school life..

well uncle philip and aunty heng(linda) came to my house yesterday. hmm, and i believe my mother told my aunt about what she feels about me going too extreme and doing things that i feel please God but does not. it was a short time when both of them talked to me about it. it was edifying i should say. hmm, i feel that we shouldnt think that the older generation dun understand what we are doing and how we are coping with life. but my aunt and uncle both are knowledgable and experienced christians who know the word of God well. and i really learnt alot from their talk with me.

the problem is my mom fear that i has become to extreme to the point that i no longer care about my future and my studies and leave everything to God. well, that perhaphs was a wrong idea which i have in the past. i've learnt that no matter what we do, we still have to be competant in whatever we do. even though we must have faith, we shouldnt be only praying and expecting a miracle. uncle philip quoted a phrase, "God helps those who helps themselves" indeed, if we were to slack and do nothing do you think God can help us score? no, there is a verse which says faith without deeds is useless. how can we have faith and do nothing with it. a verse from galatian was quoted by uncle philip, "bear your own burden" are we to give God our burden to carry? God can help us bear them, only when we have too much to bear, but how can we leave everything to God when we are not doing anything? God gives us brain, knowledge wisdom for the purpose to make us study. one example uncle philip used to teach me was daniel. daniel was a faithful servant who stood firm for God. and i believe we should learn from daniel remember whatever daniel did, God prospered him and found him favour in man's eyes. matthew 5 there is a verse which says "let your light so shine before man that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven" indeed, we christian youths have one ministry God has given us. our school. we have to study hard and do our best for God even in our studies. 1 Cor 10:31 therefore whether you eat or drink, whatsoever you do, do it all for the glory of God. even though studies may seem so boring and monotonous. delight yourself and motivate yourself with the thought that you are doing it for God. and you are doing His will. this should eventually keep you going. we as christians, are watched. every single step we take, there are people closely watching and will eventually follow our footsteps. well one real example i experience is how i used to skip the last two periods of school last time. of course now i dun dare to do it. but there are people who have learnt to do that and when i find out, and they tell me directly in my face, "jeremy i learn from you wan" that was a hard whack on my face. people really follow in our footsteps! and how can we be held accountable to God if we lead others astray through our deeds. well, i had a hard time explaining to him that it was wrong and i was regretful i did that last time. i discouraged him to do it. ok coming back to my point is that people do look at christians and their results, even our parents do. do our results reflect Christ in our life? or does it shame Christ? oh, how we are held accountable to Christ by whatever we do. if our results are poor, how are we going to explain to our God why we have brought shame to Him? but if we do well, people look at us and say, "ehh, why you everytime go to church still can do so well" this is also a real life example where my friends marvel at why i am so slack in class yet am possible to score well in exams. they see me always busy with church activities, and or course training. where could i find time to study? when asked, i will reply because i have God! isnt that what glorifys my God? so study hard kkz? for those a levels, o levels, final year exams, promos, and what nots. study hard keeping in mine your purpose for studying and whether you will bring shame or glory to God. i have started to pick up and pull up my socks already. no longer so slack. but of course i need the strength and determination frm the Lord to pull through and discipline myself.

another problem they talked to me about was me making a clear separation or distinction between christian friends and my worldly friends. well i have to confess that i am bias against my worldly friends. as someone said, we shouldnt condemn these people but we are put there to minister to them. how can we reach out to them if we have already put them down? i use to think that mixing around with my school friends are not good. and that i can only mix with my christian friends. and my circle of friends is so small only. but i think i need to open up le. i cannot separate myself from non-christians. i will be like jonah, running away from God's call for me. God has put us in schools for a reason, we as His servants ought to be His beacons and reach out to the people who desperately need the gospel. imagine if all the christians only mix with christians, would there be a clear distinction betweeen religions? and the rest of the people not knowing the gospel of Christ? yes, do not be yoke with unbelievers. but i must understand the context that it is about. the bible says that we should follow what the unbelievers do. do not walk in the counsel of the ungodly. yes. we must mix with them, get to know them then reach out to them! but we should excuse ourselves when they do things that is contrary to the word of God. and i believe they will respect us in future. we shouldnt be choosing people to reach out to. we should be reaching out to every single person the Lord sends in our way. even if the person is the biggest bully in the school he's tyranical and abusive, if God wants us to witness to them, we must. God wants us to save every single soul we can. imagine if our hesitance might cause this soul to be lost forever. hence, we must learn to be patient with people even the most difficult to deal with and tahan, find opportunity to talk to them and witness. then lead them to Christ! i must learn to befriend them and only then do i have their trust and can witness to them..

hope this information has been useful. tata