And another one goes...
This month sure is an eventful month for me. Church Camp, ongoing preparations for Youth Sunday, and also so many people leaving! In just this month, 4 of my church friends have enlisted into NS, and another friend just left for US for further study!!
Just this morning, I saw one of my church friends off as she left to study in an overseas uni. As I see these friends enter their new phases of life not knowing what lies ahead, I'm hoping for the best for them. While I can keep in contact with them, I know that the best way to support them is in prayer. As each one embarks on a new journey, with no one familiar to them to be there for them, I hope they will remember that their friends and families are thinking of them. Esp for the friends who have entered NS, I know that this will be a difficult time for them. It will be a time of trials and temptations, of testing of their faith, of learning to stand up for their faith in an environment where God is rejected. I've heard countless examples of Christians rejecting their faith in NS, and for me, it was also a very difficult time that nearly made me leave church. How will these friends fare? Only God knows.
As much as I think about how my friends will be in their new phases of life, I'm wondering how things are going to be without them. Some of them have been a great help, now without them around, I feel the load of the responsibility that some of them have left me. Each and every person is made unique by God and no one is irreplaceable. The things these friends have done, now it's up to me to do, but I can never match up to them. I'm not saying that I'm not up to the task, I'm just saying that things will be very different without them around. And some of these friends themselves will now need more support than in the past. I know things are gonna get a whole lot tougher this month. I've only realised the scale of what I have to do, but the actual experience, the actual fulfilling of what is to be done, that has only just begun. I know very well that the road ahead, doing what I need to do, is going to be really, really tough. I think I'm really going to be stretched thin.
God has put me here in this church for a special reason: to take up this job that no one gave much thought to doing. It's a job that pays well, but it's not an easy job, and I've had to put in tremendous amounts of effort. The unique combination of personal experience and spiritual gifts that He has put in my life has led me to where I am now, and as I reach this stage, with things ahead looking to be much more difficult than they already are, I know I have to maximise the potential of my spiritual gifts by depending even more on Him. These gifts, though powerful, backfire very easily when I depend on my own strength. Lord, the future is in Your hands. These gifts You've given me, only You can bring out their true potential. Lord, if no one else is going to help me, then I ask that You empower me in a way like never before. I know that I'm going to need a lot of help...
Just this morning, I saw one of my church friends off as she left to study in an overseas uni. As I see these friends enter their new phases of life not knowing what lies ahead, I'm hoping for the best for them. While I can keep in contact with them, I know that the best way to support them is in prayer. As each one embarks on a new journey, with no one familiar to them to be there for them, I hope they will remember that their friends and families are thinking of them. Esp for the friends who have entered NS, I know that this will be a difficult time for them. It will be a time of trials and temptations, of testing of their faith, of learning to stand up for their faith in an environment where God is rejected. I've heard countless examples of Christians rejecting their faith in NS, and for me, it was also a very difficult time that nearly made me leave church. How will these friends fare? Only God knows.
As much as I think about how my friends will be in their new phases of life, I'm wondering how things are going to be without them. Some of them have been a great help, now without them around, I feel the load of the responsibility that some of them have left me. Each and every person is made unique by God and no one is irreplaceable. The things these friends have done, now it's up to me to do, but I can never match up to them. I'm not saying that I'm not up to the task, I'm just saying that things will be very different without them around. And some of these friends themselves will now need more support than in the past. I know things are gonna get a whole lot tougher this month. I've only realised the scale of what I have to do, but the actual experience, the actual fulfilling of what is to be done, that has only just begun. I know very well that the road ahead, doing what I need to do, is going to be really, really tough. I think I'm really going to be stretched thin.
God has put me here in this church for a special reason: to take up this job that no one gave much thought to doing. It's a job that pays well, but it's not an easy job, and I've had to put in tremendous amounts of effort. The unique combination of personal experience and spiritual gifts that He has put in my life has led me to where I am now, and as I reach this stage, with things ahead looking to be much more difficult than they already are, I know I have to maximise the potential of my spiritual gifts by depending even more on Him. These gifts, though powerful, backfire very easily when I depend on my own strength. Lord, the future is in Your hands. These gifts You've given me, only You can bring out their true potential. Lord, if no one else is going to help me, then I ask that You empower me in a way like never before. I know that I'm going to need a lot of help...
posted by Guangrong at
8:34 pm
