Author Archives: Ronnie Lim

https://odb.org/MY/2022/05/18/crave-him Bread represents food. At the minimum, we must eat at least bread or rice or noodles (in our context, maggie mee!) even if it’s plain and empty of egg, meat or vegetables. At times of war or famine, just a scoop of raw rice or flour to cook into a pot of rice orContinue reading “The Bread of Life”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/05/16/the-fierce-struggle Even as we were created in the spirit before our physical bodies came into being, there is actually in parallel an immense world out there in the spiritual realm that are unseen to us. Our physical human senses are not able to see, hear, smell, taste or touch that world because our 5 sensesContinue reading “Our Fight is not Against Flesh and Blood”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/05/15/monkeying-with-the-cosmos When we do our daily devotional with God based on ODB, we can not avoid seeing repeated subject matters as there are 365 days to a year. In other words, certain themes may be spoken about again and again, although the writing or the content may be fresh. We face the same issue withContinue reading “When Were We Created?”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/05/14/the-gift-of-repentance When we accept Christ, what’s usually emphasised is the eternal life that salvation brings. That salvation is God’s gift to mankind as God loved the world so much (Joh. 3:16) that with the death and resurrection of Christ, we are redeemed from sin and the sting of sin which is death. So although weContinue reading “The Fruit of Repentance”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/05/13/finish-strong When it comes to our spiritual walk, the natural tendency is to get weary and slack off. Not backsliding but just our fervency or intensity reduced. It could be due to a variety of reasons, among of which, is just plain fatigue. Sometimes we face the same issues over and over again, so weContinue reading “Finish Strongly”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/05/12/walking-by-a-blessing I think some of us tend to think that if we give our lives to God, not only accepting Christ but fully surrendering our lives to Christ which is actually the same thing, we will lose out in terms of what we could achieve in the world. So we either refuse to enter intoContinue reading “Walking By A Blessing”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/05/11/always-worth-sharing It is interesting to note that Paul uses the picture of a Roman processional victory with spices and fragrances in 2 Corinthians 2 to illustrate the point that in a way we are like captives and spoils of war that Christ has captured for His glory and purposes. Unlike the real POWs who inContinue reading “Sharing the Gospel”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/05/10/engraved-grief I just shared a message in church on Romans 8:28 last Sunday that took Job as one of the life examples of what is the “good” or agathos in Greek and my take is one where our faith and His plans and purposes are preserved despite the adverse circumstances we may go through inContinue reading “Grieving with God”

Today’s life story in ODB aptly describes the challenge we face as Christians. The planter wants to see his sunflowers bloom while the deer in his neighbourhood seeks to devour their leaves and stems because they are food to them. So it’s a constant battle to see them bloom in spring before the deer eatsContinue reading “Sunflowers”

https://odb.org/MY/2022/05/08/how-great-is-our-god-2 The fact that each of us are fearfully and wonderfully made is not just something that the Scriptures declare with hopeful intent – meaning to say, we are not sure but hopeful that it is true. No, we are indeed fearfully and wonderfully made as each and every one of us although have theContinue reading “Great Are You Lord”