A Place For You

Here's a parable/story I heard from my friend Jimmy which he heard from a preacher. I find it to be very interesting and a little humorous too. Well to me it was. Here's how the parable goes......

There was a guitarist that served God in the music ministry/worship ministry. He played his instrument as a service unto God every week, whether it'd be in prayer meetings, small group gatherings or Sunday praise & worship. He lived all his life that way until he died and went to Heaven. When he got to Heaven, an angel checked him into his mansion. And looking from afar, he was so excited and could barely hold in his joy because of the reward that awaited him. Reaching his mansion, the door opened and as he looked into his huge great mansion, to his shock, lay in it a guitar. He started to question and ask..... "Is that all? Haven't I faithfully served You my whole life? Shouldn't I be greatly rewarded or at least more than this? 

What a wonderful parable, don't you think so?

We often serve God out of convenience or in things we know we can do. No faith needed whatsoever. What about those times where someone needed the preaching of the gospel (well everyone needs the gospel), or a prayer of blessing, or God told us "Don't do this today, I want you to do that instead?"

Notice that when Jesus said "I go to prepare a place for you", it was a promise, and great is His faithfulness, we technically can do absolutely nothing with our Christian lives and still get a mansion. But what's in it? All depends on how we burn the 1 candle we have, our lives. Do we want to go to Heaven and in our mansion only have a TV with a stack of DVDs (only Korean dramas, not even Hong Kong dramas... haha), or find a metallic briefcase with a pair of camera lenses in it, or an album with pictures of earthly memories, or a piece of guitar?

I hope this blog entry has touched and changed your heart and mind. If you feel that this post condemns you, let me tell you, it wasn't intended to. It was intended to steer and redirect you into the center of God's will. I for one wouldn't wanna go to Heaven seeing my friends having no eternal rewards. So let us, in all our pursuits in life, never forget the purpose of our very lives.

'WORDS OF DESTINY'
Evan Baxter: What are we gonna do?!
People: Change the world!!

Depicted from the movie 'Evan Almighty'

'WORDS OF FAITH'

And they overcame him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimonies, and they did not love their lives to the death. (Revelation 12:11 NKJV)

'WORDS OF DANIEL'

If you've got no great stories to tell, you've been living a lame life.