Chapter 40: Earth Hour

"Earth Hour is a global event organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. Earth hour was conceived by WWF and the Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights."

Written in Wikipedia



WWF sincerely has the heart to remind all the world about turning off all non-essential lights. It is indeed a good event. God indeed wants us to take care of the earth nicely.

Genesis 1:26
"Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." "

However, I believe not all people participate this event. We were having a youth cell from 7:30PM to 9:30PM on last Saturday. We did not switch off the light and PA system. Indeed, I felt a bit moved by the Earth Hour, when many youths came to me and ask, "Jack, why can't we participate this Earth Hour?"

I have no answer for that. In my mind, I was thinking about their spiritual growth. Frankly speaking, I did not know how to answer them.
I remained silent. I knew that they felt disappointed and discouraged.

God, at least there is one thing I feel encouraged. Some people still care for the earth. However, Some people might say that those, who just participate for fun, are hypocrites.

Listen. Even though they participate for fun, at least they had saved that one hour energy to do good to the earth. In fact, they are better than those who say, "Don't be hypocrite." and didn't participate it at all. I prefer them to keep quiet and say nothing about it, since they didn't participate either.

God, You created this wonderful world, yet we human destroyed this creation and disobeyed Your word.

Please forgive us
for we do not know what we are doing.

Related topic >>>Chapter 13: Creativity

Chapter 38: Names (Part I)

“Hey! Mok Jia Jun!”

Michael called me on 26 March 2009. He told me that he hates people calling his full name in a mocking way. I believe that if they just call “Jia Jun” in a sincere way, Michael will accept it.

Jack and Michael
Everyone has a name. A name is given for that person’s identity. A name is never given to make fun of. I do hate people dishonor my name “Jack” by calling me “Jackass”. Fellows, you do not even know that you disgrace the name of God. Do you not know that “Jack” means “God is gracious”? Such a simple yet a wonderful name, my mother has given to me. Hallelujah!

Proverbs 22:1
"A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold."

“Names” are powerful. It can influence your emotional, physical, and spiritual.

If we respect and honor others’ names,
we gain people’s love, respect and trust.
If we disrespect and dishonor others’ names,
we gain people’s hatred, anger and vengeance.
If some names are famous,
people will feel envious and jealous.
If some names are unpopular,
people will feel disgusting and sick.

Why do people hate others to make fun of their names? As I had mentioned in Chapter 29: Human Beings (Part I), human beings are weird. When people make fun of others’ name, they think it is very fun, but when their names are made fun by others, they will be angry. Do they not know others will hate it too when they make fun of others’?

I have a youth named John PSD. PSD means “Prabakaran Solomon Dhanaraj”. “Prabakaran” means Morning Sun, “Dhanaraj” means King of wealth. But, some fools make fun of his surname by calling his surname “Play Station”.
You think it is funny? How rude it is. Do you think he will not be angry?

John PSD
Readers, who likes to let people making fun of their names? Only the fools will make fun of people’s name. When the fools make fun of others, do they not know that their reputation will be destroyed by their own stupid words? When they make fun of others, do they not know they create enemies? Do they not know that their names will be very irritating and disgusting when others hear their “bad reputation” names? And it is even more pathetic for the fools to say,

“Hey! Why is he so petty? We are just playing with him only. Why is he so serious? He cannot take jokes.”

Proverbs 18:6
“A fool's lips bring him strife, and his mouth invites a beating.”

These people are really fools.
Don’t you think so? Respect people’s name for every name is unique for their own identity.


To be continued Chapter 39: Names (Part II)

Chapter 30: Human Beings (Part II)

Human Beings are funny. It seems like everything they do, they are right. It happened to the family, school, friends, and even COUPLES! It applies from kids to elderly.

I do not understand why we, Human Beings, disgrace the image of God in this way. We supposed to have the image of God. However, human beings know they are wrong, yet they still choose to do it this way. Check it out!


When they laugh, they said it is a joke.
When others laugh, they said it is pathetic.

When they keep quiet, they said they are mature.
When others keep quiet, they said those are nerds.

When they make noise, they said it is called "Enjoy life!".
When others make noise, they said it is idiotic.

When they receive no love, they said others don’t love them.
When others receive no love, they said others don’t find them.

When they sin, they said “It is alright. God will forgive.”
When others sin, they said “It is nasty. Let God condemn them!”

When they gossip others, they said “This is the truth! I am not lying.”
When others gossip them, they said “Why can’t the people talk to me face to face? Scare?”

When they criticize others, they said "This is my comment. This is what I think."
When others criticize them, they said "Why can't they understand my feeling?"

