Petrol Price And Electricity Bill Going UP! UP! UP!

2008 will be a year that will be remembered as a year full of events. We lost the value of the 1 sen coin. The tsunami in Malaysian General Election. The cyclone in Myanmar. The earthquake in China. The sinking of our Ringgit.

Petrol will cost us RM2.70 from RM1.92 per litre effective midnight tonight. Tried to fill up my petrol tank earlier this evening but the queue was way too long. So I gave up the idea and will have to live with the fact that I did not take up the opportunity to save RM15 for my half tank of petrol. Just found out that the government will be giving us (who drives small CC cars) a rebate when we renew our road tax and mine is due next month...Yahoo!!!. But this aside...I will not be surprise when everything goes up in price.

Our PM will revise the electricity tariff too. For us it will be up by another 18%. Sigh!!! But wait. The Selangor Government is giving us free 20 litres of water every month...beginning in June.

So what can we say? I can only recall these few verses :

Mt 6:25
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?

Mt 6:26
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

Mt 6:27
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life ?

Mt 6:28
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.

Mt 6:29
Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.

Mt 6:30
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

Mt 6:31
So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’

Mt6:32
For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

Mt 6:33
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Mt 6:34
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

So really it's beyond our control. If we are to rely on treasures here we will sure be disappointed. If we will to look at all the problems that confront us...many of us will be suicidal. GOD or the LORD JESUS CHRIST is the only ANCHOR that anchor us solidly. We are called to rest on HIM because HE cares for us. We are called to cast our burden upon HIM.

If there is one legacy that I could leave with my kids, it would be this "Don't looks at things surrounding us..look up to our LORD JESUS CHRIST."