Monday, March 16, 2009
When God ran
This is a video of Phillips, Craig and Dean's beautiful rendition of "When God ran". We just love the way that God's love for us is painted in the song.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Name calling
Have you ever been called names? I have. Especially in school. Mostly in good fun ... I suppose. More recently, having moved from a beautiful country where family names are placed at the front of names to another gorgeous country where family names (also aptly known as last names) are placed at the back of given names, my collection of names have increased exponentially. This situation is probably due to well-meaning individuals who have some knowledge of cultural diversities but not knowing that I have already adapted my name to the local convention. As such, I have been known as Mr. A, Mr. B., BC, AC, Mr. BC, etc. Just about every permutation has been explored. They say BA, I say AB, let's call the whole thing off. There was this time when Elisha was called names. Bears came out of the woods and mauled the perpetrators (2 Kings 2:23-25). Given that all the "name calling" in my case was done with good intentions, I decided to forgive them. Besides, urbanized areas are infamous for their absence of bears.
Anyway, I ordered some pizza over the Internet last week. Because I had lots of difficulties in telling the shop assistants my name(s) previously, I thought I should be nice and give them a little help by giving myself a new name. What's a good name? My wife tried to interest me in a couple ... but I can't relate to any of them. I was toying with "Keanu" (yeah ... after that cool guy in Matrix) but my wife was too busy laughing, so I guess that was out as well. Pizza ordering should be a straight-forward process, but this one was fast becoming a protracted exercise. Because two of my best friends are called David, I reckon it must be a good name and decided to tell the pizza shop that I am "David".
Due to the shortage of lamb, the nice chap from the pizza shop called me on my mobile. Naturally, I picked up the mobile and said "AB speaking". The chap made a perplexing grunt and asked if he could speak to David. The follies of my ways dawned upon me and I replied, "Yes, this is David speaking." I suppose I should be grateful that I still got my pizzas in the end.
God has many names too ... among them: Prince of peace, mighty God, wonderful Counsellor (Isaiah 9:6), Jehovah Jireh (Genesis 22:14), Jehovah Nissi (Exodus 17:15). I suppose that may just be our human ways of trying to use our limited vernacular to describe some aspects of an indescribable and awesome God. How He keeps track of all the names that we use when we call Him (Jeremiah 33:3) is beyond my comprehension. I am struggling with my two names.
Phillippians 2:9-11 tells us that the name above every name is Jesus. As Easter draws near, I feel that God is reminding me that His name is greater than any difficulties that I face. His name is greater than any problems that may come my way. And that I can call upon His name because of He died and rose again for all of us.
My wife has since found more suitable names to call me. Mostly endearing terms. But this being a godly and wholesome site, I really can't share them here.
Anyway, I ordered some pizza over the Internet last week. Because I had lots of difficulties in telling the shop assistants my name(s) previously, I thought I should be nice and give them a little help by giving myself a new name. What's a good name? My wife tried to interest me in a couple ... but I can't relate to any of them. I was toying with "Keanu" (yeah ... after that cool guy in Matrix) but my wife was too busy laughing, so I guess that was out as well. Pizza ordering should be a straight-forward process, but this one was fast becoming a protracted exercise. Because two of my best friends are called David, I reckon it must be a good name and decided to tell the pizza shop that I am "David".
Due to the shortage of lamb, the nice chap from the pizza shop called me on my mobile. Naturally, I picked up the mobile and said "AB speaking". The chap made a perplexing grunt and asked if he could speak to David. The follies of my ways dawned upon me and I replied, "Yes, this is David speaking." I suppose I should be grateful that I still got my pizzas in the end.
God has many names too ... among them: Prince of peace, mighty God, wonderful Counsellor (Isaiah 9:6), Jehovah Jireh (Genesis 22:14), Jehovah Nissi (Exodus 17:15). I suppose that may just be our human ways of trying to use our limited vernacular to describe some aspects of an indescribable and awesome God. How He keeps track of all the names that we use when we call Him (Jeremiah 33:3) is beyond my comprehension. I am struggling with my two names.
Phillippians 2:9-11 tells us that the name above every name is Jesus. As Easter draws near, I feel that God is reminding me that His name is greater than any difficulties that I face. His name is greater than any problems that may come my way. And that I can call upon His name because of He died and rose again for all of us.
My wife has since found more suitable names to call me. Mostly endearing terms. But this being a godly and wholesome site, I really can't share them here.
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