hello john! it's great to see your post as i arose this morning and prepare myself for my first day @ school, and i'm really encouraged to see you soaking in the Lord's presence...indeed the Lord is so powerfully personal no matter where He has placed us. can see you are adjusting quite well over there? continue to be faithful in the small things in Your walk with the Lord and im sure He's preparing you for the mission He has for you over there!
today also marks the day that our cell group are all finally back in school (since the smu peeps start sch today!) as i spend time with the Lord, reflecting, i felt chided by the Lord in terms of how i've been living my christian walk as led more by the flesh than the Spirit, hanging onto my rights in life... and it just dawned upon me that as much as we are children of God, we are also called to be slaves of the Lord and behold, a slave doesn't hold onto his/her own rights. i'm amazed by how Paul says "i discipline my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified" (1Cor9:27). i guess it's also a call to me and to us that we must decrease and Christ must increase in our lives and in all that we do.
only then can we really be the light of the world. "the gods of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ" (2Cor4:4). we are the light through which many in our campuses can see the Lord, so let's not allow it to remain hidden under the basket of fears, inadequacies, sin or busyness...but to arise shine for the light has come! in order that the light of the Lord can pierce through the darkness, we surely must decrease amen?
not that i have attained it, but as i post this, i'm challenging myself n learning to walk in His ways too... post more, mates! :)
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Indeed the 'I' must decrease in our everyday lives in order for the Holy Spirit to really fill us up and for the Lamb of God to take His throne upon our lives.
Too many times have we succumbed to taking things into our own hands, into our own timing; especially as Undergraduates where alot of individual work and efforts are emphasised and seemingly 'needed' to get good grades etc.
Even i myself have been guilty of the above, how my past week has really been so frazzled cos i kept taking things into my own hands and timing...only till wed did i realise i have to lean not on human intelligence but instead pray for Wisdom from God,not try to create my own timing but to abide in His timing for all the pieces in His plan for me to fall nicely in place.
Only yesterday did i achieve true peace in my heart after another series of frazzled testing by the Lord. It was only when i laid everything at the cross did i achieve this inner peace
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