not GOOD enough.
i still remember the last time somebody praised me, was aunty pet. her simple sweet gesture "woah desmond! didn't know u can sing." made my day. in fact it got my confidence level back up again and i wasn't shy to sing anymore! but that was the one time and the last time.
ever wondered whether did u impact anybody lives or encouraged somebody? i guess 'encouraging' somebody can be quite a ministry to pple who don't usually or cannot encourage anybody. but when u made the effort to try, how mighty can dis person work in future.
one very very good example of somebody who CANNOT encourage for nuts, my dad. seriously, he suck at encouraging. remembered at that time when i got my graduating sem's result in poly, i called him just to tell him that i've graduated!!! and i was very happy to tell pple that, because i think i've survived a 3 yr course with no interest at all. and its quite an achievement i thought. but guess what my dad replied. "so haf u applied for airforce? what u gonna do now. better go apply asap and stop wasting ur time around." can u imagine my excitement went to less than half of the gauge? i nvr told him any of my academic results since PSLE. maybe that's why he didn't haf enough opportunities to express his congrats. but he congratulated me when i passed my driving test though. what an irony. at least my mum tried to pronouce 'congratulations' in english when she heard that i've graduated. oh well.
some time back, i've read the bible. somewhere, it says that u should be doing it for God and not man. because if u're doing it to please man, u'll nvr be happy because man can't possibly encourage u every day of ur life/ministry! so easy to be said than done. there're so many men on earth, and it definitely feels great when someBODY encouraged u in ur efforts. and its so hard to focus back that "yes, i'm doing all these to please God!" its so hard, because we're like goats!! once we've tasted how nice encouragements from men is, we'll nvr wanna go back to "yes, i'm doing it for God!" something which u cannot HEAR encouragements from. of coz some may say that God need not SAY encouragements to u, but He certainly had SHOWN u encouragements. well, i don't know how that feels yet. so i can't agree on that. but yes, we esp as Christians will wanna do things for God, and just be pleased that God's please wif ur efforts. but somehow deep down, we're tired. esp when there's noBODY there to encourage u, noBODY there to hear of ur fatigue. everybody seems to be busy wif things. but then again, maybe i'm the only one left in church, not being able to grasp the concept of solely 'doing it for God".
ever wondered whether did u impact anybody lives or encouraged somebody? i guess 'encouraging' somebody can be quite a ministry to pple who don't usually or cannot encourage anybody. but when u made the effort to try, how mighty can dis person work in future.
one very very good example of somebody who CANNOT encourage for nuts, my dad. seriously, he suck at encouraging. remembered at that time when i got my graduating sem's result in poly, i called him just to tell him that i've graduated!!! and i was very happy to tell pple that, because i think i've survived a 3 yr course with no interest at all. and its quite an achievement i thought. but guess what my dad replied. "so haf u applied for airforce? what u gonna do now. better go apply asap and stop wasting ur time around." can u imagine my excitement went to less than half of the gauge? i nvr told him any of my academic results since PSLE. maybe that's why he didn't haf enough opportunities to express his congrats. but he congratulated me when i passed my driving test though. what an irony. at least my mum tried to pronouce 'congratulations' in english when she heard that i've graduated. oh well.
some time back, i've read the bible. somewhere, it says that u should be doing it for God and not man. because if u're doing it to please man, u'll nvr be happy because man can't possibly encourage u every day of ur life/ministry! so easy to be said than done. there're so many men on earth, and it definitely feels great when someBODY encouraged u in ur efforts. and its so hard to focus back that "yes, i'm doing all these to please God!" its so hard, because we're like goats!! once we've tasted how nice encouragements from men is, we'll nvr wanna go back to "yes, i'm doing it for God!" something which u cannot HEAR encouragements from. of coz some may say that God need not SAY encouragements to u, but He certainly had SHOWN u encouragements. well, i don't know how that feels yet. so i can't agree on that. but yes, we esp as Christians will wanna do things for God, and just be pleased that God's please wif ur efforts. but somehow deep down, we're tired. esp when there's noBODY there to encourage u, noBODY there to hear of ur fatigue. everybody seems to be busy wif things. but then again, maybe i'm the only one left in church, not being able to grasp the concept of solely 'doing it for God".
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