Sunday, May 31, 2009
♥ 8:03 PM
I LOVE BADMINTON! i just had to scream that out cox i cannot contain that love within me anymore. hahaha!
okay, anyway i was just reminded of something which i thought is quite important while doing the sharing after service just now. DREAMS. It's what drives us. When it captures us, we find our lives driving forward as if there's a motor attached to us.
When we first receive Christ, we have a thousand and one things we want to accomplish for His kingdom. We look at the song leaders on the stage and aspire to song-lead like them one day. We look at pastor preaching and we want to be like him, to speak to thousands of people. We so often say that we want to win the world for Christ and week after week we just go on and on to our friends about Jesus. Has all this hype slowed down over the years? or did it stop?
I remembered when i first wanted to play guitar, i was in sec 3. i was so inspired by ziwei and his gift in worship leading during cell group meetings that i really want to be able to worship like him. Soon, i started practicing without even having a guitar. my right hand was my guitar neck and my left hand just practiced the chord fingerings on it. a few weeks later i bought a $30 guitar ad practiced chord changing and strumming on it. after i could press all e strings, i tried not looking, and after that i tried changing chords quickly. after i could do all that, my uncle came to me and bought me a $400 takamine acoustic guitar. A year after i started learning guitar, i became a cell group guitarist.
Doesn't all this just seem so fast? I attended this talk last week and the speaker said it's very important to know what you want so that people can help you get to your destination. I believe that is why my uncle bought me a guitar. so often we pray," God bless me.. God bless me..". What exactly do you want God to bless you with? How can He give us something when we dont even know what we're asking for? Also, I think that it is very important for our dreams to become REAL to us before it actually comes to pass. The Bible says that faith is the substance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen. Which means that to say," I have faith that God is going to make this happen", it has first got to become real for us even before it has happened. To me, wanting to play guitar was so real that i could "play" even without a guitar. And when your dreams have come to that stage, it just seems like you're being propelled towards whatever you're dreaming of and you cannot control it.
perhaps the answer to spiritual stagnancy is that we've stopped dreaming?
Acts 2:17
And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams.
