God Sighting | December 5, 2001

I am very glad that the Lord showed me how tremendously empty my attempts were at changing people and faulty ways of thinking. At the time, I was not aware that I was relying on my own "intelligence" and cleverness. In doing this, He prevented me from continuing the disastrous mistake of not doing all thing in His time and through His strength and power. I've realized through God's repeated remindings that if how I act and what I do does not come from the overflow and leading of the Holy Spirit, it will never be genuine fruit of the Spirit—the kind that will leave people in awe of God's undeniable power and goodness. Amen. The Lord, in His good pleasure, has reminded me of vast numbers of people who affirmed their friendship in youth group to me. His goodness was also shown to me through my mother, who selflessly made food for me when I felt so fatigued after coming back from the mall. The Lord renewed His strength in me to go on, in order to touch the lives of junior high students for His Kingdom through love, the overflow and leading of the Holy Spirit. The Lord reminded me that our attempts were not in vain—that junior high students have actually gravitated toward the love that God manifests in me. Amen. Praise be to Jesus forever. Praise to the Lord.