For the past few months, many things have happened to me. Although I went through a lot of struggles and also trials and temptations, God was good all the way and taught me to rejoice in any situation and anything that can happen to us whatsoever. God is always good and as Christians, we know that God has prepared a table before us in the presence of our enemies and He will guide us and be our shepherd all the way.

That being said, this means another revival of this blog. There will not be daily updates as that will be sacrificing quality for quantity but there will be weekly updates on things I have been thinking about. Let’s start off with something Canadian (and also Japanese), saying “sorry”.

We Canadians are known to say sorry too much. We say sorry to a point where it becomes a natural instinct, something that just comes out from our mouths. Is this good at all? Those who are unfamiliar with this custom would think that we are being overly polite and actually commend us for doing this. How is this in the eyes of God?

Let’s break down the logic. You do something, you say “sorry” but you do not mean it. What does this mean?

Let’s look at the 9th commandment:

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. Exodus 20:16 (NIV 1984)

You are sinning! And if you are not a follower of Jesus Christ, this adds on to the wrath God has against you. That is why you need Jesus if you have not accepted Him!

But let’s look at this from another point of view. There are many altar calls where hundreds, or even thousands of people openly declare that they have confirmed their faith in Jesus Christ, but I always pray for the people declaring their faith to declare it full-heartedly rather than going on just because of other reasons such as peer pressure.

Moving on from altar calls, when we pray for repentance, do we mean it full-heartedly? Sure in the Lord’s Prayer, we ask God to forgive our trespasses or debts, but do we really mean it or are we really just reciting an obsolete chant.

I pray that this is enough to ponder for a week. God Bless you all!!!