Archive for April 11, 2009

I.O.U.

Emotions are going all over the place.

I am rejoicing over all the souls that have come to know Jesus thru the Beyond Tears easter drama. And for those that did not raise their hands, or come up for prayer, we know these have received a precious gospel seed. May the rains from heavens, may the workers in the field continue to tend to the growth of the seed. May it grow roots and may its shoots reach for the heavens. They too shall be saved.

The joy over those precious ones, who have received Jesus and those who received the seed of the gospel is also coupled with the sadness I feel over those that I invited and did not come. Those who said YES exuberantly and then at the last minute back out. There were those who said NO from the onset, but still I maintained a seed of hope. Ever the optimist I suppose. The ones that are most dear are the ones that you are most desperate to reach, and they are the very ones that can seem so hard to reach. What then do we do?

I don’t know what else to do except cry out to my Lord tonight. As He cries over the millions of lost souls, I will weep beside him over the few that are expecially dear to me. After weeping, I will rise again. I will continue to sow. I have and will continue to reap in other places where I have not sown…maybe …perhaps…someone else will reap this harvest field that is so dear and precious to me? O dear Lord, send in your workers to this particular harvest field. I will toil and sow….if another is to reap, the glory will always belong to You! The rejoicing will be shared with me too. So I surrender it all to you!

The price you paid is always beyond words, beyond tears, beyond human understanding, beyond human wisdom. An old song which i learned in Christian Fellowship in Assunta school is pretty cool…da da da da dadididi …yeah I am singing it now….ask me to sing it for u! haha!

He paid a debt He did not owe; I owed a debt I could not pay;
I needed someone to wash my sins away.
And, now, I sing a brand new song, “Amazing Grace.”
Christ Jesus paid a debt that I could never pay.

He paid that debt at Calvary.He cleansed my soul and set me free.
I’m glad that Jesus did all my sins erase.
I, now, can sing a brand new song,“Amazing Grace.”
Christ Jesus paid a debt that I could never pay.


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Price tags “non-theology”

Price tags. Very crucial bits of paper that attach value to anything and everything. Everything that your heart desires more often than not have a price tag. Clothes, shoes, handbags, friendships, careers, studies, and the list could really go on and on.

Some years ago I was inspired by a sermon by this youth pastor from the USA (God bless his soul but I just cant remember his name!) Anyway, it was this one picture that he painted that always pops back into my head – Imagine Jesus walking around a room filled with our cell members and church friends. Imagine everyone of us having a price tag. Jesus walks around flips the tags to take a look at the price. He is looking for sons and daughters that will serve Him-heart, soul and mind. What are the things that prevent us from being that which Jesus is looking for? I will serve you Lord, once my studies are done? Or after I have achieved xxx? Let me get married and have 2.5 kids first? When does this list end? This list can be the price tag that we put on our service to God too. I will serve you, Lord IF you give me this job, this scholarship, or this woman as a wife?

Why this sudden thought? Well as I watched the easter drama, there was an excerpt of the Passion of Christ movie-of Jesus being flogged and then crucified. I realised, that Jesus had no price tag of what God or man had to do for him before he decided to do that which the Father willed. His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. He walked the talk.

Honestly I do struggle with the price tags I sometimes find myself having when it comes to going the second and third mile. I am quite human, but I am humbled and chastised by the fine example of Jesus. I am reminded also about Paul’s teaching to beat our bodies into submission. This Good Friday/Easter weekend – my focus is to work on the price tags I inadvertently placed before the Lord.

If you are reading this and have absolutely no idea what this is about, don’t worry too much about it. It is all about me and my walk. If you “get it” then take what you can but don’t make this a theology! Haha!

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