New year is drawing near. Within another 4 more hours, 2008 will be over and we will be ushering in 2009. It marks the 10th year of this new millennium.
Right, so what about last year's resolution?
Frankly, i didn't fulfill any of them. This year is really a bad year for me. It's like, nothing really seemed to go my way. The most crucial thing in my mind when I first boarded the plane to return to Malaysia, is to get hired and start working as soon as i can. The last thing that i have never thought it would occurred to me had happened through out the year.
I might regard myself to have gone through the misfortune among all times. The world economy has turned into its negative phase in less than a week. The economic slowdown hits every corner of the world and it fails to make a climb back on track.
How the world would become if this goes on for a long period?
I came across this question when i first graduated from my Masters:
So if one day, my degree doesn't get its recognition anymore from the world's top institutes, what would i do to survive?
Clearly, it is happening to me now. Every developed country and under-developed country are all in consensus to reject excessive trained engineers, as the number of these professionals are increasing exponentially but the demand of engineered products are still in stagnant. No doubt, companies have to call for retrenchment to maintain their financial stability. This cause the recession to reach its new height everyday.
So what do we learn from this incident?
Some people just fade like this. They fell too hard to the ground. Some paralyzed, some died of concussion. And some even wonder where can they find hope again. Is there still hope?
Psalm 39:7-8 reads, "But now, LORD, what do I look for? My hope is in you. Save me from all my transgressions; do not make me the scorn of fools..."
In the midst of crisis, David didn't blame GOD for not making his life the way he (David) had intended to live in. Rather, we can feel his appeal for God's mercy because he could sense that the life is so brief.
Here, i highlighted the importance of living out a life of a Christian by abiding to God's word.
To be able to live in a spiritual realm likewise to what God has called us to is easy to say and difficult to accomplish. We can sense more stability in the spiritual realm than the reality of this world that we are living in. To draw an example: Many working people tend to suffer when financial crisis hits them because they think apart from money, nothing else can they hold onto. As Christians, God called us to cling on to Him regardless of what crisis it might be. For most of us, money doesn't come that easily. But it sneaks away faster than you could realise it. So why not God instead of worshipping money instead?
To survive in this world is not what God wants from us. He crowned us the first day we were born and the crown means to transform us to be like conquerors over His created beings and objects. We are more than money can control but to control money. We serve the one Master, who is the LORD over the Heavens and the Earth and not money which is only a creation from God.
Financial crisis doesn't mean harm to us. It is yet another warning for all mankind from the LORD. The days on the Earth is a preparation for all God's people before we are admitted to the Paradise awaiting us. An analogy of this can be seen when we are in our mothers' worms. God prepared us even before we were born into this world.
So my new year resolution for this coming year, is to walk closer to God's calling.
I might face oppression in my work place or i might have to put up with certain work pressure, but i believe this is what God wants in me, as a preparation for me to excel in my future undertakings, as well as the day after life - the Days of Paradise.
Hallelujah, the old has gone and the new has come. Pray that there will be new converts this year as God has prepared a field for every Christian in every corner of the world. May there be more redemption of souls and loads of happiness.
Wishes you all a Happy New Year. God bless and peace be with you.
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