Posted on: Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Posted at: 7:48 AM
i shall blog about more serious stuff and not all the weird superficial crapping i always come up with...haha
yea, i can feel the changes, the changes in the cell group... like sylvia said, it is the pruning season for God. And there is a need, more than ever, to pull the whole cg together. People are changing, so am i, either we drift apart or we come up together stronger than we were before. i was reminded of one occasion when ger(twin!) asked me why my close friends are all church friends or why i spend so much time with my church friends..cant exactly rmb but it was smth like that... i think at that time i said something like cuz they are really true friends and they are different. not that those in school are not good friends, but there is smth different. now, as i think about it again, yes, there is something more.
the fact that my church friends are the closest to me even though we only see each other once or twice a week is because we have the same Vision, the same Purpose. We know each other's past, we run alongside each other, helping each other along thr0ugh the race, through our walk with God, we know that OUR PAST IS REDEEMED, OUR PRESENT IS FULL OF PURPOSE AND OUR FUTURE IS SECURE. We know that we have all these because of our same God, our same Father. my thoughts, my visions are shared with this group of people in church. through them and through God, i learnt to trust again, i learnt to love. its amazing, truly amazing to see my growth and others as well. though i cant say im perfect and there are many others who are even better than me, i notice the change in me and i am really really grateful. where else can i find this vision and purpose and this chance to define myself as a person except in church, in God? where else can i find friends who share such intimate relationships with each other to the point that we have no qualms in receiving discipleship or rather, correction? of course, this have to be gradually cultivated and learnt, together with our own desire to grow. i was and am still learning how to take discipleship with an open heart.
i feel so much joy when i see the changes in people, the joy of the Lord that really truly emanates from them. i marvel at the lives that have been turned around by God. i want others to experience this too, of course, it does not gurantee an easy life, but it gurantees a relationship with a God that's real and with friends that are true.
and a random phrase. Happiness may leave, but Joy stays. =)
