I just came back from my CPR (Committee's Planning Retreat) yesterday & I've been blessed by it. One of the things I enjoyed the most was definitely the devotion time. During devotion on the 2nd day, Adrene asked us to take a cup each and looking at the cup as our lives, reflect on what we have been filling the "cup" with (what have we been filling our lives with) & what do we think is the thing we should fill it with. So, then I took the cup and looked at it as if it's my life, reflecting on what I've been filling my life with all this while.
I don't normally use a cup at home, except only when I'm making Milo to drink. I've always loved Milo & I've been drinking it since young, up until today. Milo is great!! It's tastes good, it can even make you feel full by drinking it & I've always loved it during "mamak" sessions. However, a thought came to my mind. "What is the purpose that I drink in the first place?" The answer to that is to satisfy my thirst. The reason why people drink is to quench their thirst (a basic survival response). Then I realized that Milo doesn't satisfy by most basic need of all; quenching my thirst!
Then I realized that what I need is actually WATER!! That is the best thing to quench my thirst and give me the nourishment that I need to survive. MILO can't satisfy that need! It only makes me thirst more. It reminded me of the story of Jesus with the Samaritan woman in John 4 : 13- 14). "13Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
Just like the Samaritan woman, I've been looking for the wrong source to quench my thirst. I've been filling my "cup" with "Milo", when all that I truly needed was indeed "WATER". The "Milo" in my life ("cup") refer to all the things like achievements, results, CF, even my service in the CF. All things things are indeed good, and should be achieved (as we are all human), but essentially what's the most important thing that needs to fill my "cup" is my intimate relationship & constant fellowship with God; that is WATER.
Of course service for God is important and a lot of other things are also important, but what is most essential thing that God wants from me is not my service for Him but my HEART. I sometimes get too tensed or hectic with my service for God that I forgot that God IS the reason why I served in the 1st place; when all He wants is for me to be intimate with Him.
So, I realized now that is not wrong to use my "cup" for "Milo" sometimes, but the most essential thing that I need to fill it with is "WATER". After all, I can't make Milo without water.
Hope you are blessed by it.
-DaNiEL-
dun lemme catch ya ordering milo ais kaw again ya..hahahahahaha..
ReplyDeletelolz,i was juz using them as examples la...plus,u can't deny water IS more important than milo,rite? i'll try to cut down tho..hahaha
ReplyDeleteDaniel that reminds me of something similar I read. Nopes not about milo. Shall tell the story here.
ReplyDeleteOne day a teacher walk into the classroom and started taking golf balls out and started filling it into a jar. When he finished he ask the class is the jar full? The students looking at the jar filled with the golf balls of course answered yes.
Then the teacher took pebbles and poured it into the jar. Well, the pebbles filled up the empty spaces in the jar that the golf balls didn't. Again he ask the class. Is the jar full? Yes the students replied.
Once again the teacher reach out and take a bag of sand from below the table and pour it into the jar. The particles of sand quickly move in and fill the empty spots in the jar. The class which already knew what the teacher was going to ask said yes.
The teacher then took 2 cans of coke from under the table and the minute the students saw it the burst out laughing and the teacher open the coke and poured it into the jar and filled it.
The moral of the story said the teacher, the golf balls are what is important in life which are our families, God and loved ones. The pebbles signifies our career, studies. The sand car, wealth and etc.
The teacher told them that if they had their prioritise wrong than it would be if the teacher put the sand in first then the pebbles, there wouldn't be space left for the golf balls. There fore having our priorities right is important as if even without the sand and pebbles our life would have still been full.
One student then ask then what about the coke, what does it symbolize? The teacher smiled and say that well one can never be too busy and there is always time to have a drink or two. :)
Hope u enjoyed the story.
Thanks Wen Lin...I enjoyed the story a lot...I've seen a video about that story before too...Thank a lot...you've always been an encouragement to me...
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