It has been about 3 months since I last blogged. Time really passes by so quickly that if we are not careful, we can be swept in the quick sand of time. Indeed, as I blog, I am reminded of God’s word that says that our life is like a mere breath. It comes and goes and before we know it, our life is almost over even before it begins.
The past 2 months were horrendous (and that was quite an understatement!). I was so caught up with work daily that I refused to do any work when I was back at home at night. Work totally zapped me out and I was just like the last runner in that 400 m dash, that had to keep chasing after the runner that was before me. That of course, took a toil on my spiritual life and exercise was also non-exisitence. In the end, it became a vicious cycle … you feel tired and therefore you don’t exercise and because you don’t exercise, you feel even tired … and ditto & ditto. But, I guess at the end of the day, it isn’t work that’s causing all these dryness (work just became a convenient excuse for all)… it’s the lack of guard for the ‘inner space’ that caused both the spiritual and physical lethargy.
I am really thankful for the CG corporate prayer time last Friday. It is times like these that helped me centre-down and take stock of life as a whole. It was a time where God was deliberately sought and there I met Him. It was a sombre reminder through words of a CG member that we have to be ‘purpose driven and not schedule driven’. There & then, the words broke the darkness in my heart. There, a small glimpse of God’s light shone in the dark recesses of my heart, reminding me that I had lost the forest for the trees. Indeed, I had been frantically clearing deadlines that the strategic significance and importance of my role and purposes were gone. There & then, I was brought to the ultimate reality again, the ultimate reality that there is a spiritual realm of which there is a higher purpose for my life and yours.
I thank God for igniting a little of the passion for Him once again. Had a good time in church today and in the midst of the sermon, I felt God putting Philippians 3:7-12 into my heart. It is just the WORDS of God that I needed at this season of life and for 2011. What is more important than knowing the God of the universe ? Indeed, Paul with all his brilliance understood that it paled thousands, trillions times in comparison to the majesty and brilliance of the Most High King. What is all my achievements and successes compared to the Greatest of my King?
I am easily distracted. I lost my focus easily. But I thank God for His timely reminder and for the life verse for 2011. While 3 months have passed, there are still 9 more months to go in 2011. And in these 9 months, I can yield myself once again to the Master… I can once again come before the Creator of all things & put into reality the words that were upon the heart of the Apostle Paul who wrote:
“7 But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. 10 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.”
Philippians 3: 7 – 12
May God help me.
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