Welcome and Happy New Year 2021 ...
Hello everyone, wish goodbye to year 2020 and welcome to year 2021 ..
As our senior Pastor Lito Samsriwi mentioned to all church volunteers and workers, this year 2021 is a challenging year, If we want to be matured Christian we need to be ready to be purified, made spotless and refined (Daniel 12:10). To be ready to purified we need to have following 3 characters (2 Timothy 2:1-6) : 1. Soldier
2. Athlete
3. Farmer
Soldier represent discipline, respect to the authority. We need mentality as a soldier of Christ, ready to face the war (spiritual warfare), being a soldier you need to get comfortable being uncomfortable. You need to adapt to the reality, focus on the mission at hand. True Christian called to be a Soldier. Spiritual life is a like a war, therefore we need to have mentality as a soldier not civilian mentality, we cannot be distracted such as material, all the thing we seen by our eyes and forgot that there is important spiritual war which happening.
Athlete represent perseverance, and obey to the rule. Every Olympic athlete need to oblige to the rule of the games. We must discipline ourselves for godliness. We're not running aimlessly, spiritual life is like a race as apostle Paul mentioned in the bible. We cannot grown in our spiritual because we're not discipline, not train like an athlete. We want to be comfortable in our own way, because become an athlete we need to come out from our comfort zone and we need to start to run and run hard like we're having a race...
Farmer represent faithful, hard working character. As a farmer, he/she need to work everyday and trust GOD to provide good season to grow the crop. Become a farmer you need to be patience and ready to overcome every challenges such as weather, etc. We always want to be faster, move faster, but spiritual life is like farming which require patience, what we can do is focus on what you can control, do your part, remain humble, obey, steadfast and patience.
It's time to pause and think about those 3 characters, and think which character are we lack of, which character we need to improved, or which character that we totally do not have ..
With these 3 characters inside of us we can be ready to face the challenges ahead so we can be purified, made spotless and refined to be more and more like JESUS.
God bless us all, and may year 2021 we can walk together with JESUS, and more and more like JESUS... JESUS is increase, and we decrease.
Reference material: - Ps Lito Samsriwi sharing for 'Gold Vessel' during the new year eve meeting with church workers.
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