Blazing with Rach!

People often associate Christians with good moral values.  We are the do-gooders, the prim and proper, the uptight conservatives.  True? I don't think so.  I think true followers of Christ value good morals, give sacrificially to others and know how to have good, clean fun!  But I tell you, this 'morality' thing is bugging me.  I spent a week thinking about this word. I mean, I see and read about daily assaults on Christians and their moral values!   So, how do I respond under the grace of God?  Hey, feel free to stop reading anytime.  The power of choice that God gives us:-) Right and Wrong, Good and Bad The major dictionaries define morality as "a particular system of values and principles of conduct", "principles concerning the distinctions of right and wrong, the good and bad behaviors".  These days, it seems, liberality and deception has distorted the distinctions of right and good behavior.  Then again, it's an age-o...

These verses got me thinking about my non-Christian parents (still living in Singapore).   Proverbs 1:8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. 9 They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck. A long time ago. . . . My dad taught me to: 1. live within my means. 2. to owe no one no debt (I had to borrow some money from him for my studies, tho') 3. to honor elders 4. to be respectful to guests. 5. to do my best. 6. to speak my mind. 7. to take it easy. My mum taught me to: 1. to serve elders. 2. to be respectful to especially elders. 3. to be polite to all guests. 3. to never talk back to elders (lasted for awhile, then it became debatable discussions as I grew older). 4. to eat all food on my plate (no questions asked). 5. to behave myself...(oh dear!). 6. to cook rice the traditional way when I was ten years old. 7. to tell the truth (or face the cane). ...

I f you read reports regarding Central American nations, it can sometimes be depressing as the media highlights the negative news - corruption, murders, rapes, trafficking and so on.   Are you telling me that first world nations are clean of these unrighteousness?  Unrighteousness, wickedness as well as some good happens in the world around. We are as safe as can be any where in the world, provided the government cares enough about their people.   There is a better, safer place:  to be safe in the knowledge of who we are in Christ, safe in knowing that God goes before us.  Even when something bad happens, we believe Romans 8: 28: "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."   How can we then find our windows of peace amidst chaos and disorder?  I don't think anyone needs to be in an idyllic environment to see the beauty in God's creation. ...

The sun and the rain, mountains and sea, hospitable friends and helpful Hondurans greeted me. I thought Dios es bueno todo el tiempo and I saw on a truck  Si Dios es por nosotros, quién contra nosotros? Meanwhile  thousands of kilometers away my sisters were at the hospital attending to my dad. I did the inevitable, prayed and mobilized prayer. Prayer rose up from different parts of the world. Afew hours later, I saw a text message. Hallelujah! The 'hero' is fine. I think Dios es bueno todo el tiempo. Powerful prayers. Concerted prayers. To an Almighty God in Jesus' Name, Name above all names. I think of an answered prayer when God honored  our request for healing a teenager in ICU. I think Dios es bueno todo el tiempo. Si Dios es por nosotros, quién contra nosotros? As I blog now, I am on the road heading to another Honduran city. It is pouring sky juice in abundanc...