Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Back again
Time has passed so fast, after so many years of not blogging, now i am back again, trying to write something, as we have grown up through out the years, mistakes that we made, things that we have made good, regrets that we have not done better, nevertheless at this age of mine, i have learnt to understand myself better more, and matured a long the years, maybe because of as we progressed during our season of life, responsibilities and commitment has made us a different person.
Be it good or bad, we just made the best of that moment of time by the decision we make, the road that we choose, and once made, commit to God and never look back as regrets, but rather lesson learnt, and reminisce the good moments we had and continue to make the best of the current moment we live in, now.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Which Road are you On
The courtesy of http://intersectionvictoria.com/category/resurrection-of-jesus-christ-apologetics/
March 8, 2009
Could Jesus Have Survived the Cross?
Filed under: resurrection of Jesus Christ - apologetics — intersectionvictoria @ 8:54 am
Tags: suffering, swoon theory
jesus-survive-cross-blog-2Ahmadiya Muslims teach that Jesus fled to India after swooning on the cross and crawling out of his grave. In fact, the town of Srinagar, Kashmir supposedly houses his final burial site. The Qur’an teaches that Jesus was replaced by a substitute and never hung upon the cross. Skeptical scholars from the 19th century onward have contested that Jesus fainted from exhaustion and/or was administered an anesthetic (remember the vinegar-soaked sponge He was offered after declaring His thirst?) which made Him appear to die. Consequently He revived (not resurrected) after being taken down from the cross and presented Himself to the apostles. This, according to our critics, explains the disciples’ belief in a miraculous, risen Christ. In order to evaluate the strength of the “swoon theory”, we must establish what Jesus’ physical punishment consisted of. In doing so, we will better understand the probability of His survival, His ability to walk away from His tomb and His potential for convincing the scared, refugee disciples that He had miraculously conquered death.
Before moving on, we must remember that Jesus’ public execution by crucifixion is one of the best established historical facts concerning His life. Roman and Jewish sources testify to this, as do the Gnostic Gospels, the writings of the early church fathers and also the remarkably historically accurate New Testament. We will now look at details concerning crucifixion, as well as the New Testament’s description of the beatings inflicted on Jesus before He ever got to the cross.
Before the Cross: Jesus’ trial and punishment leading up to the Crucifixion
jesus-survive-cross-blog-3According to Alexander Metherell, M.D., Ph.D, Jesus’ suffering began at the Garden of Gethsemane after the Last Supper. Knowing that His suffering on the cross was eminent, He began experiencing intense psychological stress. The Gospels describe that Jesus began to sweat blood. This is a medical condition known as hematidrosis. It occurs when stress chemicals are released and damage the capillaries in the sweat glands. Consequently, blood enters the glands and is mixed with sweat as it is released. Furthermore, this chemical process also renders skin extremely sensitive. So Jesus’ consequent flogging by the Romans would be made much more excruciating. Roman flogging was done with braided leather thongs attached to metal balls and pieces of sharp bone. The metal bruised the flesh, which filled with blood underneath the skin. Then the bone shards would pop these large blood “blisters” and bleeding was profuse. The pain was exceptional. Standard flogging covered the skin of the victim’s entire back and posterior legs.
As the process of flogging continued along its minimum 39 lashes, the muscles were exposed, shredded and hanging in quivering ribbons. jesus-survive-cross-blog-4Veins, bowels and bones began to be exposed, open to infection. Bleeding was so severe that, according to other physicians and 3rd century historian Eusebius, death was not uncommon at that point. When blood levels decrease below a certain volume, the heart begins to race to speed up blood flow. This substitutes for lack of blood: getting more out of the little blood that you have left. Kidneys begin shutting down to prevent loss of blood volume because water from blood is necessary for creation of urine. Thirst becomes intense and fatigue almost indescribable. This critical condition makes it understandable that someone had to help Jesus carry a 100-plus pound cross beam up the streets of Jerusalem and the banks of Golgotha. jesus-survive-cross-blog-85Before having to carry His cross, however, Jesus is mocked, spit on and struck about the head region. A thorny “crown” is pushed into the skin of his sensitive scalp (remember the effects of hematidrosis), and a robe is put over his shoulders and back. Because of His shredded, open and bleeding back, Jesus begins adhering to the robe via blood clotting. A while later the robe is ripped off his back, re-opening multiple wounds and causing intense pain.
At the Cross
Unlike the sterile and clinical modern-day lethal injection, crucifixion is the most painful method of execution ever devised by man. Five to seven inch-long spikes were driven between the radius and ulna, just underneath the carpal bones. This area corresponds to the skin creases on your wrists. jesus-survive-cross-blog-1Such a process severed the median nerve, causing fingers to adopt the “hand of benediction” position (due to inability of thumb, index and middle finger to flex). Burying the spike into the carpals prevented the weight of the body for tearing through the hands, prematurely releasing the prisoner from his cross. Slicing and crushing the median nerve is itself an extremely painful experience. The deep burning sensation sometimes accompanying hard “funny bone” impacts gives us an idea of such a horrible feeling. Nails were also driven through the bones of the feet, further securing the prisoner and severing branches of the tibial nerve, causing pain and paralysis. Again the nerve crushing would provide copious amounts and levels of pain. jesus-survive-cross-blog-7After the nailing, the cross was erected, applying the full weight of the body onto the joints of the spiked wrists, the elbows, and the shoulders. Either instantly or over time the shoulders would dislocate. Of interest here is the Psalm 22 passage “my bones are out of joint” which Christians believe foreshadowed the Lord’s experience on the cross. For those of you who have experienced bones going out of joint, you can attest to the fact that it is a more painful and disturbing sensation than most fractures.
