Was happily munching and enjoying my drumstick from the sumptuous dinner that Grandma had prepared this evening and Mommy as usual, was having her meal and feeding my One year and 6months old nephew at the same time. She handed him a morsel of chicken and insisted him taking it with his own hands to consume it. And then again, it got me into thinking as I rewarded myself for the second drumstick (Haha!)


I could recall how happy the whole family was when BabyDaryl began crawling from one end to the other. We were even more ecstatic when he was able to stand up and walk during his First birthday before falling down and starting it all over again. And then I began comparing it to myself. I am a seventeen year old and I could walk, run, jump, roll and better still, I am able to do it all at the same time, let alone crawl. Then how come my family aren’t as excited for me? Why didn’t they cheer and spur me on like how they did to my (naughty) nephew?


Haha I wasn’t being insecure and self-centered, but I know there are more behind all these thoughts. So I began asking God to help analyze my thoughts. And this was what I’ve got:


Baby Daryl’s every ‘firsts’ in his life is just like our every breakthroughs in our lives (Be it physically/ spiritually)Our leaders and siblings in Christ are often spurring us on and pushing us to our utmost potential whenever we are in- the- process of having our own baby steps in raw areas which we’d never ventured or stepped in before. But yet each time when we’ve successfully hopped over the hurdles of fear, the people around us are proud of us. Imagine this. If Man are already so happy for our breakthroughs and victories, what more about God? Months and years after our breakthroughs and victories, we forget about it. It’s rubbed away from our memories. We forgot how we actually wanted it coming to pass sooo much at the first place. We forgot how much God was moving then and how he remained so faithful towards us. However, the truth is, even after the first breakthrough, the many breakthroughs coming along would still be precious to God. Remember the part when I said my family was so awed and happy when Baby Daryl took his first step? That’s the joy God has for us. Multiply it by hundreds and thousands. In the long run, those breakthroughs we once had and were once so proud of, would mean nothing to us. The scariest part is that we’d start pushing God out of the picture, thinking that we had all managed to achieve it not by the strength of God, but ours. Not by the ability of God, but ours. Man, it’s indeed scary.


I have no idea what’s the exact point I want to put across is. But I was very much reminded of God’s faithfulness and love for us. Presently, CG08 is the goal we are striving towards to and want it to come to pass so badly and desperately. I’d like to encourage you all to journal down your feelings and conviction. Man are absent minded. Whatsmore, feelings fade after a short period of time. Therefore, pen down how God had been so so faithful towards us. The many blessings and fruits He’d poured down. CG08’s gonna come to pass, for sure. I know it’s still early, but let’s continue to keep this thankful heart towards Him even after CG08 ends. At least, when we think ‘bout this victory, there’s a journal for us to refer to and know that it was God who used and equipped us to win this battle. Not the other way ‘round.