God Has Good Plans for your Life
“A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.” (Proverbs 16:9 WEB)
People like to plan out their lives, and even assume about things decades from the current time.
However, in the verse above, we see that while man plans his course (a trajectory of days, months, and years ahead), the Lord directs his steps, which implies a much shorter timeframe—like a day by day pace.
The truth is, we do not even know what will happen to us a few minutes from now. We can only live one step at a time.
God’s word is a lamp to our feet, showing us the immediate way ahead, but not the whole road.
In this mortal lifetime, there will always be a need for faith.
As Jesus said, each day has enough worries of its own. You were not made to live in stress over your future.
As a child of God, you have a Heavenly Father who loves you. He feeds the birds of the air, and not one of them falls to the ground without His knowledge. He even numbers the hairs on your head.
The God who personally knows all the stars by name, is also concerned when you are heartbroken. So much power and responsibility, and yet He does not dismiss the trivial details in our lives.
Life never turns out exactly as we think it will, but we can trust that all the things that happen to us will work together for good. God makes everything beautiful in its time, and that includes your life!
“God’s Appointed Time” is about His system of times and seasons—the method by which He plans every purpose under Heaven. Flow with God’s way of doing things and you will enjoy restful increase and be like a tree that produces good fruits in its season: https://bit.ly/god-appointed-time
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How to Avoid Being Dragged Off Like a Slave
“Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman. However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise. These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar. For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children. But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.” (Galatians 4:21-26 WEB)
Hi dear patron,
Hagar was Sarah’s maidservant. The name “Hagar” has three probable meanings based on its etymology: 1) To flee, 2) To be dragged off, 3) To be forced into service.
None of the three meanings have positive connotations.
The Apostle Paul revealed in his epistle to the Galatians that Hagar is a picture of the Law of Moses, whereas Sarah represents Grace.
When God gave Abraham and Sarah the promise of a son, they tried to ‘help’ God to fulfill that promise according to their own understanding.
Sarah was barren, so she gave Hagar to Abraham for her (Sarah) to obtain a son through Hagar.
This decision which was born of the flesh led to lots of domestic strife between Sarah and Hagar, as well as eventually between Israel and Ishmael.
Whenever you introduce the Law of Moses into your mind and in your actions, you’re subjecting yourself to the three meanings of the name “Hagar”.
Fleeing implies fear. Instead of faith, you’ll be living under fear.
When you try to live by the Law, you’re being dragged off from being established in righteousness by faith.
Lastly, you are forced into service like a slave, because the curse of the Law is upon whoever tries to put themselves under the Law. You have effectively taken the position of a slave instead of a son.
Can you see why the devil wants to deceive people into legalism and religiosity?
If he can trick you into trying performance-based justification, you’ll be fearful, unprofitable and living as one who is accursed.
The Law of Moses is holy, righteous and true, but man is unable to become righteous through it.
If man tries to keep the Law and fails, the Law confers its curse without any mercy. Can you see how the devil has wielded the Law to become his ultimate cloaked weapon?
Man thinks he’s doing the right thing by trying to keep the Law, but actually he is just subjecting himself to death and the curse!
If Hagar never came into the picture, and Abraham just waited for God to fulfill His promise at the right time by His power, there would be no suffering.
God wants us to rest in His promises, have faith in Him and just wait for Him to cause the breakthrough to happen at His appointed time.
Don’t let yourself be dragged off from the Gospel which is righteousness by faith in Christ Jesus. Stand firm in the gift of righteousness and rely on God’s abundant grace which is constantly being supplied to you!
