Monday, May 5, 2008 |  
Well, today was my first time helping out in the Children's Church worship, and i must say that it is very very very different to our normal service worship. There were 4 kids, no musicians, and songs that were so high pitched that i couldn't even dream of reaching. I also got to see the 'other' side of the kids when they aren't under any adult supervision, and they really were different to when they are running around the halls laughing, the sight that i got to see was slightly different. Well hopefully i might be able to pick up some guitar and help out in the Children's Church worship.

For today's devotion, i read Ezra 4

1 When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel, 2 they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of the families and said, "Let us help you build because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to him since the time of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here."

3 But Zerubbabel, Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the families of Israel answered, "You have no part with us in building a temple to our God. We alone will build it for the LORD, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, commanded us."

4 Then the peoples around them set out to discourage the people of Judah and make them afraid to go on building. [a] 5 They hired counselors to work against them and frustrate their plans during the entire reign of Cyrus king of Persia and down to the reign of Darius king of Persia.

I only pasted down the first 4 verses because the whole chapter would have been too long i reckon. Anyway, after reading this passage, the first thing that came to mind was disunity. Even though they both served the same God, and had a same purpose, they refused to work together as one. Later on in the chapter they even tried to oppose the other side and stop them from building the wall, even though it was a common goal. I read this and this sort of reminded me of our church. Even though we serve the same God and have this same goal, why are there still much internal strife among fellow brothers and sisters? Why do people resent certain people and badmouth them behind their backs? I just don't understand, aren't we all part of God's family and have a common goal? Can't people just understand that and realize that by backstabbing each other in the back isn't gonna do us any good, but instead do the works of the devil. I really pray that God will solve and break away all these pride and self-righteousness in the people in our church, and that God would wake them up to reality and tell them that it's not about them!! It's all about God! So who cares if you don't like this person, or this person treats you badly, just be like Jesus and forgive them! We all only have this lifetime, and if we don't make the best of it, we'll be regretting why we even did these silly things on judgment day. I pray that our WHOLE church will be bonded together and be united, so that we'll be ready for the revival when the revival fires come, if not it'll just pass us by.


We are one in the bond of love, we are one in the bond of love
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1 comments:

Su said...

"There is one body and one Spirit - just as you were called to one hope when you were called - one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all" (Eph 4:4-6 NIV).

The underlying foundation of true unity is relationship, not development or attainments. This we might illustrate by a human family. There may be many children in the family, differing in sea, age, and intellectual development; still there exists a real standard of unity. The brother in uni never thinks of judging his relationship with his brother in the primary school or with his sister in the cradle by an intellectual standard. The tie that binds them together is invisible; it is in no sense proportioned by their respective degrees of development, but has its basis in blood-relationship. But while this is the primary basis of union still development is the law of normal humanity; therefore as all the members of the family develop in intellectual capacity and learn the great facts of truth surrounding them, they will also become one in this respect, so far as the ability of each one will allow.
So also in the spiritual relationship. We are "all one in Christ Jesus." But what does it mean to be in Christ? First of all, it means to be "born again," for without this experience we are not Christians at all and "can not see the kingdom of God".
To be in Christ, then, signifies to be born of God and to have our sins removed by his grace. "Therefore if any man be in Christ, HE IS A NEW CREATURE: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
By this spiritual birth we enter the spiritual family, where we possess the divine life which flows in all its members, and are thus "all one in Christ Jesus" by virtue of a spiritual blood-relationship.

I'm so glad I am your sister and you are my brother. Together, with your family, we're going to nations, Amen?
I won't forget the conversation we had when we were driving down from spiritual encounter abt our future. ^_^

May 5, 2008 at 10:33 PM  

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