Kia Simee? Simee Kia Lang?

Translation: What are you rushing for in life? What is truly worth rushing for?

Thursday, Jun. 18, 2009 Posted: 3:57:57PM HKT

Memorable were the days of Mr Kiasu and Kiasee, two cousins (?) who exemplify the Singapore psyche: namely, the mentality of being scared to lose and scared to die.

In a certain way, the trademark cousins still figure prominently in the local context, notwithstanding the republic’s significant demographic changes.

After all, nobody in his or her right mind is ever willing to lose out in life.

Strangely enough, however, this survivalist syndrome has not in fact done a great deal of good to its strictest adherents.

For, in attempting to gain everything – figuratively speaking – people may well have ‘lost out’ so to speak.

It is well to consider a simple but important question addressed to all Singaporeans:

Is anything that you are currently working for and pursuing going to last beyond the point of death (literally and physically)?

This is the eternal foe of mankind, regardless of nationality, race, language or religion. To make matters worse, no nation or people has ever overcome it.

Simply put:

1. Everyone will end up in the grave.

2. Some people know this.

3. Those who know it cannot do anything about it.

Science may attempt to increase the length of physical human life and it may succeed in slightly extending it.

And yet no amount of human knowledge and technology can ever conclusively put away the question of life and death.

All must die. Poignant, yes, but nevertheless true and real.

The question is: are we prepared for that one day? Can we ever be prepared? And how?

Not by striving at work, attempting to make our first million or second or whatever. Not by accumulating titles and gaining glory and fame.

Certainly not by ignoring the first important fact for those still alive.

If we have gotten up to the point where we want to begin to seek the higher things of spirituality, a seemingly vast truckload of ‘religions’ are open to us. Which then is reliable?

To know the truth of a matter we need witnesses.

Who has ever gone beyond human life and reality?

Nobody, but one Person.

This person, whose name is Jesus, claims to have come from the world beyond us; to have come from God, the source and origin of all things. Nobody else has ever made that claim.

But not only did Jesus make such a claim – He believed in it and actually died for His convictions.

And we know from historians that Jesus really existed and really died the way the Bible says He did.

Well then, back to our question: now that we know that someday we will all die, how can we prepare for that day?

Jesus says:

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal…

No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.

What was He telling us to do?

He was teaching us to serve God, rather than live to accumulate money or other physical or temporal things.

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