My 1st Love

This weekend actually celebrates my 4th year in City Harvest n my4th birthday as a Christian. Time really flies. It just seemed like yesterday when i stepped into our building in JW for the 1st time n now we r holding our services at Expo! It's really amazing how the church has grown over these years n i'm glad n priviledged to be a part of it. I guess, if u asked me 5 years ago if i would be doing this now, going to church every weekend n serving in church, i would probably tell u that u must be kidding. And especially when it comes to the things i desire to do for God now, the old isabel would never have thought of anything like that. So, i believe, all these dreams & desires must be from God & the Holy Spirit is slowly showing them to me, & at the same time slowly enabling me to handle the things that come together with these dreams.

Today, Pst Kong preached a message so simple, yet so close to the hearts of many Christians, the story of the prodigal son. His sermon really brought forth so many memories, & in a way, i am pretty much like the prodigal son. I went to a mission school from my primary school days till my JC days but i never really thought much of God cos i had a comfortable life & i felt so long as i could study n do ok in school, i would be fine, until a time when i was in such bad shape that i felt i couldn't handle my life anymore, i was desperate, then i turned n ran straight to the church; just like the prodigal son, who had had his fun n squandered all his money, n then out of desperation, came back to his father. But 1 thing Pst Kong said is so true, we think we chose God, which is so wrong, but in actual fact, GOD chose us! & He chose us right from the beginning, when He created us, just that He gives us the freedom of choice, whether or not to choose Him.

All the memories of my 1st day in church just came flooding back during our last worship song, the decision i made that day, 4 years ago, to always believe in Him, to make Him my Lord and Saviour forever, i just remembered my 1st love -Jesus. The 1st love i had for Jesus just came back again so strongly, more than ever before, a love that i know can never be replaced by any other.