Just a few weeks ago now I was sitting at the Budget airport, Singapore. My family and I were heading off for a few fun filled days at a resort in KL equipped with waterslides and ‘buffet breakfast’. I of course, had only one objective in mind…fitness! Who am I trying to kid, I was there for the pastries, French toast and I hope Eggs Benedict (if you don’t know what it is, my wife has the recipe), oooohhhhhh.
While fantasizing about my ‘buffet’, I began to muse on a recent comment about Singaporean eating habits…
‘Singaporeans concern themselves with the meal that is in front of them, visitors to Singapore concern themselves with the meal they are yet to experience’.

Wait for The Holy Spirit…

Though it is important to plan for the future, we cannot always count on the future. Quite often, and I speak to myself, we are consumed with that thing, that experience, that whatever that we have not yet had. So too in our Christian walk, planning ahead, preparing for what we know is important and essential, but never let it be at the expense of what God is saying to us at a given moment.

Listen to the Holy Spirit…

In the book of Exodus ch 33/34 we can read the account of Moses meeting ‘face to face with the Lord as a man speaks to his friend’. He then pleads with the Lord to confirm that He is with Him and the people of Israel for the physical and spiritual journey ahead of them. The Lord commands Moses to meet Him on the mount the next day and as He places Moses in the cleft or crack of the mountain side, the presence of the Lord passes by as He declares His covenant with His people and their generations to come.
Moses could have begun his 7 steps to the Promised Land program or simply packed up his own family and headed off on his own considering the ‘stiffnecked’ and disobedient Israelites, even his own brother Aaron having failed in the face of pressure…but he did’nt. He waited on the Lord, he got alone with the Lord, he met with the Lord, face to face.

Then walk with and in the power of the Holy Spirit…

Moses and the people waited until the law had been given before they moved forward toward the Promised Land. Then they walked, led by the Presence of God, sustained by the Presence of God, obeying the commands of God (sometimes anyway). As the time when we commemorate Pentecost, the 50th day after the end of Passover, let the cry of our heart be as Moses…
‘Lord, if your presence is not with us, let us not move on from here’.

Wait on Him, listen to Him, walk with Him…

Adam
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...could u BE more dramatic....
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As I am the only Ang Mo on the BEEP music team, I felt the blog needed a little ‘aussie-fying’ (is that a word?) or to put a twist on the 90’s song that shall remain nameless, reflections of ‘an aussie-man in Singapore’.
Firstly a huge thanks to the Starfish boys…Irv, Merv, Kev, Gev and Jdub aka BEEP music team. I arrived in Singapore mid November ’08, my family arriving a couple of months later to begin this new chapter in our lives. I can’t thank you enough for helping to make this transition as easy as possible, thanks guys and wives!
Leaving behind family, friends and security (if that exists anymore) we arrived in Singapore. We dumped our bags, had a 5 minute tour of the condo I had rented then…straight to a food court of course.
I think we set some kind of record that nite with all eight of us piling into their Singtel lookalike red van. And away we went for some East coast culinary delites at Bedok food court.
Jdub and family kindly said ‘leave it to us’ and promptly set off, gesturing to hawkers and speaking with the distinctive singlish we've come to love. Our hearts raced as we awaited the feast that was soon to materialise. My wife and I had tantalised our three kids mental tastebuds with images of satay, popiah and chicken curry…this was the moment!
A very smug Jdub soon returned, his mission accomplished, there would be feasting tonite…and then it arrived. In retrospect I now understand why the lady who served us had a somewhat quizzical expression on her face as she placed several plates of Rojak and what I can only describe as the Tofu tower of terror before us.
Very eagerly we tore off pieces of each placing them in our mouths and waiting for the delicate flavours to invigorate our tastebuds like a kaleidoscope of taste sensations…let’s just say rotten shrimp sauce, a little like durian, must be an aquired taste over time…a long time!
Looking forward to sharing more with you from week to week, forgive my self-indulgence this time. More reflections and hopefully some ‘good food’ (minus shrimp sauce) from the word of God aswell.
Adam
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