No lukewarm please!
8:44 AM |
As the title suggests. This post, i will make it as short as sweet as possible. It is not going to be just a typical sharing i am going to post on this blog, it is going to be a post that has got so much depth into it, and is going to be so much more intriguing than all the posts that i have written previously.
This year, for the 2008 resolution i have set. It revolves around this verse.
Revelation 3:15-16
I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.
Come on guys, ask yourself this question. In our whole journey with God, we always want to be at the middle, right at the center. From this verse, we clearly understand the heartbeat of God, that He desires His people to choose either to be hot and passionate for Him, or cold towards Him. What is the point telling people everywhere, "I believe in God, but i can't do much for Him, i just want to believe in Him, so i can go heaven". Please. i don't think this pleases God at all! Where is our heart for Him when we say this? Where are our priorities place in our life that God is never the first? Has someone stolen our heart away from God? Don't look at all these factors and deem it as a lecture, rather consider it that they play a very important part in causing us to remain in stagnancy, to be lukewarm.
Passion has to derive from one heart for God. If you fancy someone to an extend of you singing the song, "can't get you out of my head" by Kylie Minogue. Something is wrong, and you can't cover it up by saying, "this is my human nature". Why did i say so? It is so very simple, when you love God whole-heartedly, you won't have the room to think of having someone else in your life, unless you are really really convicted by the Holy Spirit, that when both of you come together as one, you can do so much more for the kingdom of God, and it don't please your flesh, but your Creator. i can't commend much when you don't even have a desire to grow and skip levels, to go and get married now. Generally, i look at it as one of the most unhealthy sign for teenagers like us to go missing from church.
Coming back to myself. Hui Mei and i talked on the train just now. I realized that actually i can do so much. I want to do the best for my last year in the campus. It is an either do or don't for me. It is either i believe and go all out, or don't believe and leave. Stagnancy is not an option right now. Now, i want to put all my amazing race show into a quote
'"We are running in this spiritual race to win the devil, not to take our own sweet time without a sense of urgency. There must be a holy competitiveness to do more for the sake of Jesus, and a holy discontent to grow out of all our weaknesses and shortcoming. With that, we are extremely sure of our destiny which is in heaven, which makes it worthwhile of all our determination, diligence and perseverance. During this course of race, fruits of the Spirit will be nurtured, get all the spectators and the strangers into this race with you! Our humility will be tested, and our pride will be finally put to rest, do it for the sake of God!" - Wei Hong.
This is my pledge. I will fulfill it for the rest of my life. :)