My Confession Box

Monday, August 18, 2008

Yesterday, was perhaps one of the only days which I went to church in the evening. It was somewhat different than the usual Sunday’s, perhaps because of the speaker. I didn’t take note of his name but he was an old man, roughly say 75 years old or so from America. At the beginning I was hoping that he was some bombastic empowering speaker, who could give all sorts of quotes but apparently not. He could be best described as a humble old man, who delivers a message of suspense one that is never understood untill the very end of his speech.
Because the activities recently revolved around sending missionaries to various countries to spread the word of god, donations and speeches had to be made. This old man started off telling us about how certain people are not so blessed like us. Well, the bible originated in one language for instance the new testament being in Greek initially. Although it is common to most of us that it comes in the English and Chinese version, however there are certain people out there who do not converse in English or Chinese and they do not have the bible in their language. So this old man talked about the difficulties faced in translating the bible and finally voila they have a bible let’s say in Tibetan. Initially they were overjoyed and 300,000 copies were produced. However to their dismay, they realized that only 10% of the Tibetan population could read and write. Great... What Now? He then gave an example of how missionaries die in communist countries while spreading the word of god. This person although he died, however he managed to record the bible in a particular language and succeeded in delivering the tape. So, this is a good example of the word of god being unstoppable. After he said this, I once again recalled about what I said in the past. I always wanted my grandmother and grandfather to receive salvation, however unfortunately grandpa who could read and write well was not a faithful believer. Grandma on the other hand, tried to believe but does not read and write well. Since one way or another the word of god cannot reach her ears, I believe that this responsibility lies on my shoulder to once again prove that the word of god cannot be stopped.
Ok, back to the sermon. Well, to summarize it, tt was basically something like this ... Many at times, we see drug addicts being pushed to an edge and finally they step into church to confess and start afresh. Many at times when someone is sick or in some difficulties do they ask god for help. But let us think about this, what if one day THE ALMIGHTY GOD asks us a mere human being for help? I am aware that most people like myself would be astonished by what the pastor had said. But like I said earlier on you never get what this old guy is talking about till the very end. He then quoted a passage in John 19:25-31. It was about Jesus on the cross asking for something to quench his thirst.
Relating to what was said earlier on, the pastor talked about God’s broken heart. God created a family consisting of Adam and Eve. They were the ones that broke his heart. God doesn’t tyrannically force us to do things. In fact he gives us a choice. However all he asks for is obedience. God just asks you to be obedient towards him, yet many at times we fail to do so.

OK, I still have lots of insights but it would perhaps take forever to jot them down. I shall end here.

the origin.7:08 PM