It was on saturday that my church organised a 在你身边 concert. It is a mini concert perfomed by a christian band called '7 Days'.
As you will be able to guess, the performance was rocking! We rocked the whole of Toa Payoh with the jarring music and melodious songs. I really want to thank God that he got so many people around the estate to come down to our church to listen to the music. Many of them just drop by out of curiousity and 'boom', they got the performance of their lifetime! I also want to thank God, so much that we were able to have 10 new believers out of the 300 over audiences that came to our church! That was certainly amazing!
On a personal basis, I would also want to thank God for working miracles out for me, even when I am at my most down. That day, I invited the whole of my sec 4 volleyball team mates to join me in the concert. I was hoping to invite as many non-christian as possible, wanting them to know the love and glory of God. I have to thank Chunli for helping me reach out to the girls. :) Anyway, no one from my side wanted to come! I mean I would have expected that but then, the feeling was just too depressing. I prayed to God and he guided me by asking me not to give up. And so, I came online, in search of people I could invite. It just so happen that one of my volleyball team mate (T1) was online. T1 rejected me earlier on, but I tried persuading him, hoping that he would come. Just then, Chunli came online also and she helped me persuade him also. Thank God! After hours of persuasion, he finally got as close as to being uncertain whether to go or not to go ( very tiring you know that :P).
As I had to go and prepare for lunch, I went offline, leaving Chunli to deal with the ordeal of persuading him (Sorry :( ). I then messaged him after my lunch and he gave a solid 'No'. Depressing... Very depressing......
Just then, I came across one of the bible verses. It is as follows:
"Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me." Matthew 24:9
This is one famous verse that predicts the rejection of christian from the world while serving God and it gave me strength in wanting to share the burden of Christ. My burden is so insignificant as that compared to Jesus!
Another verse stated about Jesus:
"The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone; the Lord done this, and it is marvellous in our eyes" Matthew 21:42
And so, I just kept praying to God, in hope that T1 would come. I left it to God, to His will on whether he hoped to bring T1 to our midst. And so, I put everything at the back of my mind, prepared to go to church and I took the MRT to Toa Payoh.
As I was dozing off in the train when it reached Yio Chu Kang, I felt my handphone vibrate. To my suprise, it was T1! He messaged me, asking about the concert. He then told me that he wanted to come! I felt like yelling on the train then! The joy of seeing him come was never felt before. He then told me that he felt like there was nothing to do after his afternoon nap and was just curious to drop by. Hallelujah!
Many a times, we just left to many things to ourselves. In the end, we burdened ourselves too much, resulting in sulky emotions. I learnt that we should just leave it to God as he is our most faithful friend. Even till the end of time, he would still be there for you and me, if you believe...
I would like to bring your attention to this verse:
"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34