Month: February 2026

1.  The Quietness Before the Storm

All silence is not golden, some is the quietness before the apocalypse.  All silence is not calmness, some is the stillness before the atomic catastrophe.  Sometimes we have misjudged silence until it was very late.  Early in secondary school, one of the relational lessons we learned was to be careful with quiet people, because you never know what is steaming under their silent lids.  The day they burst, even hell could be on fire.  Moses was the meekest man there was.  The day some two close folks thought to take advantage of that and speak against Him, heaven roared against them.  One of the two instantly became a leper, and other shut himself out of Promised Land (Numbers 12:1-9).  The day Moses himself got angry, heaven took notice in millennial ways (Psalm 106:33).  All silence is not a sign of peace.

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1.  Wingless Angels

Divine deliverance does not always come from above; sometimes it comes from below, which makes it no less divine.  Angels are not always winged, so we miss them many times (Hebrews 13:2; Acts 1:10; 24:4).

So much has been said and heard about St Paul, the world-famous preacher, sometimes in the image of Melchisedec, “Without father, without mother” (Hebrews7:3), without a wife, without biological children.  But Paul was a man, and he had a sister.  That is one part of the story.

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Jesus was baptised in the River Jordan, with spectacular displays following.  While He was stepping out of the waters, “the heavens were opened,” a dove came upon Him, and the voice of God was heard announcing, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:17).

Lately, that proclamation has struck me with a fresh interest, stirring a profound question to which you are probably the one to provide me an answer:  What about Jesus made Him well pleasing to the Father?  At that time, Jesus had preached to no multitude, healed no sick, and multiplied neither bread nor fish to feed thousands.  He had turned no water into wine, stilled no storm, cleansed no leper.  He was merely known as a carpenter’s son whose mother and siblings were also well known (Mark 6:3).  In other words, Jesus hadn’t started ‘ministry’ as we generally know it.  If He was no great preacher then, what was so pleasing to the Father about Him?  For what quality in Him did God so loudly and publicly proclaim Him as a “beloved” Son, one in whom He was not just pleased but “well pleased”?

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