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Good Friday (Easter)A very meaningful and important day to celebrate for all Christians.. This day, it's for all us to remember our saviour, Jesus Christ, who went up on the cross 2000 years ago, and die on the cross to bear for all our sins that we committed. It's because of Him who make so much sacrifices for us that we can live with righteousness and also with the unconditional love and forgiveness from Him, that we should do the same to all our friends out there.. It's because of Him that we can received the salvation and be saved, and eventually, lead our life according to God's plan and destiny..
Read through XY's blog just now and I wish to share with all of you my salvation as well, to let others get inspired by my journey throughout this tough initial times.. (later you will know why is it tough...)
How I got into Christ, it is through 1 of my ex-VE (Venture Era) friend (who also in the end quit liao..), his name is Raymond... Really, I never expect him to read through my blog last time and got to bring me in to Christ just like that.. He understands the emo-ness and the downs of my life that I have gone through so far through reading my blog.. So, on 4th August 2007, 1st Saturday of the month, he invited me in to the Singapore Indoor Stadium, for this very grand event which held annually called "Festival of Praise" or FOP in short. After the whole thing ended, I was indeed quite touched by that, but at that time, I have a lot of doubts here and there especially when it comes to parental objections..
Then 1 of the days for the next few weeks, Raymond specially came all the way to Clementi central area (the cheapest but nice Japanese restaurant called the Sumo House) to meet me, and really to help clear all my doubts. From there, another 2-3 weeks later I started to attend the service at Saturday night, giving the excuse to my parents saying that I went out with friends to town or somewhere else.. That's my very 1st few times before the 1st breakthrough with them..
Subsequently, I was also been invited from him to his cell group, for the 1st time , which from there, I started to know people like Hai Jie, Jia Yun, a lot a lot more, and of course not forgetting the cell group leader, Quan Han.. All of them have helped me a lot in 1 way or another throughout the struggling times that I had with my parents last time, in terms of this breakthrough.. By fate or coincidence, I have friends in this cell group who also knows of their friends that share the same hobby as mine, and not surprisingly, all 3 of them I know, and are my seniors somemore... 1st is Malcolm who knows You Si (or usher ministry we usually called him "Isaiah"), 2nd is Jack who knows Owen, and 3rd is Kai Guan who knows Melody (and probably Chun Yee also?)
Continue to read my post from October 2007 entries and you will know the spiritual journey that I have with God and with all my brothers and sisters in Christ..
Let me talk about 3 of my bus enthusiast friends who are also Christians and I will say something about them..
Just a month ++ ago, I started to know a bus enthusiast friend, called Ben. Although he is younger than me, but his heart is really full of Christ, and in my spiritual walk of my life, he also gave me advices and encouragements whenever I feel down or I have committed sins such as unforgiveness to others..
I also know of a bus enthusiast friend called XY (or Xiang Yu in short), I know him since last year and from there, we started to share with each other in terms of our spiritual walk of life, the challenges and breakthroughs that we faced in our journey so far.. He also share with me some of the daily devotions that he got from his church and let me read it, and also bring me around his church at St Andrews Cathedral to explore around and know the history of his church, being 1 of the oldest church in Singapore..
Isaac is another bus enthusiast friend that I know about 1-2 years ago. Although he's my junior last time in terms of accepting a person as my junior within this whole big group of bus enthusiasts community, he really gave me a lot of advices and encouragement throughout my spiritual walk of life when I encountered a lot of doubts.. Now that I don't regard him as my junior (although some friends may still think he is still my junior all along), and I also don't regard anyone in this community as my junior anymore, simply because I really don't wish to have this level gap/barrier between me and them, and I should treat them equally well, just like how I treated my seniors well.. Anyway, come on la, junior is also still regarded as friend in my own perspective, and I treat them more like friends rather than juniors..
Now that I have accepted Christ, that I am starting to break all the barriers that I may have, especially when it comes to junior this kind of thing. Yes, although some juniors (like what you people may called) maybe a eyesore to you because he has committed any wrongdoing that makes you have a bad impression of him, but I have learned through Christ, that no matter what, I will provide unconditional love and forgiveness to others, for what others may have done, just like how God gave us as well.. Amen..
Okay i got to stop till here le... Got more important stuffs to settle and will be busy for the whole of Saturday and Sunday. Happy Easter day and enjoy your day!
This is what Angela shared to me a few days ago and I find this really very meaningful..
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Victor Lim