Sunday - Learning and Thanksgiving

So it rained to start off the day but still it's a good start for Sunday, cooling weather on sabbath. Decided to go for children service and since the adults 9am teaching was in the same room, there wasn't a need to move from the audi back to DCB, save some time of travelling up and down if i had gone for youth's 9am teaching instead. Adults side very professional, provide clipboard to go along with every set of notes they printed out. Of course, compared to youth, not many turned up for their 9am teaching but what was been shared is worth going to listen and learn from.

Jacob's Call or God's Promise

1. > The barrenness of Sarah, Rebekah as well as Rachel and Leah reiterates that the promised blessing through the chosen seed of Abraham is not to be accomplished merely by human effort. The fulfillment of the promise at each crucial juncture requires a specific act of God.
   
2. > A central theme of Genesis - the struggle betw the bros (started with Cain and Abel). Struggles were necessary for the accomplishment of the will of God but that God's will was accomplished in spite of the conflict.


3. > The older will serve the younger.

Gen 28: 10-22 > God promise not to forsake them(Abraham and Jacob) and will return them to their land

Gen 30: 25-43 > The deal struck betw Jacob and Laban was God's blessing and his continued faithfulness to his word as well as the promises he had given to both Abraham and Issac.

Gen 33: 1-17 > The reconciliation of the brothers and Esau's partaking of the blessing that Jacob had received(v.11) picture the ultimate fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham:" All people on earth will be blessed through you."(12:3)

• God's words recall the primeval blessing of Creation(1:28) and hence show God to be still at work in bringing about the blessing to all humanity through Jacob.

Just as Abraham had 2 sons and only one was the son of promise, and just as Issac had two sons and only one son was the son of blessing, so now Jacob, though he has 12 sons, 2 wives, each having a son(Judah and Joseph) who can rightfully contend for the blessing. In the end, it as Judah, the son of Leah, not Joseph, the son of Rachel, who gained the blessing(49:8-12).

1. > God is sovereign. God's choices prevail. God chooses a person by his sovereign will, not because of the accomplishment of the person.


2. > God is faithful and keeps his promises. Therefore he is trustworthy.


3. > God is a personal God who seeks to draw us into fellowship with him, transform our characters and work out our lives for our ultimate best interests which line up with his divine will.

Children Service

It's been ages since i went for 1 ! Last time i attended 1 was back when i was pri 5 ! Had a wonderful time interacting and learning from the kids as well. They had icebreaker games and the boys seem more interested than the girls. Maybe cos they felt the game was too difficult but it was made up for with the blowing of bubbles which make so many of them run ard chasing after them. Maybe shld buy some to bring to Balai this wk end. They even have memory verse! Gal 5:13 > Serve one another in Love. Indeed, the entire service was focus on serving those ard us with love be it friends or family. Kids attention spam is very low, so they need a constant change of activities to keep them engage. And yes, in whatever setting, there is always a special/outstanding person that needs more attention and care and whom we can call EGR people – “Extra Grace Required” . God has a special purpose for them, that both sides learn from one another and that we love the person for who he/she is. (Will post a short article on this soon). A good learning experience as well as thanksgiving to see the love that God has for the children in his kingdom.

Badminton in the afternoon

So long haven't gone to play already cos it's so far in CCK. Very rusty! But the main pt was really the blessing for the day.

Ya, broke my racket! Clash it against another racket as we were hitting the shuttlecock so it broke. The uncle was very nice, gave me his new racket! Means i need to go back to play more often esp since the gift isn't very cheap. Had a wonderful time of fellowship with dinner and games as well with the fantastic gang of u know who la.

A unique sunday indeed.