The fun thing about living in this vibrant city in Canada is the diversity of cultures and its accompanying practices. One does not have to be very observant to realize that Chinese New Year is upon us. In most of the Chinese grocery stores, you must have seen the following items:
Mandarin orange
Mandarin orange
In Cantonese, the Chinese character that is used for orange has the same pronunciation for another word meaning harvest and good luck. Besides this special meaning, the mandarin orange has a beautiful golden color which adds to the lunar New Year festive atmosphere and also represents all that glitters.
Chinese daffodils are fragrant and happy flowers and symbolize good fortune and prosperity.
Peach blossoms and their delicate pink petals make for a beautiful bouquet. Peaches symbolize long life in the Chinese tradition.
Sugar cane
Chinese daffodils are fragrant and happy flowers and symbolize good fortune and prosperity.
Peach blossoms and their delicate pink petals make for a beautiful bouquet. Peaches symbolize long life in the Chinese tradition.
Sugar cane
A whole sugar cane that contains a head and a tail represents a full year. Chinese believe that everything and every endeavour in life must have a beginning and an end.
A lot of the customs surrounding the Chinese culture revolve around the theme of prosperity and long life.
Someone once remarked that God must love the Chinese people a lot since he made so many of them. Surely this promise from Jesus found in John 10:10 must appeal to the Chinese;
“I have come that they may have life, and that they may it more abundantly.”
“Kong Hey Fatt Choy!”
May you discover God’s best life for you this year!
A lot of the customs surrounding the Chinese culture revolve around the theme of prosperity and long life.
Someone once remarked that God must love the Chinese people a lot since he made so many of them. Surely this promise from Jesus found in John 10:10 must appeal to the Chinese;
“I have come that they may have life, and that they may it more abundantly.”
“Kong Hey Fatt Choy!”
May you discover God’s best life for you this year!
THE UNITY OF GOD
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Unity is one of the most valuable and beautiful ideas which are highlighted in the Scriptures. Appears implicit in the moment of creation when God begins to order selection, beauty, diversity, and life to things. Because the creation reflects the Unity of God.
Even the participation of the Triune God reflected Unit, when God uses the plural word "make man in our image, after our likeness" (Gn.1, 26). But the Unity of God is the one element that permeates so also in the man that he is "image of God" (Gn.1, 27). That is, does that image fit the man to be in unity with God, that God speaks to this subject and to God.
But God added a second unit in the form of a man and a bookshop in this loneliness. God created women to be both close to varon "one flesh" (Gn.2, 24). In this way there was a paradise in the perfect unity of man with God and of man with his wife (his neighbor).
Perhaps for this reason it is emphasized that the Lord Jesus as the great commandment to love God and love of neighbor (Matthew 22,36-40). The tragedy begins when these two types of unit were desecrated following the fall of man in sin. And because of sin by the idea of "unity" turns off the conscience of man. From here, the history of humanity is darkened in a series of events that make the man on a destroyer of all forms of unity. Despite the darkness that gripped humanity, God irradio again the idea of unity in some people such as Noah, Moses, Josue, David, Elias, and so on. However, obscurantism prevalecia more in the heart of man. But God had already devised a way in which the unit is made permanent, and did so with the appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ in human history. So that the Lord Jesus becomes an example of "Unity incarnate," the example of the true man of God united in perfect shape. Jesus is the light of unity that could remove the humanity from the darkness. But as the Unity of God aims to link back to men with their Creator, the unit has been, is and always will be the subject of relentless attack spiritual and earthly forces that oppose it. The Lord Jesus Christ suffered these attacks. His death apparently seems to be the triumph of the opposing forces on the Unity of God, but the resurrection of the Lord Jesus speaks more to the defeat of these forces and the resurrection of the Unit. From here the Unity of God begins to take effect on the fragile minds of men guided by the Holy Spirit, and takes its group with the appearance of the Church of Christ. Finally, the apocalypse describes the ultimate triumph of the Unity of God over all the opposing forces, and the exaltation of that unit that has always existed in eternity: God and the Lamb (Revelation 22:1). It also presents the final work of God on the conscience of man to forge unity in the idea of permanently improved over humanity (the sons of God).
No doubt that anything exists, the unit is the most glorious God who has witnessed the man because the unit is not only an idea but an attribute of God and that He would like to share with their sons.