.:: All of me just for Him ::.

First of all, happy new year everyone!

Before I moved on, I just wanted to jot down a few rantings on how noisy yesterday was around my house.  I couldn’t sleep a wink until about 1:30AM because somewhere close to my house people appeared to be having fun with fireworks.  BOOM, BOOM, BOOM…again and again…*sigh…I know it’s new year and all but didn’t they realise that some people needed to sleep!

Anyway, aside from all my rantings…let’s think about this new year.  2009 would be a difficult year, many people are predicting, especially in regards of the world economy and stability.  In my own country, there will be a presidential election and from past experiences pre and post-presidential election are not good times to be around.  And this year it will be more than 10 years after the May 1998 riot and the past pattern seemed to show that in every 10 years time there were chaos victimising Chinese Indonesians.  So 2009 doesn’t look very promising nationally and internationally, does it?

However, while the future seems so bleak, I would like to come back to my family’s quiet time yesterday.  My father was reading from some parts of Genesis, looking at Abraham’s life.  It is shown in those parts of Genesis that throughout Abraham’s life, God gave him a lot of promises.  “I will make you into a great nation”, “I will bless you”, “I will make your name great”…(Gen 12:1)…and throughout Genesis we can find lots of  “will”, “will” and “will”.  Lots of promises and no evidence of it happening soon!  Abraham was blessed with Isaac not 2, 3 years after the promise, but about 25 years afterwards!  And moreover, for most of the promises, Abraham didn’t even live to see them (e.g. Gen 15:5; Gen 17:6,8).

But regardless of it all, Abraham put his trust in God!  So God counted it as righteousness.

“Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.”

–Gen 15: 6

Let us learn from Abraham’s faith in God, who knew nothing of what would befall him but followed God’s orders regardless.

We don’t know what the future holds, but we can trust The One who holds the future.

- Our Daily Bread

May all of us have a blessed and faithful New Year.  God bless.