Personal reflection prior to the choir rehearsal (January 20th, 2012)
Bible Reading: Psalm 95:1-7
Nowadays, crisis of confidence & faith seem so indisputable that many people strive to enrich themselves with earthly things but become poorer in their spiritual life. Young people are trapped in a crisis of identity as the result of being absorbed into the temporary pleasures & ignoring their spiritual growth.
Learning from this reality, I would like to encourage each and every one of us to keep in mind the last passage in our reading today, “Today, if you hear his voice,” (NIV). Let us live our daily life by saying, “As for today, we want to hear Your voice!”
My beloved brothers & sisters in the Lord,
A three-year-old child asked his dad, “Daddy, is it possible if we live our life without sinning for one year?” His daddy answered, “Wow! It’s impossible!!!”, “How about one month?”, he asked again. “One month?!?…hmmm… No way!” With a great curiosity, that child asked again, “One week?”, “hmmm…no (shaking his head) we can’t!” his daddy replied. “One day, then?”. Then his daddy thought of the day he has been living and said, “It could be…but not really!”.
That little child started to be frustrated but still he asked, “Daddy…how about one hour?”. His daddy answered him, “I think it’s possible but not gonna be easy. We have to try very hard…” Then, the child’s face shone with excitement and said, “Then I will live my life from now on hearing God’s voice and do it continuously in the following seconds. Let every precious time God has given me be spent accordingly by hearing His voice.”
Sometimes we consider something is too big or too impossible to achieve so we become pessimist and do what it takes to make it happen, even by doing things that are contradictory to God’s will. Sometimes we ignore the fact that we have a great God, as the Bible says that He is the Rock of our salvation, a great God, King of kings, the Lord of heavens and earth.
Some of us admire those who have a huge land, big mansion, and so on. But if we go to, for example to Bukit Inspirasi Tomohon, then we could see that it’s all not that big. Our sight is even limited and we could only see a part of God’s creation, the Owner of this universe including us.
Come on time in every rehearsal, practice well and seriously, come on time in our monthly ministry, sing with your heart, and something alike, are some small things but have a great impact if we do it consistently! I think it’s all the implementation of living our lives by listening to God’s voice.
Let us start every single day God has given us on our knees, worship Him, ask for His guidance to lead our ways and be determined to persistently hearing His voice otherwise we could ‘be tumbled-down like the walls of Jericho’.* 🙂
* not included in the original reflection
By: – Desty –
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