The extra mile.

It's been a really, really long time since my previous post in late november last year. A few reasons why i've decided to finally update my blog again is to hopefully share with you any experiences or lessons which i've learnt in my life that may hopefully encourage, edify or in some way help you.

JC life has been much hectier than before. A pattern that i've observed in my life this year. Every time i've planned out my day or my weeks to come, some extraneous thing will definitely just abruptly find its way into my schedule and 'ruin' everything. Whatever happened to "Commit to the Lord whatever you do and your plans will succeed"? I committed my plans, yes, but why did things turn out another way. Didn't the verse state that i'll be successful? Yes, it did. And each time things 'mess up', they were for a greater good. Why? Why is it good that things mess up? Wouldn't that mean that i have failed because my plans fell through? Yes and no. Yes, because my plans didn't really got carried out smoothly and perfectly. No, because i would become more dependent on God and thus the results were always better than i've planned.

I believe that the hectic lifestyle conferred upon every one of us privileged JC student is for the eternal purpose of moulding us to become more Christ-dependent. If life were smooth sailing, i believe that we wouldn't really need much of a saviour to perfect His strength in our weaknesses. But it is because life is full of troubles and problems that His strength is perfected and all the more glorified. Thus, i think it only appropriate that we thank Him who place us where and when we are.

Yet another lesson that i've learnt was the power of desiring. We can have all the obligations and expections and convictions in the world and yet not be able to accomplish anything without the fundamental requirement of having a pure, sincere and genuine desire. A lifechanging lesson that i've taken from the Valentine's Day Adhoc which i was appointed to was that going the extra mile is really and truly love in action. And to do that really requires a desire that is sincere and geniune. Only the altruism given to us by our heavenly Father can keep us going the extra mile for others around us.

Why should we go the extra mile when we can hardly even accomplish one mile on our own?
Well, i would say that the satisfaction of going the extra mile for others is definitely worth the time. When you realised that because you did that little bit more that others were able to do a little less and rest a little more. When your little sacrifice would mean a little less of an expense on others. For blessed is he who gives than receives. Those were the words of Jesus Christ Himself.

Blessed is he who gives than receives. Go the extra mile my friends.

It's worth the investment. :)