2014 was a great year for me. I managed to move jobs and had a fruitful first 180 days in my new post. My eldest daughter got baptized into Christianity by a CCF pastor. I have grown closer to my nieces, who from before were behaving a bit uneasy and distant in my presence. I also managed to complete my York Rite masonic studies and gained the Knight Templar degree. Likewise I completed my 4th to 30th degrees and got me into a position of achieving my 32nd degree in Scottish Rite Masonry this January.
But if there is one thing that really made 2014 great, it is the fact that I managed to read the Holy Bible from cover to cover in 12 months. It was an uphill battle in most times, but the struggle were all worth it. It helped a lot that my wife gave me a Ipad Mini for Christmas in 2013, and having downloaded a copy of the Bible, it was quite good to have it easily accessible when caught in slow moving traffic in the morning and early evening. It got to a point when I felt that the traffic jams were blessings. It became my signal to read (with the formula from Pastor Peter Tanchi in mind) my daily dose of 5 chapters of scriptures. True enough, when December came, I was just about at the start of the Book of Revelations. What a great blessing!
Having read the Bible from Genesis to Revelations, I now have a clearer grasp of how a Christian life is not and will never be a stroll in the park, or a bike ride along the boulevard. I now clearly see with 20-20 vision that it is a walk in the jungle, where you do not really see what lies ahead. there may be steep ravines, wild beasts, foggy terrain and what have you. And by our own physical and mental prowess there is no way we could walk that path on our own. We have to keep our eyes on the Shepherd.
And while this walk in the jungle may be a scary proposition, we need not be unhappy and scared and stressed out. We are supposed to walk in faith, and trust the Shepherd. For our own happiness springs eternal in His glory.
But if there is one thing that really made 2014 great, it is the fact that I managed to read the Holy Bible from cover to cover in 12 months. It was an uphill battle in most times, but the struggle were all worth it. It helped a lot that my wife gave me a Ipad Mini for Christmas in 2013, and having downloaded a copy of the Bible, it was quite good to have it easily accessible when caught in slow moving traffic in the morning and early evening. It got to a point when I felt that the traffic jams were blessings. It became my signal to read (with the formula from Pastor Peter Tanchi in mind) my daily dose of 5 chapters of scriptures. True enough, when December came, I was just about at the start of the Book of Revelations. What a great blessing!
Having read the Bible from Genesis to Revelations, I now have a clearer grasp of how a Christian life is not and will never be a stroll in the park, or a bike ride along the boulevard. I now clearly see with 20-20 vision that it is a walk in the jungle, where you do not really see what lies ahead. there may be steep ravines, wild beasts, foggy terrain and what have you. And by our own physical and mental prowess there is no way we could walk that path on our own. We have to keep our eyes on the Shepherd.
And while this walk in the jungle may be a scary proposition, we need not be unhappy and scared and stressed out. We are supposed to walk in faith, and trust the Shepherd. For our own happiness springs eternal in His glory.
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