New Doors, New Opportunities, New Challenges | Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Ever since arriving to a new city and a new environment, working with a foreign countryman, starting school all over again, learning language and ministry, can make one feel really fulfilled and tired. There are so many thoughts in my mind that I do not know where to start but I shall do my best because I want to give all glory to My Father who art in Heaven for he deserves my thanks and my life.
I have started school since September and on the whole, school was pretty good and I have made some new friends who came mainly from China. They seemed amazed at my ability to speak two different languages and they are very curious about Singapore. Thus, I shared about my life to them and we spent quite an enjoyable time together. There was also a Japanese man who was able to speak English relatively well and the funny thing was that we did not talk to each other in English but Russian as we want to brush up on our new language skills. Thus we practise our language with one another whenever we met up during the breaks.
Our Father has also opened new doors of opportunity for me to share about Him to them. Some of the students wanted to study in the Economic Faculty of the local University and they have asked me to teach them English as English is one of the important subject to be studied in that university. I agreed and I used the Word as my text. To my joy, one Chinese girl enjoyed reading the Word and she asked really perceptive questions and that she can see her language improving by leaps and bounds. What made me really joyful was that she thirsted to know our Father and there are many opportunities to share with her the Good News and that she was really touched by the love of our Father that He has for her.
I asked her about the value of her life and who gave her that value and she does not know. I told her rather firmly that our value do not derive from anyone and certainly not from ourselves but from Our Father who value us so much that He actually gave His Son to die for us. As we were talking, she wept and felt really touched for she felt that throughout her life, no on has ever loved her, has properly shown concern for her and that she thought her parents do not even love her because when she told them she was going to this country to study for her degree, she thought that her parents would at least dissuade her from going. In fact they did nothing and she felt rather hurt and she left for this country.
Upon coming here, she felt very loved by a stranger who treated her so well and that pushed her to want to know the reason for this love of hers. They shared a different language and none can speak each other's native language but to this little Chinese girl, she felt the love of the other to be so heart-warming and so genuine and she was deeply touched by it. Then she got to know me who is able to speak her native language and I was able to pinpoint her to our Father and she wants to know Him in her own way and she comes to realise that her parents actually loves her very much. Now she has finished the whole Gospel of Matthew and she is now starting the Gospel of Mark and she was very interested to know more.
Thus it was my joy and pleasure to follow up on her. Then our Father gave me another one in my lap and this time, also a Chinese male. He expressed his desire to visit a fellowship and I brought him to mine. He enjoyed it very much and he too in his turn, wanted to learn English from me. Just as I have done with the Chinese girl, I did to him and he seems to enjoy his lessons as well. His Russian was pretty good and he enjoys the worship songs and he always sing at the loudest of his voice though he has not committed his life to our Father and the Son. I marvelled at the love of our Father that He has shown towards these Chinese and to me and I pray that I will prove to be a faithful steward of what He has given me.
The new challenges that await me naturally is my Russian Language and that I will want to master it well so as to communicate with the locals. I pray that as there is a great influx of chinese students, whomever our Father has brought to me, I pray that I will be faithful in accomplishing the work which God has given me. It is truly exciting to be working for the family business, which is what I always wanted and I feel really blessed. I pray that you too will be blessed in doing what you desired.
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