Wednesday, January 06, 2010
REAL camp was a great experience for me, or rather for everyone. I joined REAL program because I want to draw closer to God, to be real and authentic in my worship towards Him and to be real towards my friends in my character.
I went for the REAL camp and I was rather changed someway in another, in my services and maybe my expectations. We were given targets to do such as '3 expectations we want to achieve.'
My first expectation is that I want to be real and authentic in worshipping God and seeking Him ernestly. Secondly, I want to know the real 'me' because it seems I am still having that identity crisis. Thirdly, I really want to learn to let go everything and surrender to God.
Although some of my expectations are still in progress, I am determined to make changes to really want glorify God. It is a healing process when we lay down everything at the cross, saying that we trust in Him alone, Jesus Christ our hope and saviour. What I've also learnt is that being a mature Christian is not how long have we been a Christian but is how much we know the Bible well and our relationship with God.
Most of the times, I am sensitive and have those 'rollercoaster' emotions. It really hinders my relationship with God and to my peers too. I need to motivate and take discipline to read the Word of God too or else I am just hearer but not a doer of what God wants me to do.
I also learnt that when we do actions, we are not doing to gain the favour from men by the favour from God. I think as Christians too, we don't want to live a life or just being 'fake.' I mean, we want to be genuine in talk to our fellow Christian friends about our problems but always we put it aside because we think its either a waste of time or they won't understand. But if we never talk it out, it will just even devastate you more.
Always keep the main thing the main thing. Sometimes we are so caught up with so many things that we forget the main thing. Let's not forget what the main objective of why Jesus Christ came. To set us free and save us from the clutches of the penalty of sins; death. The purpose of why we are here, is to tell others the Gospel and bring them to Christ.
During devotions, I also learnt in Job 38 that God has shown His awesomeness in His creating the creations. It also shows that man cannot create the things of God such as the moon and the stars.
I also linked up with Genesis 2:7 (Where it says that we are dust) while Job 42:5-6 (It says that repent in dust & ashes) This shows that from dust we are created, dust we return. It shows are insignificant we are, being made from dust but God gave us so much and wants us to be involved in His plans.
From Job 38-42, I learnt that after God spoke so much to Job, about His majestic control over the universe and the ability to create, then why must we worry about our circumstances rather than allowing God to handle it? Is it because we are afraid God do not know how to deal with it or unsure whether God will help us? How about those minor issues? In fact, God wants to know everything in our lives.
Psalm 50 where it says everything belongs to God. Do you somehow see that how God answered Job and how the psalmist wrote his passage. It all talks about the creations that God has created. It shows God awesomeness power to do things and it points us to one thing, God is in control of everything. Amen!
God is soverign over everything and we need to learn to see things in a big picture. We should not complain but pray and ask God to show us understanding & wisdom.
Lastly about Authenticity, it is accepting someone in totality and which also means to accept the person's background.
What exactly is authenticity then?
-If we are not authentic, we are like kissing a glass; a barrier that prevents us from being truthful. It's like a surface to surface thing rather than core to core.
When technologies evovled, it caused everyone to be connected but actually we are very disconnected as we are not very sincere. When we see someone online in msn, we will usually ask them "how are you" which then they will reply "ok" and put a smiley face at the end. It shows how authentic our conversation can be, we can't be bothered to really care about others.
Nothing is more personal than meeting up and which then, the generation of younger ones does not know the importance of what it means to meet up to chat.
We are also insecure and we will try to do something to get peoples' attention. How much of us do we want to reveal to others? In love, confront the person in truth. Love people, use things, not love things, use people. Ministry is about ministering to one another, it's all about people. Without people, there is no ministry.
We have to run to God first before running to others. Minister to others.
Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up dissension , but love covers all wrongs.
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--God Is Good--
1/06/2010 09:08:00 PM
