When my business failed in 2023, I was angry and felt God abandoned me. Let me tell a story to show my path. When I arrived in China in 1991, I taught English for two years, and decided I was not suitable to a career teaching as not very funny. I went and got an MBA in the US and came back to China to learn language and then do business to pay my bills and get a visa to …
When I was in high school, I went on a Christian retreat, and they taught us the Bible says to beat your swords into plowshares. I immediately noted that the Bible also says they we should beat our plowshares into swords. Further, only Joel above commands us to make swords. All three seem to point to a place in time rather than general. I am not here to talk about plowshares actually. Insightful readers might see I was headed at …
What about the Sabbath rest takes me back to my fascination with God’s design of us and this world. In this case, I want to talk about the gift of the Sabbath. The Bible say we should work for 6 days, and then rest on the Sabbath. The 5 day work week first emerged in England at the start of the industrial revolution when people were first working a machine from dawn to dusk in the late 1700’s. People respected …
Let us draw near to God. Lord, you know my heart better than I do. Examine my heart Lord and help me draw near to you Like you, I am glad to stand with King David in Ps 139: Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Lord give me passion for you. A song come into my head….”Open the eyes …
