Lightness of being#45 Beneath the facade (1 June 2014)

Lightness of being #46 Beneath the facade (1 June 2014)

Dear....

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
             2 Timothy 3:16

And indeed every Word of God is prescient and precise for the Word is God.
If so, is the nonchalance that is prevalent in a world that in all reality should be drowning from her excessive borrowing, is it not an act of defiance of the warning from our Lord.

The rich rules over the poor,
and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
              Proverbs 22:7

This morning, our good Lord impressed upon my heart, the need to remind all in Singapore, that in the midst of our material prosperity, that beneath the facade are structural faults that can easily keel over the upright ship of our own making.

This evening, I came across a CNBC article ( http://www.cnbc.com/id/101603154 ) which had an interesting observation.
In all economic crisis, the match that truly turn it into a true crisis is the preponderance of excessive debt.

And like the dried leaves in the Australian bush, the world is awashed in easy credit, and we are just waiting for the spark to light the match or in debt speak, rising interest rates

An incremental pop up in interest rates, that is likely. But a significant increase in interest rates, that is not plausible, for the biggest bubble blower of the world, the US Federal Reserve and her sidekicks in the developed world will not dare to stop pumping monetary oxygen into an endemic patient that is the Western economy. But is the world right in this thinking?

Man plans, but it is God Who directs. And through history, one will observe that all major crisis happens when the world choose to be oblivious to the obvious, leaving us caught with one's pants down.

God is a faithful God. He wants to save us from ourselves. He speaks to us all, but only the faithful will sense and obey His prompting.
God impressed upon my heart to deliver this warning on debt.
I have no idea as to when this debt bomb will blow up in one's face.

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak:and he will shew you things to come.
               John 16:13

But like the return of Christ, most don't heed the call to be made ready for His return, because they figured they have tomorrow to do it.
It is possible that Christ might not return tomorrow.
But question is, your last breath might depart from you this next second , much as Christ has not returned.

Interest rate might not rise much tomorrow. But just imagine, if a geopolitical crisis develops in our backyard, and the perception of fortress Singapore as a safe haven crumbles overnight, your 60th storey apartment will still retain its height, and so will your mountain of debt, but the value of your prized asset will likely come down quite a few peg.

SARS was a reminder that the impossible is possible with God.

God will transfer His blessings from the disobedient to the faithful as end times intensifies. To give is to receive.

This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones:to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
             Daniel 4:17


God blesses

Eng Hieang
1 June 2014

An afterthought - Strange bedfellows (16 June 2014)

It's been a good two weeks since I first felt led to pen this deep impression our Lord left upon my heart. Events since then in Iraq has brought some strange realignments of relationships. The Great Satan America is chatting up the Iranians, head honcho for the Shiites, while the "terrorists" overrunning Iraq is in all probabilities getting support if not sympathies from their Sunni brethren.
Will the cauldron boil over and lead to a $200/barrel oil? That will put to rest the endemic recovery in the Western World, and put the spotlight on the hugh debt, leading to a loss of confidence and a significant rise in interest rates.

Till Christ returns, cycles will repeat itself, but as End Times intensifies, the next shaking will getting more intense, just as the evil in men deepens.

Will you turn to God now?