Eternity on our Eyeballs!

My wife was up in Malaysia last week and I started listening to the church camp sermon in the car. I am usually hooked on the radio for traffic alert so that I can try to avert the ‘disastrous’ route in order to send her to her work place on time. However, this week afforded me some luxury.

The sermon was on ‘Do not accumulate” and I played it again and again until I have lost count how many times I have played it. Pastor David Cook is certainly one who has been well schooled to bring us such solemn warning and solid biblical teaching. It certainly came as a fitting reminder to myself, especially in this climate of seeming affluence and plenty. What with the bull running all over the markets,  rosy economy statistics, red hot real estate activity, enviable graduate job entry level pay….Our MM says that we are entering into a period of golden age.

For those who has missed out or has forgotten, I strongly encourage you to tune in to the church website www.arpc.net for a nice awakening set amidst this era of hard core consumerism and materialism.

The phrase that keeps replaying in my head is” Money is a good servant but a rotten Master, convert earthly wealth into heavenly currencies!”

For those who knew me better, it has always been my desire to be an entrepreneur.  How to balance this teaching against the entrepreneurial code of self absorption and exertion in building up the venture, much wisdom and prayerful seeking are required. My brethren, pray with me that this earthly endearvour shall not obstruct my heavenly vision.

In an era of dazzling wealth, profounce affluence and breathtaking working and family pace, we as christians can often be blinded and numbed to spiritual realities and our christian duties.

Let our prayers ever be as with Jonathan Edwards, the greatest christian philosopher who ever walked in New England “O Lord, Stamp Eternity on my eyeballs!”