marco baylon

kung pwede lang sana lagi akong ganado mag quiet time. di naman kailangan excited talaga, basta lang yung talagang na-control ko yung sarili ko na instead of going straight to bed, inuna ko ang panginoon. Lord, kung pwede po sana ganito lagi…

Notes:

• do not take justice into your own hands, do not be rash in your actions (2 Samuel 4)
• David reigned in Judah/Hebron for 7years6months, and reigned in Israel/Judah for 33years. 5:22 ratio training to actual service (2 Samuel 5:1-4)
• “David realized that the Lord had made him king over Israel and had made his kingdom great for the sake of his people Israel” (2 Samuel 5:12, emphasis mine)
• God may have different answers to the same question when asked during a different time, kaya don’t assume even if God already answered a certain way the last time, ask lang ng ask (2 Samuel 5:17-25)
• Nakakinis naman yung mga disciples, obvious na malungkot na si Jesus and sobrang troubled na sa mangyayari sa kanya in a few hours, pero ang slow parin ng comprehension ng disciples. hahaha. kung ako kaya nandun ng time na yun, ano din kaya yung sasabihin ko? siguro same lang din.. grabe.. (John 13:31 – 14:11)
• ask anything in Jesus’ name! (John 14:13-14)

prayer requests:
should i stay in japan till december
jp’s dad’s job interviews
dad, that okay lang siya even after matalo

Lord, thank you for this time that I can spend with you. Thank you for reminding me yesterday that I should always depend on you… please continue on reminding me of my REAL purpose here in Sapporo. Thank you Father.. in Jesus’s name.

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Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s well-being. (1 Corinthians 10:24)

The message to me today is simple. Just because I am so far away, doesn’t mean I am free from my responsibilities to my brothers and sisters in Christ back home. Especially my Accountability Partners and my D12. Even if they are already mature Christians.. even if they are already under a new D12 leader, that doesn’t grant me my “independence”. Because I can have the tendency to just leave things like that.. which I have done so many times before, to my regret.

It’s just so easy to just get away from everything. I may seem like a people person, but honestly, life is so much simpler when you don’t have to think about other people’s well-being. And, being in a Christian group, not only do you think about their well-being, you concern yourself with their WHOLE-being. It takes a lot from you: especially time and effort. There may even be times that you will be hurt, whenever they do something to hurt you, or to hurt themselves.

But in the end… it’s all worth it. I guess I’m already at that point where I can say that. Seeing how people that I have cared for, albeit not as much as I could have, grow into mature Christians that are having a wonderful relationship with our God, really gives me tears of joy. And you just look at them, nod you head a bit and say to yourself:

“it was all worth it”

Don’t grow weary in doing well… great things happen when you put others first… just as Christ did.