9 years and finally, Multiply!

It's been 9 years and I have finally reached this day when I am absolutely clear about the call to multiply.

Spent a half a day with BC's cluster outing under the invitation of Eastlight this National day. Observed their cell group dynamics and questioned the meaning of cell group formation. Eastlight commented, "Cell group formation is not about moving the sheeps within the church. Rather, we look out......"

Mum's best friend's son happened to be a deacon of QBC. Met Brother HH and his sanguine wife at an evangelistic dinner last Saturday. Their testimony is amazing. As they poured out their time and love to the group of young adults under their charge, God had blessed them richly in terms of satisfaction and ceaseless joy.

SH taught from Psalms 24 that God is not powerless, He is not partial, and He is not pushy.

• He is all-powerful - I will trust in His ever provision, especially with the weakest desire of mine. When He tells me to cut the rope, I know I can safely cut it because He will catch me on eagle's wings just as He carried the Isaralites.
• He is not partial - to worship Him with a pair of clean hands and a pure heart had been a desire each Sunday in recent months.
• He is not pushy - "Am I willing to open my heart for Him to come it?" My "yes" is nothing less than a desperate plea for Him to come into my heart.

I love the illustration SH elaborated in Malachi 3:3 to account why our Refiner "sits" as He refines the gold and silver. He sits so that He can tell when the article of gold or silver is fully refined. That happens when He sees His own reflection in that particular article.

This verse reminds me about my life verse in 1 John 3:2,3. I long for the day of the coming of my precious Father because "we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him for we shall see Him as He is." Amazing! He will see His own reflection in me. Gone away will be sinful Viv, gone away will be her inadequacies and her every temptations to feel weak. In every way, God's image will be reflected in me!? Awesome!

What does all these mean to me? I must press on. I must persevere through every trial as this is only part of the refining process. As God opens my eyes to see Him at work in the lives of the precious friends around me, may He also lead me to join Him where He is.

As in the testimonies of Brother HH and his wife, Brother WP and ah Dor, Bok and Val, I finally see God's blessings in their lives as they pour out their lives for Him. I have only one life and I long for this blessing too! Take it! Take it, Lord.