Wednesday, 17 November, 2010
Last week, pastor kong preach about the seasons of faith in church. What he said really made me think a lot. I begin to reflect about the past 5 years.
In the message he mention that faith also have 4 seasons just like the 4 seasons of nature. The spring of faith signifies blessing. This is when we just convert. We experience blessing over blessing; countless of prayers being answered; exploring the new faith we partake in. After which, there is summer which symbolizes trials and tribulations where we go through the fire and learn to have victory in the lord. Next up, its autumn, the season of great harvest. This is when we have our fruits seen and blessing manifest. Lastly, winter the coldest and darkest period of the year. It depicts of struggles we face in life. Just like the natural four seasons, the four seasons of faith have a periodical cycle. This is a summary of what is being preached.
Anyway to apply the message into my life, all that i can say is that my life is full of challenges one after another with few 'springs' and 'autumn' in between. I can safely conclude that the past 5 years have been 40% summer, 40% winter and 10% 'spring', 10% 'autumn'. In some point of time, i straight away enter winter without having a transition; going through autumn. Well, after i was being saved, i think i only experience spring like 2 weeks and i enter into intense warfare... Having all sorts of spiritual attack... To think that this is bad enough, i have to grapple with depression, lack of confidence and low self-esteem. Well, i guess it was summer for almost a year plus. Until emerge 2007 when suddenly a touch of heaven came. This marks the period of autumn. However, autumn does not last long too. I enter into winter... With studies crap, chicken pox and ministry issue on hand... I struggled a lot. Since this mark of my life, i m unable to identify when is my last spring or autumn. Well... It was one of the toughest period of my life... I have to struggle day by day to get through. Today, I am still in the winter season of my life. At least i can see spring coming soon...
Well, I believe God have an awesome plan for me. He sees that it is good for me to go through these things. I personally agreed that through all these seasons in life, i have grown a lot. I depend and yield to God for practically everything in my life. I always say with tears in my eyes in times of struggles, not my will but Yours be done. I pray in my heart and await for the day where I will stand completely victorious and molded by God.
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