Reflection on America's Got Talent - Las Vegas Top 40

Wow. For a while, I thought it was the final round of America's Got Talent. If you've caught tonight's show, you will understand what I am talking about.

All the contestants are getting emotional and sang like their life depended on it. They were totally sold out on winning, on going all the way to the final round, and finishing the race.

They were many broken hearts, and they were also many delighted souls. Those who went on to the next round were tearing, and crying, and embracing each other.

"This is the most fantastic day of my life," quips one contestant. Another one exclaimed in delight, "We have made it!". And we're only talking about going to the next round of Top 40

It amazes me. What would you and I say on the day we go to heaven? "This is the most fantastic day of my life"? "We have made it"? Or will you be heaving a sigh of relief thinking that you could be missing out? OR will you be like the others who were crying uncontrollably and shaking their heads in disbelief? They didn't make it to the next round. They didn't make it to heaven.

Will we be like the contestants who are TOTALLY sold out to the cause? To win, to go on to the next round, to reach the final and finished it? A 1 million dollars man-made competition can propel people to such a dizzy height, what more an infinite God-made mission? But are we totally sold out to His cause, or are we like the audiences who only sit back, vote and dream?

It puts me to shame. And it puts us to shame. That people chasing after earthly riches can be so totally consumed by their cause while we who claimed to be His followers are not running after Him by an even crazier zeal!

Yes, the show might have given the full impact by clever filming and editing - still, I believe the contestants are totally in it. And I, who claimed to be His, better be in it for His cause.

Christians' Got Talent - and we better start using it for what is worth more than 1 million dollars and all the fame in the world.

Lean on Jesus, Lean on me

This is a great song. It gives me hope, and it reminds me to follow Jesus. To be able to offer my shoulder and say, "here's my shoulder you can lean on me". The children and youth of today are facing tough times in the world. Reading their blogs only seems to magnify the burden and need.

So what can I do Lord? How can I help them? I've got nothing but my prayers. And my shoulder. So my young friends, here's my shoulder you can lean on me.

And may the poor and weak find your shoulders too.