Sunday, December 14, 2025
The Ants colony mindset
As I was giving a talk on “Trends in Regenerative Medicine" yesterday, I could not but feel ambivalent regarding my own emotions and my personal life. A life riddled with uncertainty, instability, unsettled and as Dr Eng muttered 人生起起落落 it resonated with me. A career with such a long stretch of downs and moving on in relationships hurts each time, even when moving to a new person as we all want stability not change. We need stability to go far in our career.
With Christmas around the corner and mum’s 89th birthday today I realized I need to get stronger after each setback. Because there is a gift that can’t be bought or sold, that is more precious than all kingly jewels. A gift to the world that is meant to bind us all. Yet the world is divided, full of sorrow, and wars that threaten to wipe out our earthly existence.
Under God’s protective rainbow, His mercies have endured despite our propensity to self-destruct. Like many of us here, I have made many mistakes in life. I know it is His mercy surrounding me that kept me alive. Where others see mistakes, God sees potential. When I failed badly, God saw restoration. In this coming year let us join our hands together to grow and evolve to a better destiny for us, and our love ones, despite the world being increasingly chaotic. The company plan binds us all to succeed as it is global profit sharing. Dato Jackson shared yesterday at the workshop that if a crab tries to crawl out of a bucket the crab below will pull it back so it will never succeed in getting out. They work against each other and when they see one is ahead they will pull you back. Crabs work against each other but a colony of ants work for each other. Let’s have the “ants” mindset. If you succeed then so will I.
We live in a fallen world. The whole creation has been groaning and travailing in pain right up to the present time (Romans 8:22). Nature itself groans as disasters of increasing magnitude and frequency are afflicting the earth more fortuitously than ever before. The rivers are sick of being polluted. The entire ecology with its flora and fauna is sick of suffering. The whole creation groans and beckons to be delivered.
Mankind himself too has been groaning (Romans 8:23) as we are sick of seeing our loved ones grow old, our young ones struck down by accidents, and our middle aged afflicted by diseases.
God has already begun His redemption and the deliverance is near. That’s why we have Easter and Christmas. We are seeing the unfolding of the end-times in the book of Revelations. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: white (covid), red (war/bloodshed), black (famine/rationing), and pale/green (one world order). These symbolize escalating judgments and tribulations on Earth as the Lamb (Jesus) opens the seals of a scroll, signalling the beginning of end-times events and God's wrath.
The black horse signifies famine, and it may come as soon as Trump ends his second term. But we are set apart and sanctified, not by our own achievements but redemption in the gift of Christ Jesus. Therefore His children will expect abundance not famine. Generosity is not just what God does - it is who He is and Christ is the revelation of that truth.
As the world gets darker, we will shine more brightly. We will be enriched in every way as our soul prosper (3 John 1:2). This confidence is not arrogance, but because our roots is tapping into divine flow, our inheritance in Christ Jesus.
God Bless!
