Whisper

    In our chapel, we did an activity where we were to walk to different stations. Each station lets us read the verse, pray, reflect, and contemplate life. The traffic light has three colours: red, green, and yellow. Red represents a stop. Ask God if there are some things that you need to stop doing. Green means go. Perhaps you can continue your obedience to what God told you to do. Yellow refers to slow down. You can evaluate or even re-assess what you are doing in life.

    Nearly two decades ago, during one of our small group gatherings, we learned that instead of asking, "Is this the right thing to do?" ask, "Why are we doing this?" The public always asks this former question in seeking answers in the bible. 

"Is it right to have a tattoo as a Christian?"

"Is it right to date online?"

"Is it right to drink?"

Rarely, if not, they ask, "Why are we doing it?"

    Other thinkers tried reading John 1:1 with the translation of the Greek word λογος to "reason". "In the beginning was the [Reason], and the [Reason] was with God, and the [Reason] was God." In accordance with the proper word order in Greek the last phrase ought to be "... God was the [Reason]". It is possible that the word order can show the degree of importance, but this is not always the case. 

As you start the year, be sensitive to what is the Holy Spirit leading and guiding you to do.