Thursday, October 30, 2014

Cul De Sac

Last month while I was in Montreal for a leaders training, I came across a French street sign that says, “Cul De Sac”. I asked a sister and she told me it means, “Dead End”. So it is with life, I thought, without Jesus it’s a dead end.


Life without Jesus is a dead end.

by aats

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Truth Whose Time Has Come

There is power in truth. It sets people free and brings inner peace to the one who speaks of it. It can open the eyes to possibilities that were once hidden.


Truth put in the context of time is even more powerful. Powerful is the truth whose time has come.

by aats

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Thank You For The Morning

Thank you for the morning,
For another day of life.

There is something about morning
It’s the chance to live again and
Be part of this world.

Thank you for waking me up complete.
It teaches me to value life and
Make life worth it.

Every bit of it not wasted,
Using it to glorify you and

Serving your people.

by aats

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Glorious


During our worship this morning, an inspiration from 2 Corinthians 3:11 came. It says, “For if what was going to fade was glorious, how much more will what endures be glorious.”  It speaks of anticipation of something greater. So what fades and what lasts? If things that fades such as food, shelter, and clothing gives us a certain joy how much more things that lasts such as faith, hope and love?

by aats

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Worthiness

On Matthew 10:37-39

When it comes to following God, worthiness to the call means total devotion. We cannot be half hearted; it has to be all or none at all.

We are afraid to follow because we focus on the things and the people that we have to let go but if we also look at what we are about to receive, we will never be afraid of what we will let go. All we need to do is surrender to His Will and follow. Surrender brings blessings!

Fear of the unknown cripples us from following Jesus. But that’s a great deception because in Jesus nothing is unknown. He has been there yesterday; He is today and will be forever. He is beyond time. He knows. If He knows, what more assurance do we need? If we can trust doctors for our health, teachers for our education, and pilot every time we fly, how much more Jesus who is all these and more? There is no unknown with God.

To be worthy is to trust and to trust is to follow.

by aats



Monday, October 6, 2014

On Possession

Last Saturday we had a household prayer meeting and we had a teaching on meditation and contemplation. Our household head lead us into contemplation on Mark 10:170-3 about Jesus encounter with a rich man. The rich man asked what he could do to inherit eternal life, to which Jesus answered by enumerating the commandments. He told Jesus that he had done all those things. Jesus then said, “There is still one thing you haven’t done. Go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

Our Household Head challenged us to go into the story and imagine that we were the rich man. What would I feel upon hearing that words from Jesus? In my contemplation I thought, I don’t have any valuable possessions, but then as I went deeper I realized what became my possession. It was my mission. I was actually afraid to let go and lose it.

That was very good and timely reminder for me to have a healthy detachment with what I am doing. Mission should not be my possession, Jesus should be. If it is my possession, it will be very hard for me to let go if Jesus will tell me so. Jesus should be my possession, so that as I possess Him, mission becomes but a consequence of Jesus possessing me.

We can never really hold on too much on things and people, in the end everything fades away except God and His love for us. So if we anchor ourselves in God, the way we value others becomes fruitful and meaningful.

Lord, always remind me that you are my greatest possession, so that when other things are taken away from me, I will not be that sad because they are not the greatest but you. Amen.

by aats