 and it is stated this way,
Before this verse was an accounting of how a widow gave an offering (two small copper coins) even in her poverty. After Jesus honoured this widow, the following story came, “Now while some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and offerings, Jesus said, “As for these things that you see, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!…” Then Jesus went on in later verses to tell us in detail what will happen in the future before he comes to earth the second time – earthquakes, wars, famines… will be increasingly terrible and common! Also, in those later verses of Luke chapter 21, Jesus urges us to always be watchful since none of us knows when is his second coming.
Therefore, as I kept pondering on God’s words these few days, I found that how careless and UNwatchful was I to wrongly yield to evil thoughts and thoughts of evil! But thank God, like all of you, I was constantly reminded that,
First and foremost, KEEP WATCHING so that I will not sin by doing anything against God’s will. When a papaya seed is planted into the soil, papaya tree will grow and bear papaya fruits! But if the tree is unfruitful or fruitless, then the way we plant and nourish the seed may be the factor/problem causing this. In the same way, when we say we believe in Jesus, truly, we are forgiven freely on the basis of what Jesus has done on the Cross and thus we are set free from judgment during the Judgment Day. Yet the fruit should be repentance and of the Holy Spirit – love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. If the fruit is not these, then the way we understand and practise our faith/belief may be the problems causing this.
Guess what will happen to an unfruitful papaya tree? Yeap, you’re rite – The gardener will try his best to fix the problems. What if it, after having fixed all the problems, still can’t bear any good fruit? Yeap, you won’t disagree with this – It’s useless and it will be chopped down! God is the Gardener of our spirits and our souls, so don’t take life for granted. Stop disobeying God! KEEP WATCHING and be alert!
Secondly, The church is not about the building, it’s about the people, whether they are DOING THE WILL OF GOD or not.
Last but not least, Who among us is sinless? Let him/her say, “I don’t need Jesus to save me. I’m sinless and I will not be guilty of anything during Judgment Day.” None? Then, thank God for the blessings we have. Indeed, receive the blessings and thank him. But, well… as the saying goes, “A rich person is only a poor person with money.” So, above everything else, REMAIN IN JESUS!
Keep praying for one another, whoever Jesus puts into your heart to pray for. God bless!
A Fearful yet Relieving Message
Last Saturday, I heard a report in the church:
Chuck D. Pierce, a prophet of God, prophesied, “…I then began to hear, Earthquakes! Earthquakes! Earthquakes! The ground is shaking. Unusual earthquakes! Asia! Asia, you will now shake! You will see shifting winds that are shaking the nations of Asia. You will see nations shaking this week! Pray for Asia!”
Since then, after just a few days, Asia experienced both cyclones and earthquakes in Myanmar and China respectively. Thank God aids have been sent, but we need to continue to help them and to keep on praying for them.
This report also gave the church a message that we shall not take our lives, which are God’s gifts, for granted. Jesus, being sinless and a Lamb of God, died in our place on the cross as a perfect sacrifice to bear our sins – the Sinless Jesus saving the sinful humans, so that whoever believes in Him will be forgiven of his/her sins. The fruit of this faith/belief is not indulgence - saying, ‘it’s OK to sin since we’re forgiven,’ but repentance – stop sinning/disobeying God and start doing God’s will. After hearing such message, the FEAR of God gripped my heart, especially when I was reminded of Jesus’ words saying, “Not everyone who keeps saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will get into the kingdom of heaven, but only the person who keeps doing the will of my Father in heaven…” and the immediate prompting to me is to stop sinning/disobeying God and start doing God’s will. May God help us! Yes! He certainly will! What a RELIEF! Thank you Jesus!
I’m back in PJ!
At last, I arrived at Petaling Jaya, tired but happy. I was surprised by my mother as she’s been working since the last one month. She told me how God taught and touched her recently and she’s changed her mind about what is life and I’m very glad to hear that God healed her of many past hurts. Now, behold, a woman at her 40s without any qualification, by God’s grace, passed the interview and is working in an office, learning computer stuffs. I would like to thank you all for remembering me and my family in prayer, I’m blessed to have you all as my brothers and sisters in Christ. Let’s continue to pray for one another so that God’s move among us would be very evidential and powerful, touching people and transforming lives wherever we go, by God’s grace, only by grace…
One of my FIRST TIMEs
I just came back from prayer clinic (a seminar to learn prayer). Thank God for my pastor, Clarence, and his wife as they helped me arrange transport and take me to eat. Their simple acts of kindness bring showers of blessings to me.