Ultimately, the cause of death on the cross is asphyxiation-induced heart failure. As the prisoner hangs from his “tree,” the muscles of the rib cage are stretched and exhausted to the point where they cannot perform their necessary contractions and relaxations. The pectorals, intercostals and other accessory breathing muscles normally lift the ribs up to change the inner pressure of our thorax. When they relax, the rib cage “shrinks” and pushes air out. This provides us with inhalation and exhalation. However, when hanging from the cross, the rib cage is locked into an inhalation (or inspiration) position, preventing exhalation (or expiration) and therefore normal breathing. When you cannot breathe out or in, carbon dioxide is unable to be released by the lungs in exchange for oxygen, so it dissolves into carbonic acid. jesus-survive-cross-blog-51If you have ever been underwater for longer than you would like, you probably have felt the burning sensation of carbonic acid spreading throughout your system. The body registers this acidic compound by sending burning sensations to the brain. Eventually, irregular heart beats (arrhythmia) caused by the carbonic acid result in a lethal heart failure. As the breathing becomes more labored, crucifixion victims push up with their nailed feet to relax the load on their arms, allowing the rib cage to relax. Imagine pressing into the nails driven through your bones to sneak in a shallow, gasping exhale. This process had to be repeated as long as you wanted to be able to breathe out. Remember that Jesus only uttered seven short sentences while on the cross. Speaking is an act of controlled exhalation and is more difficult that simple, quick and crude gasps. Even under this duress Christ spoke in love and grace:
1.”Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”
2.”Today thou shalt be with me in Paradise.”
3.”Behold thy mother…Woman behold thy son.”
4.”My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?”
5.”I thirst.”
6.”It is finished.”
7.”Father! Into thy hands I commit my spirit.”
Remember also that, in order to make speaking or breathing possible, the very act of moving up and down against a piece of splintered wood when your back was shredded from floggings is itself horrific. If the process of asphyxiation as described here was taking too long, Romans typically sped things up by shattering the legs of the victims, preventing any ability to press upwards. An Old Testament prophecy stated the Messiah would not have any bones broken. Jesus’ flogging had sped up His death, making this procedure unnecessary and also fulfilling a messianic requirement.
Rapid heart beats marching towards heart failure, slow asphyxiation, growing blood loss of a flogged and nailed prisoner ultimately led to the most painful death ever devised by mankind. Heart failure causes fluid to collect around the tissues of the heart and the lungs. So if a Roman soldier was to pierce such a victim with a spear, penetrating lungs and heart, a clear fluid would come out, followed by copious amounts of blood. This was the eye witness testimony given by John[5]. From Jesus’ perspective, the build up of serum around the heart would cause painful pressure to this organ and generate intense discomfort and pain. Let’s once again look back to Psalm 22:14 “I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.”
Considering the possibilities
Would a Jesus in the above state be anything other than dead? Roman soldiers were expert killers. If their prisoners escaped, their lives would be demanded. So they didn’t leave jobs half done. Some have advanced that Jesus was drugged when He tasted the watery vinegar on the sponge. However, this does little to overcome the lethal wounds He suffered. Or the horrific damage which would repel the apostles not raised their spirits. In all likeliness, attempts to create a Jesus who survived the brutal execution methods of the oppressive Romans are simply that: creations. Facts are not friendly to these theories.
Conclusion
Considering what we know and have good reason to believe concerning Jesus’ final hours before the cross, as well as on the cross, is it likely that He would have survived? Even if He were to survive, would His unbelievably hopeless condition have been recoverable 2 thousand years before modern medicine (and even with modern medicine)? Would He have had the strength to escape from a tomb blocked by a boulder? Rush past guards? Would His condition have inspired the cowardly disciples to exclaim Christ had miraculously recuperated from death on the cross? Or would they have only been attending to a dying would-be messiah, further confirming their mounting fears that Jesus had simply been human? A battered man whose back was shredded, whose beard was pulled out by force, whose hands and feet were paralyzed, whose shoulders were dislocated and whose side had been punctured by a Roman speared would have frightened away the disciples, not rallied them to go suffer the same horrific fate. Let us be honest: Romans successfully executed a man named Jesus of Nazareth during the reign of Tiberius Caesar, as commanded by Pontius Pilate due to pressure from the occupied Jewish religious leaders. To deny this fact is to swim hopelessly against the current of overwhelming evidence. It is blind faith. What then would have motivated Jesus’ earliest followers to go to their deaths proclaiming a risen Messiah who had conquered death?…
RECAP of Christ’s Sufferings:
1. Hematidrosis
* Extreme psychological stress can release a chemical which ruptures delicate capillaries surrounding sweat glands. Blood mixes with sweat.
* Renders skin extremely sensitive.
2. Roman flogging
* Turns victim’s back into shredded ribbons of quivering muscles.
* Causes excessive blood loss.
* Begins process which leads to heart failure
3. Roman beatings
* Crown of thorns stuck into sensitive scalp.
* Pulling out beard with hands.
* Hitting head and face. Spitting.
* Robe placed onto back, allow scabs to adhere to robe. Robe ripped off, re-opening back wounds.
4. Crucifixion
· Nailing to cross severs median nerve and nerves in feet.
· Hanging from cross with full body weight prevents rib cage from allowing exhalation & therefore breathing.
· Shoulders dislocate.
· Breathing made possible only by pushing up with feet to relax load on arms. This scrapes shredded back (from floggings) against rough timber.
· Blood loss and asphyxiation make the “chin-ups” necessary for breathing extremely difficult due to increasingly sharp upper and lower body muscle cramps.
· Blood loss and slow, agonizing asphyxiation begin the build-up of fluid around the heart, squeezing the already strained heart and causing tremendous suffering to the victim.
· Victim dies of heart failure and/or asphyxiation.
March 8, 2009
Could Jesus Have Survived the Cross?
Filed under: resurrection of Jesus Christ - apologetics — intersectionvictoria @ 8:54 am
Tags: suffering, swoon theory
jesus-survive-cross-blog-2Ahmadiya Muslims teach that Jesus fled to India after swooning on the cross and crawling out of his grave. In fact, the town of Srinagar, Kashmir supposedly houses his final burial site. The Qur’an teaches that Jesus was replaced by a substitute and never hung upon the cross. Skeptical scholars from the 19th century onward have contested that Jesus fainted from exhaustion and/or was administered an anesthetic (remember the vinegar-soaked sponge He was offered after declaring His thirst?) which made Him appear to die. Consequently He revived (not resurrected) after being taken down from the cross and presented Himself to the apostles. This, according to our critics, explains the disciples’ belief in a miraculous, risen Christ. In order to evaluate the strength of the “swoon theory”, we must establish what Jesus’ physical punishment consisted of. In doing so, we will better understand the probability of His survival, His ability to walk away from His tomb and His potential for convincing the scared, refugee disciples that He had miraculously conquered death.
