O for the Wings of a Dove!

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove!
for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Lo, then would I wander far off,
and remain in the wilderness. Selah.

Psalm 55:6-7

These verses summarise my ultimate view on life. Oh, how I wish I can really fly away from the world and rest for ever under the wings of the Comforter! King David, in his fleeing from his oppressors, wrote this psalm as a humble prayer to seek for the Almighty's Help.

Life has never been easy for me. There is never anything that is enough, be it time, money, knowledge or capabilities. I have three siblings, of which two are going stray from the Path to righteousness, and my parents will have to retire in the short run. I am not doing well for my examinations, no matter how I try to study. My relatives practise politics and my relationship with them is often only skin-deep. There is the constant struggle to maintain my consecration to God, which I had testified to during my baptism in 2004. My peers are greatly influenced by neo-modernism, that is, the trend where ideologies are merely relative and never absolute. Many a time, I know that God has taught me what the Bible says about different issues, but I am socially barred from telling my peers what God says in the Bible.

Our lives have been greatly marred from the state of perfection ever since the Fall of Man. It is inevitable that we have to undergo the curse of toil and hardship.

'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,
till thou return unto the ground;'
Genesis 3:19

Our mortal lives have been eternally cursed to be sent forth into Hell and eventually into the Abyss where unsaved sinners shall be sentenced to the second death, the death of the spirit. Yet, God prepared the Son of David to show his love for the fallen sinner, right from the foundation of the Bible, the Book of Genesis.

'And I will put enmity between thee and the woman,
and between thy seed and her seed;
it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.'
Genesis 3:15

While my life on earth will be that of sufferings and hardship, I must persevere to enter the narrow gate, where I must be able to stand unashamed and not empty-handed in front of the Judgment Throne. I cannot become a dove in reality, but I can soar like one in my mind. To soar would be to overlook the matters of the flesh, and to lay up for myself 'treasures in heaven'.

'Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth,
where moth and rush doth corrupt,
and where thieves break through and steal:
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,
where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt,
and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.'
Matthew 6:19-21

God be merciful and hold the horses of punishment for the unsaved! As for fellow siblings-in-Christ, let us be prepared to undergo trials and tribulations to strengthen our faith in the Father.