Absent-minded and VEXED

This post is about 2 things i have experienced recently.

As mentioned to some of you, i've been pretty absent-minded recently. Such as going on "auto" mode and driving the way to church instead of going to Toa Payoh pool when sending my sister to the pool on wednesday. Another incident is when i kept thinking that today (thursday) was friday. These little incidents made me realise that i have alot on my mind. Been very focused on the upcoming events such as Saturday's gospel meeting, the Dr Spence conference from the 18 to 25 of June. All the various events such as the night messages, the YA sessions. Other things such as the souls of that i know as well as friends of my brothers and sisters who have came recently. So much was on my mind and i realised that i was depending on myself and not on God. Therefore, i see a need to cast all my cares upon my Saviour, my ROCK. Though these are important events and they are a burden to me in prayer. I shall trust all into the hands of my saviour, Jesus Christ who will undertake all for me.

Speaking of vexed. Recently i'm been going to different bookrooms and bookshops which sell Christian books and materials. I felt like LOT in Sodom whose righteous soul was vexed daily by the wickedness around him. I was really vexed whenever i go into the commercial bookrooms (such as SKS, Life bookshop, Acts, Mount Zion) by the music they were playing. Because it is constantly being played and they were mainly "praise and worship", it was sore to my ears. I don't really see why its praise and worship because it is EXACTLY like a ROCK CONCERT and i see no difference between that music and the world. And they do not praise God with such music. This is a strong statement and i make no apology for it. I state what i know and feel and let it be as a warning. The use of such music isn't pleasing to God and if u remove such music from the churches (like city harvest), you will get emptiness because the preaching has no depth and the Lord Jesus is not in the church. It is so sad that a big church that looks so well off is exactly like the Laodicean church in Revelations 3.

However, it is a problem to find good Christian music these days. Even the good bookrooms that i go to from the BP churches do not have very good music. Because the worldly music is slowly creeping into the good music. Even hymns are not safe from it. Hymns are sung without power. The mighty fortress of God is not longer mightly when sung by weak male singers. Some male vocalist sing like women and that isn't how the hymn should be sung. It is so sad to find good Christian music these days. Thank God that good Christian books are much easier to find but it still requires much searching amongst all the different books published today.

But this is just a part of the vexed feeling i get. I feel vexed each time i venture out of my room. The television programs vex me, the advertisements vex me, the music played in shopping centers, malls, on buses vex me. The things of the world vex me sorely as they are unholy in the sight of God and they only satisfy the flesh and not the living soul in us. Thank God i'm vexed by the many things of this world. For the Thrice Holy God will want saved souls to be uncomfortable living in this world, for we are called to Holiness. All Christians you must be Holy and lead godly lives.

May God continue to preserve us in this wicked age and world.