Our Purpose Driven Life(English Version)

CHAPTER 29 February 23, 2004 10:55pm - 12:10am

     The service is not optional or if you feel like doing it that's the only time you do it, this should be our first priority. The priest is right if we do depravity we are happy, we should feel happiness as well when times of giving service to Lord God our Father and our Creator and we should do it whole heartedly.

     The reason why we do service is we fear God. If we feel being force to, or we have hesitation, we are doing it wrong. Because when we truly are serving God, joy is upon us, and deeper depth of gratitude because we recieve many blessings from God, like what i do really want is to become a restaurant manager because that is the course that i finished, but God doesn't want me to pursue that carrier that even if i want to, i can't. And now i don't feel pursuing it anymore. And like i know that's what i wanna be now, but i don't have an idea that in the end i will not be happy, if i pursue what i wanna be, and what i want is to go to church every sunday. Not really focus on working or a workaholic, because if i am already a manager i will no longer have time for God and for myself because of working all of the time. And i don't like that, and if i will become a teacher even if the salary is low, at least you have a whole time to give to God, to yourself, family and others. And i know i will be more happy. And while i'm following Lord God our Father and our Creator i feel more happy and the relationship between my family and myself is going strong, our trees are gradually giving fruits, and many more.

     Because i'm not thinking of myself anymore i feel more happier and my family as well, that's why i should be a teacher now. And i should not turn away because God already change many things in my life and i'm shy to back out.

     And when you say ministry it doesn't mean that it's all about becoming a priest, pastor or any kind of service that we do in the church. It depends upon the status of your life, you might be rich, if you share your blessings to others, then that's a way of service to God because you help someone.

     We are part of the body of Jesus Christ, that we have different mission, and even if it is small or big, each one of our mission that was given to us is important. For example the priest there mission is to make more people to be near to God, and if your rich you will share your riches to others. And if you are a government worker, be sincere on your service like don't do corruption, do not take advantage of your position. Poverty starts from a corrupt country. All service are different and all are important to God, because you sincerely help others.

      For example one part of our body, the lungs is not working, or not properly do what the lungs normally do, then we might die, because your intestine cannot be the replacement for your lungs because it's different, but if every part of our body is not there, or even one is not there, it will not work normally as it should be, that's why all are important. Just do the things that are better for everyone.

     What's wrong with us about service is most of us, we want to be service and not us to serve others, because being like Jesus Christ, if we are gradually changing, what always in our mind is for the benefits of everyone, instead of "who will help me on my needs", what you will ask is, "who are the persons that's needing my help".

     Doing service should be all the time. And why God does not take us right away after we are being saved, because after we are being saved, we need to save others. Just like what happened in real life, God healed a person and the extension of the life of that person was used to help others.

     And the preparation to everlasting life, before we will enter everlasting life, God will ask us from the life that He gave to us, "for long period of your life, where did you gave more of your time, is it for yourself or for help your fellow. That's where our reasons will have no value, because what we will reason out is we are too busy, i've priorities myself first, i made my entire life on becoming wealthy, and God will say, your answers are wrong because i showed you signs, but you ignore it all, and you just thought of yourself.

     And the relation between service and significance, is to reach your career, for your dreams anything that is for selfishness will not last, low importance. What is important is for helping our fellow. If your thinking about the wellness of others and not yourself first is a deeper importance.

     If you are reasoning on why you can't do your mission stop doing it, because there are many people from the past who became like Jesus Christ that are not perfect, like abraham, he is old, moses that has stammer, john that they say he is the least or poor.

     Any kind of reasoning is not acceptable, so let's stop complaining that we can't do it, and face our mission.