I really suck at singing. Pop singing, at least. Today's rehearsal with Doreen for our duet next Monday was kaput! I really let her down... My voice is nowhere compared to any other pop singer... But I rejoice knowing that the LORD is my strength! I offer my all to God, knowing it was him who bestowed me with all I have, including my life! Still, I pray that someone else will be able to do the same and find joy in doing so...
Today, I must pray for the team that's going to Cambodia for a mission trip this Thursday. Cambodia is a war-wrecked country, and many of the people there are scarred! Pol Pot, a dictator thirty years ago of Cambodia thought of making an ideal Cambodia, where all the citizens will farm the land and work loyally to the country, without questioning the leader. The result was that he ordered thousands of "smart people" executed, massacred and murdered, by the masses. Those who were Buddhist monks, Western-educated intellectuals, educated people in general, people who had contact with Western countries, people who appeared to be intelligent (for example, individuals with glasses), the crippled and lame, and ethnic minorities like ethnic Chinese, Laotians and Vietnamese and unfit to live were to dig their own graves, then buried alive. The lucky ones were beaten to death, falling with their chains and shackles still on them to the muddy pits they freshly dug. Please read more about it on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot
Now, where we Singaporeans live in such luxury, there are people suffering out there, not only in Cambodia, but in many other parts. I respect the mission team for reaching to the Cambodians, helping them in whatever ways they could, and sharing the good news of the gospel and Jesus Christ, bringing hope and a purpose to live to a rogue and renegade people. That Paul, the leader, Serene, and her husband, a doctor who works in the prison, Cheryl, Ethel, Rachel, Esther, and the others, would give up their time and work, come out from their comfort zone to help strangers they do not even know, I really thank God for touching their hearts. I will try to aid them in prayer, for I know that going into missions is not an easy task. The recent I went to was in Medan, Indonesia, which was more like a walk in the park. However, I went through many difficulties. I shudder to think what they will face.
Currently, people are being sold, children, at the tender age of 14, are being forced in to prostitution, and in the lawless country, violence is common and aplenty. And, talking about 14, I know of someone very dear to me who is also 14. I think (but not necessarily correctly) that she would most probably shiver at the thought of going overseas to work as a maid, tremble at being sold to work, and before I can finish this sentence, faint at the thought of working as a prostitute... Me too, would definitely die of heart attack at the thought of living in a world of violence. But I cannot condemn the people of Cambodia; they lack hope, they have no vision of this world. Why labor and toil in the fields as a farmer, when prostitution and its trafficking earns you million times more! Did you know that afore mentioned children, both boys and girls are eager to grow up and work as prostitutes!? Their parents raised them up for this purpose, and the poor children conditioned to expect their life to be filled with sex slavery... What inhumanity!
That God would allow all these, I can never be able to understand, not my entire lifetime on earth. He is a worker of miracles, but how has this world been tainted by sin! These are the end times, my friend, and I pray that you will reconsider your religion before you fall prey to the devil! Hopefully, missions like those above will be able to save as many people from perishing in hell before the judgment day begins. And, may you be one of those saved, if you are yet to be, and if you are saved, may you work to save as many as possible, just as Jesus Christ redeemed us, by sacrificing not His time, but His life! Thanks be to God for His indispensable gift!
For if He carried the weight of the world upon His shoulder, I know my brother, that He will carry you!
And if He carried the weight of the world upon His shoulder, I know my sister, that He will carry you!
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Once I saw a little boy running around on rock-hard ground bare footed, half naked and half of his pants torn. Yet he has the sweetest smile.
A little boy's balloon we gave to him burst because of his carelessness, he didn't shed a tear. He walked away dissapointed, but not despair.
All we did was play with the Children; they thanked us like never before.
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Cambodia is a country in need and thank God that He has touched hearts of His children to go into the country. They can't walk out of darkness on their own, we need to walk in.
May you be able to travel to Cambodia one day and experience the people's pure faith in our Almighty God!!
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