Today’s devotion: Words of God – Gospel, is not only for the sake of salvation but as well shows the pattern of life that we should live with.
It’s kind like ironic that when we are having our devotion, sharing God’s words together at the third floor and at the same time, the pub, the club, the so and so are promoting their pub, their club, their so and so down at the ground floor with loud rocking music, sexy girls, showing half of their boobs and butt, offering free hugs, like they dont value their own body. There is a guy was shouting words that are "orally" abusive to the ladies through mic. There are students came back to us and said that whenever they walked down from our cafe to the ground floor, they get so shocked on how the girls dress up and their attitude are totally different than what they have just seen few seconds ago at the third floor.
We thanks God for making us different from others and as well thanks God for showing the students that we are different from others. At the same time, I pray for this community and this land. Lord, the gospel is not only for us as a christian, not only for the students who come to approach us but is for eveyone who got the breath on this earth. I pray for Your mercy to the girls, to the guy and to everyone else that Lord, You give them the equal opportunity to get to know you and listen to Your Gospel at Your own timing. Amen.
you may said that I am OVER ambitious for just having a thought of to plant the seed in these people but well, for your information, our heavenly father is an EXPERT in performing something that seem to be ridiculous and impossible. so, when there seem like nothing that we, as a human can do, we just need to remember P.U.S.H.
This joyful song have been playing in my mind for the whole night.
As for my day, yea~ I had have a GREAT morning and evening and I am looking forward for MORE EXCITING evening tomorrow.
this morning after the alarm buzzed into my ears, it followed by the rain dripping sound.
due to the shopping trip that I have agreed with the Italian girl last night, I was like "Oh no~ God, I need a better weather, not to say a sunny day as I dont mind to have a gloomy day but at least give me a rain-less day."
put on my hoodies and walk to student union with a hope that the girl wont change her mind cause of the wet day but somehow, she turned up. Oh~ thanks God.
while on our way to the city, I handed my handmade cheese-ham sandwich to her and she was kind of surprised on how do I know that she didnt have her breakfast. well, all I can tell is that this is the combination of a wee bit of common sense plus inspiration from Holy Spirit. ngom ngom ngom~ she is enjoying the breakfast and I am glad that I make the sandwich last minute before step out the house and brought her the sandwich. thanks and sorry to my housemates for all the ingredients belong to my housemates and I just use it without asking for permission. can see that we got a lot of similiarities while doing the shopping especially the style of everything go for the cheapest but she is a wee bit more serious than me where at least I wont go for cheapest skin care products. after I walked her back to her house, she give me an italian style of goodbye kiss and hug. we have a great shopping trip without a single drop of rain. this is just so A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!!
another exciting thing of the day was during the cafe in the evening, I got to meet with a girl from china and from the conversation, realised that she is the kind want to make friends with local people instead of mixing around with people from the same country and one of the topic that she is interested is about GOD so that she can has one more topic to talk about with the local people. THIS IS SO AMAZING!! God always got His way to get people to come to know Him. We had have a great chat throughout the night and I manage to share some of my story with her, how God have changed my life, how amazing God is so and so. At the end of the conversation, in order not to freak her off, I just told her that I am not trying to converting her but God is just so amazing and this is TOO G.O.O.D not to share. not knowing what will turn out to be but know that God has His own plan for each and everyone of us. though the intention in want to know more about God is not quite right but well, God got His own timing and He know the plan for everyone, all we need to do is just to plant the seed in their heart and God will water them.
At the beginning of this welcome week, the welcome meal, the shopping trips, have been dealing with all kind of international students but when I sit down and reflected what I have been doing all these while, I was kind like lost, lost the direction and get confused with purpose of doing all these stuff as I realised that I didnt even mention a single word about christianity or church to any students all these while. I thought that I am serving God in this way but feel like there is nothing related to God with all I have done. I kneel, I pray and God answer. I got the chance to talk about Him for the whole day and now, while writing this blog, I suddenly recalled the principle of this organization, "to build genuine friendship with the international students and to help them in all possible way" with the friendship, we can introduce our dearly friend – Jesus to them. oh yea~ finally i got back on the direction and make things clear.
anyway, God got His own timing and His time is always right for us and now it’s the time for me to get a NICE shower and get a NICE sleep and looking forward for another NICE day. weeee~~~
P.S. read the prayer from the previous blog, you will find how God amazing-ly answered my prayer. ^^
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