Singing by the lyrics

My 2 years old daughter was singing with her nanny. Her nanny tried to lead her into singing the song line after line. But my daughter kept on jumping the line and not singing according to the order of the song's lyrics. Every time she did that her nanny would say "No. Not yet." and asked my daughter to sing after her.

I realized that in our life so many times we did not follow the order events. We try to jump the line in order to get things that we desire as quickly as possible. Instead of singing the song according to its lyrics, we tend to jump first few lines and go straight away to the fifth or sixth line. By doing so, we make the song sound weird. The beauty of the song was ruined. And every time we need to be reminded of our mistake.

In the Bible God told us that there is time for everything. We cannot expect to get something that we desire if it's not the time yet. Many times God has to remind us "No. Not yet". If He allowed us to jump to the next event when it's not the time yet, we will change His plans for us. That is why, God keeps on reminding us and He does it in various ways. Sometimes He has to do it the hard way when His soft action did not take affect on us. He just doesnt want us to do it when the time is not there yet. He will give it to us when the time is right.

We left the most perfect home

When prices of goods increase but not my income, I begin to re-calculate my contribution to the church. Normally I will contribute around ten percent of my monthly income to the church in the form of tithes. But with the increase in cost of living, will God understand if my contribution is less than ten percent of my monthly income? For if I maintain the ten percent for God, I may face shortages in other area of my spending.

But then I realized that all the income that I get come from God. And it is more than sufficient to cater for my needs. I do not need to reduce my tithes but to adjust my spending here and there. To conserve fuel, it is useful not to make an unnecessary traveling for instance driving to a sundry shop which is only half kilometer from my house. Some part of my life could be change for good.

It will be tough in the beginning but God will help me to adjust to it. I know that I do not have to worry of anything. During this hard time, God hope is that we come to Him and ask for His help. Like the prodigal son who spent all his money and left with nothing, remembered that he would have never lack of anything while with his father. He came back to his father and apologized in regret of his action towards his father. His father accepted him happily, fed, clothed and loved him more than before.

So many of us have left the perfect home of our father. We might have ran out of our father's home, but he is hoping and waiting for us to come back. Once he sees us coming back, he will ask the whole household to celebrate our home-coming. He is waiting and waiting and waiting because he knows the world is tough on us and we cannot stand it without him...