Asian Internship 2013: This is Our Day 10...Another Fruitful Day

What does God want to do with your life? This is the question that we are asking ourselves everyday in Malang or before we arrive Malang for E. E. Asian Internship. Last week, we studied on how to understand our own personality and strength, in order to help us to have a picture about ourselves. This week, we are studying on understanding God’s plan for the whole creation.

As usual, we started our day with our quiet time with God, followed by study on “Called and Accountable”. Today, we reflected on develop the character of Jesus Christ in each of us. One of the character we need to build up is faithful obedience. Obedience is a simple word but hardly for us to put in action. Obeying God is a big lesson in our life (Yogi, 2013). Obedience is doing the things we dislike or doesn’t want to do but God want us to do (Digeng, 2013). It’s hard to obey to someone who are not in the same thinking with you (Miyuki, 2013). But, we are grateful that we can partner with God as God develops our character because we can’t do it ourselves. God calls us into a relationship with Himself, so that in the relationship we can come to know Him and experience His working in us and through us. In that relationship, God develops character in us, in preparation for eternity with Him. Encouragement from Mr. Goodhew: “In doing what God want us to do is another way to praise and worship our Lord. God’s grace and love writes into our heart day by day, and it help us to choose to do the will of God.”

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From Monday until today, we are studying on God’s mission. I am thankful that I have friends to help me understand the whole idea of God’s mission. Today, we studied on the mission of Jesus. In study both Old Testament and New Testament, we understand better the whole big plan of God. Christ’s coming fulfills the Old Testament. Where Israel failed, Christ brings completeness. Jesus came to renew people and bring the Kingdom of God, which had caused clashes of two kingdoms (Kingdom of Man and Kingdom of God) because they have two different values, rules, and standards to each other. For example, the crucifixion of Christ, people saw it as a failure because they believed in a physical kingdom. But, actually it was a great victory over sin and death in the kingdom of God. In study of God’s mission, we get a broad understanding of God’s will for the whole creation. It helps us as we minister to the people. We are not only evangelizing but also sharing the will of God to the people (Shohei, 2013). The core of God’s mission is LOVE.

This afternoon, we had a Skype session with Ps. Rene Atienza, the vice president of E. E. Asia.We introduced ourselves and listened to his testimony and vision for the ministry of E.E. in Asia. Right after that, we did OJT in the centre, where we stay. In fact, we just sat in the group, watched and learnt how people share the gospel. Different people has different creative way to present the gospel. I am thankful that I learnt a lot (especially how to be more interactive) in every OJT I did in the past few days. I really enjoyed going for OJT sessions, because I get to see God work in other’s lives. I am looking forward to go out for more OJTs.