Before moving on, we must remember that Jesus’ public execution by crucifixion is one of the best established historical facts concerning His life. Roman and Jewish sources testify to this, as do the Gnostic Gospels, the writings of the early church fathers and also the remarkably historically accurate New Testament. We will now look at details concerning crucifixion, as well as the New Testament’s description of the beatings inflicted on Jesus before He ever got to the cross.
Before the Cross: Jesus’ trial and punishment leading up to the Crucifixion
jesus-survive-cross-blog-3According to Alexander Metherell, M.D., Ph.D, Jesus’ suffering began at the Garden of Gethsemane after the Last Supper. Knowing that His suffering on the cross was eminent, He began experiencing intense psychological stress. The Gospels describe that Jesus began to sweat blood. This is a medical condition known as hematidrosis. It occurs when stress chemicals are released and damage the capillaries in the sweat glands. Consequently, blood enters the glands and is mixed with sweat as it is released. Furthermore, this chemical process also renders skin extremely sensitive. So Jesus’ consequent flogging by the Romans would be made much more excruciating. Roman flogging was done with braided leather thongs attached to metal balls and pieces of sharp bone. The metal bruised the flesh, which filled with blood underneath the skin. Then the bone shards would pop these large blood “blisters” and bleeding was profuse. The pain was exceptional. Standard flogging covered the skin of the victim’s entire back and posterior legs.
As the process of flogging continued along its minimum 39 lashes, the muscles were exposed, shredded and hanging in quivering ribbons. jesus-survive-cross-blog-4Veins, bowels and bones began to be exposed, open to infection. Bleeding was so severe that, according to other physicians and 3rd century historian Eusebius, death was not uncommon at that point. When blood levels decrease below a certain volume, the heart begins to race to speed up blood flow. This substitutes for lack of blood: getting more out of the little blood that you have left. Kidneys begin shutting down to prevent loss of blood volume because water from blood is necessary for creation of urine. Thirst becomes intense and fatigue almost indescribable. This critical condition makes it understandable that someone had to help Jesus carry a 100-plus pound cross beam up the streets of Jerusalem and the banks of Golgotha. jesus-survive-cross-blog-85Before having to carry His cross, however, Jesus is mocked, spit on and struck about the head region. A thorny “crown” is pushed into the skin of his sensitive scalp (remember the effects of hematidrosis), and a robe is put over his shoulders and back. Because of His shredded, open and bleeding back, Jesus begins adhering to the robe via blood clotting. A while later the robe is ripped off his back, re-opening multiple wounds and causing intense pain.
At the Cross
Unlike the sterile and clinical modern-day lethal injection, crucifixion is the most painful method of execution ever devised by man. Five to seven inch-long spikes were driven between the radius and ulna, just underneath the carpal bones. This area corresponds to the skin creases on your wrists. jesus-survive-cross-blog-1Such a process severed the median nerve, causing fingers to adopt the “hand of benediction” position (due to inability of thumb, index and middle finger to flex). Burying the spike into the carpals prevented the weight of the body for tearing through the hands, prematurely releasing the prisoner from his cross. Slicing and crushing the median nerve is itself an extremely painful experience. The deep burning sensation sometimes accompanying hard “funny bone” impacts gives us an idea of such a horrible feeling. Nails were also driven through the bones of the feet, further securing the prisoner and severing branches of the tibial nerve, causing pain and paralysis. Again the nerve crushing would provide copious amounts and levels of pain. jesus-survive-cross-blog-7After the nailing, the cross was erected, applying the full weight of the body onto the joints of the spiked wrists, the elbows, and the shoulders. Either instantly or over time the shoulders would dislocate. Of interest here is the Psalm 22 passage “my bones are out of joint” which Christians believe foreshadowed the Lord’s experience on the cross. For those of you who have experienced bones going out of joint, you can attest to the fact that it is a more painful and disturbing sensation than most fractures.
Ultimately, the cause of death on the cross is asphyxiation-induced heart failure. As the prisoner hangs from his “tree,” the muscles of the rib cage are stretched and exhausted to the point where they cannot perform their necessary contractions and relaxations. The pectorals, intercostals and other accessory breathing muscles normally lift the ribs up to change the inner pressure of our thorax. When they relax, the rib cage “shrinks” and pushes air out. This provides us with inhalation and exhalation. However, when hanging from the cross, the rib cage is locked into an inhalation (or inspiration) position, preventing exhalation (or expiration) and therefore normal breathing. When you cannot breathe out or in, carbon dioxide is unable to be released by the lungs in exchange for oxygen, so it dissolves into carbonic acid. jesus-survive-cross-blog-51If you have ever been underwater for longer than you would like, you probably have felt the burning sensation of carbonic acid spreading throughout your system. The body registers this acidic compound by sending burning sensations to the brain. Eventually, irregular heart beats (arrhythmia) caused by the carbonic acid result in a lethal heart failure. As the breathing becomes more labored, crucifixion victims push up with their nailed feet to relax the load on their arms, allowing the rib cage to relax. Imagine pressing into the nails driven through your bones to sneak in a shallow, gasping exhale. This process had to be repeated as long as you wanted to be able to breathe out. Remember that Jesus only uttered seven short sentences while on the cross. Speaking is an act of controlled exhalation and is more difficult that simple, quick and crude gasps. Even under this duress Christ spoke in love and grace:
1.”Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”
2.”Today thou shalt be with me in Paradise.”
3.”Behold thy mother…Woman behold thy son.”
4.”My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?”
5.”I thirst.”
6.”It is finished.”
7.”Father! Into thy hands I commit my spirit.”
Remember also that, in order to make speaking or breathing possible, the very act of moving up and down against a piece of splintered wood when your back was shredded from floggings is itself horrific. If the process of asphyxiation as described here was taking too long, Romans typically sped things up by shattering the legs of the victims, preventing any ability to press upwards. An Old Testament prophecy stated the Messiah would not have any bones broken. Jesus’ flogging had sped up His death, making this procedure unnecessary and also fulfilling a messianic requirement.
