Sunday, June 29, 2008, 10:49
i was in the auditorium(audi) of my school, which of course all my friends know is mgs, on friday evening, and as evening stretched to night, i had this thought: wherever you are, worship of our God is all the same, as long as you put your heart into it and dedicate it to God. you can be all by yourself singing at home to a CD, or singing amongst throngs of people in the audi (like i was on friday) to a band with a lead singer with powerful vocals chords, but it's all the same. on friday it was the event love mgs, which is like the event revelations in my church. anyway, there was this speaker, Glenn Lim, who had spoken at my church before. he had brought some of his books, titled 'Wake-up Call'. it was about his life. kind of like his autobiography. i was assigned to sell them. so i sat at this table, which i shared with a lady(ok, teenager)who was giving hearts aflame pamphlets. i'm reading Mr. Lim's book and then suddenly there's this guy's voice right in front of me 'are you helping to sell my books?' so i looked up and there Mr. Lim was. he was a delinquent in his young days, starting by playing truant in primary school. then he moved on to secondary school and he quit in sec 4 to play the rock guitar. his parents were disappointed to see that he quit piano lessons in favour of rock guitar lessons. then he was sent to teen challenge, this christian halfway house or something like that for delinquents,cause his parents said that he was out of control. then he found God there. but when he got out he joined a band, and was playing the guitar. his band was popular at the time, and they moved through many pubs doing gigs, and one day he got introduced to marijuana. and he got arrested for trafficking it in from malaysia. then he went back to teen challenge. and he stayed there until he was sentenced to 6 months in jail, after jail then he went back to teen challenge for 3 years and found God. he said that we are constantly surrounded by noise. noise overrides everything. and very often we always say like where is God i can't hear him. but if we're surrounded by all this noise, how do we hear God's voice?