Take it seriously! Why do you live?

Long time no refresh my blog!

Today I heard a very good sermon from Pastor Chee, it’s very useful to me as it makes me re-think the purpose of my life, and I have take this very seriously again. This was the first thing I used to think of when I just accepted Jesus, but it is still important today after believing in him for so many years.

Chee quoted a very familiar scripture in Matthew where Jesus firstly called up Simon Peter and said “follow me, I will make you fishers of men!” Chee shared his personal testimony that in order to be able to full-timely serve God as a pastor he gave up his “rich” dentistry work which makes him 6-digital number money in 40 hours. Indeed, the dentistry job can provide him with such a big “freedom”, which means he can pay up all his house loans in a few years and use the money to travel to wherever he wants to go. But there is something more valuable which is to be fishers of men so he made this choice to obey God.

I so appreciate today’s sermon. It is just so timely! To be honest, at this moment, I am experiencing the vanities of life than ever before. From time to time, I have just been so aimless and feel everything so boring and meaningless. In uni, I don’t feel like talking to anyone. But now I realise I was wrong. Because God wants to use me to talk to more people and let them know Jesus.

I got an opportunity to talk to Chee personally. To be surprised, he is the first generation Christian in his family as well. So he exactly has the same contradiction to his parents as mine. But we have to stand firmly. And Chee sometimes also doesn’t feel like doing quiet time as me, he told me the time when I attempted compromise is actually the time Satan wanted to break me, so in that period I must read God’s word more to protect myself.

God, give all glory to you. A-men!