imaginings – Time Alone With God

Paralysed

david tan — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 04:44:20 +0000

I wish they would leave me alone. Life has been intolerable ever since I was paralysed. I wanted to die but for some reason, God did not allow me and instead he trapped me in an even greater hell so that I can contemplate my sin while suffering the humiliation of being taken care of …

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Judging and being judged: Simon the Pharisee

david tan — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:22:57 +0000

I have always looked at Luke 7:36-50, the story of the prostitute who gate-crashed a dinner party, from the angle of how sensitive Jesus was towards the woman, giving her the space and privacy to deal with her emotions. This time I saw that the rest at the dinner party were also major characters in …

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Philemon

david tan — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 08:12:42 +0000

He could hardly breathe as the emotions, long suppressed, took over his mind and body. After what seemed like an eternity, while his mind remained blank, he found himself staring out the window, the letter in his hand, crushed. The servants had merely told him that someone had come bearing a letter from Paul. Of …

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The woman caught in adultery

david tan — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:01:13 +0000

(John 8:1-11. This is how I imagined it) It was dawn and there was a chill in the air as Jesus sat down in the temple courtyard to teach those who had gathered. They were drawn to the God he taught them to know, One who is kind and compassionate. There is no need to …

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Holding Nothing Back

david tan — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 05:39:41 +0000

“She has done a beautiful thing to me.” (Mark 14:6) She broke the jar. That says it all. She never intended to keep any of the perfume. She must have thought deeply over what she would do but the alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard, was the obvious choice for her. …

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Jesus in my boat

david tan — Mon, 03 May 2021 03:04:41 +0000

The question in my devotion on Luke 5:1-11 asked, “What do you think is the message of the miracle to Simon Peter when he ponders over this experience?” He chose me. He got onto MY boat. He trapped me into listening to his teaching and boy was my heart warmed as he taught me about …

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Mary, at the foot of the cross

david tan — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 01:05:19 +0000

I am not a mother and I don’t even have a child. So it is difficult for me to even fathom what it is like for Mary to look up at the cross to see her son being slowly put to death; what’s worse, at the instigation of the Jewish authorities for blasphemy. The weight …

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Mary Magdalene

david tan — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:43:10 +0000

So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Matthew 28:8 Afraid, yet filled with joy. Yes that would describe it well, Mary Magdalene thought. When he delivered me from the demons it was like the sun finally came out, after a long and cold …

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