Ryan
Joel Pang
Joycelyn
Joel Chua
Gabrielle Loo
Jun Ting
Kenneth
David Quah
Alex
DeborahWa today's mission training was long but really set the mood for the trip. Keep praying that I may be able to join you all. Don't take for granted, I'm still waiting approval of leave.
Anyway here's a little thing you can do to put a bit of perspective in life. I do it from time to time, and I call it, Joel's life from an angel's perspective. So well see if it can help ya like it helps me, by trying to write a 'narrative' from His view.
It can go something like;
After carefully knitting _____ in his mother's womb for 9 months, God brought _____ into this world, into the country of Singapore, making sure he was a young healthy baby. The years he spent crying and feeding off milk, he won't really remember, but God watched over him every day, thinking about the person he would become. Every day, God was looking forward to the day when He would show Himself to _____, and he would receive Him into his life.
He sent _____ to St James' Church through the means of _____ etc...
When that day in ____(year of receiving Jesus) finally came, God was overjoyed. He knew that it would be a tough road ahead, but He rejoiced nonetheless, and we had a feast in heaven after He wrote and sealed _____'s name in the Book of Life.
The years after that, God lead _____ through a time of searching/dryness/etc....
In 2008, God made sure that _____ would be able to go for the end of year youth camp, and there He spoke to _____, impressing on him the faint call of going for missions.
From that point onwards until now, God prepared him through _______ etc. And now, just as _____ is about to embark on the mission trip, his heart is anxious to know what God has in store for him.
Little did he know that through this trip, God would show him ____________ (to be written after the mission trip)
Yeah something like that la haha. It helps me see how God has just simply BEEN THERE through ALL my life, cause we often forget that in the mundane moments, God is still watching over us, still thinking about us. Even when you're reading this, He's thinking about you. In all those years that went by, those were years that God never took His eyes off you. Can't even remember what you did when you were one years' old right? God can remember. Haha. And writing it down in this form helps me see how NOTHING in my life is by coincidence; every little detail is worked together for good. So if you don't think this writing is a big deal, at least remember 2 things;
1) Be thankful that God has always been watching over you, every single waking or sleeping moment.
2) Be thankful that God has never let anything happen to you that He didn't know about. He has brought you this far, where you are now though all the small things you don't notice.