Just like Abraham and Sarah, we need to learn how to flow with God’s system of times and seasons by which He does everything under Heaven. This will break the cycle of disappointment and acting by the flesh. Understand this important revelation from “God’s Appointed Time: Being Fruitful in Every Season of Life”:
https://bit.ly/god-appointed-time
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十首台灣詩X十位愛爾蘭詩人朗讀
在學童當中 ◎#楊牧
O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom, or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
--Yeats
一
樹影向東移動
那是時間的行逕
我們挪向七里香下
衣上沾滿秋天
脫落的草子。蓮花在
水池裡,白火雞
棲息枯木上,我們
在學童當中
一種焦慮的顏色
曾渲染過我行走
許多揣測的
道路,而你在
月光的深巷裡
寧靜地聽著
間奏的橫笛
梧桐樹和庭院
一畦又一畦的菊
有些疲倦,我們
隔著疲倦凝視:
不是陌生
也不熟悉
二
然而我們,我們
在學童當中——
不是陌生,也不
熟悉——今早遊戲的
圓圈比蓮花的
水池寬闊,歌聲
比噴泉生動,雖然
我不能盡知,不能盡知
那飛升的如何變化為
墜落的水點,雖然
那四散的形象
可能意識著一種
破碎而我也相信過破碎
如同那白髮的愛爾蘭人
在學童當中,我也
分辨。他們在拍手
長大成人,那掌聲破碎
可能遺失在今早的
草地上,他們也可能回來
尋覓。啊尋覓
也可能只是失望的
慰藉。噴泉回落池中
那歸來的水點破碎
乃匯入植養蓮花的世界——
幾時才能輪到它,你說
再度升起?
三
我彷彿看到你,真的
在學童當中
你在學童和我當中:
一棵光榮的果樹
我不能擁抱的
華麗;一名舞者
我不能追隨的
旋律。你沒有名字
我發覺,我也沒有
他們也沒有名字
他們可以是樹苗
是雙手舉向一章序曲
你是滿天似雪的
花朵,雙腳投向
一片超越的激楚,我是
苦澀的果實,收斂
萎縮,屏息,消滅
一場等候詮釋的舞
四
樹影向東移動
那是時間的行逕
你戀愛著,戀愛著
間奏的橫笛,我們
在學童當中
--
“Among School Children”
By Yang Mu (1940-2020)
Translated by Colin Bramwell and Wen-chi Li
Read by Michael O’Loughlin
O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom, or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
--Yeats
1
Moving east, the shadow of a tree
becomes the trail of time
as we shift to the satinwood shade
autumn grass creeps across
our clothes. The lotus flowers
in the pond, a white turkey
perching on rotten wood
we are among school children
I used to deduce
a walking pavement dyed
with a fretful colour
now you are here
in the deep alleyway of moonlight
softly listening to the flute
reaching its interlude
there is a parasol tree, a garden
plot upon plot of chrysanthemums
dozing despite
our gaze
not strange
but not familiar
2
And we, we are
among school children—
not strange but not
familiar—the circles
in this game of morning
wider than the lotus pond
the singing voice more vivid than the spurt
though I do not quite understand
cannot quite understand how surging drops
can turn to falling rain
though anything scattered implies a sort of brokenness
and I did believe in brokenness once
I draw my distinctions
among school children
like that grey-haired Irishman. They grow
by clapping hands, their broken applause
could be lost in this meadow
of morning, where they may return
someday to search. And how
their searching may be nothing but
a disappointing comfort. Water sinks in the pond
the returning drops break too
flowing round the lotus cosmos
when is its turn, you ask me—
when will they surge?
3
Perhaps I really saw you
among school children
you among school children with me
a fruit tree so glorious
I cannot hold it—a dancer
to the melody that I have lost
I noticed you have no names
I have no name
they are nameless too
They can be saplings
or hands holding up a prelude
you are snowy flowers
in the sky, your feet dart and transcend
and fuse into that upper register
I am bitter fruit, drooping to converge
I do not breathe, I disappear:
a dance waiting to explain
4
Moving east, the shadow of a tree
becomes the trail of time
love, you are in love
the flute reaches its interlude
we are among school children
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The wool roll bread is very popular recently ! As its name implies, it looks like a wool roll.
I make some creamy cream cheese and mashed and sweetened taro as filling.
Super tasty and cute !
✒Recipe
00:00 Intro
00:17 Yeast 2.5g
00:19 T45 Flour 179g
00:22 Red Yeast Powder 1g
00:24 Sugar 15g
00:27 Salt 2g
00:31 Milk 130g
00:42 Butter 12g
02:50 Cream Cheese 120g + Sugar 15g
02:54 Mashed and sweetened taro 10g* 8
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