Some new year reflections
3 pieces of advice
1) Keep working – Nathan Tang 13 August 2017
Let’s keep working but no pressure cause God is the One working
2) Well I learnt to let go. And not hoard all these “responsibilities” to myself, like as if they were my “pet projects”. They are my fellow bro & sistas. We share 2 common DNAs. Sin & Christ. – Samuel Ngo 24 December 2017
3) Continue serving and following Christ as always – Christopher Kho 26 December 2017
And don’t worry too much about being the lone 94’ there/ I’m sure there’ll be more gospel partners coming soon 21 December 2017
3 wise sayings
1) you can learn to love anyone when you've heard their story - Simren Singh, ages ago, recalled December 2017
2) how can you expect it to look out for you? The strong must take care of the weak - Heidi Leong, Esra and the chick story, December 2017
3) tidak perlu lebih tinggi tinggi, harus bantu orang lain - me to the man on the plane, December 28 2017
Some thoughts,
God cares about where we are. He moves us to spaces where we need to be to help us know him.
Acts 17:26-28 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
Following the leading of the Spirit makes zero sense sometimes because you're following something no one can see.
John 3:8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
Training children is super hard because its a 24/7 job plus you don't just train them with the training activities (like doing the washing up/ cooking a meal together/ teaching them how to buy things at the supermarket) but they also watch you and how you live your life. Super exhausting and 0% chance of success because you'll trip up somewhere. Like get mad and say something dumb. So I have mad respect for God who makes us unruly and ungrateful kids his own and trains us up using the infinite resources he has in this entire world - so cool that I can trust that God is using everything today, the weather, the animals, the good and the bad to mould me to follow the way of Jesus more - it will keep me safe.
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.
And when he is old he will not depart from it.
The Christian life is really so much more about dying than I ever thought. Dying to bring forth new life - I remember thinking that this time last year, when I was visiting Glau and Tobi in Bremen and looking at her huge belly...knowing that the life inside her had also given her diabetes. He giveth and giveth and giveth again and so will I.
James 1:27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Two resolutions:
- write down people's prayer points in my prayer mate app so I don't lose them
- continually seek God's will for my life and let go of my own dreams
- take time off for random creative things (like making my shell jewellery to give away!)
It would be cool if 2018 brought
- an exhibition to raise awareness about mental health
- fundraising for a scholarship to support the above and remember YNC's mental health history, named after Dennis
- the resurrection and expansion of the board games party!
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