Combined Team Rally!
9:52 AM |
Today i attended the combined team rally. Interestingly, it was really a time that brought me to think about MISSIONS! You are right! MISSIONS!
After attending the mission trip to Melacca last September. God placed a seed of burden in my heart, for the people in the Middle East and most vitally, Israel! From that time on, i really prayed that 1 day, i will be visiting these countries and understanding more about them.
Another principle i have learnt, we have got to learn to leave the head table seats and served the people!
We have to reflect on this. Are we leaving our own comfort zone in order to that. The head table seats are considered honourable to all the people. Are we willing to forgo the glamor and the attention we receive and mingle with the people who are poor? Who are considered the worst kind of people? When we say we are serving God, are we choosing people to serve? Are we choosing a group of people to outreach to? Are we neglecting the salvation of "worldly" people? These are a few points for us to ponder about.
Learn from the example of Jesus. As a great teacher. He don't preach to people who are not "worldly". All the people He preached to have a mindset of the world as they have yet to know God. He eats with sinners despite cynical glances from the Pharisees. As God, do He even need to do so? Is it not the love and compassion He has on us that He don't mind carrying up the cross to be crucified even though we are unworthy? Jesus don't pick people to share the gospel to, as His followers, we must follow His footsteps! He leaves the head table seat as a God, we must too, leave our own head table and deny ourselves, our rights to maximize the glory of His kingdom!
Phillipians 2:5-11
5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross! 9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.