School started today with an inspiring and funny lecturer. I'm so thankful to have Ms Chu on Monday mornings, it just makes the start of a school week that much more enjoyable! I'm blessed to know teachers like that over the years; one in secondary school, one in junior college and now one in university.
Above all, I love that I see God's handprint in the subject of Accounting which I'm taking now. The concept is so biblical :) Basically accounting comes about due to the need to give an account, as the agent is a steward of the owner's resources and business. As Ms Chu said, "being a steward is being in charge of something which doesn't belong to you." At least for financial accounting, it is based on this stewardship principle; giving an account of how the resources that had been entrusted to you has been used, to the person who entrusted them to you to manage in their stead.
The same is true regarding us and God. What we have here on this earth doesn't actually belong to us, but to God who has entrusted them to us. Our resources, our relationships with others, our giftings, our time. Time is a gift, for God could just as easily take it away; we are not promised the next breath, but simply asked to live in obedience to Him. We essentially don't even belong to ourselves, but our very lives belong to God.
But this doesn't mean that God is a mean God who wants us to be His slaves & make us do undesirable work, slogging our guts out for unreasonable, selfish purposes. God is our loving Father; which good father would make his son or daughter obey unreasonable commands or force them to do the things they hate?
Naturally, it is difficult, even loathe, for us to die to self for it is in our sin nature to glorify ourselves, to put ourselves on the throne of our life. The gospel message in itself can be insulting to some of us because it contradicts our pride in ourselves and want for control. Why do we need to rely on some God when I am confident in my own abilities? Why can't I just do what I feel like doing, without being tied down by this 'God' which stops me from doing all the fun stuff? Why do I need to submit to a higher being, aren't I more than capable of making my own decisions?
But I have tasted the goodness of aligning my will to God's, and boy is it amazing. It is in experiencing God Himself; the sweetness of having a relationship with Him, and the joy in knowing that I please Him through my submission to His authority over my life. And I am closer to who God made me to be. C. S. Lewis couldn't have put it better: “The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be... It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.”
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