Chinese Recipe
I learnt that
if a Chinese family invites you to a dinner and after eating their delicious
food, you do not burp graciously, they will feel uneasy. They will think you
do not enjoy the food or whether they have not satisfied you with their
delicacies. Whether this statement is true, I don't know and it does not
really matter. What I know and have experienced is that whenever we finish a
meal, normally and involuntarily, we burp. At times, at the table before we
get off. We often try to suppress it some how by covering our mouths, so
that we do not irritate the person sitting beside us.
Have you ever
wondered why this involuntary phenomenon always occurs after a meal and not
before? The reason may not be far fetched. Perhaps our alimentary canal is
simply saying "thank you" for the supply of delicious food at the right
time. And we always feel a deep relief when this happens.
The Bible
described King David as a man after God's heart because he knew how to seek
the face of Almighty God with praises. I believe this was the reason God
dealt with him in His mercy. Perhaps we need to remind ourselves that there
is power in praising the Lord. The wall of Jericho with its 32 feet high and
12 feet thick and outer wall six feet thick fell down flat like a deck of
cards when the children of God were praising Him.
The birds sing
as they float in the air. When the cool breeze blows on the trees they make
a happy rusling sound. When the tidal wave of the sea hits the seashore with
such an explosion of clap in adoration of where God had sojourned it. When
the goat, the most stubborn of all domestic animals, wakes up in the
morning, it would scratch the ground with its foreleg and would vertically
look up skyward and open its teeth. This animal is not laughing at the blue
sky. I believe it is praising God for another day.
In the city we
live, "the Babylon of our time" we need to praise God for every second of
His presence in our life for His unending manifestation of mercy and divine
protection. Especially in this city where people who wake up in the morning
to behold the beauty of the day cannot boast of living through it to see the
fall of the night amidst the natural and unnatural disasters that abounds
out there. We need to praise Him for the breath of life He gave us at
creation. Imagine, if we are to pay for the oxygen that fill our lungs every
moment, how much would it cost us? Freely we received this from the Heavenly
Father, and it has never been in short supply.
Scottish
author and preacher George Matheson (1842-1906), who was blind, expressed
this prayer: "I have thanked Thee a thousand times for my roses, but never
once for my 'thorn'. . . Teach me the glory of my cross; teach me the value
of my 'thorn.' Show me that I have climbed to Thee by the path of pain. Show
me that my tears have made my rainbow." We are to praise Him not only when
we have story of victory to tell, but also in our afflictions and defeats,
we need to appreciate Him having known that His grace is sufficient for us.
We need to
praise Him for the gift of eternal life He has given us through His only
begotten Son, who set aside His glory in Heaven, and came to this world to
take on the nature of man in order to provide a lasting solution to the
problems of mankind. We need to live a life worthy of appreciation of His
love for us by obediently living each day according to His precepts because
He took us out of the darkness of this world and brought us into His
marvelous light.
King David
knew God, he acknowledged and praised Him. The birds in the air and the
animals in the field recognize Him as their creator and they pay their
homage to Him appreciatively in a way only known to these creatures. Nature
is not left out, it paints the universe with colors of praises in His honor
and we are all witnesses to the beauty of its appearance. What about you,
the son of man? What happened to the nature of appreciation which was
created in you when God created you in His own image at the beginning?. You
have to know Him in order to praise Him accordingly. The Bible says, "I am
the way, the truth and live, no man come to the Father except through me."
You have to seek Him through the knowledge of His only begotten Son, because
He is the living sacrifice that reconciles us to the Father. If you have not
accepted the salvation that was made free for you, it means you are still in
the clutches of Satan and you cannot appreciatively acknowledge the Father
and worship Him.
Whenever you
burp after your meal remember the beckoning of His love as this tract has
revealed to you and seek his face in reconciliation.
For clearer understanding of the vital
points mentioned above please read the following Bible passages:
Joshua 6:20; Isaiah
44:23; Isaiah 55:12; Isaiah 49:13;
Psalm 148:3-4;Psalm 69:34; Psalm 96:11-12; Psalm 98:8
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English Tract No. 6 (1997) written by: MAE |
