Monday, March 21, 2005

PALM SUNDAY

Woke up pretty late. By the time I got to church it was like nearly 8.40am. Was helping Eleanor to do packing(at her desk area) while listening to the sermon. Pastor was on the topic about Tabernacle. It was about worshipping God with the right mindset and attitude. Then there was one part that Pastor said was very apparent in some of the youths. Pastor was talking about worshipping God with all your strength. And he particularly mention about this 7am svc that was faithfully attended by this group of eldery. This elderly will rather miss breakfast then to miss the svc. And they will always without fail be there way before the svc start to prepare themselves to worship God. You can imagine how early these old folks wake up. For a few weeks, certain Youths from the Chinese Congregation (chinese svc is in the afternoon) had been attending the morning English svc. Afterwhich they will stay on for a Bible class and then followed by their own Chinese svc. I guess this is what Pastor is talking about. Worshipping God with all our strength. And i can say it is quite a tiring thing to attend from morning till evening. I've done it for many months and it is not easy. I'm very glad that this bunch of youths really make the effort to come and worship God. And I do pray that more youths will start to worship God not for convenience but worship God with all their heart, soul and strength.

After svc, went to eat at KFC. Ordered a Zinger Meal and the burger was still in the process of making. SO the cashier told me to wait for 3 min. I decided to be gracious so i gave her a bit more time. I went to the counter and saw that the burger was not ready so i walked back to my seat. Then i waited a while more and went to the counter again. This time the burger was still not ready. I was a bit disappointed. I don't mind waiting for my burger but i hate it when the people just anyhow give me an answer just to pacify me. So I went up to the counter and gave a very straight face. And the cashier finally check with the kitchen staff and told me to wait for 4 min. Finally after much waiting and controlling of temper, I realised I had only 5 min to gobble up my burger. Which i did and the girls were like 'eeee', 'aarhh', 'yuck'. Haiz! Girls will be girls. Then we rush for the bible class which was on the book of Daniel. Talking about the '70 seven' Prophecy. Very interesting and i'm goin to read in detail(when i'm free which nvr seems to happen).
After bible class, had tuition with Ariz on P.O.A. Then Dino needed some help to bring his drum set home. So i followed him and then drove back to church. The chinese svc had started. I went to Eleanor's desk area and carried on packing. At the end of the svc, we had to start dismantle the whole church premise as we'll be moving. Honestly, I was sad because the present church premise had always been my 2nd home. I've worked in this place as an intern for a year and other times, I'll always dropped by to hang around. I'm really attached to this place. Now to tear it down seemed a bit cruel but the Lord showed me something. What is dear to me, He has something better for me. The new church premise. And to be honest, the new church premise is marvellous and splendid. But the Lord is not finished. He carried on to tell me that, this is only my temporary home. My home is somewhere else. What I see now is good. What more can i say when i'm at my permanent home. Praise be to God, the Almighty one. Amen!

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