Rapid heart beats marching towards heart failure, slow asphyxiation, growing blood loss of a flogged and nailed prisoner ultimately led to the most painful death ever devised by mankind. Heart failure causes fluid to collect around the tissues of the heart and the lungs. So if a Roman soldier was to pierce such a victim with a spear, penetrating lungs and heart, a clear fluid would come out, followed by copious amounts of blood. This was the eye witness testimony given by John[5]. From Jesus’ perspective, the build up of serum around the heart would cause painful pressure to this organ and generate intense discomfort and pain. Let’s once again look back to Psalm 22:14 “I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.”
Considering the possibilities
Would a Jesus in the above state be anything other than dead? Roman soldiers were expert killers. If their prisoners escaped, their lives would be demanded. So they didn’t leave jobs half done. Some have advanced that Jesus was drugged when He tasted the watery vinegar on the sponge. However, this does little to overcome the lethal wounds He suffered. Or the horrific damage which would repel the apostles not raised their spirits. In all likeliness, attempts to create a Jesus who survived the brutal execution methods of the oppressive Romans are simply that: creations. Facts are not friendly to these theories.
Conclusion
Considering what we know and have good reason to believe concerning Jesus’ final hours before the cross, as well as on the cross, is it likely that He would have survived? Even if He were to survive, would His unbelievably hopeless condition have been recoverable 2 thousand years before modern medicine (and even with modern medicine)? Would He have had the strength to escape from a tomb blocked by a boulder? Rush past guards? Would His condition have inspired the cowardly disciples to exclaim Christ had miraculously recuperated from death on the cross? Or would they have only been attending to a dying would-be messiah, further confirming their mounting fears that Jesus had simply been human? A battered man whose back was shredded, whose beard was pulled out by force, whose hands and feet were paralyzed, whose shoulders were dislocated and whose side had been punctured by a Roman speared would have frightened away the disciples, not rallied them to go suffer the same horrific fate. Let us be honest: Romans successfully executed a man named Jesus of Nazareth during the reign of Tiberius Caesar, as commanded by Pontius Pilate due to pressure from the occupied Jewish religious leaders. To deny this fact is to swim hopelessly against the current of overwhelming evidence. It is blind faith. What then would have motivated Jesus’ earliest followers to go to their deaths proclaiming a risen Messiah who had conquered death?…
RECAP of Christ’s Sufferings:
1. Hematidrosis
* Extreme psychological stress can release a chemical which ruptures delicate capillaries surrounding sweat glands. Blood mixes with sweat.
* Renders skin extremely sensitive.
2. Roman flogging
* Turns victim’s back into shredded ribbons of quivering muscles.
* Causes excessive blood loss.
* Begins process which leads to heart failure
3. Roman beatings
* Crown of thorns stuck into sensitive scalp.
* Pulling out beard with hands.
* Hitting head and face. Spitting.
* Robe placed onto back, allow scabs to adhere to robe. Robe ripped off, re-opening back wounds.
4. Crucifixion
· Nailing to cross severs median nerve and nerves in feet.
· Hanging from cross with full body weight prevents rib cage from allowing exhalation & therefore breathing.
· Shoulders dislocate.
· Breathing made possible only by pushing up with feet to relax load on arms. This scrapes shredded back (from floggings) against rough timber.
· Blood loss and asphyxiation make the “chin-ups” necessary for breathing extremely difficult due to increasingly sharp upper and lower body muscle cramps.
· Blood loss and slow, agonizing asphyxiation begin the build-up of fluid around the heart, squeezing the already strained heart and causing tremendous suffering to the victim.
· Victim dies of heart failure and/or asphyxiation.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Grandmum
As usual, i have been keeping lots of loose papers around, as i was clearing up some of these "gems" i found one of those, so interesting and touching. I do not know where is the source, but i just share this letter piece of joy with everyone.
15. Look Beyond
I like the way children write. Here is an essay by an eight-year-old child.
'A grandmother is a lady who has no children of her own, so she likes other people's boys and girls. Grandmas don't have anything to do except be there. If they take us for walks they slow down past prety leaves and caterpillars. they never say, "Hurry up." Usually they are fat but not too fat to tie shoes. They wear glasses, and sometimes they can take their teeth out.
'They can answer questions like why dogs hate cats and why God isn't married. They don't talk visitors' talk like visitors do which is hard to understand. When they read to us they don't skip words or mind if it is the same story again.
'Everybody should try to have grandma, especially if you don't have television, because grandmas are the only grown-ups who always have time.'
Happily, there are many grandmothers in the world as wonderful as this child's grandmother-hwo take time with their children's children, who are looking beyond and giving these little ones real food for their souls. I know one grandmother who has taken a course in story telling ' so i can make the Bible more exciting for my grandchildren', she explained. " used to play grames with the youngsters when they'd come and spend a night, but since I've improved my story telling technique, they want stories instead of games.' She smiled, 'I've never pored over the Bible in my whole life as I have in the past year, and it gets more interesting to me every time I pick it up.'
I asked her how she studied the Bible.
'I use all the help I can get,' she said/ 'I'm no scholar. I'm thankful for every work Matthew Henry wrote, as well as Spurgeon, F.B. Meyer, G. Campbell Morgan, and Martin Luther. Then I use modern transaltons and paraphrases. They are such a help.'
We ddin't get much further with our talk, because the house began to fill up with Children.
'All theses are your grandchildren?' I asked.
'Oh, no,' she laughed. 'They asked last week if they courld invite a few friends, and I see they have!'
As it said in the essay, 'Everybody should try to have a grandma'; a grandmother like my friend who is sharing the best she knows with her grandchildren and their friends. It was Phillip Brooks who wrote.
'Certainly, in our own little sphere it is not the most active people to whom we own the most. It is the lives, like the stars, which simply power down on us the calm light of their bright and faithful being, up to which we look and out of which we gather the deepest calm and courage...
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by teh very existence of that goodness. I am thankful I had grandmothers like that who always had time for the little ones.
15. Look Beyond
I like the way children write. Here is an essay by an eight-year-old child.
'A grandmother is a lady who has no children of her own, so she likes other people's boys and girls. Grandmas don't have anything to do except be there. If they take us for walks they slow down past prety leaves and caterpillars. they never say, "Hurry up." Usually they are fat but not too fat to tie shoes. They wear glasses, and sometimes they can take their teeth out.
'They can answer questions like why dogs hate cats and why God isn't married. They don't talk visitors' talk like visitors do which is hard to understand. When they read to us they don't skip words or mind if it is the same story again.
