Colossians 2:6-15 / Luke 6:12-19 (2019)
Living in a fast-paced and high-stressed society like Singapore, it is inevitable that we will experience worry and anxiety.
Hence one of the resulting afflictions could be that we will have sleepless nights even as we lie in bed at night.
Weighing heavily on our minds might be those difficult decisions to make, or bugging problems that don't seem to have any solutions.
So although we might be lying in bed, yet our minds are running and racing all over the place.
In our minds we might be running through all the options that we take on for an action plan.
But in situations like these, we may miss the obvious and necessary first option.
Very often we may just miss out God as the first option. In fact we often put God as the last option, and that's because everything else has failed.
In the gospel, we see that Jesus did not spend the whole night thinking; rather He spent the whole night praying.
For Jesus, God was always the first option and also the only option.
Like Jesus, we should also ask God for His blessings before we begin any task and ask for His continued blessings on the work we are doing.
For us, God must always be the first and only option. Any other options will result in sleepless nights.