We recently had the ‘delight’ of looking for a rental in Singapore. As it happens we have ended up in a funky renovated HDB in Tampines, very close to all the important things…food, shopping centres and transport. Singaporean town planning at it’s best.

Prior to that, however, we spent hours surfing the net and wading thru countless pages of rentals, finally narrowing it down and taking to the streets to find our new home. Agent after agent, apartment by apartment there was one factor to this house-hunting mission that was constant…agents who revelled in ‘stating the obvious’.

Now, before any real estate agents black mark this blog for life there is a positive twist to come so stay with me!
With each apartment my kids anticipation for what was to come could be seen on their faces. With the turn of the key to each new apartment my three children would look at my wife Johanna and I with the expectation of hearing the following ‘Now this is the front door, this is the kitchen, this is a bedroom, this is the toilet etc etc’.

I know, I know, they are just doing their job but after the third or fourth apartment I cheekily began to finish their sentences…naughty I know, but fun!

Now having settled into our new HDB, apparently the best street in Tampines according to taxi drivers, I had a few moments to reflect on the events of the previous weeks. Smiling contently to myself in my lazy boy chair with a hot cup of freshly brewed coffee, a new blog entry began to emerge…with, I think, a little conviction of the Holy Spirit.

So often we are guilty of going through the motions of telling God what we need, what we want and how we expect Him to serve it up to us…I confess even the other day as I knelt to pray about my ‘needs’ the thought struck me that to ‘state the obvious’ about God and who He is will never be wasted time, never fall short of truth and will always bring a fresh awareness of who God is and always will be…similarly in worship, to ‘state the obvious’ about God is an element of worship that is eternal in its perspective, but immediate in the strengthening of our faith.

To all Real estate agents, thanks for the inspiration.

Adam
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