my name is jonas

It was a hard Sunday, as me and Eric drove back to Sibu. Our heart was so burdened with the troubles of the youth on that day knowing so many things had occurred and is surfacing. One of our core team has financial difficulties due to the ignorance of her brother. She has to take the responsibility as she was the eldest. This has handicapped her in serving the ministry. We were out of ideas to help her. To add to that, we found out the a youth has problems of parents divorcing and reluctant to go to church, the other one decided that church is only for the ‘Holy’ ones and she cant be herself. Her house was a mess; Eric wondered where her parents are.

As the night falls, Eric suddenly asked for a simple praise and worship. I just agreed to it as I have nothing to lose. He was so burdened. I wasn’t so burdened that time as I was still optimistic in dealing with the problems. Hey, only through these problems that gives us the meaning to our services right?

But somehow Eric’s discouragement has infected into me too. So we just sang Amazing Love and Thank You For The Cross. We starting singing and tears start rolling down, we continue to press on with our hearts desire seeking God’s counsel in our midst. We pour out and pour out our hearts disappointments, anguish, helplessness, fading hope and all that we could muster, surrendering all to Him.

Then He showed both of us something.

I saw Jesus sitting up on a high hill with two kids by His side. It was dusk. The sunset was brilliant and nightfall is reaching. Jesus asked the kids to listen, listen to the breeze of sunset, yet nothing else was spoken from His mouth. One of the kids just followed the instruction and listened to the breeze; however the other one is still reluctant to follow and kept asking questions of why and how.

The night fall and the horizon became very dark. It was dark and rain started to showered upon the three. Jesus covered the kids with His cloak and sheltered the kids from thunderstorms and rain. However, there is still light from above shined upon Jesus and the kids during the thunderstorms and rain.

After it all ended, the sun begins to move out into the horizon and its light shines beamingly bright across the earth. At that moment of wonder, Jesus asked again the kids to look and pointed his finger to the sun. Just in the moment, one of the kid felt a new sense of hope and light that has showered upon him and he really enjoyed the scenery. Leaning on the rocks up on the hill he watched the break of dawn.

However, the other kid still keep on pestering Jesus asking Him loads of questions and the kid who was enjoying the scenery felt disturb and wish for the other kid to just join in and keep his thoughts to himself.

In all of this, Jesus just kept pointing at the sun that was slowly rising up into the horizon. What a marvellous view…

The message is to continue to hope even at the darkest hour because as the new day starts tomorrow, the sun will again rise up and shine its glow to the world every single new day. Even when there is little hope left for the youths in trouble as we cant even do a single thing to help, yet Jesus asked us to listen and look at the sun rise, believing that the sun will always shine back in the morning and hope is still there.

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