Birthday ...
Birthday ...
The little red dot is celebrating its birthday in a few days' time and everybody seems to be all excited and geared up.
Why are birthdays so special and important? Is the focus on the one celebrating the birthday or should it be on the One who created from naught you and me so that we can celebrate our birthdays?
It's normal to hear teens intentionally or "accidentally" telling you "my birthdays coming ... on so and so day", or "I wish someone will give me this thing I've been wishing for .... and by the way my birthday's coming soon you know" - well, to such statements, I would apply the accounting principle - debit and credit (aka one ear in, the other ear out =) afterall, there are so many of them, how many person's birthdays do they expect me to remember and before I'm accused of practicising favouritism, I better begin by treating everyone the same.
I used to get excited about birthdays too - I mean, my own. But over the years, it has just become "another day" - nothing special. I guess what matters most about birthdays is that it gives us time to remember that the good Lord has seen us through another year, and is bringing us into a new one, and His promise to us: "Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you" (Heb 13:5b). Shouldn't birthdays be a time to reflect how we have fared, and how we can do better in the new year?
Let's not focus too much on ourselves that we lost that gratitude towards the One who made the day possible for us. Go ahead and celebrate, but include the One who made it possible for He loves to be in the midst of that celebration too.
Happy birthday, little red dot, may you be the one God can work through to declare His glory!
The little red dot is celebrating its birthday in a few days' time and everybody seems to be all excited and geared up.
Why are birthdays so special and important? Is the focus on the one celebrating the birthday or should it be on the One who created from naught you and me so that we can celebrate our birthdays?
It's normal to hear teens intentionally or "accidentally" telling you "my birthdays coming ... on so and so day", or "I wish someone will give me this thing I've been wishing for .... and by the way my birthday's coming soon you know" - well, to such statements, I would apply the accounting principle - debit and credit (aka one ear in, the other ear out =) afterall, there are so many of them, how many person's birthdays do they expect me to remember and before I'm accused of practicising favouritism, I better begin by treating everyone the same.
I used to get excited about birthdays too - I mean, my own. But over the years, it has just become "another day" - nothing special. I guess what matters most about birthdays is that it gives us time to remember that the good Lord has seen us through another year, and is bringing us into a new one, and His promise to us: "Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you" (Heb 13:5b). Shouldn't birthdays be a time to reflect how we have fared, and how we can do better in the new year?
Let's not focus too much on ourselves that we lost that gratitude towards the One who made the day possible for us. Go ahead and celebrate, but include the One who made it possible for He loves to be in the midst of that celebration too.
Happy birthday, little red dot, may you be the one God can work through to declare His glory!
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