Musings: Serving the Lord

Chances to Witness

At this time, I have a concern that I don't have the chances - to witness to people - that I had hoped or as called for by my present level of spiritual maturity. There are a couple of reasons.

First, we are new migrants in Canada; and being a part of the Asian minority has its inherent disadvantages. The Canadians [and all other Caucasians, for that matter] normally would take almost all you say with a grain of salt.

Second, the utter lack of money completely prevents me from going around, or even entertain at home, even for a small home bible study. You can read in the previous piece, in this journal, I had written that we are in transition; and that we are scraping almost the bottom of our financial resources. In other words we have not really settled in this foreign soil to undertake any witnessing in a grand scale.

Serving the Lord

Excerpt: Hopefully the American players will discover that humility is a virtue and not try and simply cover up these loses with excuses. And this is a good lesson for us all. Whatever we think we have accomplished, we can never sit back on our laurels. Even spiritual highs need to be tempered with reality. The disciples were always arguing over who would be greatest in the kingdom of God and who would get to sit next to Jesus in heaven. Jesus responded by reminding them that they were all servants, and it is always for servants to take the lower place. If God wants to usher us to a higher place, that's up to Him. Our place is last place. That's what we should choose, and in so doing, lift up all those who are ahead of us. (1)

This excerpt, which talked about serving the Lord, encourages me a lot. Indeed, Nora, my wife, and I are serving at the moment my daughter and husband. They are working to make a living while Nora and I stay home to take care, first and foremost, their months old son, and, secondarily, the daily household chores.

It's good that I have time to do my devotion to our Lord; also, get the time, alone, talk with Him and get intimate. Therefore, my spiritual growth is assured and can only bring good things.

Sources: (1) John Fischer at Purpose Driven Life | Published March 15, 2006