take-u-away

Lazying around at home, so take a few pics of my fishes.

Saw this email attachment a few days ago, gives me a lot of inspirations, so i decided to blog it down.

I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper’s wounds, i feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience? Mother Teresa 1974 interview

This reminds me of the words of Jesus saying when we give to the poor, we have gave unto Him; when we house people in need, we had indeed house Him, when we gave food to the hungry, we have gave it to Jesus. And since God is omni-present, he is everywhere, even in we ourselves, in the people around us. I can experience the presence of God when i am praying, in church, during service, during cell-group meetings, but if i can’t feel God around me physically and practically, i have never experienced Him. You can’t walk to someone in need, offer to pray for him, bless him through prayer and expect him to get what he need, and able to experience the love of God. Ridiculous! If there is no practical offering, there is no love of God. Remember people don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care. We do what we can, and God will do the rest. If we didn’t fulfil our part, God isn’t going to move either. Many people have the mentality to pray for people’s problem, without physically doing anything to it, and expecting things to work out! I have personally experienced it, and it makes me feel disgusted. What faith!

I don’t experience my God through quiet time, during worship, during prayer, i experience God through the people i met who claimed that they are man/woman of God.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation than for bread

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on,…

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do than? Take a broom and clean someone’s house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

Powerful! It reminds me of the verse “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of this is love.” (1 Cor 13). It also links me back to the 5 love languages - Quality time, Gifts, Physical touch, acts of service, words of affirmation. It shows something - yes, we can communicate love through our words, but it is only 20%! the rest of the 80% requires us to really put in effort and make a sacrifice. To put it academically, love with only talking scores only 20marks at most, way below the 50marks passing point, it’s a grade E! FAILED!

In our modern lifestyle, we had to spend a lot of time on work, be it paid work, housework, ministry work, even miscellaneous work like paying the bills, seeking for jobs, looking for flats/cars, etc etc. These made us with little time left for the people around us, could be our family, friends, God, even we ourselves. So in order to cope, a selection process kicks in. We could only be with the people we love most, and/or with the nicest ones or most convenient. I myself am guilty of ignoring people who i don’t like and people who are not as nice looking or sociable or who are no in the same frequency. But in fact, as according to mother teresa, they are truely the Lord’s presence around us. “I was hungry and you gave me to eat. I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless and you took me in.” As Sis Jo had said, when people ask you to donate to them, even though you see they could really work and get money or you know they will gamble it away, but we should still give to them. Why? It is not the outcome of how they use the money, but your attitude of giving. To add it myself, it is a demonstration of our love to others that the Lord is seeing. We ourselves has become the Lord we represent. It is not the God that people think is in heaven, but it is the God physically on earth. Haven’t God so love the world that He gave His only Son, who died for our sins, when He already knew some people might not appreciate, and people who will never repent. He died for us ALL.

I began to realise that the TRUE God’s agape love is really not easy…….