The prayer clinic was conducted by Pastor Jean Lim, who is greatly used by God not only in pastoring/teaching ministry, but also in the healing and deliverance ministry. In fact, the FIRST TIME I came to get attracted to Jesus Christ and received him as personal Lord and Saviour is because of her famous Jesus Heals Ministry (http://www.jesushealsmi.com/). I remember she went to penang a few years ago and conducted a Jesus Heals Service. My aunt brought me to that service…well, lo and behold, this is what I saw:
1. A man sitting on a wheel chair WALKED after prayer by pastor Jean.
2. Testimony of a woman (showing photos): how she, with her eyeballs all white (without pupils), was being healed when the pupils just appeared after pastor Jean prayed for her.
3. Many others testified how they, when the doctor said, “you have only a few months left because of that cancer/tumour growth,” were HEALED after a simple prayer of faith in Jesus’ name.
At that time, I really marvelled, “Wow, I can’t believe that such things are real.” Now, no boasting about human, human cannot do this by own effort, only God can, so all glory be to Jesus. Nothing is impossible in Jesus!
Therefore, I thank God that this week, for three days (15th – 17th May, 2008), I had the opportunity to meet with pastor Jean Lim, who is also called to be a prayer warrior or intercessor, in one of the Glory Place Prayer Centres (http://www.gloryplaceprayercentre.org/) she has set up with the help of our church member Dato’ Edward Ong, the owner of Sutera Harbour. I learnt practically a lot about praying and also about living as a Christian. Owing to my ‘MISSplan’, I’ve got to stay in Sabah for extra two weeks when most of my friends had already gone home. However, God turned my mistakes upside down, that it should result in me meeting with a servant of God – Pastor Jean. Jesus is always like that:
When you did a mistake, he always wanna help.
When you are sick or diseased, he always says, “I want to heal you.”
When you are sad and distressed, he always reveals his love.
When you are faithless and hopeless, he always says, “Believe in me.”
When you are helpless, he always says, “Learn from me.”
And, now read carefully,
When you die, he has the authority to say, “You live.”
Jesus is always like that, I can’t do anything but just say, “thank you, Lord!”
I will serve the King always, I will follow Him all the days in my life.
For He is God, from everlasting to everlasting,
the One and Only, who died and rose again,
with the marks of the nails,
in the heart and hands and feet.
He is risen! He lives forever! He alone is able to save completely!
I will serve the Master always, I will follow Him all the days in my life.
Moved to KF.
Just moved to King Fisher and stayed at Michael’s rented house. Met his house mate, a beautiful girl, from Sibu and we had a nice chat. We introduced ourselves to each other and talked about university life and shared a few things before she left for her flight home to Sarawak.
One thing was that when we talked about our expectations of our future, the conversation grew a bit cold, and I realised that I really need to take time revising what I plan to achieve in the university life, what goals should I set and, above everything else, what God has for me in the university.
I plan to share how Jesus not only concern about our eternity (that he died and rose again to save us from sins and death and give us eternal life) but also about our life on earth (that he, having ascended to heaven, will reveal himself to men on earth and teach them PERSONALLY in the area of relationships, gifts, healings, visions, communities, hopes, missions …etc, every single area of our lives so that our belief is not blind, but truly, he’s alive and lives forever- HE’S RISEN FROM THE DEAD). However, this takes time for me to articulate my experience. One of the coming articles about My Life In Jesus would be, as I told many of my friends through email, about “Finding a life partner (girl friend)”, how God wonderfully let me know that he’s the one arranging my life.
Well, thank God I moved (temporarily as I am still staying in Kampung E next semester) to KF because I got friends accompany me and we can spend time together instead of being alone in the kampung. Thank you Michael for opening your rented house to me!
