Weekly update: 1/2/2011 Calling to serve

Have you ever seated at the waiting area near the door of Accidence and Emergency of a hospital? Where you see people rushing in wheels, parents crying and scolding her children for situation they cause themselves in...etc Does it's makes you feel like you want to do something for them but feeling helpless? I do.

A&E of Singapore General Hospital

The day was 1/2/2011, my grandma fell again and was send to hospital for checkup. Don't worry, she is fine. But I think God let this event happen for a purpose and I will share with you in a while.

That day, I was giving a workshop in a secondary school. My phone rang and it was my cousin telling me about grandma incident. So right after class, I went to visit her. When I reached her ward, she was alone. But she smile at me when she saw me and we chat for a while. We even watched the story of Jesus together at her bed. After I checked with the nurse, it seen like she needs to stay there for few hours more before she can discharge. So after she falls asleep, I decide to pay my relative a visit that happen to be nearby.

Where my childhood began

After reaching the place, it brings back so much memories. Because this is the place where I grow up. My childhood. Although after I called my relative and they happen not to be around, I still take the opportunity to walk around the block. But when I reached the 10th floor where I used to live. I suddenly recall how God had watched over me when I was young even when I do not know Him yet. I once was surrounded by a gang but they cause me no harm; at the age of 5, I once knock down a huge cupboard and it fell and cover half of my body but I'm still alive; but above that is the big family conflict that my mum's relative vs my father's relative about selling me away when I was a baby but God saved me and had planted that the seed of gospel will start from our family.

Both our father and mother's relative coming together to my house in Chinese New Year.

I praised God while standing at the corridor and prayed for this neighborhood that God will transform it into a place where many will worship Him. My faith maybe small but I know my God is big.

After that, I visited one of my neighbors who used to look after me 20 years ago. She remembers me and she happily invited me in. We had a nice chat and testimony sharing. She was surprise that grandma had become a Christian by her own account and not me who bring her to Church. After a while, we bid goodbye.

Now back to my seat near the door of the Accidence and Emergency, God showed me the reason of today's events. There are many people in this world that haven't hear the good news that can change their life like the way it has changed mine or some people even have a misconception about being a Christian needs to be literate. Someone needs to tell them. And I know the reason I was saved for a reason... we were saved for a reason. It is so that we can live to tell others, that there is a real God who can help them and can changed their life.

I pray that Holy Spirit will multiply the passion and love I had for Him, and this time I will not run away from the purpose He keep me alive. And right now is to study and be equipped in missiology. Amen.

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Seek His will in all you do,
      and He will show you which path to take.

Proverbs 3:6

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