As I look forward to celebrating the Lunar New Year, I wondered how many of us do spend time with our extended family members regularly – perhaps once a week, once a month or once a year during the festive periods only. Indeed, celebrating festivities can be a joyous thing for us to celebrate about but there is a price to pay when it comes to keeping a peaceful home in one accord that unifies everyone together in the same household. Indeed, I recalled how the apostle Paul encouraged the Ephesus church to focus on Christ that united them as one big family as they have their relationship with Him and to have Him as their “peace” and not to be “dividing wall” to each other by their own upbringing and culture. (Ephesians 2:14, NIV), putting aside their differences for unity binds people together as “God’s people and also members of his household” (Ephesians 2:19b, NIV).
Today, I want to encourage families, friends and people to bind themselves as one big family together regularly and not to be “dividing wall”by their own upbringing and culture just as the Ephesians initially did, but to have Christ as their peace in their lives and put aside their differences with others surrounding their lives, even through Chinese New Year might be a stressful time with all the preparations that needed us to prepare for this new seasonal year ahead. Truly, I pray for families, friends to be united with their loved ones and their families as one household today and pray for Christ’s peace to rest upon them all, for “God’s people” are “members of his household” too. And, family unity protects our children lives, their development and their well–being that causes them to grow with us as one accord allowing us to bring others to this unity with God’s family as well.
What are the steps that we can take and reach out to broken families and restore their relationships to wholeness from their hurts, pain and brokenness today?
Blessed Lunar New Year 2023!
Profile Background:
Jeremy Koh is a disabled graduate from Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore – formerly known as Spastic Children Association (1987–1997). He graduated with Certificates in Microsoft Office Skills & a HR Administrator Graduate (CHRA) under Human Capital Singapore–SGEnable Collaboration of Partnership – HCS HR PowerBank (7th Dec 2021 to 3rd June 2022). Jeremy has also worked in ServeHope Pte Ltd – Project Assistant/Email Marketing Consultant for 5 years (March 2008 – August 2013); as KeyGuard Specialist @(these)abilites Pte Ltd handling all KeyGuard Operations for 10 months in World United College South East Asia (Tampines Branch); an Executive Assistant with Vision Strategy Storytelling (3 months, Aug to Oct 2017); as GB Connector in GrowthBeans Team in Savior-Asia Consulting Pte Ltd (October 2018 to December 2019). Today, Jeremy is a Founder in the ground up initiative project called – Project Stories for LIFE (Affiliated with Youth Corps Singapore, a former member of the Special Needs Cluster) that serves the Special Needs Community at-large in the society, as well as being a PwD Advocate – a representing voice of the Disabled Community to the public today.
Prayer Response to this featured article:
Jesus, help us to be an ultimate peacemaker to all people relationships today.
(Written by Jeremy Koh, adapted from 19th December 2022 reading for 21st January 2023 – CNY Eve)
Profile Background:
Jeremy Koh is a disabled graduate from Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore – formerly known as Spastic Children Association (1987–1997). He graduated with Certificates in Microsoft Office Skills & a HR Administrator Graduate (CHRA) under Human Capital Singapore–SGEnable Collaboration of Partnership – HCS HR PowerBank (7th Dec 2021 to 3rd June 2022). Jeremy has also worked in ServeHope Pte Ltd – Project Assistant/Email Marketing Consultant for 5 years (March 2008 – August 2013); as KeyGuard Specialist @(these)abilites Pte Ltd handling all KeyGuard Operations for 10 months in World United College South East Asia (Tampines Branch); an Executive Assistant with Vision Strategy Storytelling (3 months, Aug to Oct 2017); as GB Connector in GrowthBeans Team in Savior-Asia Consulting Pte Ltd (October 2018 to December 2019). Today, Jeremy is a Founder in the ground up initiative project called – Project Stories for LIFE (Affiliated with Youth Corps Singapore, a former member of the Special Needs Cluster) that serves the Special Needs Community at-large in the society, as well as being a PwD Advocate – a representing voice of the Disabled Community to the public today.
Prayer Response to this featured article:
Jesus, help us to be an ultimate peacemaker to all people relationships today.
(Written by Jeremy Koh, adapted from 19th December 2022 reading for 21st January 2023 – CNY Eve)
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