We woke up early to drive to the airport at 7am to meet my sis and nephew who arrive from London early in the morning..
On the way to the airport, the sun was rising and it was such a glorious sunrise...
I have no pics to back it up as I was driving...
But just imagine with me.. the skies were pretty clear, with streaks of clouds here & there..
the sun was like a salted egg yolk so round and orange...
It was radiant, bright and define... unlike the norm for Singapore where it is so cloudy you can hardly see any sunrise or sunset...
I couldn't help but kept staring at the Sun.. it captured my attention until the HDB flats at punggol area block my view of the magnificent sun. Then I focus my eyes on the road and was momentarily blinded.
I could barely see what's ahead of me... then I realise that I was staring at the Sun for too long...
The bright shining sun had momentarily blinded me...
Is that how it feels for the OT people... where God's glory is so magnificent that they can't look at His face, if not they will not live...
"But," he said, "you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live."
Exodus 33:20
For that split moment, I realised that the society and myself included has taken God so lightly...
Our fear, our awe of God has dwindled...
What has happened?
Sin has seeped into our lives so deeply that we treat it as norm...
That we can compromise with certain things which the society accepts because it's so common...
Who do we regard God, our Heavenly Father as?
Where do we place Jesus in our lives?
Are we ashamed of our sins - wrongdoings, distorted mindset & self-seeking heart...
Why has God been dethrone from our lives?
Why has Jesus stop being the centre of our lives?
Why has the things of God stop being our priority?
I want to pray that His loved ones will stop exchanging our Glorious God for worthless idols (Jer 2:11)
I want to keep praying that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give us the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that we may know him better (Eph 1:17)
Deut 28 starts off by telling us the blessings for obedience and ends off with curses for disobedience.. vs 58-68 in particular tells us that "if you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the Lord your God— the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses."
No, I reject the curses in the name of Jesus... we no longer live in the Old Testament times.. Jesus had come to be a ransom for us, to redeem us from these curses for disobedience... to rescue us.. to set us free... Won't you just come to Him and accept His love, His grace...
He longs for you to meet with Him... won't you just spare Him some time out of those 24 hours that He's given you to commune with Him... to spend some little moments with Him?
