It is my husband's family tradition to eat "tau lou" on the 1st day of Chinese New Year. Since my in laws were here in Kuala Lumpur this year to celebrate the festive season, I gathered my children to prepare the "tau lou". The 1st step is to thoroughly clean the peanuts and the mung beans. What we got to do is to choose the spoilt, rotten and black ones and threw them away. As we did that, it dawned on me that this is what God would do as said in Luke 3:17 that His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather the wheat into His barn; but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire. How important then that we must prepare ourselves now to make sure that we are not the spoilt, rotten or the useless ones to be thrown away! https://twitter.com/EstherOngHC
Day 187 - Have Fear of God Read: Psalm 145; Proverbs 6:28-31; Revelation 6; 2 Samuel 15-16 2 Samuel 15 & 16 15:13 A messenger came and told David, “The hearts of the people of Israel are with Absalom.”14 Then David said to all his officials who were with him in Jerusalem, “Come! We must flee, or none of us will escape from Absalom. We must leave immediately, or he will move quickly to overtake us and bring ruin on us and put the city to the sword.” To me, as a parent, it is so sad to note that King David got to run for his life from his own son, Absalom. His own son schemed for 40 years (15:7) to topple his own father - could you believe that? This is our Bible - it will not hide - all the successes and failures of God's people are truthfully reported. Why did King David suffer this? It started with his own sin of adultery with Bathsheba (11:3) Even though God had forgiven him when he sincerely repented by recognising that he sinned against the Lord (12:13), King David nee...
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