Sunday, February 24, 2008

Troubled Heart

My pastor's wife is in hospital, she has been suffering from abdominal pains for a while already, and now she has landed in hospital. Today we were scheduled to have a home church group in my friend's place but we got the news that we could not have it today. So we went to visit her and prayed there. God please come and heal her of her pains.

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in me"
- John 14:1

When there are so much headaches in our day to day lives, how does one not let his heart be troubled? How does one stay in peace, sure we can probably hold that peace for some time, but surely one day we will need to let our dissatisfactions out. Guard your heart says pastor Joseph Prince. Guard your heart from troubles and the peace in you will be multiplied. Have to learn how to make that happen more often. It really is hard when circumstances are not helping.

Earthquakes, eclipses, tsunamis, are we seeing the signs of the end of age?

"I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like a sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place."
- Revelation 6:12-14

Indonesia has lost many islands due to the melting of the ice caps. Small islands are being removed, I would wonder how a mountain is removed, just become flat? It's pretty terrifying reading the book of revelations. It's just a little unimaginable at this point in our lives. We will see dragons with many heads and eyes and crowns on their heads. We will see angels singing and blowing trumpets in heaven, a terrible happening with each blown trumpet. And that is how it will happen, when the world has become wretched and filthy. It can come anytime, but that doesn't mean we would have to wait for it all our lives. Just love.

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