Excellence or Mediocrity

In schools, teachers tell their pupils to strive for excellence,or to aim for perfection, so that if they do not get top marks, they will get just below the tops.
As Christians, we believe that God make us to strive for excellence , and not mediocrity.

In everything we do , we do our best so that we can glorify Jesus's name.

It can be in a football training, or in cooking a meal for the family, in our office or even in our school performances. And we can even excel in the way we deal with people: we are super polite, super patient, and super tolerant.

As parents, we encourage our children to be outstanding performers in schools.  Perhaps it may sound like we are pressurising the poor children but, it is not really so.  It is more like  we are teaching them to learn their work really well and if they do, it is going to show in their results.  At a young age, they learn to be accountable for their own hard and honest work.  They learn to be responsible individuals and to be serious in learning.  Most importantly, they learn what their strengths and limitations are at a young age.

When people look at the spirit filled Christians they will be in awe.  Why are they always the excellent ones?
What is their secret?  The secret is we are doing it for Jesus who loves us so much that He died on the cross for us.  He gave us new lives and what a wonderful way to say 'thank you' than to excel for His sake!

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?  2 John 5:4 &5

World's Justice Equals Divine Justice?

Many rich old people will make a will before they die in order to bequeath their properties or money to the ones they love, namely their own children or grandchildren. Sometimes eventhough the will has been attested by witnesses, there will be disputes still among unsatisfied inheritors.  That makes one think that the engraved words RIP on the tombstone are totally meaningless.  How do you expect the deceased to rest in peace when a 'war' has started over the inheritance left behind after his/her death?
Many Christians are seen going to courts over such family disputes.  They are so much in the world that they are forgetting God's laws.  They are hurting one another over something so temporal.  It is so sad to see brothers and sisters hurting each other over something they cannot bring together with them when they die.  They are hurting God.
There was a case of a man who had severed family ties with his siblings over some inheritance.  It does not need to wait for Judgement Day for him to get the taste of God's wrath.  About a year after he won his court case and  inherited a huge sum of money, he was diagnosed with liver cancer and had hardly a year to live.  Money has no meaning to a dying man.

Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.  Proverbs 28:6 

Peace Keeper or Peace Maker

I have learnt that it is not right to be a peace keeper all the time.  Giving in or compromising to something that is against my beliefs will not be considered good.  I have to put my foot down on certain issues.  I did assert my view points a couple of times but was  confronted by rather rude and dominating feedbacks.  It is not that I cannot be as aggressive as the counterpart but I thought I would  be better off being the peace keeper than the peace maker. I could make the other party or parties sit down to listen to my point of view but most of the time, I would end the argument with a word of prayer and let the Almighty do the rest.
However, as a Christian, when it comes to issues about the faith, one should be bolder as it is one's duty to enlighten another on the Word.  That makes me want even more to be trained on the apologetics.  Again, I have been procrastinating that and letting my environment owerpower me.  How am I going to do anything at all!

 Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing
but add sin to sin.
~John Wesley~

Can't Live a Day Without Him

While my children and husband busy themselves in preparing to go to college or work, I will begin the mornings by switching on the netbook to read my daily devotionals.  I will meditate on the inspirational verses , post them on to the wall of  Facebook to share with my friends, not to show that I am a 'holy' person but to help anybody  needing those words. Then, I will open the Bible and read the Scripture pertaining to the devotional I have read that morning. I need to do all these every day because I have learnt to depend on Him to let the day pass without much regrets of my own actions or behaviour.  There are too many things that we cannot predict or plan , no matter how clever we think we are.  If there is anything bad that happen to me, I will remember how the Lord wants me to behave or react.  I do not want to displease Him, because I want His blessings.I want to remember Him every second because my life is His.  Eventhough I know I am not  a great person, I want Him to know I am aware of His protective wings in every step I take.  I love You Lord.  How can I live a single day without You!
 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
1 Corinthians 2:12