24/02/2024
Today is the last day of the Chinese New Year 2024, also popularly called, "Chap Goh Meh", meaning the "15th Night" in English. The whole CNY period was quite an eventful celebration for me as I was kept amused with many activities while visiting my children who stay in Kuala Lumpur.
The celebration started off the first day with a Lion Dance at my local church in Butterworth, the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church. Many parishioners, especially those from the Mandarin speaking community, took the time to celebrate this auspicious day with heartfelt thanks as they recall the historical significance as recorded in the Holy Bible, "Now the non-Jewish people share the Inheritance; in Christ Jesus the non-Jews are incorporated and are to enjoy the Promise. This is the Good News" - Ephesians 3:6 "And in another place: Rejoice, pagan nations, with God's people." - Romans 15:10
I am so grateful that my God has included me in His plan of salvation, "as he said through the prophet Hosea: I will call "my people" those that were not my people, and "my beloved" the one who was not beloved." - Romans 9:25 "And in the same place where they were told: "You are not my people," they will be called children of the living God." - Romans 9:26
Yes, I am Chinese by birth and not in any way related to the Jewish people by blood ties, and yet there is a good news for me, "For we hold that people are in God's grace by faith and not because of all the things ordered by the Law." - Romans 3:28.
Wow! Isn't that fantastic? It only shows how merciful our God is.
God, the creator of all things is able to do this spiritually when he told the people, "and do not think: We have Abraham for our father. I tell you that God can raise children for Abraham from these stones!" - Matthew 3:9 and so, "I say to you, many will come from east and west and sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob at the feast in the kingdom of heaven;" - Matthew 8:11
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