Wee Keong responds: "It is who they are living for"

Weekeong is our awesome pastor and currently leading the East Sector and Campus Ministry of our church with his beautiful wife, Joyce. He has two adorable sons and enjoys running, sports and reading.

Good question, Vic. My answer to that unfortunately cannot be any one answer; it is ALL those answers, and more.

I think if we can narrowly define godliness as a constant sense & awareness of who we are and who God is, what we do & what He expects us to do, how we are responsible to others, how we react to others, how we express our thoughts & feelings in an appropriate manner that will not stumble others, how we make sacrifices & walk away from doing things we like to do as opposed to doing what we need to do etc…then the best comparison I can think of is that of being a mother.

Moms are motivated at times, hopeful at times, responsible, sad, happy and joyful. They make sacrifices for the better of others, decides to forgo what they would like to do otherwise. They are grateful, loving, guilty etc all rolled into one… I guess what I am saying is there isn’t one single reason that drives them; rather it is who they are living for - their loved ones. They continually make adjustments & corrections to their thinking. There is no single thought (hopefully) that dominates what they do. And they trudge along year after year after year.

I think the same goes for us. We live for Christ. When we fall short (and we’ll have plenty of practice doing that), we constantly make changes & corrections & repent. We don’t want a single motivation to dominate us because we can’t feel guilty all the time, or have a sense of responsibility all the time etc…we need to keep filtering & purifying our motives…because He lives, I can face tomorrow, because He lives, all fear is gone…(Choi’s soprano voice) Just kidding….but you get the point.

Love,
Wee Keong