Closer Day By Day

Bible Passage:  2 Kings 4 Reading today’s passage brings me back to my childhood days where I first heard all these wonderful stories and mircales performed by Prophet Elisha.  Tell me how one cannot be excited and awed by the series of miracles that accompanied Elisha is his work…. The oil that refuse to stop [...]

Bible Passage:  2 Kings 3 In today’s chapter, we shall take a look at how the king of Israel dealt with the rebellion of Moab, zooming in to a few characters in this chapter. All’s good but no water? Have you ever planned or prepared so much for something, but later the plan backfired on [...]

Personally I dread to go to the airport to send off someone, especially when the one I’m sending off is a family member, church brethren, or a close friend, because I know that person won’t be around for sometimes. But with the advancement in communication tools, I don’t feel the dread too much anymore. In [...]

Bible Passage:  2 Kings 1 We start off the 2nd book of Kings to see that nothing had really changed.  Like father, like son… Ahaziah, who ruled the northern kingdom followed in the fototsteps of his wicked parents, Ahab and Jezebel (1 Kings 22:52-53). So what do I see in today’s passage? A Compassionate God [...]

Bible Passage:  1 Kings 22 Ahab is one of the most notorious kings of Israel and had led Israel astray in worshipping Baal. Finally, after all the devastations he brought onto Israel, God punished him. In this story, Ahab died by a random arrow and in spite of his intelligence of hiding his identity; he [...]

Today was our REU Day and we spent a fun morning playing various games with the children.  A sister put this comment on her facebook… RE Day was great fun >_^ God’s little ones made my day. And I certainly could not agree more! But kids being kids, there were also some disagreements and arguments [...]

Bible Passage:  1 Kings 20 I often wondered why was it that events in the life of king Ahab, the rotten king of Israel, occupied so many chapters in the book of Kings.  I mean, surely one does not want to read too much about an evil man.  But here we are today, with yet [...]

Bible Passage:  1 Kings 19 Reading today’s chapter on BibleGateway, I found it neatly divided into three sections. Coincidentally, each section made me think of a certain hymn (or Christian song, if you like). Let me share a verse from each section, the hymns they made me think of as well as my brief thoughts [...]

Bible Passage:  1 Kings 18 The Bible’s introduction of Elijah in yesterday’s chapter was by all means, sudden. The major event in today’s chapter is also immediate. The unexpectedness comes as a awesome triumph as what we witness is a spectacular display of God’s Almightiness. God’s Work & God’s Worker It is without a doubt [...]

Bible Passage:  1 King 17 Whenever I read this passage, the thought of eating food from the mouths of ravens (same family as crows) sort of sounds disgusting; of all birds I cannot stand the crow as they are like cockroaches being very dirty and black. Ravens are also considered unclean animals in the Bible. [...]