Prayer

求主助我知人伤痛,让我知道如何相助;唤醒我心赐我怜悯,让祢大爱借我流露。

Lord, when I learn that someone is hurting,
Help me know what to do and to say;
Speak to my heart and give me compassion,
Let Your great love flow through me today.
—K. De Haan

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Scrat and his acorns


Found something that look like the acorn in Bukit Bnedera
Have you ever watched Ice Age?
Ice Age is definitely a cartoon movie that loved by kids. 
When I first watched Ice Age, there was a squirrel made me feel so "annoying".
The squirrel name Scrat. He is a saber-toothed squirrel who is so obsessed with collecting acorns. The strange things is he'll never eat those acorns. He'll just keep them. And he constantly putting his life in danger to obtain and defend those acorns. I really can't understand why don't he just eat them. And finally, I understand that Scrat is only blindly seeking and keeping the acorns since that he keeps chasing them from Ice Age to Ice Age 4. There is no any purpose in it.

At some point, we humans are just like Scrat. We blindly earning for money. We'll never satisfy no matter how much money we have. Somehow, we will even forgot the initial purpose of why we spent so much time and put so much effort in earning money. Fathers earn money to feed the family, young people earn money to realize their dreams... but as time goes by, the young people's dreams eroded; fathers spent too much time in earning money and neglected their families. 

There is a epic moment in Ice Age 3. Scrat met a pretty squirrel. They fought for the acorns. and finally, they fall in love. Live happily in their love house and put the acorns out of their lives. But at last, Scrat left to search the acorns again. Sometimes, this happen in our lives too right?  

1 Timothy 6:10, For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.  

It is not that me as a Christian is so pretentious that I don't need money to survive but my God tells us dont be greedy, eager for money. Greedy in money is a root of all kinds of evil.        

I am still on the way learning how to view money as moderate in my life.