Anticipating God’s move
Here is a post from one of my newsletters, which I have refined and modified *slightly* due to the public nature of my blog.
April has been quite eventful. On the 11th, I began my tenure as a Senior Development Engineer at my new job, after bidding farewell to a two and a half year employment with my previous employee. I just got through two weeks of training, now awaiting for projects shuffling through the pipeline.
My responsibilities have not changed much as an engineer. I just get to work with different stuff. For those of you who are curious, I’m currently developing in Java, and I have a growing interest in software design and architecture and developing enterprise-level applications. This job transition involves all of the above.
But what’s really been keeping me excited is what God is now doing in my life and in the life of the church and the nation. A few years ago, our church received some prophecies from various Christian ministers around the world. All the prophecies point to a something great that will take place in Malaysia that will take place soon. We’re expecting a revival.
In 1998, one of the prophecies said that before this would happen, there would be an earthquake in Taiwan (which has already occurred in 1999), an earthquake in India (2001), bloodshed in Indonesia (Acheh) and a change in the Malaysian government will take place (change of prime minister, 2002).
I say this not to scare anyone, but basically to say that these things have been encouraging to me and the members of my church, who have been experiencing changes and blessings in our lives, and have been challenged to get rid of bad habits and be healed from past hurts, choosing instead to live life the way God intended us to live.
A revival actually isn’t like the apocalypse, but rather a point where God wants the church to be. Many revivals have taken place in the past around the world, and they’ve generally been very good things (not just for the church, but for non-Christians as well). But I won’t get into that, cos there are a lot of books out there on the history of the church and so on.
When Jesus came to us as the incarnate God many many years ago, he was preceeded by John the Baptist, who called the Jews to turn from bad habits and return to God’s way of living. Along with that, John spoke of the one who was to come, Jesus Christ, who would forgive people for living their life apart from God and wrong things which they had done. Those who wanted this new change would be baptized in water as a sign of their commitment, to turn a new leaf and eagerly await God’s promised prophet, the Messiah, to come.
In a similar way, we are like the Jews, who are being called to turn away from bad habits and to return to God’s way of new life. As we begin to walk closer to His ways, we eagerly anticipate good things which God will cause to happen.
I’ve been challenged to walk a little closer with God every day. Sometimes it’s really hard, because I’m unsure of what lies in the future once my life changes radically. Sometimes I think the old ways are better, despite their shortcomings and pitfalls. Sometimes I get tired and unsure because I lose track of who I am and what I need to be doing. But each new day is beginning to present itself afresh. God didn’t promise that it would always be easy, but he did say that he would never ever leave me.
And that’s becoming more important to me, as the days go by.
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