God's Lesson

God really taught me a tough lesson lesson today. Well it was like this. On my way to nexus for word for life, i saw this uncle who had a deformity condition on his face. As i walked past him, God nudged me to approach him to pray for him but well i admit i was a bit of a coward to approach him so i juz continued walking on to word for life. Thru the lesson, God talk to me bout the incident even in the teaching. We were going thru the passage in acts that talks about peter n john meeting a man who was lame begging for money at the temple gates. ya n jiehui was stating a pt that tis man had no real help n hope even though religious man were passing by him so often(after all he was at the temple gates). Also jie hui made one statement that hit me hard.

"People can feel compassion for him but no one really wanted to go out of their way to help him. what hope does he have then? All he can do was to concede to his situation n continue being helpless..."

When i heard this i knew for sure that it was God speakin or should i say rebuking me for the incident just now. Whatever it was, i immediately felt burdened n ashamed. To top it off, God pull another 'stunt' on me. At the end of the lesson, Jon Lim suddenly spoke to the grp bout the same man that i saw.

He said, "lets apply what we have learned today n as child of god show compassion to those in need n give what we have which is the best hope he can get which is god. Y not lets go n pray for him like wat peter and john did for the lame at temple gates."

Hearing this, i felt extremely compelled and guilty. Guilty for not living lk a child in God n compelled to pray for that man n give him a true hope. We went down to where we saw him but sadly he had already left. But that was not the end, on our back to nexus, we saw a blind struggling with his equipments for busking outside centrepoint.
Immediately, we felt God's prompting and this time there was no hesitation. We went up to help him with his equipments n offered to pray for him there n then. Praise be to God! Though there was no miracle healing but we invited him for service and he said that maybe he could make it on a sunday n asked us for our contact so that he may contact us again. It was really heartwarming exp to pray for one in need n seeing him coming one step closer to God.

Looking back at what happened, i was reminded of a very simple command from God.

"Love your neighbours as yourself......"

Who are our neighbours? EVERYONE!