(Further reflections on “Who & What”—Sunday 26-Dec-2021)
Tonight is the end of 2021. It was a tough year to many of us here in Saigon as well as families and friends overseas. Life is getting harder and not easier. Predictably, many jobs will be somewhat replaced through technological advancement. Many have already been facing the pandemic not only with the ongoing virus variants, but also mental health as well as the depravity of the fallen humanity. Life’s questions are always before us since the dawn of creation. Much of our human effort have tried to find out, "How am I going to make ends meet or how can I grow my business to the next level? When will my dream come true? Why is my life so hard? Where am I going with career/marriage/future?" None of us has the ultimate answers to those questions. And more or less, we don’t even know what we are looking for in life sometimes (if not most of the time). Thus, raising or asking wrong questions is not uncommon. Consequentially, the right answers are usually not derived from the wrong questions. So what are the right questions? May I suggest these two. If we can get hold of the WHO and the WHAT, the rest will be unfolded in due time.
WHO AM I?
This can only be answered truthfully by knowing who God is.
If you think you know Him, try to write down “10 things I know about God” tonight and prayerfully share them with your friends or families (at once or over the weeks/months).
WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE?
This can only be lived out passionately by knowing what God has done.
Assuming you know the main things that God has done for you, try to reflect and connect them with what you are currently doing and see what has and hasn’t changed in your profession/vocation or life in general.
If you have the habit of making new year’s resolutions, your sincere and honest answers to the Lord and yourselves to the above questions might be able to form a vision for life which will eventually make new year’s resolutions obsolete or perhaps less superficial or struggling than you used to have.
May the Holy Spirit illuminate the Word of life in your being and doing in this coming new year. May the Christ be your vision 20/20 for exploring and living out the critical 2 (Who & What) in 2022.
Happy New Year!
Love and blessings.
—
Pastor Lap
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