Last Thursday at 4.00 pm, I heard a buzz from my MSN and to my surprise it was one of our youths from the Metamorphosis Project. Knowing that she doesn't go online at home and on a weekday at the usual schooling hour, some of us from the project team messaged her through MSN. We figured she had 'ponteng' school and was at a cyber cafe since she normally gets online there. True enough it was as what we thought.
On Friday, the project team and I went to sell burgers as we always do every Friday. We planned to go to SMKC Chong Hwa that day but something in me just felt not right and I told the rest, "I think we should go to Danau Kota School". We continued our burger selling at Chong Hwa till around 12.30 pm and made our way to SMK Danau Kota.
It was a good time talking with some of the youths we had met earlier this year from selling burgers. Their school starts at 2.00 pm on Fridays, so we chatt-ed with them till around that time, one after another we saw them coming to school, some of them being dropped off by their parents and some by cycling to school. But someone was missing from the list as the time closed in to 2.00 pm.
With the help and information from one of the other youth, we found out the location of the missing one. So we went to search for her in the cyber cafes around that area (brings to your memory the parable of the 'Lost Sheep' huh? hahaha). Finally we found her and I was sooooo happy to see her after 3 weeks of her 'MIA' (Missing In Action).
We then took her to a nearby shop to have a drink. I bought her an 'Ice Blended Chocolate Shake' knowing that chocolate is good for people when they are feeling a lil' gloomy. Not knowing the root of why she was acting that way, we just wanted her to know that we cared for and loved her. During our 'yam cha session' we got to meet some of her friends and also saw the people she mixed around with if she was ever at a cyber cafe. Speaking on behalf of the project team, our hearts were filled with compassion. I truly understand now what it meant when the Bible talks about Jesus being filled with compassion. I showed her my hand and asked her to put her hand on mine (a thought from the Holy Spirit). I just obey God and did it at that moment not knowing why because in my own ways, I couldn't even communicate with her because of the language barrier. When her hand was on mine, I just said 2 simple words which were..... You see?.... Her hand was so tiny compared to mine, and I found out the meaning that moment. (Go figure ;P)
It wasn't really a good meet up in terms of what we accomplished, but I learned one of my greatest lessons ever.
That night during Church Prayer a questioned flashed through my mind, "Why are you doing THIS"? (THIS-caring, loving, sacrificing for the youth). "Is it because they are good? or Is it because they are rich? or Is it because they are smart students? or Is it because they are handsome? Is it because they are pretty?"
I thought to myself that night and I knew it was because God loves them. I could feel at that moment, if I love them so much, Jesus not only died for them but He lived 33 years of life on earth just for them. I could not help but to just cry in the presence of the Lord, not just for 'The Little Darling' but for the whole world.
'WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT'
I am not moved by what I see or what I feel, I'm moved by whom I have believed in.
Smith Wigglesworth
2 comments:
its great dani!all of me hopes dat i could join you all.. i personally believe that we will see God more in faces around us. continue talking, loving and living from God's heart ya!!
Hey bro! felt the same way man. That time when looking at those little lives of theirs, compassion just gushed into my heart as well and knowing that God loves them so very much! Such precious lives! There is an urge to keep doing what we have been doing to reap what we have sown. The due time will come!
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