A New Beginning

Okay, I didn't write anything here at all through the year 2008. Just had no inspiration, I guess. Well, here is a new year, so here I am, trying again. This blog is still here, and I'm still here, not having checked out of earth yet, as I will one day. So till then, I must try to write, not just read and talk.

I'm using the Daily Devotional Readings, Asian Reflections Year 3, and I'm glad it starts with Psalm 1. And this is my prayer for the new year, that I may be like that Blessed man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked or stands in the way of sinners or sits in the seat of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord and on which law, he meditates day and night.

Psalm 2 is very assuring in the light of the conflict going on in the Gaza between the Israelis v the Palestinians and the whole world, and news of persecution of Christians all over various parts of the world:

Why do the nations conspire
and the peoples plot in vain?
The kings of the earth take their stand
and the rulers gather together
against the LORD
and against His Anointed One.
"Let us break their chains," they say.
"and throw off their fetters."
The One enthroned in heaven laughs;
the Lord scoffs at them.
Then He rebukes them in His anger,
and terrifies them in His wrath, saying,
"I have installed my King
on Zion, my holy hill."
(Psalm 2:1-6)