When my mum informed me on tuesday night that my dad's sister's husband has passed away, i didnt really feel very much as i wasn't really close to that family. My parents decided to attend the wake the next day. Found out from my another uncle that the wake was held at the Trinity Casket. I was rather surprised cos he was known to be a stauched buddhist. But i didnt take it to heart.
The next day while at work, i was rather curious when i heard from my mum that my late uncle's family had included a christian verse in the obitury. When i look at it, realised that they used John 14:1-4
("Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.") John 14:1-4
Initially i didn't want to attend the wake cos i only will see my dad's relatives during chinese new year or weddings. So i wasn't really close to them. But that afternoon, something in me just clicked and i just decided to go attend the wake together with my parents.
I guess it is all God's divine appointment for me. I was met with many surprises. When i went there and i realised it was a christian wake and they were having a christian service. I managed to talk to one of my late uncle's son whom i never really spoken before. We talked a little about work, suprisingly it wasn't really awkward. I met many of my uncles and cousins and had a brief chat too.
What strikes me is that my dad's extended family which used to be filled with stauched buddhist or free thinkers however with the recent years, many of them became christians. God is amazing cos even as we pray for them. He moves in his own ways.
As i sat through the service and heard the pastor shared about how my late uncle's children came to know the Lord 2 years ago. My late uncle himself came to know the Lord just a few months ago and even though he had some illness and was staying in the home cos he wasn't able to walk and needed people to take are of his basic needs. It was there at the home where he experienced God's love and hearing how he trusted God and prayed even when he was struggling with his health. The nurse who was taking care of him said that each time he struggled, all he replied was that he will pray and ask God for strength. He too enjoyed hearing all the christian songs.
This is a true testimony of how God touched a man after living for 73 years, suffering from his illness, being reduced to being in a wheel chair was known to be a really difficult and tempermental person. Yet in the last few months of his life, His faith and trust in God was truly exhibted in his life. And becos of it all, his wife and son said that in God's time, they too will come to know the Lord. So we believed that this family has been won for God ! Amen :)
I believed that God has convicted me in my heart to go attend the wake and hear the many testimonies by the family, pastor and staff of the home has increase my faith and compassion. GOD IS AWESOME !! Sometimes all he does require for us is to pray and he will do the work. There are moments where he will call us to go out and share our stories and his gospel to the people he brings into our midst. All we need to do is to be obedient and allow God to grant us the wisdom and compassion as we share.
He HIMSELF will do the work to convict the hearts. It is just so simple but we people are used to complications.
Thank God in this season of mine to continually grant me the compassion for the "lost" and the renewal of understanding of what it means to be his mouth piece ... Thank God for showing me that nothing is impossible becos in GOD, all things are possible.
I believed that my parents are very encouraged to hear and see all that God is doing in my dad's extended family. I believed God will bring more of them into his family. What we are sure now is that we will continue to pray for them.
GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME !!!! cos when one in the household knows him, the whole household will be safe.
The next day while at work, i was rather curious when i heard from my mum that my late uncle's family had included a christian verse in the obitury. When i look at it, realised that they used John 14:1-4
("Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.") John 14:1-4
Initially i didn't want to attend the wake cos i only will see my dad's relatives during chinese new year or weddings. So i wasn't really close to them. But that afternoon, something in me just clicked and i just decided to go attend the wake together with my parents.
I guess it is all God's divine appointment for me. I was met with many surprises. When i went there and i realised it was a christian wake and they were having a christian service. I managed to talk to one of my late uncle's son whom i never really spoken before. We talked a little about work, suprisingly it wasn't really awkward. I met many of my uncles and cousins and had a brief chat too.
What strikes me is that my dad's extended family which used to be filled with stauched buddhist or free thinkers however with the recent years, many of them became christians. God is amazing cos even as we pray for them. He moves in his own ways.
As i sat through the service and heard the pastor shared about how my late uncle's children came to know the Lord 2 years ago. My late uncle himself came to know the Lord just a few months ago and even though he had some illness and was staying in the home cos he wasn't able to walk and needed people to take are of his basic needs. It was there at the home where he experienced God's love and hearing how he trusted God and prayed even when he was struggling with his health. The nurse who was taking care of him said that each time he struggled, all he replied was that he will pray and ask God for strength. He too enjoyed hearing all the christian songs.
This is a true testimony of how God touched a man after living for 73 years, suffering from his illness, being reduced to being in a wheel chair was known to be a really difficult and tempermental person. Yet in the last few months of his life, His faith and trust in God was truly exhibted in his life. And becos of it all, his wife and son said that in God's time, they too will come to know the Lord. So we believed that this family has been won for God ! Amen :)
I believed that God has convicted me in my heart to go attend the wake and hear the many testimonies by the family, pastor and staff of the home has increase my faith and compassion. GOD IS AWESOME !! Sometimes all he does require for us is to pray and he will do the work. There are moments where he will call us to go out and share our stories and his gospel to the people he brings into our midst. All we need to do is to be obedient and allow God to grant us the wisdom and compassion as we share.
He HIMSELF will do the work to convict the hearts. It is just so simple but we people are used to complications.
Thank God in this season of mine to continually grant me the compassion for the "lost" and the renewal of understanding of what it means to be his mouth piece ... Thank God for showing me that nothing is impossible becos in GOD, all things are possible.
I believed that my parents are very encouraged to hear and see all that God is doing in my dad's extended family. I believed God will bring more of them into his family. What we are sure now is that we will continue to pray for them.
GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME !!!! cos when one in the household knows him, the whole household will be safe.
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