Wait.
I was about to write a really depressing post about sin and struggle and the somewhat monotonous turn of events that lead you up to a great place only to fall flat on your face the next day, but I'd rather not right now. There's way too much stuff to praise God for.
Last Sunday was the first meeting of a Bible study that was just 6 guys. Other than me there was a guy who had just accepted Jesus as his saviour, repented and asked for forgiveness; two Chinese masters students who were both really open to learning about Jesus and were asking amazing questions; a friend of mine from a while ago who has had his fair shares of ups and downs with the church; and my buddy who grew up in a conservative church and recently has really come to experience God's faithfulness as he takes steps in faith to follow God's calling to reach the world with the message of the gospel. So, it was an amazing group and I cannot wait for tomorrow.
Last week we talked about the gospel and how Peter first preached it to the Gentiles. We discussed what it means to us, how we first heard it, the main points that Peter brought up and why. This week is about baptism, so I don't know exactly what will happen. lol. But it should be awesome.
This week I slept in a lot and stayed at work until 6pm.
Wednesday was great. For our Discipleship Group time, me and five other guys broke off into pairs and went around campus talking with other students about significance and how God gives us significance. We all had really awesome conversations. AG went with RB and they had awesome conversations. I went with ZL and we ran into his classmate and we also had another awesome conversation. And MS went with EP for his first time and had one scary guy and another awesome conversation. xP. There was a general 'I'm busy now, but we should talk about it later' kinda feel to the conversations, but it was good.
Yesterday was a discussion coffeehouse event at school about significance and there were a number of students not involved with P2C that had come out and it was cool. And afterwards me and SM went to KK's to practice for the Christmas concert with KK. We were doing an acapella piece and it sounds so good. xP
Today I had nothing, so I slept in, like way later than normal, like 10.5 hours of sleeping..? Kinda wasteful. haha.
But ya, going to Pastor DB's ordination service in an hour. Excited for that too. So many exciting stuff is happening and the fact that God chooses to let me and you, who are so stained by sin, so rebelious and stubborn; that He chooses to have us involved in this master plan of His is absolutely amazing. We don't deserve a shred of it. We deserve the punishment which Christ took for us; and instead we get life, forgiveness, and purpose. A significance in the eternity of others. A role to play that has been written specifically for us. The depth of this love and grace are unfathomable and I need to take it seriously. That which is only being accomplished by His Spirit and power at work, why should I ever try to accomplish it by my flesh and weakness?
Hebrews 6:1-3 "Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God, instruction about cleansing rites, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And God permitting, we will do so."
Ttyl.
D.Fa
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