Hope, Faith & Love

6So Jesus went with them. He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to say to him: "Lord, don't trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. 7That is why I did not even consider myself worthy to come to you. But say the word, and my servant will be healed. 8For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and that one, 'Come,' and he comes. I say to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it." - Luke 7:6-8 - Driving in today, there was an advertisement for house-cleaning service with a genie doing his magic and bang! The house is clean. Then it had me thinking. I was wondering what happened to Aladdin after he won the princess. Would he have turn into a big, over-sized, spoil brat who gets everything he wanted? The thing about having a genie is that, it makes us fat and spoil. If we can just sit there, snap our fingers and pressio! The house is clean. Snap!

"On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the palace, in front of the king's hall." - Esther 5:1a In today's world, there is so much concentration about the "I" or "me" that we lose sight of what life is really about. I love the book of Esther, basically because it has everything a great story needs. One thing that captures me is that Esther was a woman who lived for a cause greater than herself. God used this woman to save the entire Jewish people from extermination. I realised to be used by God does not come at an easy price. Before God could use her, she had to come to a place of she was will to sacrifice what she had. Her uncle Mordecai was the instrument God used to challenge her to rise up to the task. Do not think that because you are in the king's house you alone of all the Jews will escape. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another p