Be bold in faith

Hi friends!

I've decided to keep this blog going because I realized how much God-time I get when I reflect on all the things He's done. I'd love for you to join me on my life-long journey!

So I just finished my 5th week of school and it has been the most exhausting week I think I've ever ever had. My week was full of 18 hours of class, 2 networking events, 2 interviews, 3 job applications, and 3 meetings! I praise God, though, because I didn't feel anxious or stressed as I had felt during my previous recruiting season in January. I've tried to make things different this time around by praying before and after all the job things I was involved in. God really answered my prayers and put peace in my heart that I need not worry about the career life was I was about to start. I found comfort in this promise God made for all his children (Matt 6:33 is actually our ACF theme verse!):

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? 

“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matt 6:25-37)

My teammate being bold!

On top of all doing all these school and job activities, I worked as a club executive for our Asian Christian Fellowship (ACF). This week was clubs week, where all of the 200 clubs on campus set up a booth in a building for students to pass by and sign up for membership. We wanted to take it seriously this year to be bold about preaching the gospel to the students. I was so nervous before I started because I was scared to be rejected or that I wouldn't know how to say the right things. God really gave me courage to approach people and PRAISE GOD, I told the whole gospel to over 10 people this week! It gave me so much energy and erased all the fear when I knew God was there with me. It was intentional, but I kept my interactions with people like a conversation. I found it important to discover what they already believed in, what they were looking for, and what they thought of Christianity. I came across many people who said they were Christians but were unaware of the basis of why they called themselves Christians, except that they did good things. As a result, I used the analogy that our sins were like black permanent marker streaked on a white t-shirt that could not be erased with good deeds. Jesus, who is the only one with a clean white shirt, asked to wear all our black and dirty shirts so we could wear his clean shirt because he loved us and not because we deserved it.

Although I may not know whether any of those I talked to would ever become Christians, I found joy knowing that at least they heard of the gospel and that God would be the one to open their hearts. Please pray for newcomers we talked to who are coming to our fellowship meeting tonight and for the hearts of everyone who heard the gospel!

Love,
J