Well... This season I manage to grab hold of some stuff that could keep me occupy for a while while waiting for jobs to call me up after filling in applications. One of such is FM 2007 that I chance upon when Anand and Ivane were discussing while I was chilling with them before cell and that caught on to my attention. "Finally something to kill time with" thought myself.
You betcha! With some one whom have total no knowledge on football (Soccer) and total no connection to play this game, it is like real challenging and that also a struggle to get use to the console, princaples behind it, how it works and what is best. As a managing game, I thought that FM'07 did a good job in grabbing hold of the consumer's attention as every single match that you played with is really seat-gripping experience and that it really sieze every little attention from you to manage the whole game season in and out.
I thought I like this game because firstly someone else was playing along with me, secondly I thought I have plenty of time to kill off with and lastly that I thought I want to step into the soccer thing that every guy is "labelled" to be involve in. I thought that EPL is really a very beautiful game and that by giving in support to your team, you don't just pray that they will win... but also testing out your prospect and also understanding how the team works. No doubt that every match is not a win-win match, but that how the game is carried out is seriously one thing that attract so many people to it. They played with passion! And that what attract people like us is not that they are playing for the sake of entertainment, money and fame; althought there do have some. But it is the passion for the game, that locomotive behind them that drive faith towards them.. eyes towards them and that's what makes the whole game nice! It draws your attention in and make you to be part of it.
With that... I realise that God have called us in ministry is not just having placing in the church, spending time day by day moving on till you became elders in church... Not about you having 10,000 people under your wing to manage big time events or something. It's about that "locomotive" that is driving you... and that is passion for God.
For example. I never understand why many Christian are so passionate about sharing Christ in the past... that move that makes people feel sick, that kind of "sticky" Christian-like label on them. I mean.. They will call you day after day, week after week just to have you to sit in to Church. I never understood it until this "locomotive" falls upon me. That passion is Christ's first love for me. Because He first love me... Obey God's will for Him... Lead an extrodinary life.. forsake His Heavenly rights... Became one of us.. Tempted... Tourtured... and finally died. Not a natural death but the most humiliating death during Roman time; on the cross just for one simple thing... That I may have eternal life, that I may be forgiven in God's sight.
So what ever I am doing right now, I may be doing His work 7 days a week, 365 days a year. It will NEVER be enough... Because what value most is your obediance to Him. It is not the work I've done that brings His love upon me, but having His love on me first before I step out to repay on my own for what He deserve. The mentality is that you should expect nothing in return while you do that but as that He loves you first so that you could empower others to continue to love. And that is the seond greatest commentment; "Love your nieghbour as your self". It's just so simple... do nothing out of selfish desire but do it out of love for God and at the end of the day you will be clear about that "locomotive" that drives you everyday.
