STANDING FIRM IN THE WILL OF GOD

That was the topic of evening's talk by Alastair last night at church. It was started by the topic "Talking". Something that I shared to him afterwards, responding to his talk which was relevant to what I went through about a couple of years ago.

Here's a bit of the story, hope it can be an encouragement, well.. it is more to what christians would face which often is a struggle.

It happened at my previous work place. On one weekend (it was Friday), my supervisor was trying to get someone to cover for Saturday shift. Apparently she couldn't come up with one person, so she came to ask me whether I'd be available and so I said "No, I can't". It was in front of my other colleagues she asked, "Why?"; "I have to go to church", I said. Then she started laughing ironically and said, "I think you are silly to go to church on Saturday!". I was silent to a thought of needless to reply back anything, apart from being embarrassed to be treated like that in front of my colleagues. But I thought I did the right thing, which might not the be right thing for her or perhaps others for that matter. My other colleagues didn't laugh at me or anything like that, maybe they understood that it was not appropriate to talk like that and unproffesional.

I was thinking if I would have come up with anything to response to it, what would it be? It probably doesn't look as complicated now, but it was a struggle for me at that moment. My english wasn't perfect, if I would have responded her, I thought I would have lost anyway because nothing much I could say in english.

In Alastair's prayer, he asked that may God open up more opportunities for us to talk about God and His words, whether it'd be at our work places, Universities, etc. Often I find it hard (as most christians would do so), sometimes it's not as easy as just the so-called word "spreading the gospel", a lot of times we might be hated by those around us because of our faith in Christ. I am glad that I quitted the job so I didn't have to deal with something like that again. Partly I felt like I was running away from it, which I could have dealt with it by continuosly believing in Him and His strength in me to be able to response in the right way. Well, but this is not mainly why I quitted though.

As what the title says, we need to stand firm in our faith and upon His wills in our lifes. I was glad (in the Lord) that that didn't shift my faith in Him. I knew that was the right thing to do (whether I should give up work for VG & Pemuda). Alastair said that, that person would feel guilty for treating good people badly. Hehe, sometimes it's a pleasure to know someone's got the consequences for doing bad things. Anyway.. I guess I shouldn't rejoice, instead should pray that she can come to know Christ.

That's all I wanted to share.