母亲节：给妈妈的诗歌
给我母亲写的现代诗歌：
想起
在沙巴大学就读，没有考到杰出的成绩，只是中等而已（4.00的总平均考到3.23）。
想起在我这一代，全家目前只有我和我亲戚成功地考进本地大学，
在我这一代子孙当中，我排第三，我的亲戚排第五，
我们俩可说是孩子们的模范生。
想起中六时候，我因被邪灵玩弄而活在惧怕中，
在父母亲很忧心，父母亲觉得无助的时候，
怎样信主得救，得了新生命。
当时我从罪里，从恶魔的手中被那死后复活的主释放了！
想起在中六之前，
啊，生活是多么地富足！
要什么，就得什么，很幸福，
却没有发觉到父母所曾经经历过的劳苦…
想起母亲曾对我说：
“妈咪一直要搬家，有时真的觉得很累…”
之后才明白为什么在我记忆里的童年是在吉隆玻的舅舅家度过的，
可是在报生纸上却写着我在槟城大山脚出生。
想起大概中五时母亲有几次对我说：
“以前妈咪哭的时候，还好有你，虽然你当时还小，
但就是偏偏一直在我身边，眼湿湿，好像懂得我的伤心这样。
哎哟，你哥哥又不会这样，就只有你会，真是的！好像那个‘天’派你来陪我这样。”
想起有一次当她说到：
“那时候你爸爸不在…”
然后她的眼泪就直流下来。
我才知道我小时候父亲曾经一次落难，到日本去作劳工。
“妈咪很多次一个人想死，
就是因为孩子，才勇敢地活下去。
我看着你们长大，
你们是我一手带大的！”
想起外婆曾经说：
“阿权啊，你妈咪在你还小的时候，爸爸不在家，
她一手抱着你，一手牵着你的大哥哥，从PEKAN，走过火车路，一个人带着你们回到木海园。
哗，当时婆婆真的是茶饭不安啊！你知道那边多危险吗？！”
“你知道吗，阿权？你妈咪怀你在胎的时候，
有两三次要吃药，把你堕掉啊！
那个时候实在是‘天’帮忙！”
母亲在旁边听了，我看着她眼湿湿…不知道她有多少次是躲在房里单独哭泣的呢？
想起有一天母亲失望、心里憔悴地对我说：
“权，有一天妈咪死了，你要持续依靠他，知道吗？”
啊，那微弱的声音！同时也是在太暗中有了光亮，在绝望中有了盼望所发出的声音：
“妈咪不能做什么！你要记得，不可忘记他的恩惠。你能活到今天是因为他！”
很久以前他对他的仆人说过：
“我使你在母腹中成形以先，就认识你；你还未出母胎，我已把你分别为圣…”
他也说过：
“我昨天、今天、一直到永远都是一样的。”
想起了这些，就领悟到：其实我并不明白！
犹如他曾经在十架上所受过的那种痛我不明白这样，母亲所受过的，我也不会明白。
但母亲的爱所做不到的，他的爱完成了。
母爱，在他里面，得以完全 – 母亲对我说：“你要紧记，要依靠他。”
因为他是 神。。。他复活了！
想起有一位 神，用全能创造宇宙万物，
却用温柔双手安慰受伤的灵魂，
想起有一位 神，高坐在荣耀的宝座，
却被钉死在十架挽救人堕落。
然后，他带着手脚上的钉痕，还有被枪刺的肋旁，
站在多马（THOMAS）和他的朋友们的面前，接着对他们说：“愿你们平安。”
啊，想起这甜美的声音！这是个天大的喜讯 – 耶稣复活了！
想起了这一切，我就对他说：
“主啊，不是我爱你，是你爱我，为我舍己！”
同样的，我要对我的母亲说：
“妈咪，不是我爱妳，是妳爱我，为我舍己！”
在沙巴大学就读，没有考到杰出的成绩，只是中等而已（4.00的总平均考到3.23）。
我想起了这一切，
就在二零零八年四月28日凌晨四点钟，
写了一首个人的现代诗歌，献给我一生中只有一位的母亲。
妈咪，求你原谅我的过错，我的叛逆。
如今我也不能做什么，
只能说：“妳也要靠着主的信实坚强地活下去，因为他复活了！”
祝妳有个快乐的母亲节。。。妈，谢谢妳！
浚权 上
以上的诗歌是我在4月尾透过EMAIL寄给我的弟弟，叫他给妈咪读。过后，我也愿意与你分享，也献给你们一首诗，愿主耶稣感动你，让你明白：
给大家的现代诗歌：
母爱 – 主爱的影子
母亲的爱，就是上帝的爱的影子。
无论谁是珍惜母爱的，就难以抗拒耶稣的爱。
要了解母亲的爱，不是单靠自己，要常与她相处才行。
要领受耶稣的爱，不是单靠自己，要常与他同在才是。
无知的子女顽抗，还不听妈妈的话，就与妈妈的关系不好了。
犯罪的世人无助，还拒绝耶稣的话，就无法经历 神的同在了。
母亲照顾子女独特的智慧，耐心使用出来可以把衰仔变乖仔。
唯一无罪的人耶稣基督，死后复活让信他的罪人被称为 神的儿女。
子女们曾经叛逆，母亲却仍然爱着他们，要他们听话以作好孩子。她所做的我们都知道，是特别的，没有人能取代。
在我们还作罪人的时候，唯有基督为我们死，要我们信他以作 神的儿女。死后复活是他的凭据，是独一无二的，没有人能和他相比。
每一个人只有一位母亲；妈妈的爱，除了自己的子女，有谁渴慕呢？
被造的万物也只有一位创造者；耶稣的爱，除了 神的儿女，又有谁能领受呢？
我们在世上只有一个母亲，但是很多次我们就是伤害她的心，还不了解她的苦衷。
可是她会坚持地去教导，说：“我不是一直都这样教你吗？”再三解释，让我们了解。
完全完美的 神只有一位，被造的世人犯了罪伤了耶稣的心，却不认识这位 神。
但他降世愿受十架的酷刑，说：“你祖先还没出生以前，我就已经存在了。”死后复活，给我们机会悔改。
母亲的爱，在 神的爱里面，得以完全。
跟随耶稣的母亲会说：“妈不能永远照顾你，你要靠那已经从死人中复活的主。”
妈妈的爱像一个影子，还摸不清楚爱的真相，
