friday i saw jun kee at the HQ... he gave me this look that says "man! wat are you doing here?" sigh... he is right... wat am i doing here! so old oredi.. still at HQ... anyway jokes aside.. i am now at the stage where many, the likes of alan, chek wei, hanhui, sijia and many others have been and crossed...
so... you might ask.. wat is this stage that i am at now? this stage is the point where i have only a few months left before moving on* [correct as of 12th october 2006] i am sure many have these in their minds...
1. wat are the areas that i can leave a print behind?
2. wat legacy do i wan to leave?
3. wat do i want people to remember me of?
4.or in army term: "last burst of fire!"
permanent contributions
the sermon titled "why do i work like a dog?" by Pastor Jeff struck something deeply in me.
why do people want to work like a dog... the only reason is satisfaction! satisfaction that comes are after completing something... closing a deal or something. but temporal success cannot satisfy us for we are beings with the concept of eternality placed. thus like the 1st sermon point, we want to make permanent contributions. to have a legacy left behind. not so much about people remembering who we are.. but rather people remembering what we had done and thus encouraging people to do the same in the future...
how then can i make permanent contributions?
survival --> success --> significant
we need to move pass "survival stage" and "success stage" before we can be "significant". when a person just joined a company, the first thing he needs to do is to build relationships in the company. mix well with the rest of the staffs and learning the ropes. the second thing is to start closing deals and show people "what he is made of". only then, can that person start to make an impact in ppl's lives. because he has shown himself to be credible....
in the spiritual aspect... it is the same... when a new believer first comes to know God, he must first be able to "survive" and fan his passion for God. [reasons for 24 hour CAPI, right]. next he should have some success under his belt. these success are the fruits of the spirit that became evident in his life as he grow in the Lord and they can be breakthroughs as well... like having a deeper trust and faith in the Lord. then he can influence ppl with wat he has learnt. even better is that he raise up as a leader and impacting even more ppl! extending his sphere of influence...
how then can i survive and be successful?
"you cant give what you dont have"
a simple truth... so simple that poeple will say "you been you dont know?" [ellson will say: "wa lau... so simple! you also dun noe meh!" the simplicity of the truth is often the reason why people are unable to live it out fully in their lives. this truth can be illustrated easily in quantitative sense like:
1. yeah.. i am free... let spend some time together...
2. no probs... i just got my salary... i can lend you some money...
however, when it comes to the intangibles... it is no longer that straight forward...
the intangibles.. things that cant be measured... cant be seen... such truth will escape under the mist of ignorance...
the reason people want to stay back to help out in student ministry or just to leave a biblical legacy behind is that they want to add value to the group. however, unless we have some valuables to impart, we cant add value to people at all... we simply cant give wat we dun haf...
i quote from John C. Maxwell's book...
to be a person that adds value to others, we need to
a. recognise our value
once, Gary Smalley ask his audience whether they want the 50 dollar note in his hands. all hands shoot up . then he crumpled the note and ask the audience. once again, all hands shoot up. after that, he dropped it to the floor and grind it with his shoe. picking the crumpled note up, he asked the question again. needlessly to say... all hands shoot up again. the value of the note hasnt change no matter wat gary did to it. like the note, we have values as well... we are valuable in God's eyes.. no matter how we or others look at others, the value remains...
b. accept your value
"acceptance" comes from the Latin ad capere that means " to take to oneself". this means, process of accepting others is the act of self-acceptance.
c. increase in your value
duh... no explaination needed right?
d. believe in your value
just like praying... we should believe and have faith in the prayer that we made before God. we should recognise, accept, increase and believe in our values...
i have been reading to add value to myself... so that i can add value to the group... wat about you?
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It's very true that one has to recognise and accept his/her value in order to add value to others. Failing to do so is equivalent to the failure to recognise his/her existence in this world. Recognising one's value is to know the purpose that one is created to do, just like in the case of what an invention is invented for. A plane is invented to fly and not to run on land. So, if one fail to recognise and accept his value, is just like a plane being used to travel on land and this defeated the entire purpose of inventing the plane.And in such instance, how can one even add on to the value of others?
In addition to the points mentioned in the post,I remember in this year FOP, guest speaker, Ed Silvoso also pointed out 4 ways to "How can we become an asset". And these are the following point:
1. Working Hard.
-Work hard to build something that can survive for generations (which is mentioned in the post too).
2. Helping the needy
-provides for people's needs, be a channel to spread God's love to the others.
3. Emulating Jesus
-Jesus overcome the world! so, we must learn to swim in dirty water but not to swallow the dirty water.
4. Giving rather than taking
-it's more blessed to give than to take.
yes.. HY.. you can add comments! haha...
woah... that's some comment, zhu.. thanks for adding on wat i had written!
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