When they are praised, they pretended to be humble, in heart, they said, "Well, Look at me! Who am I? Of course I'm good."

When they are jealous about others who are better than them, they said, "I have a friend who is better than you. If you compare with him, you surely lose."

When they found someone who is talented, they said, "So what? I can do better than them."

When people are weary, they said "Ah ya! Your life is nothing, man! My life is ten times more pitiful than you."

When people are tired of life, they said, "Well, I am also like that. Do you think you are the only one?"

Readers, I have thousands of examples to share. You know what I mean... No wonder Jesus needs to take away our sin by dying on the cross for us.

Human beings are WEIRD.

Chapter 29: Human Beings (Part I)

Human Beings are indeed weird. You will never know why life is so weird even if you have God in your life. Sometimes we will ask, “Why do people such as these exist in this world?”


Those people are around us everywhere. You will agree with what I said. Here it goes:

They want encouragements,
yet they discourage others.

They want compliments,
yet they insult others.

They want praises,
yet they criticize others.

They want attention,
yet they ignore others.

They want love,
yet they don’t love others.

They want care and concern,
yet they don’t even bother about others.

They do not want to be lonely,
yet they leave others alone.

They do not want to be neglected,
yet they only look into their own interests.

They do not like people to back stab them,
yet they do this to others.

Readers, well, you know what I mean.
In conclusion, what can I say? This is what I called Human Beings. One word to describe about Human Beings,

Weird

"Human Beings (Part II)", coming soon.

Chapter 13: Creativity

Written on 16 October 2008


On 15 October 2008, Rev Yee invited me for dinner at ARK (Anglican Retirement Kampong). I have already known him and his family in Labuan (my hometown) for several years. When I reached ARK, I was told that there were some puppies around the area. So I went to search for the puppies. These are the pictures of the puppies.


The moment that I saw all those puppies, I thought, “These puppies are so cute.” I even grabbed the puppies one by one and look at their face. Suddenly, I began to wonder one thing. If we were to compare who has the best creativity, I would say God is always the best.

People often comment about my creativity, “Great!”, “Excellent!”, “Creative!” However, I know that there is an enormous gap in between my creativity and God’s creativity. Why do I wanna say that? Take a look at this video below.


If God didn’t design and create dogs on the 6th day of creation, we will not see the dogs now. Can the girls say “WOW! This puppy is SO CUTE……….!!!!”? Look at its paws, the eyes, the face, the ear, the fur…. Can you create something like that if God didn’t show you the features of a dog?


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As it is written in the bible, Genesis 1:24 - 25
“And God said, ‘Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, the wild animals each according to its kind.’ And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.”

Look at these 4 points:
1) ‘livestock and creatures that move along the ground’ means animals (poultry and wildlife) , amphibians , reptiles and insects. There are 4 kinds of creatures. Remember that, readers!!

2) ‘…according to its kind’ means different types of design in one same particular animal. For example, in dog family, You have Hush Puppy, Chi Wawa, Husky, Bulldog etc… What about different types of cats? Snakes? Bears?

3) ‘And it was so.’ means God created all kinds of living creatures IN JUST ONE DAY!! Think carefully, Readers! You can’t copy God’s idea of the fur, scale, eyes, paws, ears, body, legs… any part of any creature. Can you design a cute creature? Even if you were given a year to create one cute creature, you still cracked your skull! What more about creating thousands of different creatures IN JUST ONE DAY?!! CRAZY MAN!!


4) ‘And God saw that it was good.’ Of course, it was GOOD! I should say FANTASTIC! God created beautiful creatures IN JUST ONE DAY!!!
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What about the 3rd day of creation?
God made various kinds of vegetation
IN JUST ONE DAY?

What about the 5th day of creation?
God made various kinds of living creatures in the sea and various kinds of winged bird under the sky
IN JUST ONE DAY!!!

Do you think it is easy to design those living things IN JUST ONE DAY?!

YOU CRAZY AH?!


The most amazing creativity is that God used only 6 days to create this world!!! What can we do in 6 days?! NOTHING!! Christians, I know you all will never realize this truth until I tell you so.

Do not just read Genesis 1 as if you are reading fairy tale. Feel it!!! Elaborate the awesome creation of God!!! Look at the living things around you!! They are all the tiny little part of God’s creation which was created only in 6 days. Do you understand what I am saying? Appreciate the wonderful creations of God. It is JUST MARVELLOUS!



Remember my brand “Jack’s Stuff”… If God didn’t give me this creative idea of designing this logo, I would never have created Jack’s Stuff. Readers, you agree? Indeed, God is great!!!


As I recalled all these verses and looked at the puppies again, I said, “God, No one can have the creativity like You do.

You are so AMAZING!”