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Monday, September 15, 2008

Isaac Shane:

"Well, it would be impossible for me to tell you everything i have learnt or experienced through this LC all at one go, but i would just share with you guys one key concept i have grasped from this Conference, that is your relationship with God, must be put above all other things.As a leader, i have been pushing my people to do CG08 all this time, and i have neglected their spiritual health and walk with God.I always had this wrong concept of our walk with God, that is mainly daily prayer and reading the Word of God. Through this LC, I have learnt that our relationship with God, is not purely based on us praying to him about ministry all the time, or praying for skills like courage or wisdom. These things are merely tools used to serve God. I had been reading the word of God, having a perspective that it is speaking to me about ministry and that alone. All this time, my care group has been stuck in an eternal cycle, an endless torture of failures after failures. Our relationship with God was not right!I have come to realize that an ideal relationship with God is not just about doing prayer and reading the Word of God or even applying what we have learnt. An ideal relationship with God is to pray and seek him everyday, turning to him not only when we face troubles and really treating him as your friend, not your superman. God has sent Jesus to die for us, in the first place, to help us achieve a relationship with God.Man can be connected to God because Jesus had died not only to cleanse our sins, but also for us to have a living relationship with God, our creator. I have come to realize that no matter how much effort you put into ministry but the moment your peoples' relationship with God isn't right, we lose the first priority in christian life, that is because God cares about us, not what we do. As we grow in our relationship with God, we will love God and his people, giving way to endless victories in Christ.The Conference has opened up a way and solution to a problem that has never been revealed to me for a long time, and it has strengthened my faith and wisdom in Christ. It has revealed my purpose and destiny for Christ. It is seeing and talking to the people so passionate for Christ and the people just willing to leave their families and just die for Christ that has really impacted me and showed me what true Christianity is. I have come back with a renewed conviction and insight, something money could never buy. Do go for LC when you have the chance!"

(Kop-ed from central blog hee)

Well today was a usual day, but surely, God revealed himself to me today through simple things that occured during the day.

During my CLB paper 3 (listening comprehension), there was a passage that said something that goes like this," Once upon a time, there lived a mother and her son under the same roof. The mother is old and would only be a burden to her son. So one day, her son decided to send her to the top of the mountains where she can live with the wolves, in the wild. So, he carried her on his back and started to walk up the mountain.

Curious, his mother asked, "Dear son, where are you bringing me?" He replied with no tear in his eyes, "up the mountain so that you can live in the wild." Without complaining, his mother just kept quiet. She knew she would only be a burden to her son. She began picking stones and throwing them at the roads, forming a trail.

Curious, her son asked, " Mum, what are you doing?"

Her reply:"I'm making a trail so that you will know the way back after the expedition."

And that was the end of the passage. It almost caused me to tear that very moment. I was reminded of Christ. Christ, who had been betrayed, humiliated, and had suffered at the hands of the creation of God, had endured all the way to the end, just to die on the cross to pay for our sins.

At Jesus' calling, he could summon a fleet of angels to his aid and he could have chosen not to die for us. Jesus has poured out all his blood for us, and even after that, it was water which flowed out instead of blood. Every single drop of blood has been poured out. Even till the very end, Jesus chose to pay the price for us. All he focused on was not our sins, but he focused on loving us, till the very end. He even prayed that his father would forgive us. Can you imagine the pain he had to go through, being betrayed by his own disciple, being humiliated by the people he loved? Nobody went to his rescue. Nobody. And he chose to die for the world even then. He is not a crazy madman who died for nothing 2000 years ago. He is our God, Jesus, who paid for our sins with every single drop of blood available within his body. This is our God.

So at God's calling, stop complaining about the small failures that may seem so big to you. Stop complaining about people who has hurt or humiliated you. Jesus, has died in humiliation, but rose again in victory. He has conquered all sin. The small things we face in life is nothing compared to what Jesus had to face.

When our group dosent seem to Grow, when our life is in a mess, God is beside us, waiting to come in and take control, waiting for you to call upon his name. God feels with us.

Some days ago, i got to know this guy who played the same online game as me. And he was a Romanian. I guess all this is in God's plan that i got to know this guy. Found out certain cool cultures over there. Hes a devoted catholic as i expected him to be. There are 90% catholics in romania. Oh and he told me there ware many tourist attractions. After talking to him, i felt like going there right away. ^^

Haha anyway, its about enough that i blogged. Blogging some other time!

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