Sunday, June 12, 2005
I attended Ms Oon's wedding yesterday. Although it seems like the wedding season, this is the one and only wedding I will be attending so far.
My friend, Nadia, sat next to me during the wedding and commented that church weddings are really nice and meaningful. It goes beyond the act of just joining two people as husband and wife, but a solemn vow before God, to love and to hold, till death do they part. I remember my mum telling me that for a marriage to succeed, both husband and wife have to love God more than they love themselves or even each other.
The wedding started with some praise and worship and the sermon was about the verse written on the wedding invitation - We love because God first loved us. (1 John 4:19). During praise and worship, we sang this song, Above All, which struck a chord in me. Surprisingly, I sang this song again today during Sunday Service.
Above all powers, above all kings
Above all nature and all created things
Above all wisdom and all the ways of man
You were here before the world began
Above all kingdoms, above all thrones
Above all wonders the world has ever known
Above all wealth and treasures of the earth
There's no way to measure what you're worth
Crucified, laid behind a stone
You lived to die, rejected and alone
Like a rose, trampled on the ground
You took the fall, and thought of me, above all...
How nice to know that someone out there thinks of you above everything, that he is willing to forsake his kingdom to lay his life for you. Imagine being ridiculed and tortured for people who do not know you or love you, the whole world's sin upon your shoulders. Can't imagine? Well, neither can I. But I know God knows how that feels because Jesus went thru it. In light of that, whatever suffering or pain I am going thru now, seems so insignificant when compared to what my Saviour has done for me. As Christians, we may sometimes be so caught up in the act of serving the Lord, we forget the fundamentals of our faith and the driving force behind why we should serve Him without complain. It is simply because we have been bought with His blood and as servants, we have no right to ask God, our master, for anything. If He chooses to bless us, it is not due to our own merit, but it is by His grace.
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