Our current state just shows where we are now: a new start_with purpose, focus & action to unlock our God-given potentials. ~ Cheong Kok Weng
Our present state does not (necessarily) determine our destination, but start TODAY as long as there is a TODAY.. to begin – may we choose the course and direction wisely. May God help us to have the courage to ‘sail the seven seas and discover new insights, horizons and wisdom’ and MOST of all to know Him.
May we intentionally “pen” positive changes into the daily routine, for “life journaling” to take on a great dimension, with God’s given potential! ~ Cheong Kok Weng
However do remember this crucial scripting process in one’s life journal: Eternal destiny – God has done His part and He gave the power of choice TODAY to you to script your eternal destination – you eternal destiny is a matter of your choice!
Though we cannot change the past, God grants us yet a pen with capability for each of us and the amazing privilege to write the future pages. ~ Cheong Kok Weng
In fact, God allows or grants us the mandate to write (decide) our eternal future or destination whilst we are still alive on planet earth or whilst alive in space (remembering our astronauts in space – our fellow human beings).
Each of our completed lives on earth will be a closed book … and we will not be allowed to write anymore concerning our sojourn on this planet because they have thus ended.
Deuteronomy 30:19I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
God created us with immeasurable power to make, being inspired for, and to choose positive changes in our lives… and also make to make a valuable difference in the lives of others …with His help we will accomplish much. ~ Cheong Kok Weng
Selfie in space.
Courtesy NASA
Images taken from video provided by NASA, astronauts Rick Mastracchio, top, and Michael Hopkins work to repair an external cooling line on the International Space Station on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013, 260 miles above Earth.
The human mind has incredible potentials and what we plant, will take root, grow and flourish irrespective of what is planted in the fertile soil of our minds – plant the good seeds, not weeds, briars & thistles, and receive great crops. ~ Cheong Kok Weng
What kind of seeds are we sowing into our minds? Would it not be a surprise if we planted grapes and briars came up or vice-versa? It is a natural law to reap what we sow. Every action has results.
“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.” Galatians 6: 7-8
The moon is still visible during the early dawn at Kaiping.
DO not let the past defines your future. Learned from and leave the past behind – change & be transformed and forge towards the future. ~ Cheong Kok Weng
It has been said that a wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. We all have the rights to our own opinions; however facts remain factual even if they were to go against our opinions. God who endowed us with the mind – with sense, reason and intellect among others – has meant that we use it to arrive at the right verdict by weighing all the relevant evidence. Refusing to believe something in the face of facts is not skepticism, it is the height of credulity or if you prefer gullibility. Credulity is belief against evidence, facts and truths. Let us stride forward towards freedom (Jesus said in John 8:32″ And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”) as God has intended– governed by the light of reasons, evidence, knowledge, facts and truths and not live in the shadows of credulity concerning creations around us . Through all of Creations, God’s wisdom, power and majesty is proclaimed clearly and it reverberates loudly (if only we care to listen) throughout the corridors of time. ~ Cheong Kok Weng
The great difficulty is to get modern audiences to realize that you are preaching Christianity solely and simply because you happen to think it true; they always suppose you are preaching it because you like it or think it good for society or something of that sort. Now a clearly maintained distinction between what the Faith actually says and what you would like it to have said or what you understand or what you personally find helpful or think probable, forces your audience to realize that you are tied to your data just as the scientist is tied by the results of the experiments; that you are not just saying what you like. This immediately helps them realize that what is being discussed is a question about objective fact — not gas about ideals and points of view. ~ C.S. Lewis
The flying gurnards are a family, Dactylopteridae, of marine fish notable for their greatly enlarged pectoral fins. The pectoral fins are normally held against the body, but when threatened the fins are expanded in to scare predators. Their name is derived from the French word ‘gurnard’ meaning to grunt, for the grunting sound this fish makes. Since they cannot literally fly though and as they have heavy, protective, scales and another alternative name given by some is – helmet gurnards.
The vital aspect in life is the vital decisions in life. The most vital decision in your life is the most vital aspect in your life – the eternal choice before you is of utmost importance. ~ Cheong Kok Weng ……DON’T exchange your soul for the world.
As JESUS said -what does it profit a man if he gains the world and loses his soul? Our Creator asked us the most vital question in life for us while we are alive on planet earth.
Jesus accomplished the work of creation. He is Preeminent in all of creation, along with the Father and the Holy Spirit, as the CREATOR.
Colossians 1:16 says of Jesus – For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.” “All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.”
God the Father as saying to His Son, [God the Son is of the same essence as God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. God the Father and God the Son in the TRINITY shows us the relational dimension within the Godhead.] in Hebrews 1:8-10
But to the Son He says:
“Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.”
And:
“You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth,
And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
“You, LORD, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth,
And the heavens are the work of Your hands”.