'Everybody should try to have grandma, especially if you don't have television, because grandmas are the only grown-ups who always have time.'
Happily, there are many grandmothers in the world as wonderful as this child's grandmother-hwo take time with their children's children, who are looking beyond and giving these little ones real food for their souls. I know one grandmother who has taken a course in story telling ' so i can make the Bible more exciting for my grandchildren', she explained. " used to play grames with the youngsters when they'd come and spend a night, but since I've improved my story telling technique, they want stories instead of games.' She smiled, 'I've never pored over the Bible in my whole life as I have in the past year, and it gets more interesting to me every time I pick it up.'
I asked her how she studied the Bible.
'I use all the help I can get,' she said/ 'I'm no scholar. I'm thankful for every work Matthew Henry wrote, as well as Spurgeon, F.B. Meyer, G. Campbell Morgan, and Martin Luther. Then I use modern transaltons and paraphrases. They are such a help.'
We ddin't get much further with our talk, because the house began to fill up with Children.
'All theses are your grandchildren?' I asked.
'Oh, no,' she laughed. 'They asked last week if they courld invite a few friends, and I see they have!'
As it said in the essay, 'Everybody should try to have a grandma'; a grandmother like my friend who is sharing the best she knows with her grandchildren and their friends. It was Phillip Brooks who wrote.
'Certainly, in our own little sphere it is not the most active people to whom we own the most. It is the lives, like the stars, which simply power down on us the calm light of their bright and faithful being, up to which we look and out of which we gather the deepest calm and courage...
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by teh very existence of that goodness. I am thankful I had grandmothers like that who always had time for the little ones.
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Zech:hongyee 1st 42Km - I always think is impossible.
Hi Everyone,
Thanks Seow Eng for such a good encourager. It was my first 42km. All these while, I have not been training very much, the most I clock was 10km. Before the race, I did a carbo load for a week, and hydrated myself for the whole day. I did a 21km before and I knew for this 42 km can be quite crazy, because after running 21km, you still have another 21 to go. In the end due to the lack of training, preparation and planning, it cause my both leg to be extreme pain.
During the race, I managed to complete the first 21km in 2hr10min, but after crossing the bridge, my leg cramped, I tried to stretch and massage, but it didn’t help much as I jogged. In order to prevent the cramp, I have to use other muscle group to work for me, which is walk. Hahahaha! So I struggled with the cramp, and walked for the next 21km. Every single step was pain, also means a decision to complete the race or not. At times, especially in Tampines, the temptation of walking back is great. I told myself cannot give up, as what my friend has told me, you will feel everything is possible in life, once you finished the marathon.
There is always a lesson to learn in everything in life, but the lesson is engraved into you more when you are in pain or stress, because it comes with a price. For this marathon I learned that, never underestimate the distance of 42km, even you can complete 21km. Second, to go through a long journey happily, you have to plan, discipline in your training, and discipline in sticking to your plan. I love to run fast and complete, but to run a marathon, you have to control your urge to run fast, else you will not be able to run far. So discipline in sticking to your plan is very important.
So guys and gals, as for now, the backlash for my poor planning, training and lack of discipline, I have walked in pain for the past 2 days and my speed of walking decreases 4 times my normal walking speed, even old man walk faster than me now. Sigh!!
But at least I have completed my first 42KM. Hooray, looking forward for my next one.
.:There is More to just a Run:.
Being a Christian is never been easy for me, because i am the first generation of Christian in my family. I used to be a Buddhist. Now i am a Child of Christ. From this run, God showed me more, He had always been there for me, plans for me before i born, just that i made that choice to be with God and chose Him. Choosing Him is not easy, carrying the cross everyday is just like the run. You have to first make the step to register the run, which is acknowledging him as the Lord and Savior, then you have to discipline in your training, which is prayer and Quiet Time. You have to stick to your plan for not running faster, which is to have faith in God.
After doing all these, is the journey. The lesser your preparation, the more pain and temptation will comes along the way. Like me, the temptation of me going back home when i was in Tampines. The pain i had suffered. So as Christian, if we lacked of the discipline, lesser preparation, when all these temptation and pain creeps in, you will fall, you will feel more pain.
Despite of all these, i had finished the race, because i did not give in to the temptation and pain for every steps i took. But the most important of all is, i took the first step to register the run, else i wouldn't be able to say that i finished the run.
God Bless, hongyee: Zech
Thanks Seow Eng for such a good encourager. It was my first 42km. All these while, I have not been training very much, the most I clock was 10km. Before the race, I did a carbo load for a week, and hydrated myself for the whole day. I did a 21km before and I knew for this 42 km can be quite crazy, because after running 21km, you still have another 21 to go. In the end due to the lack of training, preparation and planning, it cause my both leg to be extreme pain.
During the race, I managed to complete the first 21km in 2hr10min, but after crossing the bridge, my leg cramped, I tried to stretch and massage, but it didn’t help much as I jogged. In order to prevent the cramp, I have to use other muscle group to work for me, which is walk. Hahahaha! So I struggled with the cramp, and walked for the next 21km. Every single step was pain, also means a decision to complete the race or not. At times, especially in Tampines, the temptation of walking back is great. I told myself cannot give up, as what my friend has told me, you will feel everything is possible in life, once you finished the marathon.
There is always a lesson to learn in everything in life, but the lesson is engraved into you more when you are in pain or stress, because it comes with a price. For this marathon I learned that, never underestimate the distance of 42km, even you can complete 21km. Second, to go through a long journey happily, you have to plan, discipline in your training, and discipline in sticking to your plan. I love to run fast and complete, but to run a marathon, you have to control your urge to run fast, else you will not be able to run far. So discipline in sticking to your plan is very important.
So guys and gals, as for now, the backlash for my poor planning, training and lack of discipline, I have walked in pain for the past 2 days and my speed of walking decreases 4 times my normal walking speed, even old man walk faster than me now. Sigh!!
But at least I have completed my first 42KM. Hooray, looking forward for my next one.
.:There is More to just a Run:.
