Father's Love

Time keeps going. Two years has passed since I lost my dad and I feel thankful today. I woke up quite early this morning and had more time to pray and lift up praises. These twenty four past months, The Lord has been so faithful. I tried to count on The Lord's blessings, guidance, provisions, and answers along these two years. There were soooooooo much from the Lord that if I could give thanks for each matter, I would be late to work today. Hehehe...

Psalm 130 A song of ascents. 1 Out of the depths I cry to you, LORD; 2 Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. The psalmist cried for mercy. When I read these two verses, I felt a strong conviction that it is very important for us to cry for mercy. Why should we cry for mercy? 3 If you, LORD, kept a record of sins , Lord, who could stand? 4 But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve you. W e all have sinned and we are sinners. Who could stand before the Lord? Who could serve Him? But there is forgiveness! If the LORD forgives us, we can, with reverence, serve Him! We ? Yes. We! The Lord wants us to not be selfish by praying for ourselves. He wants us to pray for others too. Pray and cry for mercy for there is forgiveness with the Lord, so that we (our family, friends, even the whole nation) with reverence, serve the Lord. How long should we pray? How many days? The psalmist wait for the Lord and put his hope in ...

Siapa yang tidak mau meningkatkan taraf kehidupan? Setiap orang dari segala zaman bekerja dan berjuang untuk meningkatkan taraf kehidupannya. Demikian pula seorang yang bernama Elimelekh pada zaman para hakim memerintah di Israel. Rut 12:1-2 Pada zaman para hakim memerintah ada kelaparan di tanah Israel. Lalu pergilah seorang dari Betlehem-Yehuda beserta isterinya dan kedua anaknya laki-laki ke daerah Moab untuk menetap di sana sebagai orang asing. Nama orang itu ialah Elimelekh, nama isterinya Naomi dan nama kedua anaknya Mahlon dan Kilyon, semuanya orang-orang Efrata dari Betlehem-Yehuda; dan setelah sampai ke daerah Moab, diamlah mereka di sana. Wajar kalau seorang kepala keluarga lantas memutuskan untuk membawa keluarganya pindah agar mereka bisa tetap sejahtera. Siapa tahu di Moab mereka bisa berusaha dan berhasil. Siapa tahu kelak mereka bisa pulang ke Israel dengan membawa buah-buah yang manis hasil kerja keras mereka di Moab.