From 1cc84824187159f91d4bde7c3a291a0b8f32803f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pheng Heong TAN
+ It is the seventeenth day of the sixth month of the 106th year since
+ G!D gave people the comfort of a nation to call their own, regardless
+ of whether they honour G!D or not, or whether they seek Him, or
+ seek to know Him, or not.
+ Blessed is He who have enabled me to be literate in reading,
+ computing, computer operation. Who? He who hath
+ enabled me to be among the Believers - even me,
+ a worm and little one such as myself,
+ who stole food from shared fridges during a difficult time,
+ despite an obvious argument for the case that 'Food theft
+ is a crime' that G!D hath brought me to read at that time.
+ What looked like a construction to ward away thieves. And
+ which thief or theivess is more wicked and ungrateful than
+ myself? Electronic letters subsequently promised expulsion
+ from the residence that I was at, or
+ 'demerit points' (which indicates how close you are from
+ expulsion), if the person who executed the theft was found.
+ A thing, that looked like a glass ball that was chopped in half
+ and had its guts glued onto the ceiling of the kitchen that
+ the shared fridge was in, did not and had not deterred me from
+ stealing.
+ I was hungry, and there was food. And, thought I to myself,
+ 'who is there to catch me?' And it was thrilling to see who
+ could catch me while I was pinching bits of pastry away from
+ bags that I did not put into the (shared) fridge.
+ And yet G!D hath seen it fit to keep my very soul under His
+ care - and watch - so that a wicked theivess as despicable as
+ myself may operate a computer to tell
+ speak of His deeds in my life.
+ For as Scripture says, 'Thou shalt not steal.' Yet G!D has
+ seen it fit to keep me in His mercy instead of calling
+ fire down from Heaven upon me at the moment of my theft, or
+ causing the earth to open up and swallow me whole.
+ (And He even summoned bits of my soul that I thought I had
+ lost).
+ And Scripture comes to mind: 'You were bought with a price'.
+ So it seems fitting to sum up with a verse from the Bible that is
+ related to the Anointed One, who died to pay for the wrongdoings
+ of many against godliness and their very souls themselves.
+ 'The commandments "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder,"
+ "Do not steal," "Do not covet," and any other commandments,
+ are summed up in this one decree: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
+
+ (Romans 13:9)
+
+ And at this point, G!D hath seen fit to remind or bring me
+ to another verse:
+ 'Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love,
+ for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the Law.' (Romans 13:8).
+
+ So, if G!D is willing, I will offer - to sender of the electronic
+ e-mail
+ fellow creations of G!D who
+ were associated to the shared fridge that
+ I have stolen from - whatever that G!D hath brought into my life, and given me
+ freely. For as Scripture records, "'Freely you have received,' Jesus said.
+ Now, freely give."
+ (the
+ Anointed One called himself Son of Man, but Joseph named the
+ Anointed One 'Jesus' upon the visit of an angel of G!D, who
+ gave him instructions on what to name the new-born. And Joseph obeyed G!D.)
+ So, with gladness and merriment will I contact whoever G!D brings me to, who
+ are associated to that shared fridge, and give with as good a measure
+ as G!D hath used in His gifts and mercy that He hath laid upon me.
+ And indeed G!D hath given me a warning
+ yoke when he revealed the following
+ verses to me: 'He who has received much, much will be asked of him.'
+ Further, He hath warned me about the hearts and minds of men:
+ 'Not many of you should become teachers, for we are judged more strictly
+ than others. And we indeed make many mistakes. If a man has no fault,
+ he would be a perfect man, in perfect control of his body, able to control
+ his body in every way.'
+
+ (James 3:1-2)
+