Just Be

Life is interesting... I wonder when we get to heaven... perhaps one of the greatest thing we will realise is that our life on earth may be so far from how we were designed to live. Even as Christians

Have been thinking about this issue of DO and BE. MARTHA and MARY. In our society and churches too.... where our worth is measured in what we can do, how well we look, sing, dance... are we missing the point?

I really wish to be like Jesus - so boh chap about what people think of him. How he does not look to men for praises coz He knew what was in a man. Approval.

It makes perfect sense that we should get approval from our original creator because we just have to live to his standards. But instead we live by standards that we create for ourselves - to sing in tune is that we have to sing in CDEFGABC... to dance well is that we need to dance a certain way... to be smart is that we need to pass all tests...

Do do do...and sometimes to be a 'good' Christian... we have to serve serve serve (over serve) if not we are not 'good enough' ... We even translate that to God, to be loved and approved by Him, we need to do do and do.

I like this quote "we want to be in the presence of our Lord with empty hands; naked, vulnerable, useless, and without much to show, prove or defend." A close friend said that she wants to live her life like this: " Nothing to prove, Nothing to lose."

Perhapds Calvin Klein got it right. CK Be, just be.

Guess I've been too achievment oriented all my life (just ask any Singaporean too)... and I'm learning to flip the coin and balance the weighing scale. To be, then to do. Not to do so that I can be.

To be - outweighs all the dos. Coz that's what He made us for FIRST - He wants my affections, my love, my attention. He is jealous for me! The doing is simply a function, a fulfilling of His plans. That's secondary. Its an old truth but I'm learning it inside out.

Just Be, the Jael He has created me to be. So what if I can't sing as well as xxx, or dance as well as xxx, or have pretty legs and perfect skin like xxx or as capable as xxx or can play sports as xxx... I just have to be Jael... sometimes I dun even know what being Jael means... that's something I'm discovering everyday... Just be... more like Jesus, in the way only Jael can. Coz I'm special.