wonderment

I never got round to take the quiet time away to prepare for the new year. Once CCIS was over, it was back to work and the load was actually greater because of the NYE’s holiday.

However, God knew I had accumulated too many wrong beliefs over this one year … and it was time to get rid of them.

I had my first keyboard lesson yesterday and for this term we’re focussing on the Tabernacle found in Exodus. We talked about the Moses and the burning bush. Bernice (the teacher) asked us to think about the “burning bushes” in our lives. “Burning bushes” that help you see the majesty of God clearer.

It wasn’t any accident, neither was it the tsunami tragedy (though God used that to show me the value of gratitude), nor was it a life-changing experience.

The “burning bushes” in my life are my friends. People I’ve known for years, people whom I’ve recently grown close to, people I met in CCIS. They don’t know it, but in the conversations we’ve had over the past couple of weeks, some off-the-cuff remarks were like search beams inside of me.

One particular example came from an Uncle Winston who quoted a paraphrase of the following verse over dinner, but it haunted me until I tracked the verse down. Here it is:

‘And Jesus said to him, “No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”‘ (Luke 9:62)

Go figure. It’s too long and too complex to explain it sufficiently but it pretty much has to do with my life as a full-time ministry worker, my spiritual relationship with God as well as relationships with the people around me. (If you’re interested, I’ll speak to you indepth.)

Anyway, thank you my friends. You know who you are. If I haven’t had the opportunity to speak to you in the past 2 weeks, I hope to learn from you in time to come.

God speaks. For a long while, I’d been searching the Word for refreshment but I was too bogged down with the world and its many distractions to understand.

And He knew. So He got a few of my favourite people to speak from the Word to me.

Thank you Lord for your patience to such a worm as I.