Timor Leste

Pics are up from my trip to Timor.

Check it out

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/calvinkohmt/EastTimorPhotos?authkey=pwL2eW4C8D4

The Receipt

George of the jungle vs The Penguin

Read this very interesting post from this guy call Seth Godin, an author and speaker who writes mainly about business, advertising and marketing. This is his blog - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/.
This comes from his blog:

Thinking about Danny Devito

George Clooney is a movie star. He looks like one. He makes tens of millions of dollars a year, hangs out at Cannes and has starlets falling at his feet.

Danny Devito is exactly five feet tall. He was perfectly cast as the Penguin.

Can you imagine the career advice Danny got? The well-meaning people who explained to him (as if he didn't know) that he didn't really look like George Clooney? That perhaps, maybe, he should consider a job as a personal trainer or short order cook...

The math, however, tells us something different.(number of people resembling George Clooney)/(jobs for people resembling George Clooney) is a much bigger number than the ratio available to Danny. For the math challenged: Because everyone in Hollywood is trying to be George, there are a lot more opportunities for the few Dannys willing to show up.

Invest in Danny. The edges usually pay off.

The reason why I found this post interesting is simply this:

In a world where many aim to be George Clooneys and no one wants to be Danny Devito, God IS looking out for the Dannys. Why? My opinion is that most Dannys are pretty self aware and know they can never be a George Clooney. They are humbled by this fact and are grateful for whatever roles come their way, just as how christians should be grateful for the blessings that we have and be joyful in wherever God places us. ( My job sucks is a pretty common gripe. I stand guilty as charge.)
Humility and gratitude. Two characteristics which are foreign to the modern mind.
To be honest, I wouldn't want to be a Danny Devito too.
Shorter than average, a bit on the heavy side, balding and having looks that only a minority of people would say is "marginally cute, like a baby bear".
But as Seth puts in his post " Invest in Danny. The edges usually pay off."
Im pretty sure God "invests" the most in the Dannys. Im also pretty sure God's heart is for the Dannys.
One final thing that im also sure of...... One day, Dannys will rule the world.
Why? Cause one day, in a world of Georges, God will have an important job that will require you to be a Danny Devito.
When that day comes, what would you say to Him?

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. Matthew 20:16

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of God. Matthew 5:3

Greater love hath no man

" Love them like Jesus" Casting Crowns

The love of her life is drifting away
They’re losing the fight for another day
The life that she’s known is falling apart
A fatherless home, a child’s broken heart

You’re holding her hand, you’re straining for words
You trying to make - sense of it all
She’s desperate for hope, darkness clouding her view
She’s looking to you

Just love her like Jesus, carry her to Him
His yoke is easy, His burden is light
You don’t need the answers to all of life’s questions
Just know that He loves her and stay by her side
Love her like Jesus
Love her like Jesus

The gifts lie in wait, in a room painted blue
Little blessing from Heaven would be there soon
Hope fades in the night, blue skies turn to gray
As the little one slips away

You’re holding their hand, you’re straining for words
You’re trying to make sense of it all
They’re desperate for hope, darkness clouding their view
They’re looking to you

Just love them like Jesus, carry them to Him
His yoke is easy, His burden is light
You don’t need the answers to all of life’s questions
Just know that He loves them and stay by their side
Love them like Jesus

Lord of all creation holds our lives in His hands
The God of all the nations holds our lives in His hands
The Rock of our salvation holds our lives in His hands
He cares for them just as He cares for you

So love them like Jesus, love them like Jesus
You don’t need the answers to all of life’s questions
Just know that He loves them and stay by their side
Love them like Jesus
Love them like Jesus

Kent Williams

耶稣爱你不需要理由，因为他就是爱.
信任这份爱，发扬这份爱。

I AM

I was regretting the past
And fearing the future ...
Suddenly my Lord was speaking:
" MY NAME IS I AM ". He paused.
I waited. He continued.

" WHEN YOU LIVE IN THE PAST
WITH ITS MISTAKES AND REGRETS
IT IS HARD. I AM NOT THERE.
MY NAME IS NOT I WAS.

WHEN YOU LIVE IN THE FUTURE
WITH ITS PROBLEMS AND FEARS
IT IS HARD. I AM NOT THERE.
MY NAME IS NOT I WILL BE.

WHEN YOU LIVE IN THIS MOMENT
IT IS NOT HARD
I AM HERE
MY NAME IS I AM. "

Helen Mallicoat

So do not worry about tommorrow ; for tommorrow will care for itself Each day has enough trouble on its own. Matthew 6:34

...but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead.
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3: 13-14

And I will restore to you the years that the locast hath eaten....
Joel 2:25

Yes, Salvation is free but we are not home yet.

Salvation is a gift, as free as the air we breathe. It is to be obtained, like any other gift, without money and without price; there are no other terms. " To him that worketh not, but believeth." BUT on the other hand, if we are to gain a crown, we must work on it. Let me quote a few verses in 1 Corinthians (3:11 - 15 ): " For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble; each man's work shall be made mainifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire: and the fire itself shall prove each man's work, of what sort it is. If any man's work shall abide, which he built thereon, he shall recieve a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire."
We see clearly from this that we may be saved, yet all our works burned up. I may have a wretched, miserable voyage through life, with no victory, and no reward at the end; saved, yet so as by fire, or as Job puts it, "with the skin of my teeth. " I believe that a great many men will barely get to heaven as Lot got out of Sodom, burned out, nothing left, works and everything else destroyed.
It is like this: when a man enters the army, he is a member of the army the moment he enlists; he is just as much a member as a man who has been in the army ten or twenty years. But enlisting is one thing and participating in a battle another. Young converts are like those just enlisted. It is folly for any man to attempt to fight in his own strength. The world, the flesh, and the devil are too much for any man, But if we are linked to Christ by faith, and He has formed in us the hope of glory, then we shall get the victory over every enemy. It is believers who are the overcomers. "Thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to truimph in Christ." Through Him we shall be more than conquerors.

Excerpt from " The Overcoming Life" Dwight L. Moody

We cannot save oursleves nor santify ourselves, God does that; but God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do that ourselves, we have to work out the salvation God has worked in.
- Oswald Chambers

Knowing God in experience

Our fathers have told us and our own hearts confirm how wonderful is this sense of Someone there. It makes religion invulnerable to critical attack. It secures the mind against collapse under the battering of the enemy. They who worship the God who is present may ignore the objections of unbelieving men. Their experience is self-verifying and needs neither defense nor proof. What they see and hear overwhelms their doubts and confirms their assurance beyond the power of argument to destroy.
Whatever else it embraces, true Christian experience must always include a genuine encounter with God. Without this, religion is but a shadow, a reflection of reality, a cheap copy of an original once enjoyed by someone else we have heard. It cannot but be a major tragedy in the life of any man to live in a church from childhood to old age with nothing more real than some synthetic god compounded of theology and logic, but having no eyes to see, no ears to hear and no heart to love.

Excerpt from " The Divine Conquest" by A. W. Tozer

The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are the children of God
Romans 8:16

Now we have recieved, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
1 Corinthians 2:12