Thursday, December 14, 2006
Had an awesome night with Bronze yesterday. We talked for ages (while we thought we only had talked for an hour or two). It was a good talk. Bronze, my mentor, gave a lot of helpful advice about life after married.
Bronze's a full time missionary in my church. Missionaries in my church don't get paid. They're only supported by individual Christians in the church. It's not easy to imagine a life without stable financial supports. However some people do live such life, for the sake of the gospel. Bronze's been a missionary for a decade. I looked at her and wondered how she could hold on till now. She told me she never thought she would be in the mission field for that long. At the time she started to serve in missions, she solely depended on a saving which could only feed her for three months. I'm so amazed by how graceful our God is. He looks after His servants.
This morning, I sang the hymn His Eye Is On the Sparrow. I worshipped God with all my heart, as He's my Jehovah Jireh. He's my provider - the origin of all kinds of richnesses. He always provides everything I (really) need even before I ask. I never asked for the salvation before I got saved, but already He died for it. He knew that I need the salvation; I would die (eternally) without it. "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?" (Matthew 6:25-26, ESV)
So I sing because I'm happy
And I sing beaause I'm free
His eye in on the sparrow
And I know he watches me
