Jeremy speaks: "Heart of a volunteer."

Jeremy is our brother, full of joy and inspiration. He brings smiles to everyone's faces and glory to God with his excitement for His word.

Hi all,

How's ur day? Well, I just finish a lesson. lolx. 1st week of school was not too bad. hope u all have fun in school/work. :)

anywayz was reading mattew5-6 and today i wanna share some thoughts of what have inspired me.

i focused more on chapter 5 v13-16

i just got very interested abt the word salt and light. well, have u ever pick out a single grain of salt and taste it? is it salty enough to have arouse ur attention that salt is salty? do u ever single out a ray of light to measure its brightness?

well, i believe most of us wont.

as in i feel that light are bright, because collectively all the rays are bright. in the same way, i feel that salt is salty because collectively all the grains in a teaspoonful of salt is salty.

i just focused christian as the salt/light. well, it's easy enough for a person to shine. like people will say that christian A is holy,

just, righteous etc. they may have good impression abt christians. but then if that's the case, why do some pple shun away from us when we ask/invite them to church? since they are supposed to be together with a bunch of righteous pple, holy and innocent?

becos if only a few pple shine, it's not enough. just like in a teaspoonful of salt, only a handful are salty, it's not enough.

thus i feel that in order to shine and be 'salty' as a christian, as a whole we have to be salty and bright together. then can we be awesome!

so now the qns is how to be awesome?

then i was reading psalm 110:3 and the book that i'm reading says something abt volunteer. and thus i focus on the heart of volunteers. Thinking back from experience, for me i've been to the orphanage in batam and the hope for senior event. well, i feel we can be considered a volunteer. i feel that volunteers are a bunch of pple who serve, give, love out of their free will.

Serve - Serve the pple willingly, imitating the humility of Jesus, remembering the time He lowered himself from a God to being a human just like us.

Give - Give the pple from the bottom of the heart, imitating the grace of God.

Love - Love the pple with a true heart, imitating the unconditional love of God.

Then wat do volunteers gain in return? well, i feel that volunteers gain satisfaction after serving, giving and loving. But then more importantly we gain the satisfaction of God. He will be pleased. Because we showed His love through our acts to others, thus shining as a light and salt to people around us.

in conclusion

Let's have the heart of a volunteer

Serve from the bottom of our heart

Give with a graceful heart (not beautiful but with a heart full of grace)

Love with a true heart.

Let's be motivating each other to be a salt and light of this Earth

Happy reading

Hope u all have fun this week.

Love

Jeremy