‘My soul is also sore vexed: But thou, O Lord, how long?
Psalm 6:3
Visualize yourself more than 60 years back, in the mosquito- infested jungles of Thailand, living on minimal sustenance, yet sustaining great physical and mental duress, a prisoner of war of the Japanese Imperial army, gang-hauled into helping to complete the ‘death bridge’ across the River Kwai.
‘….if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us?’
Judges 6:13
England was where the nascent Protestant movement got its political backing, no less than from the King himself, albeit for less than honorable reasons.
The Protestant ethics was often cited by economists of past, as one key factor in the prosperity of the Anglo-Saxon world, when Brittania ruled not just the waves, but the world.
Indeed, as a true blue Pommie in the midst of World War II, one would truly lament; has King, country and God forsaken him, in this God forsaken quagmire??
‘Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not?’
Isaiah 58:3
Even today, after these past years of ‘truly’ seeking the Lord, I often in my lows, asked, “has God in all His might, not see that I am doing right, when He left me with this latest blight?”
‘…that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel’
Philippians 1:12
Of course, it is true that for one to be able to be a living example of God’s faithfulness and our faith, as well as to be able to empathise with the brethren we are placed with by the Lord, one has to go through the refining fire of His love as well
‘For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light’
Matthew 11:30
Many a faithful reader of the Bible knows this verse well. Yet, why do I sometime feel like a burden of beast, looking forward to the slaughterhouse instead of to God, for my reprieve??
‘Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun’
Ecclesiastes 2:11
The pain(at least for me) in almost all instances, is often the result of our sinful need to gain in this world.
We are in the world, but not of the world.
Yet, in reality, I often find myself like the avaricious leech, clinging on tight, to Satan’s wiles, instead of letting the Lord lead me.
‘To the man who pleases Him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and storing wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God..’
Ecclesiastes 2:26
Can I truly be like Mary, who sat at Lord Jesus Christ’s feet, serving him, unlike the ‘industrious’ Martha, busy as a bumblebee, making ready for the world.
‘And Jesus answered and said to her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things. But one thing is needful and Mary has chosen that good part…’
Luke 18:41-42
God wants us to serve Him by loving Him with our all and loving others as ourselves.
On the contrary, the world demands that we love ourselves and that God should serve blessings as we desire.
Much as we struggle to build that bridge to our desired end, like the bridge on River Kwai, it will come at countless grief and pain, and yet, it will not lead to heaven but hell.
When Jesus Christ died on the cross for our salvation, He also acts as the bridge that God allows us to come into communion with Him.
‘I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you walk upright’
Levicitus 26:13
The chasm has been bridged.
Faith is that spiritual light that will allow us to see and walk the bridge of love with Jesus Christ by our side, as we journey through the pitch darkness of this sinful world.
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time’
1 Peter 1:5
God Blesses
Eng Hieang
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