Today which will be day 2, the bible exposition started off
with the book of Jonah in Chapter 1, where it spoke about Jonah who ran away
from God because He didn’t want to preach against Nineveh. I believed that it
wasn’t easy to speak to someone that you dislike so badly, I too have people in
my life that I feared quite as much. I don’t despise the other party, it’s just
that I do not have much love and compassionate which is even enough to pray for
those around me.
God kept reminding me
of the fact that if I have the resources and do not use them, what’s the point
of even having them, and I was thought again about the blessings that were
given to us so that we could be blessings to people around us, which also
speaks of Israel being the centre of the world map for it will be the nation
that pours blessings over the other nations around her.
I was challenge to break open my prejudice against certain
group of people, I wonder if we or I for that matter have prejudices against
others with different skin colour, how different am I compare to Jonah who was
supposed to go over to preach against Nineveh.
There were 2 workshops that I attended today; I was supposed
to pick out 2 from out of 4 workshops. My first and second choices were:
- Can I be a student and still do missions?
- Strategic prayers and Un-reached people
At first, I wanted to
take up Business, Works and Missions
but someone told me that I should be picking something which is more relevant in
wherever I am at the moment, to be more direct, pick up what seem to be the
student approach rather than the working life approach. He seems right after I made
the change, I was thankful that God send someone to tell me that I should be
somewhere else rather than the choice that I made. Thank you God J
I feel like it’s not just necessary to do missions on the
mission field but what we can do as students is to be able to mobilise missions
as well, to encourage them financially, and moral support, being there for
them. I have never realised how hard it was for the missionaries who were
involve in the field, although I personally am involve in my own university Christian
fellowship.
In strategic prayer and church planting, I learn a lot from
the speaker, he thought us a lot on the spiritual mapping in certain situations
where we can take advantage of it. And I started to believe that discipleship
is a fundamental and crucial foundation in one’s live, it’s not just about
salvation anymore but to follow up with them and enable them to have a
relationship with our dear and loving God.
And I saw today how small the Christian group really is, and
WOW the harvest are plentiful, I am hoping in my heart that by engaging the
community, I could have real conversations, real friends, er…. I think let
others know that I am serving a God of wonders, who is real and living and sovereign,
which is also my creator J
I am just hopeful that I could continue to seek God for my
calling, and while waiting I will serve Him and prepare my heart till the time
has ripen for me to receive it, till then I will continue waiting and serving
in everything that I do, I want to have good character and be competent in it. J
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