一位母亲所做不到的，都在主耶稣里完成了 – 跟随耶稣，真相大白！
母亲的爱，就是上帝的爱的影子。
任何人若珍惜母爱，就难以抗拒耶稣的爱。
朋友，要是你发觉自己似乎没有尽本分孝敬母亲，快行动！
正所谓：“树欲静而风不止，子欲养而亲不待。”
愿这分享可以鼓励你我珍惜母爱，
不是单单在母亲节而已。
朋友，如果你还没认识耶稣，快祷告：
“天父，我相信你差遣耶稣，为我死而复活。
我坦白向你承认我是个罪人，求你原谅我。
如今我相信耶稣是我个人唯一的救主，你说信他的都被称为 神的儿女，
我渴慕寻求你所赐的道路、真理、生命，也就是耶稣，
求你带领我。谢谢你，天上的阿爸父 神。
奉主耶稣的名祷告，阿们！”
Indeed, 母爱就是主爱的影子！
浚权 上
2008年5月11日
Exhausted!
The university accommodation administration has instructed the students to move out by 12th of May. Before posting this, I was just now packing up and moving stuffs (1 luggage, 1 laptop bag, 1 pack of food, 2 bags with books, 1 guitar) from my room to the cafe, there waiting for my pastor, whom I contacted earlier. Then, my friend told me we could stay longer. So…I took those stuffs all the way from cafe back to my room again (2 rounds to-and-fro to finish taking all the stuffs). To look at it positive-minded-ly, thank God the notification of extended-stay came soon enough. But on the negative side, I wasted my pastor’s time and also my energy walking room-cafe distance 4 rounds carrying loads of stuffs.
Maybe you are wondering why I wanna move those stuff. It’s because my flight is on the 21st of May, LOL, wondering where I’m going to stay if the deadline to stay in hostel is before 21st.
Actually this is how the story goes, in December, 2007, I thought I want to go for a Mount K.Kinabalu climb. Owing to its low-price, I booked a flight ticket dating 21st of May in lieu of the semester ending on the 11th of May. One mistake I did was this, I assumed that my friends would join me since we’ve been talking about it for the last semester, an assumption which I regretted when I found out later that a few of them, too, have already booked the low-price tickets but of an earlier date than mine, duh…can’t make it to the climb then. What a bad mistake I made…
Well, that’s why I end up going back later than everybody else! But thank God that there’s an interesting activity going on next week and I’ll share it after that. I’ve also got some books to read – kill time, hehe. However, I doubt that I can access to the internet for the coming week, although I really hope I can surf the net during those idle time.
Anyway, gotta spend my time wisely this holiday…
