Sunday, January 2, 2011;
Wouldn't it be better if we just follow?
? 12:13 AM
This afternoon, I decided to start reading the mountain heaps of books that I have invested in the last 3 years.
I picked up the book that I bought a couple of years ago by Max Lucado titled:
"When God whispers your name".
Well, I bought this book with a reason, cause of its attention-getting title. When I first came to City Harvest, on 2 separate occasions, I heard someone calling my name when there was nobody around. I turned around and saw no one. After that, I realised it was God who was calling me. But I did not answered. So when I saw this book, I thought I should get it. As usual, I would leave it somewhere till I have the time to read it.
Today, I started from the first chapter again. I had a new revelation reading this same old chapter that I read several years ago. The title of the chapter is named : "The Song of the Minstrel".
In this chapter, Max and his wife Denalyn went shopping with his 3 children at an antique shop. All of a sudden, some nice piano music got into his ears and he searched for the source. He saw a girl playing the piano there and to his surprise, that was his girl, Andrea. He thought to himself that perhaps Andrea had gotten the genes from his side of the family. But as he drew closer, he realised that Andre was "playing" a player piano. He saw the delight in her face. She attempted to play "Chopsticks" but ended up playing "The Sound of Music" that couldn't fail.
He concluded that did God not do the same thing for us? He prepared a "player piano" for us to follow. All we have to do is follow and we would not fail.
Sometimes in life, I do go through things that I do not know how to go pass a certain crisis or to do a certain thing well. I always will try to go my own way and try to do certain things. But I simply forgotten the fact or the art of following. God has already planned out a route for us to take that He has blessed the path and prepared the necessities that we need to go through it. All we need to do is just to follow, but our stubborn "sheep" nature will often get us lost.
I pray that from today that I may recognise the voice of my Lord and the hands of my God so that when He stretches it out to lead me, I will just follow :)
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
