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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Week 60 (end) - Nehemiah Series (rebuilding)
Saturday evening.
A sense of deja vu.
"i offer my life".
Interestingly, this song is replayed once again from Thu sub-D.
The sermon.
Nehemiah Chapter 4.
Rebuilding with opposition. Fierce opposition.
Making reference to the previous blog post, 0-2 down. It's like the close to the first half. The morale of the team is down. Head knowledge tells us, you need to do something, and not sit back and try to maintain status quo. Not to advance, but to rebuild. Rebuild in God's ways.
Alas, when you're 0-2 down, also making reference to Sat's sermon, psychological factors act against you.
1) Criticism (outward)
2) Threats (outward)
3) Discouragement (inward)
I stare long and hard at the worship song lyrics and frowned. It was just like God rebuking me once again. Fear of trying to reduce the deficit to 1-2 as a first step of rebuilding, because you fear having your defences left unguarded and bare. Thinking about going 0-3 down seems hard to imagine. This is when you really need God.
Criticism. Threats. Discouragement (self-doubt, lowering of self confidence because of past experiences, fear of saying the wrong things etc). Are they a concern for God? Why fear all these? In reality, things are not like, when it's 0-2 down, you say "let's restart the game to 0-0" and begin without making the same mistakes. The 2 goals conceded will still be there, because back when the game first started, you'd probably had not pre-empted much.
The head knowledge is there. But head knowledge without action is futile. Typing this post becomes meaningless. Head knowledge with action, without partnership with God, is also futile, as it lacks wisdom.
I will embrace each and every single road, smooth or rocky, with love. God's love. I will stretch to rebuild this with God. Criticism, threats, discouragement? Just bring it. Let not fatigue and weariness be excuses for anything that is negative in Your sight. God, i need You.
Ecc 3:1 - There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.
Rebuilding season. God's timing.
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