Seizing the Kairos! - How salty are you?

How Salty Are You?

Mark 9:50 – Salt is good; but if the salt become saltless, with what will you season? Have salt in yourselves, and be peace with one another.

One of the keys to become intimate with God and people is to understand the essence of salt, as written in the bible. We all know that salt is one of the most common used ingredients to cook. Imagine cooking without salt. Culinary won’t be exciting anymore because everything is tasteless.

Salt is used to enhance and give flavors to food. We, as God’s children, are called, not only to do good to people, but to enhance and bring such a great influence to other people’s life. Showing and leading them to a life filled with unfailing love and the desire to become Christ-like. We have to examine our hearts to make sure that each relationship that we have truly shows great Christ-like attitude and the passion for lost souls.

Salt is used to preserve. We are called to preserve this world from the corruption and decay of sin. We are called to preserve Godly influence in our culture by expanding our Godly influence in the culture surround us, starting from our own family.

Salt is used as healing instruments. We are called as God’s vessel to bring spiritual, emotional, and physical healing to the people around us.

Salt creates thirst. We are called to bring such influence so that people will thirst after God and His Words like never before.

Let this be a great reminder to all of us that everytime we eat and taste the salt in our taste buds, we also remember to always enhance and give flavors to other people’s life, preserve Godly influence in our family, become the healing vessel for God, and always create thirst of God to others around us. 

And now it's your turn. How salty are you?

-JH-

Seizing the Kairos! - Heaven-made Intimacy

Heaven-made Intimacy

Act 13:22

22 After He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, concerning whom He also testified and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My heart, who will do all My [a]will.’

Someone once said that Intimacy can be spelled as “In-To-Me-See”. Being intimate with someone means letting that person to see the real you by opening your heart and be vulnerable. Risking your heart so that these precious others can truly know and understand who you are deep down.

If we look at the world these days, intimacy has become the “niche” market in technology. Software and Tech companies are in competition in creating the best apps to connect people through the internet and smartphones. Thus, apps and sites like Facebook, Path, Instagram, Twitter, etc, have been born and become extremely popular in terms of connecting ourselves to each others.  However, we have to understand as well, that being intimate through these channels have driven us away from personal touch and the ultimate joy in truly spending time in the presence of our friends and families.

Worse, we even start to see our relationship with God the way we connect with others through the internet.  We start to crave for people “acknowledgement” and “ likes”. We start to spend more time in thinking how people think about us, instead of how God think about us. We start to forget the ultimate joy in spending our time in His presence. Our hearts become dull and somewhat lonely because the spring of life is no longer flowing excessively from our hearts. God is yearning for a generation that He can call after His own heart!

It’s time to go back to the real intimacy. Spend more time with the Words and in His presence.  Letting God to “in-to-me-see” and let us “in-to-God-see”.

Seek for His Heart, His Longings, His Passion, and His Will. And, once again, you will experience the real intimacy, heaven-made.

-JH-

 

Seizing the Kairos! - Pathway to Quality Intimacy

Pathway to Quality Intimacy

Romans 5:3 -5 "Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character, and character, hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us."

Bollywood is the one of the largest movie makers beside Hollywood. Bollywood has made thousands of movies since its establishment. The interesting thing about Bollywood movies, based on my observation (yes, i do watch quite a few movies myself), is that the way they picture true love is often through great sufferings. Through such pain, endurance, and perseverance, at the end, the impossible love become possible. The harder the hardship, the more interesting it gets, and the better the love story leave impression on our hearts and minds. I believe we can truly grasp and learn one important principle through Bollywood movies, "suffering is the pathway to quality intimacy."

The Word of God teaches us that suffering produce perseverance, perseverance produce character, character produce hope, hope triggers Holy Spirit to overflow God's love into our hearts.

Quality intimacy with God must be initialized with suffering for Christ sake. When we share God's suffering in our life, we start to know and feel what He feels. We start to see the world the way He sees the world. We start to understand the things He does in the past, present, and future. We start to share His mindset, and in fact, we also share His glory as a result (Rom 8:17).

Being intimate with God, is not only being joyful and peaceful at His presence all the time. Being intimate with God means sharing His tears, His pain, His thoughts for the lost souls, having the same sense of urgency to do what its need to be done to speed up the end time.

It's about time we grow up and see God in higher perspective. Being intimate with God is no longer about finding comfort and peace for ourselves. It's no longer about us and our needs. Being intimate with God is about your decision and commitment to see this world from His perspective, learning to adapt His mindset, and starting to act on the decisions that will further the Kingdom and preparing the saints for the end time.

=JH=