Being a Christian is never been easy for me, because i am the first generation of Christian in my family. I used to be a Buddhist. Now i am a Child of Christ. From this run, God showed me more, He had always been there for me, plans for me before i born, just that i made that choice to be with God and chose Him. Choosing Him is not easy, carrying the cross everyday is just like the run. You have to first make the step to register the run, which is acknowledging him as the Lord and Savior, then you have to discipline in your training, which is prayer and Quiet Time. You have to stick to your plan for not running faster, which is to have faith in God.
After doing all these, is the journey. The lesser your preparation, the more pain and temptation will comes along the way. Like me, the temptation of me going back home when i was in Tampines. The pain i had suffered. So as Christian, if we lacked of the discipline, lesser preparation, when all these temptation and pain creeps in, you will fall, you will feel more pain.
Despite of all these, i had finished the race, because i did not give in to the temptation and pain for every steps i took. But the most important of all is, i took the first step to register the run, else i wouldn't be able to say that i finished the run.
God Bless, hongyee: Zech
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Spiritual Maturity - Chapter 6: The Moral Antipathy of God
Sin, Familiar word to every Christian, but what does God really hate? The word sin covers a lot of stuff under and not under the sun, we know other than the 10 commandments, most of the ‘rules’ are not stated in the bible, e.g. The bible didn’t say that we can’t smoke, the bible didn’t say that we cannot email pork. Bible is not about the rules and regulation, the do and don’t, is about the way of being a Christian to honor and glorify God, to see God’s perceptive.
The bible did stated how God detest prideful person, because a prideful person is someone who can see him or herself only, that will prevent the person from seeing God and acknowledge Him as the Father, the creator of heaven. The sin of Pride started as early as when the Devil who himself had fallen from his lofty position because of him trying to place himself higher than God. The fall of Adam and eve, in order for them to obtain the knowledge same level compare to compare to God. They disobey God. Time after time, kings rose and fall, because of their pride, e.g. in Isaiah 14:12-15, the fall of the king of Tyre and King of Babylon, even the great king Solomon fell because of allowing idols and disacknowledge God.
What is Antipathy? The word Antipathy in www.dictionary.com means that a strong feeling of aversion or repugnance. In Psalm 101:5, 138:6, proverbs 6:16-17, proverbs 8:13, Isaiah 2:17 and James 4:6 shows again and again that God hates the proud. No further words are necessary to express the hatred, the revulsion, the antipathy of God to pride and arrogance, to conceit and haughtiness. It is an abomination to Him.
What is pride? The Essence of Pride is broken into 4 points. It is a deification of self, which means putting yourself higher than God, just like the king Nebuchadnezzar, in the end due to his sins; it brought him down to the level of beast. Second characterized by independence of God, it was the heart of Adam’s sin that brought the fall of the whole human mankind. Third, contempt for others, it uses others to lift you up, by ‘stepping’ belittle the others or claiming other’s credit to gain glory for yourself. Last but not least, essentially competitive, it involves comparison who is better in looking, richer, cleverer, and every trait that will super cedes the other, it can be talent of an athletic skills or seeking improvement to achieve to be ‘cream of the corps’, and not for the glory of God.
What is the Manifestation of Pride? Pride can be very temperament and accommodates itself in all sort of situation. It varies from people to people. It can be of face, race, place, grace to intellect, achievement, success and skills. For example the intellectual pride, places you a superior being, because of the exposure, the knowledge and skills you have learned and gathered, placing you more intellect compare to those who doesn’t have the opportunity to do it, or does not have the capabilities to do it. Racial pride, where people link the color of skin to their superiority, their maturity and exposure to things, for e.g. People perceived that a 18 year old ‘white’ teenage kid is more mature than kids from other race, because we already, or I should say I already, have the perception that the ‘white’ kids are forced to be independence from the age of 16 years old, and they have to leave house to live independently.
Pride defiles everything that torches it, it will turn blessings into curse, it manifests in criticism, for criticism is always MADE FROM THE VANTAGE POINT of conscious superiority. Pride will find cause for criticism in everywhere and everything. It lauds itself and belittles its neighbor. Scriptures have shown how pride removes the riches from the rich and the glory from the king, the health of the strong warrior.
So how can we proof that pride took control of us? Only when we search our hearts and be truthfully to see whether we have passed the tests? The Test of precedence, will test us if others promote and not you, does it stimulates jealousy and ill will? Or are you what John the Baptist said, for “He must increase, but I must decrease.” The Test of Sincerity, is easier for you to command on yourself than others commenting on you. The Test of Criticism, do you normally justify yourself? Does it arouse hostility and resentments in us? Only humility will take criticism no matter from where it comes, and will profit by it because it knows that where there is fire, there are usually some elements of truth. The test of inferiority, we don’t think that we are inferior compare to the others, even they are better.
The cure of pride can start by changing your perception that God is the one who knows our true motives, or imagination, sin, strength and weakness, the only thing we can do is to humble ourselves in front of God, so that all grounds of pride will be demolished. It was God who gave power and wealth. Do we recognize our limitation? We can Mortification ourselves by confessing any proud thoughts that comes into our mind. Or when you felt that you are superior than the others, compare with Jesus. Plus through self-discipline and self-discovery, consistently remind ourselves that we disallow pride to live in our heart.
The bible did stated how God detest prideful person, because a prideful person is someone who can see him or herself only, that will prevent the person from seeing God and acknowledge Him as the Father, the creator of heaven. The sin of Pride started as early as when the Devil who himself had fallen from his lofty position because of him trying to place himself higher than God. The fall of Adam and eve, in order for them to obtain the knowledge same level compare to compare to God. They disobey God. Time after time, kings rose and fall, because of their pride, e.g. in Isaiah 14:12-15, the fall of the king of Tyre and King of Babylon, even the great king Solomon fell because of allowing idols and disacknowledge God.
What is Antipathy? The word Antipathy in www.dictionary.com means that a strong feeling of aversion or repugnance. In Psalm 101:5, 138:6, proverbs 6:16-17, proverbs 8:13, Isaiah 2:17 and James 4:6 shows again and again that God hates the proud. No further words are necessary to express the hatred, the revulsion, the antipathy of God to pride and arrogance, to conceit and haughtiness. It is an abomination to Him.
