Melchour's POV
“What are you doing here, late this night?” he asked as he looked down at me with curious eyes.
“Oh, uhh, h-hi sir. Hehe, well one of my friends wanted me to go drink with them but I refused so I, uhh, ended up going in here.” I replied as I straightened up and stood properly. I was a bit shocked to see him out here.
“Hmm, ‘sthat so? Well, you shouldn’t be going around here at this time it’s almost 8:30.”
“Sorry Sir…” I apologized with my glance lowered.
“Say, do you live around here?”
“Yes sir, just around that road up there. Vinceton subdivision Sir.”
“Hey, we’re not inside the school, Brother will do.”
“Oh right, brother Pastor.” He began to smile as he heard the words.
“Brother Pastor? Now that’s new… You should go home now, before it gets more late. I’ll accompany you there.” He suggested as he urged me to walk.
“Really? Are you serious, sir? Hmm, you’re a teacher and uhh…”
“Yes, I am a teacher. So what? It’s safer if I go with you.” Wow, how kind of him. I had no choice but to agree and so we began to walk to my place.
“So you didn’t agree to go with them? That was a wise choice…” he said with a smile.
“Yes Sir… it was kind of a hard choice actually. It was the first time I saw Mercy walk away from me like that, it was so…”
“Yes, in our faith we really are faced with those kinds of tests. It’s very easy to say I will follow You Jesus when we are in a church service, but it is hard when it involves a choice already. Will we still choose Jesus over our friends? Or family? And even ourselves? That is the question that we all must face.”
“Hmm, you’re right Sir. I really had a hard time when I confessed about what God had done to my friend. But thank God, I was able to choose Him. And I don’t know how I ever had the ability to do that. All I know, is it wasn’t me anymore. I wonder what that is, Sir?”
“That’s called Grace, dear.” I was taken aback with what he said, but then he continued to speak.
“By the way, how did you meet your old friends?”
“Them Sir? I met Mercy when I was 16. She sang on the bar and so did I, when we saw that our voices blended we decided to team up, we formed a band and we got really close.”
“Oh, so you sing? How nice… that’s something I’ve never got the guts to do since birth, it seemed as if I was sound asleep when God showered the skill to sing..” he said with a chuckle, I couldn’t help but smile with what he just said.
“Wow, must be tough huh? Haha. Yes sir, I do sing. But never in my life did I actually felt that my skill in singing was ever really worth or of value. I spent my life singing songs that never helped.”
“That’s right. That is the difference when you do things for the glory of God. When you do, there is eternal value in it. See, all this things on earth are temporary. All things will reach its end, sooner or later. But One doesn’t, and that is God. So when we do things for His Glory, it is remembered in the book of deeds eternally.” I began to feel something brewing in my heart as he said those words, as if the words he just said are calling me to something.
…Yes, yes I do want that. To sing for God’s Glory.
“Do you want to try that?” my eyes shot up when I heard his invitation.
“Yes sir! Certainly. I do want that…uhm, but how?” I replied eagerly
“There are many ways, but for a singer like you, leading worship could be a good one…”
“Worship? leading worship? Hmm, I’m sorry Sir I’m really new to this can you explain what that means?”
“Worship simply means glorifying God, magnifying Him and thanking Him for all that He has done and for all that He is to you. It is when your spirit and all that is within connects with God.” He began to explain. I was all ears at what he was saying. There is nothing in the world that ever got my attention as much as this.
“We can do that by simply saying it, shouting with joy, lifting up our hands and many more. But there is one powerful way that we can express it, and that is music. That is why, worship leaders are needed in every church, because they are the ones that lead the congregation to worship God in the means of music. But that isn’t only the job, they are warriors that break the works of the enemy in each ones heart as they sing. That is why, hehe, I can’t do that. The singin’ ain’t present in me.” He concluded with a rather funny interjection of his ‘no-singing ability’.
But what caught my attention is the worship leading thing. It was the most exciting thing I’ve heard, but also the most tensing. A warrior, a worship leader is a warrior against Satan. Can I actually do that? Do I have what it takes to sing for God? I was beginning to feel the pang of nervousness crawling in me. But at the same time, it’s as if my heart is saying yes to it.
“Pastor, what if—what if I don’t have what it takes? I don’t know the first thing about leading, I don’t have that much strength yet, I have not even once experienced that--”
“Johanna, it does not depend on experience, or anything else. It depends on the heart. Will you respond to the call? Or will you hide in fear?” I was stopped in my tracks as I heard those strong words. It depends on the heart, right now my heart is having all these strange feelings about the thing. But one thing is for sure, I want to. I want to sing for God. Yes, whatever it takes. I just looked at him for what he has said. I do not know what to say, but I really am glad I have met such a man.
“Sir… can you—can you teach me how to lead?” I asked in a rather embarrassed tone. Then I saw a weird smile form in his lips.
“The only way to learn how to lead worship, is to lead worship.”
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