11052025 Pastor's Desk牧者办公桌感言

One of the great lies of our culture is that the world revolves around me. We live in an individualistic, self-centred culture. This “me”-centric attitude has found its way into our Christian consciousness as well. Our thoughts about our Christian faith may often be dominated by our concerns, our problems, our pains, and our plans. 

During my off day this past week, I did my morning devotion in East Coast Park. While sitting on one of the park benches, I started observing a group of red ants busying themselves on the ground right next to me, crawling on the concrete and the grass and leaves bordering the bench. Here is a snapshot I took. 

Can you spot the ants? I have circled one of them. They are so small that I have found it difficult to see them, even when looking very closely at the picture. 

It was interesting to observe them going about their own business. They looked really busy! I imagine they might not even have known that I was present and constantly staring at them. They were preoccupied with their ant-lives.

 After a while, I stopped staring at them and looked up. And what lay before my eyes was a beautiful view of the vast ocean under a big blue sky. 

I have inserted a square in this second photo to indicate the spot where I saw the ants. How small these busy ants were in comparison to the expanse of land, sea and sky that filled the horizon. 

Then it struck me: we are like these ants. We are busy, preoccupied, and self-absorbed. But the world is much bigger. Our lives on earth are but a speck in the ocean of the cosmos, a flicker in the vastness of eternity. The world does not revolve around us, but around God. 

This realisation should humble us. It should remind us that much in life is well beyond our control. Most of all, we need to rely upon God, the Creator of heaven and earth, who is so much bigger than us and our plans and problems. The God who also loves so much that He became an “ant” like us—Jesus came and died for us to give us new life! 

Let us not be wise in our own eyes. Instead, let us live according to the will of our loving, almighty God who orders all of creation, and who has redeemed us for eternity. 

Rev Timothy