Life's Nuggets of Gold

By Josephine Lim

Happy Easter, everyone!

Just to share with all of you some precious nuggets and revelations that I learnt and wrote these past months:

By having the desire and willingness to improve, we are already seeing progress.

Make right decisions now and we don’t have to worry about tomorrow.

Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed (Proverbs 16:2)

I rather live a fulfilling life than have all the riches in the world and yet feeling empty.

Whoever gives heed to instructions prospers, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord (Proverbs 16:20)

Humility and the fear (honour/worship) of the Lord bring wealth and honour and life (Proverbs 22:4)

Real happiness is when we choose to look beyond ourselves and reach out to love and care for others. Because by looking at self, we will never be good enough in our own eyes neither in the eyes of others. Choose to bless and you’ll be blessed.

Life’s not about how rich we are unless it is used to share and bless,
Life’s not about how successful we are unless it benefits others,
Life’s not about how intelligent we are unless it inspires,
Life’s not about how beautiful we are unless it radiates with warmth and kindness.

Sometimes, the simplest beauty in life is just around us.

By the way, just some updates about my recent trip. I came back from the Middle East more than half a month ago and the followings are the summary of my trip:

1. Saw two wonders of the world namely, The Pyramids in Egypt and The Treasury in Petra, Jordan. We went into one of the Pyramids via tiny tunnel - for sure not for the faint-hearted. To be honest, my personal wonder of the world would be Israel as it used to be a parched land until the Jews came back and it became fertile and blessed by the Lord.

2. Went up Mount Sinai on a camel and walked one hour to the peak to catch sunrise then faced with extreme physical challenge walking down the mountain for almost three hours. After completing our feat, our pastor said, “First time is curiosity, second time is stupidity, third time you are a tour guide.” It’s a good joke.

3. The climax of the trip was visiting the Promised Land (Israel) and the country is getting more and more beautiful with plenty picturesque moments.

4. Went on the wet and dark Hezekiah’s Tunnel adventure in Jerusalem which was quite fun.

5. Took a dip and some TLC moment in the Dead Sea with more men covered their whole body with the mud than women. Male vanity on the rise? Well, with Pastor Joshua playing muscular man with the mud, that speaks of itself. By the way, we were very encouraged and blessed by the revelationary teachings of Pastor Joshua. A real refreshing trip.

6. Rode on horses to take overview pictures of all Six Pyramids and the Sphinx, what a fantastic closure to our trip!

7. Survived crazy and adventurous Cairo by the grace of God. Thank God for my two amazing strong lovely companions, Connie & Rachel that we three golden girls, as some of our tour group members called us, emerged unscathed during our additional nights spent in the city by ourselves.

Praise the Lord for He is good and His love endures forever! (Psalms 136:1)