Author Archives: Ronnie Lim

https://odb.org/MY/2021/11/17/accepted-and-approved I think this issue of acceptance and approval by our fathers (or mothers) is probably more prevalent than we think. I never had this issue with my own father. Although he didn’t praise me much when I was growing up, I never had that feeling that whatever I did was not good enough forContinue reading “Acceptance By Our Fathers”

https://odb.org/MY/2021/11/16/fishing-with-jesus When I read Jesus’s early encounters with Simon Peter in Luke 5, two elements stand out for me. One is that as experienced and skillful Simon Peter is as a fisherman, Jesus was still better at identifying the right timing and fishing spot to lay out the nets! Simon Peter tried all night butContinue reading “What’s Our True Calling?”

https://odb.org/MY/2021/11/15/let-me-stay As I read Psalm 27, one of the key takeaways I get is that there is nothing to fear if we have God and the thing which David desires most is to spend all the days of his life dwelling in the house of the LORD. In the present context that means spending timeContinue reading “Presence of God”

https://odb.org/MY/2021/11/13/nothing-can-separate The logic of Romans 8 is that if God had gone through so much trouble, to the extent of giving up His Son for us, for Him to love us, what then will stop His love for us? What then can separate the love of God from us? Who then can condemn us? GodContinue reading “Love of God”

https://odb.org/MY/2021/11/12/nature-walk An oft repeated theme in ODB is this thing about creation and its creator. As we look at creation, we cannot avoid seeing God in the picture. Scripture also bears testimony to the greatness of God in this respect. As we can see in the book Job, the LORD described how He had setContinue reading “Creation and God”

https://odb.org/MY/2021/11/11/good-news-3 I first read about the Good News when I stumbled upon a Malay-English translation of the New Testament in my home library when I was very young. It was one of those books I first read when I started to know how to read in Std 2 to 3. It pinged my interest andContinue reading “Good News”

https://odb.org/MY/2021/11/10/youre-not-alone-2 As much as we are zealous for God, on fire for the business of the Kingdom, we might feel we are all alone in our quest for Christ. We feel we are alone maybe because our friends are not like-minded like us or even our church or cell members are all more nominal thanContinue reading “A Remnant”

https://odb.org/MY/2021/11/09/the-same-vine Are we a fake Christian if we do not consistently display Christian like behaviour? Are we a hypocrite if we have still have anger issues to deal with? Are we fake because we still have ego and pride and have not totally given our lives to God? Are we not a genuine believer ifContinue reading “Are We A Fake Believer?”

https://odb.org/MY/2021/11/08/sing-praise-to-god I guess worshipping with all our heart is something most of us are familiar and have done or are doing whether corporately or in person on our own. We can worship God on our own by singing while playing an instrument like a guitar or a piano or together with our church congregation orContinue reading “Rejoicing in the LORD”

https://odb.org/MY/2021/11/07/the-jesus-label I learnt in a counseling seminar a number of years back that thankfulness and gratefulness, especially towards our creator God, produce endorphins in our brain that make us happy I guess the same way doing something good or helping someone in need makes us happy inside us. There is a sense that we areContinue reading “Gratefulness”