Lightness of being#41 What am I here for? (28 apr 2014)

Lightness of being #41 What are we here for? (28 Apr 2014)

It has been a hiatus this past one month. It is not a case of writer's cramps, nor because I was away in UK for two weeks, but rather, I just felt the need to rest in our Lord. Through the past decade, I have been but the pen, our good Lord the author. And by His grace, His thoughts flowed through my heart and I believe yours too, like an effervescent well spring of joy and peace.

So why the literal radio silence in the blogging space? I was struggling.
"God must increase, I must decrease." This is not an unfamiliar verse to most.
Do you realize that as we seek to move closer to God, we will have to depend upon Him even more?
"A journey of faith," a phrase that most used in a cursory manner without giving much thought to what it truly meant.
"Faith, is the substance of things hoped for, evidence of things unseen."
And in Gospel speak, what must all Christians hope for? To be like Christ, to be made ready to be like Christ before Christ returns.

Christ loved His neighbors. Christ obeyed the will of God, even at the loss of His own life. Can we do the same?
A "mission impossible" for can one truly put aside our own needs, and instead focus on God, and the needs of people He will place in our path?

"What am I here for?" This was the question that has captured most of my time of solitude with our Lord this past one month.
Clarity of the heart is by the grace of God, and if the following thoughts are truly from Him, His will resonate forth.

Dear...

But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
               Acts 20:24

If Christ is not risen, then our faith is in vain. But He is risen.
Death is the sting of sin. Man first sinned when Adam disobeyed God and chose to move from God dependence to self dependent.
As a believer, we accept the grace of God in wiping clean the stain of sin upon all humanity.
As a follower of Christ, we seek to follow our risen Christ in His victory over death.
Death is not just mortal death, but spiritual death when we choose to overcome the world by our own strength, rather than upon God.

If we stop looking at issues from our perspective, and instead orientate it from God's. If we stop thinking about our own needs, and instead focus on that of others. Would we not just feel liberated from the angst that life throws at us, but be empowered to move forth in victory as God has ordained?

那一天，不要忘记有人❤️你。 那一天，不要轻易说放弃。

but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,
                1 Peter 1:15

To serve God is to be like Christ. It is not easy if nay impossible to be in this world, yet not be of this world. Modern society has become so intertwined that can one truly not be dependent upon the need to subscribe to the world values  in order to survive?

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength:this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
                  Mark 12:30-31

Is it truly plausible that one can focus on God and the needs of others instead of securing the provisions for our own needs?
Will God provide manna for those who trust and obey?

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee:for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
            2 Corinthians 12:9

I often wrestle with my worldly needs. And in doing so, my act of disobedience, what the Bible term as lawlessness, gives room for Satan to try to delude and oppress my countenance.
But thanks be to God. His Spirit resides in us and His Spirit convicts one of our follies, and enables clarity of heart to dissipate the creeping clouds of delusion.

我一生只听随主声音🔊

"What am I here For?" A statement of affirmation, for it reminds me that our omnipresent God is Sovereign, and in all situations, His purposes are greater than our circumstances.
It is about His will, not ours.

Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
              2 Corinthians 2:14

No bridge is too far when we know that the Spirit of God is within us. He will not just sustain us, but embolden, enable and empower all who trust and obey to walk the path of victory that He has already set.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
                 Ephesians 2:10


Pay no heed to the noise around us. Be consciously determined to be still, to put aside our own will,  and instead to listen to the prompting of the Holy Spirit within. And know and do God's will. Only then will we experience the power of God at work in our lives. Only then can we live to rejoice in His goodness.

For to live is Christ, to die is gain.

And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it:but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
                Luke 9:23-24

God blesses

Eng Hieang
28 April 2014