Feng Shui Horse & Clay

This morning woke up, saw my mum sitting in the living room polishing a bronze horse figurine that my dad bought last week. According to her, she said that it will bring us good fortune in everything… Chinese has a saying called “Ma(3) Dao(4) Gong(1) Cheng(2)… meaning the horse will deliver you success… I whispered: “What rubbish was that?”

I was a little puzzled… is there really something called Feng Shui Horse? In human terms, “polishing” a horse is like giving a man “facial wash” or “spa”… today if I see some guys doing these, I would say “Yucks! So sissy!” Imagine now you are polishing a horse… a sissy horse! Can a sissy horse bring success? When we talk about horses, I imagine those wild horses running across the grassland. Wild horses normally give people a feeling that they are “macho” and “powerful”. Think back how ancient people fight wars on horse’s back! Those horses dun need to be groomed but they brought victories to the generals. If horses need to be “groomed”, then they are only good for display… So now my mum is polishing the bronze horse hoping for good fortune? Yeah right!

Next, I would like to know who is the one claiming that there are “Feng Shui Horses”? Today someone might say a bronze horse is good for fortune, but another day the same person can say a gold horse is better. When he is in good mood, he might like a jade horse, but if you ask him the same question during his dad’s funeral, then he will tell you “TO HELL THE HORSES!” So why do people still believing in human’s words???

I remembered few weeks back, my parents were discussing on the topic of worshipping idols in our new home next year, they asked my elder brother if we are going to bring the existing idols from our home to the new one but my elder brother says he prefers “Guan Ying”. I thought to myself, “Wassup with these people? Today they are worshipping some kinds of idols of their choices? Then what God is this? A God that is under the selection of man… and people are worshipping their whole lives on it? I said they are just a piece of clay!” In fact people are still worshipping idols. I tell you the truth, a “Guan Ying” might look like the one in your home from one potter’s hands, but it can look another form in another potter’s hands. In the end, people are worshipping different types of “Guan Ying”… so it is the potter who shapes the idols... Then let me ask, “How powerful are these clays which are shaped by humans' hands... Isn't it that we need God to shape our life instead? So human are supposed to shape their own God to shape theirs?" Complicated? Well, they are just clays...

Lastly, I really can’t stand my parents keeps burning incenses for those idols… Wassup men? Are those idols dependent on the incenses? If they are then how can you still depend on those pieces of clays? How much do people know about the idols when they worship them all their lives? If these idols are real, then why aren’t the Westerners, Europeans or the Aussies ever heard about them? If these idols are so real, then why are we not celebrating about any memorial occasions worldwide?

Try asking around what does 911 means to you, and probably 10 out of 10 would tell you it’s the most dramatic tragedy that the world has witnessed… Why we know? Because we all saw on TV that 2 planes crashed at the top of the WTC that came tumbling down. It has been a fact and people will remember it for their LIFES! Try asking around your friends when did the Japanese invade Singapore and probably people who studied history will tell you it’s in 1942… It is a FACT. Today every one of us witnessed the death of Pope John Paul II and many people knows how great he is… Why? Because we saw on TV how Millions of people from all around the world came together and gave their condolences. In this new era, we have the benefits of watching every major events unfolding on TV and we believed that these things indeed happened…

Well, we said, “Seeing is Believing.” Then I ask you why 2000 years ago, when there is no TV, no HP, no Internet, yet everyone in those days seems to know who Jesus is? It has also been agreed that He has indeed died on the cross and has been resurrected 3 days later that we now celebrate Easther Day that the whole world is celebrating as a public holiday. If Jesus is not a true Son of God, then why is Christmas an official public holiday that everyone on earth is celebrating now? If during those times, the facts of Jesus can stand scrutiny until now, what does it say to us then?

Lets reflect then, why do people still believe that a piece of clay can change their life? I share with you a truth. My life has changed, not through clay, but through the death of the one and only Son of God, Jesus. I have seen my whole transformation from Buddhist who went to temple every week to meditate on some scriptures to now a faithful Christ Follower…. I know now I am really been saved, thank God!