Reunion dinner - i looooveee steamboat!!
I have always looked forward to the Chinese New Year, a time where we'll have new clothes, lots of food and goodies, and above all HONG BAOs!!
Since accepting the Lord, the New Year has a whole new significance for me. The bible also talks about the new year ...
The Passover is the first holiday the Israelites celebrate in the year. It commemorates God’s deliverance of Israel out of Egypt. On the following day, they celebrate the Feast of the Unleavened Bread. For 7 days, the Israelites were to eat unleavened bread. This bread, made without yeast, represents how the Lord brought them out of Egypt in haste. In Scripture, leaven (yeast) also represents sin. Eating unleavened bread is symbolic to removing all sin and wickedness. The third day, they celebrate the Festival of Firstfruits, where the people offered the firstfruits of barley to the Lord as an act of dedicating the harvest to him.
Let us remember God’s goodness and deliverance in the past year, resolve to remove sin from our hearts and fully dedicate ourselves to him in the new year!
2 Corinthians 5:17 “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has gone, the new has come!”
Lamentations 3:23 “They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”
We do not need to wait for Chinese New Year to feel “new”. In fact, the bible tells us that as long as we have Christ in us, we are being made anew! An encouraging promise from God is that His mercies for us are also new every morning. What we fail to accomplish yesterday, we can start anew today. And the Lord is faithful to give us strength as we continue to trust Him and seek Him. What a faithful and mighty God!
Blessed new year, and may the Lord’s unfailing love rest upon you as you put your hope in Him! (Psalm 33:22)
Where is papa and mama?
Wish it was "I" who fitted so nicely into a cheong sam ... 
