This is It

That was the last Sunday before Christmas in 2009, somehow I have this weird feeling about the pastor. The feeling that says, gosh, I don't like this pastor. However, when this pastor gave a closing blessing,  he took it from Matthew 11:28, "come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." That was something. I could tell my soul rejoice when my ears heard it. Then it stays till now. That was the first.

Second time was the day my girlfriend got married. There's a small church in a city called Surabaya, Indonesia. When I entered, I felt I was in a church where I got baptized. I was asked to take pictures, so I told myself I need to get a good seat where I can be in the church and at the same time I can take pictures. Well, it's kind of multitask girl wanna be, ha. There I found my seat. As I sat down and looked around, I saw this gigantic bible right in the middle of the church. The bible is open. On page is written, Come to Me, All you who are weary and burdened. Bottom it's written Matt 11:28. 

This is the bible I was talking about...and oh the pastor is kind of sitting on top of it.

Coincidence? maybe. There came the first and second. What I'm about to say, it would really give you a hint that it was not just a coincidence. The third came last Sunday. It was just another lazy Sunday morning. It has been raining since the other night. I looked at the time and decided to pull my self under my blanket. Then there was this phone call, made me opening my eyes. There was I, alone and don't know what to do. Quickly, got up, got ready and off to church. As I decided going to church the rain changed from hard to drizzle. Just enough time to have devotional time before the service began. It was 5 minutes to 11, just before the service began. I took the church bulletin and started to read. There's this page, an article entitled "This is it." According to the author, the idea was taken from MJ's last doc movie. As I opened the next page, there it went....a verse, a very familiar verse, taken from the same verse, Matt 11:28. 


Less than two months, I got this same verse trice. I believe this is not a coincidence. But what's God trying to tell me? Well, I have to admit that I am christian who doesn't go to church that often. I do believe Jesus is son of God and I believe in the bible. But for me to go to church every Sunday, well that's very challenging. When I pray I always ask God to grant me a lifetime partner whom I seek night and day. I was in with the wrong persons for all this time and till I put an end and this time when I decided to have a relationship that would be based on  Christianity. I was and am ready for that kind of relationship. 


That verse keeps me thinking. I am really trying to ask myself, what kind of burdens am i carrying now? for I am in my searching, am i weary? yeah I gotta say that. But has it led up to burden? I still have no idea. 
I have to admit, when I read the verse again and again it gives relieve. It gives a new hope. So, when MJ said, this is it, I also say, "this is it, this is the time for me and my savior.


Tuesday, 19 Jan 2010