What is pride? The Essence of Pride is broken into 4 points. It is a deification of self, which means putting yourself higher than God, just like the king Nebuchadnezzar, in the end due to his sins; it brought him down to the level of beast. Second characterized by independence of God, it was the heart of Adam’s sin that brought the fall of the whole human mankind. Third, contempt for others, it uses others to lift you up, by ‘stepping’ belittle the others or claiming other’s credit to gain glory for yourself. Last but not least, essentially competitive, it involves comparison who is better in looking, richer, cleverer, and every trait that will super cedes the other, it can be talent of an athletic skills or seeking improvement to achieve to be ‘cream of the corps’, and not for the glory of God.
What is the Manifestation of Pride? Pride can be very temperament and accommodates itself in all sort of situation. It varies from people to people. It can be of face, race, place, grace to intellect, achievement, success and skills. For example the intellectual pride, places you a superior being, because of the exposure, the knowledge and skills you have learned and gathered, placing you more intellect compare to those who doesn’t have the opportunity to do it, or does not have the capabilities to do it. Racial pride, where people link the color of skin to their superiority, their maturity and exposure to things, for e.g. People perceived that a 18 year old ‘white’ teenage kid is more mature than kids from other race, because we already, or I should say I already, have the perception that the ‘white’ kids are forced to be independence from the age of 16 years old, and they have to leave house to live independently.
Pride defiles everything that torches it, it will turn blessings into curse, it manifests in criticism, for criticism is always MADE FROM THE VANTAGE POINT of conscious superiority. Pride will find cause for criticism in everywhere and everything. It lauds itself and belittles its neighbor. Scriptures have shown how pride removes the riches from the rich and the glory from the king, the health of the strong warrior.
So how can we proof that pride took control of us? Only when we search our hearts and be truthfully to see whether we have passed the tests? The Test of precedence, will test us if others promote and not you, does it stimulates jealousy and ill will? Or are you what John the Baptist said, for “He must increase, but I must decrease.” The Test of Sincerity, is easier for you to command on yourself than others commenting on you. The Test of Criticism, do you normally justify yourself? Does it arouse hostility and resentments in us? Only humility will take criticism no matter from where it comes, and will profit by it because it knows that where there is fire, there are usually some elements of truth. The test of inferiority, we don’t think that we are inferior compare to the others, even they are better.
The cure of pride can start by changing your perception that God is the one who knows our true motives, or imagination, sin, strength and weakness, the only thing we can do is to humble ourselves in front of God, so that all grounds of pride will be demolished. It was God who gave power and wealth. Do we recognize our limitation? We can Mortification ourselves by confessing any proud thoughts that comes into our mind. Or when you felt that you are superior than the others, compare with Jesus. Plus through self-discipline and self-discovery, consistently remind ourselves that we disallow pride to live in our heart.
Monday, April 20, 2009
The Fern and The Bamboo
One day I decided to quit ...I quit my job, my relationship,
my spirituality... I wanted to quit my life. I went to the woods
to have one last talk with God. "God", I said. "Can you
give me one good reason not to quit?" His answer surprised me...
"Look around", He said. "Do you see the fern and the
bamboo?""Yes", I replied.
"When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took
very good care of them. I gave them light. I gave them
water. The fern quickly grew from the earth. Its
brilliant green covered the floor. Yet nothing came
from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the
bamboo. In the second year the Fern grew more vibrant
and plentiful. And again, nothing came from the bamboo
seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo." He said.
"In year three there was still nothing from the bamboo
seed. But I would not quit. In year four, again, there
was nothing from the bamboo seed. I would not quit."
He said.
"Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the
earth. Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and
insignificant...But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet
tall. It had spent the five years growing
roots. Those roots made it strong and gave it what it
needed to survive. I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could
not handle." He said to me.
"Did you know, my child, that all this time you have
been struggling, you have actually been growing
roots?" "I would not quit on the bamboo. I will never quit on
you." "Don't compare yourself to others." He said. "The bamboo had a
different purpose than the fern. Yet they both make the forest beautiful."
"Your time will come", God said to me. "You will rise high"
"How high should I rise?" I asked."How high will the bamboo rise?" He asked
in return.
"As high as it can?" I questioned
"Yes." He said, "Give me glory by rising as high as you can."
I left the forest and bring back this story. I hope
these words can help you see that God will never give
up on you. He will never give up on you.
Never regret a day in your life.
Good days give you happiness;
bad days give you experiences;
both are essential to life
--: By My Cousin Stanley Quek :--
my spirituality... I wanted to quit my life. I went to the woods
to have one last talk with God. "God", I said. "Can you
give me one good reason not to quit?" His answer surprised me...
"Look around", He said. "Do you see the fern and the
bamboo?""Yes", I replied.
"When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took
very good care of them. I gave them light. I gave them
water. The fern quickly grew from the earth. Its
brilliant green covered the floor. Yet nothing came
from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the
bamboo. In the second year the Fern grew more vibrant
and plentiful. And again, nothing came from the bamboo
seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo." He said.
"In year three there was still nothing from the bamboo
seed. But I would not quit. In year four, again, there
was nothing from the bamboo seed. I would not quit."
He said.
"Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the
earth. Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and
insignificant...But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet
tall. It had spent the five years growing
roots. Those roots made it strong and gave it what it
needed to survive. I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could
not handle." He said to me.
"Did you know, my child, that all this time you have
been struggling, you have actually been growing
roots?" "I would not quit on the bamboo. I will never quit on
you." "Don't compare yourself to others." He said. "The bamboo had a
different purpose than the fern. Yet they both make the forest beautiful."
"Your time will come", God said to me. "You will rise high"
"How high should I rise?" I asked."How high will the bamboo rise?" He asked
in return.
"As high as it can?" I questioned
"Yes." He said, "Give me glory by rising as high as you can."
I left the forest and bring back this story. I hope
these words can help you see that God will never give
up on you. He will never give up on you.
Never regret a day in your life.
Good days give you happiness;
bad days give you experiences;
both are essential to life
--: By My Cousin Stanley Quek :--
Monday, April 13, 2009
Book Review - Just Like Jesus (Max Lucado)
God hate Deveive, When you lie, cheat or deceive, you cause the death- The death of something else, like marriage, job, ministry or friends, relationship.
