Homework continues to pile, activities are continuously increasing despite Easter Rally going off with a blast. I wonder why all these things have to happen, yet i just want it to happen, i like to happen.
Throughout the whole time either going for drama practice, or meetings for YE, I kept asking myself, where does all these activities bring you at the end of the day? What are you going to get out of it? That's where i came to think of this just few seconds ago, which is
Lesson 22#:
Set the FOCUS
If you are a football player, you would aim to win. If you are a student, you aim excellent results. If you are a son, the aim is to be respectful and obedient to your parents. If you are a sales person, the aim is to get customers and sell whatever you need to sell. And the list goes on and on.
So what is the focus?
Focus can be a couple of things, like training for a football match or drama competition, these are all focus for us to achieve our aim, our goal. Yet if you noticed, i wrote "FOCUS' as the title, instead of just "Focus", because when something is bigger, it shows that there can be many focus in different areas, but there must be just one main focus through it all.
Drama cost a lot of precious time, so does YE. I kept thinking and thinking to myself, "in the end, what the main focus, what is it? where will all these lead me? what is there for me at the end of the road?" It was days and weeks just thinking about it right before a sleep. At this point, i THINK i found the answer, though i do not know whether it is an answer in the first place, surely, this is what kept me going on despite tiring hours.
I believe, the my focus here, sorry, i mean FOCUS here, is always God, it has to be Him. What compels me so much? I mean, to be honest, really. "The joy of the Lord is my strength" taken from the bible, is no doubt true. Tired, surely! But i never failed to be sadden and downcast before the Lord, because i know that my strength is from him. It has to be. Someone asked me one day, "How do you manage to still stay so alive? so energetic? despite having so many activities here and there, adding on to that, homework too!" I looked up into the sky, knowing it has to be Him, my Lord, my God, my Friend, my Father.
God can provide this inner strength not just when we are physically tired, but also when we are spiritually downcast. Few months back, someone also asked me, "why does your life seem to be perfect, when others are having family issues, some are smoking, stealing, etc.. why?" I tell you, my parents do argue, i do have intentions to take things which are not mine, but what carries me on? It is that inner strength, to me, that says no to stealing, to smoking. That inner strength that withstands any attacks from the devil, inner strength that can help you stand tall and firm, despite a tough time coming through.
I tell today guys and girls, there is literally no one who can provide you that kind of strength, that kind of spirit of energy. I'm glad i know about it, do you want to?
So back to the lesson, my main focus is that since God gave me strength, i shall use what i have learnt and experience for his glory. Example, i can maybe act in a drama play for church. or maybe after learning marketing techniques, i can come out with ideas to promote community service events and such. This is my FOCUS, that God is and will always be in the centre of my doing.
now, i can't keep talking, i have to ask, What Is Your FOCUS Friends?
Love,
Wai Leem
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