Lead them to you, Jesus.

Last Saturday, I went back my hometown church and tried to see what I can do to help them as there will be a thanks giving praise and worship event today. Getting into the church, I gave thanks to God as I can tell that the new renovation of my hometown church has been nicely done. Those old music instruments have been replaced by a set of brand new instruments. I heard that there are some brothers and sisters who donated those instruments to the church without intention to get any credits from that. Therefore, the elders of the church didn’t want to announce the name of the donor. Therefore, we shall fully give thanks to God for all these things.

Over there, I didn’t do much thing but of course I managed to make myself busy somehow. Moving back and forth in the hall of the church, I strived to reduce the burden of my dear teacher. I felt really glad to see her still being so dedicated and passionate in serving God; I shall learn from her seriously especially her passion in Christ. While bustling throughout the way, I talked to another teacher who served for years in church. We talked and discussed about how to shepherd the church by using some good guidebooks.

While we were discussing, there was a man standing beside me and staring at me with kindness. The way he made himself noticeable left me having no excuse to ignore him or overlook his existence. In the gap of silence during the discussion, I took the initiative to shake his hand and made a brief self-introduction. We got to know each other, and I just realized that he is new believer in Christ. We didn’t really talk much, what I know is that he is 30+ years old, a married guy who has a daughter of 4 years old. For no reason, he asked me my contact number and without hesitation, I gave him my contact number.

From that day onward, he reached me several times by sending me messages through phone with the attempt of trying to ask me out for dinner. Somehow I withdrew myself from meeting him and turned him down for the first time. Perhaps I have not yet identified the reason for him to meet me; there must be a reason why he tried to meet me. So one day, he called me out to have a dinner, I asked him: “Yes, brother. I am free tonight. But I wonder if you are currently having any problem. If yes, then I may figure out how to help you.” He said:” No problem. But since I am a new believer, I want to know how to be a Christian and I think maybe you can help me on this, because you have been a Christian for some years.” I said: “I see. Then okay, we shall meet tonight and I can help you on that later.”

I prepared myself with some materials and scriptures. I then read through all those things regarding the gospel just to get myself familiar with all these in order to get myself ready to teach him with the words of God so as to lead him to Christ with a heart of obedience. We finally met and had a good session of learning how God saves us through the gospel.  Basically I taught him about the beginning and the consequence of sin, and the reason why Jesus Christ is the only savior, the only gospel to the helpless humankind.

Throughout the session, I asked a question with curiosity:” why do you approach me for teaching you? What made you think that I can help you? We have just met for the first time, right?” The answer gave me a strong feeling of satisfaction. He answered:” I observed you in the church, and I think you are a good Christian because you were serving over there.” Then I straight away continued to share the gospel of God with details and the basis of scriptures. I made sure that his mind got along with me throughout the sharing by asking questions from time to time.

I felt touched that God brought this man to me. I can tell that he is really an innocent man who seeks the word of God with a lot of effort and humility that not much people possess. He is just like a new-born kid with good curiosity in Christ. Throughout the session, I tried to help him knowing our awesome God better, but I was taught by God in secret that I shall learn from him as well, especially his thirst for the words of God. I seldom met this kind of person. I have seen uncountable believers who don't bother to know God better or the words of God through reading the Bible. They live as if they have no king in their lives but meanwhile they unreasonably claim themselves as the follower of Christ by calling themselves Christian. To those people, I may not choose to spend the time to feed them with the word of God as they didn't manage to receive with joy and peace and most probably those words may not help them but trouble or harden their hearts. This makes things even worse. They find no delight in the word of God, they choose to live on their own without the fear of the God.

However, I have no excuse at all to keep the knowledge of God that I have ever known from sharing with him, because he deserves more than I could ever give. He is truly blessed because he has been given a longing heart which thirsts for the words of God. No one seeks God, not even one. It is sometimes rare to find people who claim to be the follower of Christ seeks the will of God. It is even rare to find this elder to get help from me, the younger for knowing the words of God. This humility is greatly appreciated. I will definitely pray for him, hopefully God shows him more and more His words as he keeps on looking for the words of God with this kind of thirst. I felt glad to serve him by sharing him once again the true gospel of God through our Lord Jesus Christ alone. I thank God for having this wonderful honor to shepherd his sheep as I’m truly nothing but perishable dust. So dear Lord, please bring your people to me, so that I could do my part to lead them to obey and fear you.