I had an intriguing encounter at the place that I was giving tuition today. A telephone call came through for the Grandpa and his youngest daughter was on the line. She had informed him that she was at the airport making an overseas trip. He passed the call to his wife and immediately after she hung up, both of them said they had to go pray a blessing for her. They decided that they were going to the altar where their Buddha statue was, started lighting a joss stick and chanting prayers for their daughter.
This taught me a valuable lesson – people out in the community are looking for or giving blessings readily. Where is their source of blessing coming from? And if, a pre-believing family could be so responsive in giving a blessing to their child for protection while she went on her trip, what more us, as Christians, when we have a God who is true and living and He desires to bless them? Our lips can be used to be a channel of blessing wherever we go.
Was reading James 3 today and was meditating on how our lips can begin to bring wisdom and understanding to the people around us. What is God's version of wisdom? It is not harboring bitter envy and selfish ambition nor is it boasting or denying the truth. God's heavenly wisdom is :
a) Pure
b) Peace Loving
c) Considerate
d) Submissive
e) Full of Mercy
f) Good Fruit
g) Impartial
h) Sincere
May we pattern after God's wisdom as we go out to share the 100k blessing!
Hooray! God opened up doors for A and I to go to Bishan tonight to share the 100k blessing. It was mind-blowing when we managed to share with 3 persons in Mandarin and prayed a simple blessing for them. (It was really an instructed tongue for me especially for those of you who know I struggle so hard with Mandarin….If God can use me, He can use anyone!! ☺)
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