Dr Leow Theng Huat
12 April 2015
Wesley Methodist Church
Theology
Faith seeking understanding
Faith and live push us
To want to know more
To understand
Can see and touch
Able to suspend some natural laws
Can eat and drink
Can enjoy fellowship
Limitations removed
No decay
No disease
No deterioration
No death
This helps you to face your own mortality with courage and joyful expectation
By God's grace!
Scars in hands
Feet
Side?
Why did He remain mutilated?
His body without the wounds
Would be far less perfect
Far less beautiful
Wounds of sacrifice
Wounds of love.
Beauty and perfection in God's eyes
Are not in external appearances
If beautiful outside
But self-centered
= hideous in God's sight
= a deformed human being
The world has excessive emphasis
On external outward appearance.
God sees a persons
Acts of love
Acts of sacrifice
Wounded by loneliness
Take home message
Have you ever really made a sacrifice?
Where are your wounds?
Do you have beautiful hands?
Look nice,
But never did any work?
Or do you have scarred hands
Rough from carpenters work
With wounds of love
Of sacrifice
Of giving?
Hands constantly open in the act of giving?
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| Closing prayer |
Dear God
Give us eyes to see
Beauty as you see
Perfection as you see.
Give us
Deep love for people around us
Love that drives us to sacrifice
Even sacrifice that wounds
Amen
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