True joy

Where to find true joy? Are you wandering where can it be found? Well... True joy is not found in anything or anyone except in Christ alone. To proof that it cannot found in anything or anyone, I'll tell about my own experience in searching for joy. When I finally resigned from my first job I thought I found joy but I didn't. When I got a job from a small auditing firm after more than three months of job hunting, I thought I found joy but I didn't. When I resigned from this second job and get hired by another firm, I thought I found joy but I didn't. In all this circumstances I had felt the temporary joy. Temporary joy? Yes temporary joy, because it gives me temporary relief from my situations, I thought I found joy but that joy that I felt was not really true joy because it didn't last. True joy last despite the good and bad circumstances and True joy can only be found in Christ.

Inspired from the  preaching of  Rev. Z. Lim

- 陳錦錦

Better than happily ever after

Last December 29, 2012, Our boss treated us to watched the Disney on ice featuring the "princesses and heroes". I really enjoy the show even my office mates notice that. Actually watching shows like that was one of my dreams, and I'm thankful to God for that blessing. I love fairy tales stories, princes and princesses story that end up in a happily ever after ending. I also want to have fairy tale love story that ends up in happily ever after. But sadly life's is a reality, there's no such thing as happily ever after. In fact there are lot of separations,annulments and divorces. In reality, the story does not end after the wedding when the prince and princess (couple) says "I do". After the I do, another chapter of the book had began. As they journey to the next season of their life as married couple, there would be a lot of trials, difficulties, problems that might come up, they will discovered their differences, there bad sides and the like. Trials are just normal, no one is exempted from that. Differences, of course there would be differences because our Creator created us uniquely from each other. Bad sides, all have those. But remember the promise made on the altar that "In sickness or in health, for richer or for poorer till death do us apart". Not till trials, problems, bad sides, differences do us apart but death. Though happily ever after does not exist in reality, a long lasting marriage do. To have a long lasting marriage both the party should work together, should decide beforehand that they would kept the promise they made on the altar despite the difficulties that they may encounter along the way. Easier said than done right??? But with God at the center of the marriage, nothing is impossible. "We can do everything through Christ who strengthens us". A marriage with God's blessings, a marriage with God at the center of it, is a marriage that will last. Better than happily ever after. 

- 陳錦錦