Posts by Abigail Soon

I’ve been thinking of Hagar lately. For those who don’t know, Hagar was Abraham’s wife Sarah’s slave, with whom Abraham had a son named Ishmael. Hagar and Sarah had a contentious relationship because of that, which led a pregnant Hagar to run away from Sarah. Then, the angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert, and the angel told Sarah to go back to Hagar and submit to her. The angel also declared that they would…

Lately, I’ve been listening to a song called “Every Morning” by the band Lost & Found. It’s about how God’s mercies are new every morning, and the chorus is based off Lamentations 3:22 – 23: “Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.” This is a very well known verse in the church that inspired numerous hymns and worship music. However, the context of this…

“Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. 26 When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear. 27 But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” 28 “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.” 29 “Come,” he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. 30 But when he saw…

Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” – John 20:29 NIV This is one of the famous “doubt verses” that we often throw at our questions. Some might even take this as a rebuke from Jesus towards Thomas for doubting. However, when we look at the passage as a whole, we can see that this not the case.  “Now Thomas (also known as Didymus),…

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.  For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. – Corinthians 13:11-12 (ESV) We often think of doubt as the enemy of faith. After all, we’re called to believe in…

I was recently updating my resume and was struck by now much I’ve changed and grown in the last few years. My resume was a snapshot and a great reminder of where I was 3-4 years ago while in the process of graduating highschool and being very uncertain about my direction in life. There are days where I don’t feel like I’m growing at all, and sometimes it helps me to take a look back in hindsight to remember how…

This Christmas has been a strange one for me because throughout it, I’ve felt pretty far from God. In a time where the focus is on getting through exams, Christmas activities, and celebrating the birth of Jesus, I haven’t prioritized my relationship with God and have felt pretty distant from God. As I try to get back to spending more time with God, one of the Bible passages that’s been speaking to me is Exodus 33:12-17: Then Moses said to…

On Sunday, we covered a really powerful lesson in Rapha, our Gr 4-6 class at Kingdom Kids, which was “God can do the impossible”. That’s a tall order. Impossible is impossible, right? One thing I loved about this lesson was that it wasn’t just theory. We (mostly Joe Chong) brought the kids into service to hear Amanda’s testimony about her journey to pregnancy. I shared about my experience getting into university and Joe shared about a seriously/terminally ill kid with…

Sometimes, life gets busy. We can get so caught up and overwhelmed with work, school, life, and even serving God that we lose sight of God. However, Jesus repeatedly invites us in our busyness to come to Him and rest. “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke…

Lately, I’ve been coming back to this devo Andrew wrote in 2021, titled “Your Problems Are Someone Else’s Prayers”, where he wrote that “In the context of blessings, I was reminded of how so easily our blessings can be viewed as a curse when we lose our gratitude. What once gave me joy, gives me a headache. What I got excited about, now makes me anxious.” And to be honest, I was starting to feel the same. I love being…

I was recently reading a blog by a guy named Dave Griffin, who details his eventful journey from the model evangelical Christian kid (who voiced Jimmy Barclay on the Christian audiodrama Adventures in Odyssey, for those who know the series) to a young adult dealing with mental health struggles, suicide, disability, leaving the faith, and becoming anti-evangelical. It was a long, fascinating, gripping, and difficult read. One thing that stood out to me from Dave’s story was the lack of…

Recently, I’ve been trying to support a friend who’s going through a very sad and difficult time, and it has showed me the value of mourning and grieving with others. Romans 12:15 (KJV) says “Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.” It’s quite engrained in us to look on the bright side, stay positive, and not dwell on sadness, and although that is not inherently bad, there is a comfort that is found when someone…