Dinner @ YAW's ROAST & GRILL

Dinner fellowship with the Cheah's and Yeap's family at Yaw's Roast and Grill.
A good time of fellowship and sharing.

Fellowship is a spiritual thing while friendship is an earthly thing.

The three temptations

One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.  Religious complacency is encountered almost everywhere among Christians these days, and its presence is a sign and a prophecy.   For every Christian will become at last what his desires have made him.

The world system uses three devices to trap Christians :

a) the lust (desire) of the flesh; also commonly known as "sex"

b) the lust of the eyes; also commonly known as "money"

c) the pride of life; also commonly known as "power"

These same devices trapped Eve back in the Garden of Eden. "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food [the lust of the flesh], and that it was pleasant to the eyes [the lust of the eyes], and a tree to be desired to make one wise [the pride of life], she took of the fruit" (Genesis 3:6)

a) The lust of the flesh refers to the basis nature of unregenerate man that makes him blind to spiritual truth.  It is a disordered desire for pleasure, such as gluttony, disordered sexual acts, drug & alcohol abuse, etc. 

In First Corinthians 2:14, "The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness,and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit."

b) The lust of the eyes operates in a more refined way.  It is a disordered desire for possession, such as theft, covetousness, and materialism in general.  The context is loving the things of this world more than loving God.

c) The pride of life is the desire to be like God but apart from God.  This happens whenever we put ourselves in the place of God by failing to recognize that He is God, and we are not.

Any sin you can think of will have its origin in one of these three and in a way, the first two stem from the third.  Pride is also known as the root of sin.

In James 4:13-17, it says this about boasting "Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”  Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow.   What is your life?  You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.  Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”  As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes.  All such boasting is evil.   If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.

"Contentment with earthly goods is the mark of a saint; Contentment with our spiritual state is a mark of inward blindness". - A.W. Tozer 

Philippians 3:13-14 "Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." KJV

Lunch @ Wang Thai Restaurant All Season

Blessed to a lunch meal at a Thai restaurant by a Korean friend.

Birthday dinner at The SSambap Korea B.B.Q

Celebrated mum's 81st Birthday at The SSambap Korean B.B.Q. with
Doenjang Jjigae (soyabean paste stew),  Godeungeo Gui (grilled mackerel),  Japchae (glass noodles with sauteed vegetables) and Jeyuk Deopbap (spicy stir-fried pork with rice).

Side dishes

Doenjang Jjigae

Japchae

Godeungeo Gun

2019 CNY REUNION DINNER @ DAORAE KOREAN RESTAURANT

Reunion is a tradition to be treasured and maintained for the sake of our next generation. In fact, to take it a step further, it should not just be an annual event. Having regular family meals together has many benefits.

Unfortunately, gathering at the table is getting increasingly impossible due to our works commitment and family busyness.

This year Chinese New Year reunion dinner is at a Korean restaurant.

2019 Chinese New Year Gathering

Dinner at Taman Hijau Tiga

Sharing over a good meal with friends helps to build stronger relationships.  Other then catch-up over a simple dinner or partaking in a massive celebration it leads to a much happier and healthier life.

Food brings us together and your family can benefit by staying connected.

 

Steam boat dinner at TOP GRADE RESTAURANT

Spending time bonding and fellowshipping over steam boat dinner with the Yeap's family at Jelutong Top Grade Restaurant help us stay connected and build better relationships.

FRIENDSHIP is not about expensive gifts BUT priceless moments.

Why children need to obey their parents

The Bible says, "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.  "Honor your father and mother" - which is the first commandment with a promise - "so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth." Ephesians 6:1-3 NIV

If our children disobey this command of the Lord, they could not only be cut off from all God has for them, but heir lives could be cut short as well.

The Bible also says, "If someone curses their father or mother, their lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness."  The fact that we can affect the length and quality of our children's lives is reason enough to pray, instruct, and discipline them.

Honoring our parents is more than an obligation.  It's also a privilege.  As children we honor them by obedience; as adults by frequent calls or visits and self sacrificing care.

Count Our BLESSINGS

Let's start the New Year with things we can be grateful for.  Let's reflect on the things that we've gone through so that we can plan for the future.  Thanking God for the time we have spent with the children and a supportive wife.  The children have grown up so fast, it's unbelievable that so many years has passed.  We still feel like we've just started our lives together.

The realization that we are on borrowed time brings clarity to our lives. We can focus on what really matters and priorities our needs.  

Everything can be beautiful if we do not allow envy, anger and negative things to tarnish our lives.

Through pain and suffering, I learn to be grateful for what I have - good health, mobility, unimpaired sight, fairly good hearing and being able to laugh and smile.

This brings to mind the Greek philosopher Epictetus who said; "He is a  wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoice for those which he has."