Doesn't Matter How Difficult

¹⁶ Yet preaching the Good News is not something I can boast about. I am compelled by God to do it. How terrible for me if I didn’t preach the Good News!
1 Corinthians 9:16

If a man or a woman is called by God, it doesn't matter how difficult the circumstances may be. - Oswald Chambers.

How true. For me, i get frustrated when people tell me that they can't serve God now, maybe another 2 years time, or when they tell me "no lah, you go ahead and serve lah, i don't have the calling to serve in this way". You see, i'm a very straightforward kind of person when it comes to biblical truths and promises. When God promised that "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you" (Heb 13:5) i think he really meant it. God will always give us the grace to obey him. How cool is that? He not only asks us to obey him, He gives us everything we need to obey him because he gives us His presence.

When i look at my own life, i thank God everyday for his grace in my life. At such a young age, i'm given the grace to do so much for his kingdom, influence so many people. In my ministry, i'm so humbled because i have the unique opportunity to counsel and give advice to people 10 years older than myself and they listen and are challenged by what I've accomplished. I'm studying for a really tough exam, yet i still come back every weekend to Seremban to serve the church. I don't say all these to boast, i say this because I am convinced that the only person i should aim to please in my life is God. Not my examiners, not my parents, not myself, but God.

Don't get me wrong. It's definitely not easy. Lonely is the way of the cross. I've failed major exams, been betrayed, been made fun of, cried myself to sleep for lack of friends who stand by me and understand my burdens etc. But i still carry on. Let me share with you an excerpt of my current favourite chapter

¹² I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. ¹³ No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, ¹⁴ I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. ¹⁵ Let all who are spiritually mature agree on these things." - Philippians 3

Therefore, fun the race in such a way to win the prize. Because we can. Not because of who we are, but because of what He's done; not because of what I've done, but because of who He is.