Fig 1.1 - Never try this @ home
Just a day before... I was told 3 times to be "patient", and today I have to face a new term called "Obedience". What is going to happen to me? Why there is so much message that carrys a set of living in peace with people and practices on norms that is to be observed for the different status of peoples? And seriously enough... I think I have ought to learn something and to expect something even more.
Practically the only thing that I could understand now is that "patient" in what ever thing that I have struggled and still struggling (those that I have so called "lift-up to the Lord") and also "obedience" in the observations I've made around me. There was one incident that I thought I wanted to challenge the authority for a certain set of management in the ministry (Youth), and that I thought being the person that voice out complex issue will win the case. But little do I know that... my plans didn't actually succeed one way or another. And to my suprise, I am not even considered to be part of it in the first place!
Such humility involved... Not from me but what He had taught me. To seriously be humble to the authority that He had set up upon and that to really be a "team player" in every aspect of it. Not taking into the conisderation of finding the slightest "problem" and fit myself into the situation and try to change everything that is already being set up.
Just than... I realised that in the process of which I am trying to mingle my way up into the "ladder" of influence, I was actually so blinded by the fact that "authority was being set in place for people to follow lead", not literally sitting by the fence and try to take control over the smallest fault that is observed.
" Problems arises to find strength in everything we learn...
moulding opportunity for every practice we preach...
and opportunity for lesson we hear... "
-Foxin Lin