The Green House Heart
Green House = Heart
Thought = Seed
Mind = Doorway of your heart
If our heart is just like a green house, then shouldn't we be careful what we sow? Above all else, guard your heart ofr it is the wellspring of life(Proverbs4:23)
God is the owner of your heart.For example if your heart is a house, and your master is away.Whe he is backm and found out that the house is a mess. He asked you, why is hte house in a mess? You explained, because ruby player needs a stay, a bunch of bilkers needs to rest. So your master said, " Don't you know how to say no?" Because this is not your house only.
Thought Management We have done so many stuff, so many kind of management for our life, so have we considering in managing our thoughts? Our thoughts don't just belongs to ourselves only, we have submit to Jesus. Only He has the authorithy over you. He forgives you adn disallow your guilty thoughts. Don't leave your htoughts unguarded (2 Cor.10:5)
On page121-When you feel like a bum or loser. Don't you let your guards down? You should submit these thoughts to Christ instead-Ephesians2:10 or Romans8:1
That is when you feel like a loser. So what happens when you feel great. And do you let your pride gets in? - Rom12:3- Don't cherish ,exagerated idea of yourself or your importance. The cross of our Lord Jesus Christ i smy only reason for bragging-Gal6:14
Temptation thoughts-1Corinthians6&7 - Is important for the husband and wife. Sexual drives are strong , but marriage is strong enough to take it. So do not engage into any uncommitted sextual stuff.
Just remember that you have to be selective to your seed. The more selective with your seed, the more delightful is your corp.
===Gold in Grabbage===
Romans 12:12
So if you are mess up down be despair. What ever Jesus see is a opportunity in those mess up life. No matter what happens we have to filled our life on Jesus, because our eyes will determine our life-Matt6:22-23.
===Hope Filled Heart=====
When Jesus is being betray, abandon and left alone,even his prayer were not answered. How he felt at that point of time? All He had is not there, all His support is not there and nothing just works up for Him. But He still have hope, despite of everything.
Page 137. One day Elisha's servant got up and fear, Elisha said dont't be afraid. THe army that fight for us is larger than the one against us. 2 kings 6:15-17. Request God to let you see (Mark10:51)
=====Finishing Strong An Enduring=======
Have you been starting something with full power but didn';t finished it. E.g. A exercise plan, projects or relationship.
The most important thing is to finished the right thing, what is optional, essential?
OPtional= like speed reading.
Essential= like race of faith. (Heb.12:1)
Race in geek = agon = agony.
Jesus strongerst step is his last step.
- YOu know the moments of tempatation and hos is it like even in a minute. Jesus got tempted for 40days and never gave in. Temptation didn't stop him, nor did accusations. Jesus being abandon , un accepted, by people, accussed and shame, force to take punishment without doing anything. So how did He managed to endure those stuff? He focused on the joy that God put before Him (Heb12:2)
Jesus focus the prize in heaven, therefore He can finish strong.
Because of you lingers so many unfinished task, and these shackles just chained you , you are not able to fulfill those plan, so cluttered that you can't see the vision God has placed you, cannot run for God. In the end you got stress up and frustrated, tip and fall.
Once you completed a task. YOu just want to hear these words. " Well done, good and faithful servant(Matt25:23).Then you know the voice is worth it.
The Green House Heart
Green House = Heart
Thought = Seed
Mind = Doorway of your heart
If our heart is just like a green house, then shouldn't we be careful what we sow? Above all else, guard your heart ofr it is the wellspring of life(Proverbs4:23)
God is the owner of your heart.For example if your heart is a house, and your master is away.Whe he is backm and found out that the house is a mess. He asked you, why is hte house in a mess? You explained, because ruby player needs a stay, a bunch of bilkers needs to rest. So your master said, " Don't you know how to say no?" Because this is not your house only.
Thought Management We have done so many stuff, so many kind of management for our life, so have we considering in managing our thoughts? Our thoughts don't just belongs to ourselves only, we have submit to Jesus. Only He has the authorithy over you. He forgives you adn disallow your guilty thoughts. Don't leave your htoughts unguarded (2 Cor.10:5)
On page121-When you feel like a bum or loser. Don't you let your guards down? You should submit these thoughts to Christ instead-Ephesians2:10 or Romans8:1
That is when you feel like a loser. So what happens when you feel great. And do you let your pride gets in? - Rom12:3- Don't cherish ,exagerated idea of yourself or your importance. The cross of our Lord Jesus Christ i smy only reason for bragging-Gal6:14
Temptation thoughts-1Corinthians6&7 - Is important for the husband and wife. Sexual drives are strong , but marriage is strong enough to take it. So do not engage into any uncommitted sextual stuff.
Just remember that you have to be selective to your seed. The more selective with your seed, the more delightful is your corp.
===Gold in Grabbage===
Romans 12:12
So if you are mess up down be despair. What ever Jesus see is a opportunity in those mess up life. No matter what happens we have to filled our life on Jesus, because our eyes will determine our life-Matt6:22-23.
===Hope Filled Heart=====
When Jesus is being betray, abandon and left alone,even his prayer were not answered. How he felt at that point of time? All He had is not there, all His support is not there and nothing just works up for Him. But He still have hope, despite of everything.
Page 137. One day Elisha's servant got up and fear, Elisha said dont't be afraid. THe army that fight for us is larger than the one against us. 2 kings 6:15-17. Request God to let you see (Mark10:51)
=====Finishing Strong An Enduring=======
Have you been starting something with full power but didn';t finished it. E.g. A exercise plan, projects or relationship.
The most important thing is to finished the right thing, what is optional, essential?
OPtional= like speed reading.
Essential= like race of faith. (Heb.12:1)
Race in geek = agon = agony.
Jesus strongerst step is his last step.
- YOu know the moments of tempatation and hos is it like even in a minute. Jesus got tempted for 40days and never gave in. Temptation didn't stop him, nor did accusations. Jesus being abandon , un accepted, by people, accussed and shame, force to take punishment without doing anything. So how did He managed to endure those stuff? He focused on the joy that God put before Him (Heb12:2)
Jesus focus the prize in heaven, therefore He can finish strong.
Because of you lingers so many unfinished task, and these shackles just chained you , you are not able to fulfill those plan, so cluttered that you can't see the vision God has placed you, cannot run for God. In the end you got stress up and frustrated, tip and fall.
Once you completed a task. YOu just want to hear these words. " Well done, good and faithful servant(Matt25:23).Then you know the voice is worth it.
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