Friday, May 2, 2008
Grow from strength to strength
Speaking about the F1 racing, there was a man who was a car racer. He has built some of the fastest car on the racetrack. But ironically none of the racecars had produced a checkered flag and to win the race.
They were fast starters but just couldn't hold up to the finish line.
What a parable to our many lives today...
Sad to see many believers having great start with their Christian race, but ended up poorly. I'm one of those whom might soon find myself being one of them, having struggles with my own faith and believes.
Ohwell, just like everyone else does, we want to be God encountered. Sometimes we do as many people come and meet the Lord in a very special way, their lives were in a shamble when God touch them and their heart truly burning for God and they determine to give their live to Jesus Christ.
They want to fight a good fight and win the Christian race but very soon has become disillusion because of disappointment with themselves and others because of failures they had experienced, or they burnout because of spiritual and emotional fatigue or they fall into sin and lose their testimony and lose their ministries, or at best many of us lose that sense of love for God we once used to have and we cruise along in a Christian walk and ministry. The spiritual excitement for God has lost, the compassion for the lost was a thing of the past and the faith to conquer new challengers becomes something that is history. But it doesn't have to be so. The title of the one of the message heard was "growing from strength to strength". It is possible for you and I to move through the Christian life going stronger and stronger from strength to strength and from glory to glory. It is possible to live a life of unending growth, absolutely possible to experience a livelong journey of abundance in God, overcoming everything that a devil put along our way, raising up to be men and women of God until we see him face to face.
What he mentioned and told everyone, sounds so real and realistic. What had happened to him in the past, he spoke about it, and that seems to match what I'm experiencing now>> something that breaks you apart, something that has drawn you away from God, some things that you are really guilty of, some things that you can't seem to forgive, some things that had really changed you and some things that had brought you to a lost world. I was really touched by his words, besides that his words was so powerful that it broken my heart once again.
At the moment when the music fills the hall again, I really did felt God's presence and Him speaking to me that He wants to work in me right now, to change me for the better, to feed me with spiritual food which I am hungering for, to prepare myself for the battle with the evil thoughts and the evil doings, to heal my broken heart and to lead my everyday life better than before.
Thank God for everything, the trails and tribulations He had inserted into my life. Especially through this week, when i'm faced with so much, you pulled me through eventually.
I do hope this coming week will be a better one for me, besides emoing which I still does a little each day, I'll pull through my final year project, concert, camps and commitment in other ccas this upcoming weeks and to take on tougher assignments yet to come.
I emo-ed @ 9:35 PM