This morning, I wake up
The sunshine enters brightly through the window
Raise up my spirit
to walk on today
"What will I do today?"
That question, makes me spiritful
Then I get up, prepare everything
When I come to the school
My penpals, friendly greet me
Here, I learn many invaluable things
Knowledge, friendship, and life
Here, I am accompanied by angels
I wonder, is it namely "youth"?
If so, how beautiful the youth is!
The moment where me and my friends
Ask each other with hope
"In the future, what will you be?"
Yeah, we are adventurer!
Don't know where our next journey goes on
We believe one thing, though
While we do our best today
We don't need to be afraid, right?
Oh, how beautiful the youth is!
Moment full of spirit and curiousity
I want to make this moment
as my moment to prepare for the next journey
I want to make this moment
as nice as possible
So it becomes unforgetable moment
Friends, let us walk on today
with a handful of courage
Don't worry, don't be afraid
This moment will never come back
Someday, we will shine vividly!
This sentence suddenly comes to my mind. Recently, I feel so spiritful to write, learn, motivate, and seek for creative ideas. But now I ask myself for what?
I am afraid my motivation becomes wrong. All the appreciations aren’t always positive. Sometimes they weaken us, too. It’s a kinda strange, because we’ve already had the mindset, “in the supported environment, you can become better people”. Ah, maybe it’s right for people who just accept Jesus as their Savior! But more than that, Jesus wants us to become strong in EVERY condition right?
Imagine this illustration. There are two mountaineers, A and B. A suddenly sees a steeply slope after walking in the even terrain for a long time. B also sees a steeply slope, but B has already struggled to conquer many uneven terrains and another slopes. Which one is more ready to climb the steeply slope? Of course B!
No wonder if in this life there are many problems. Maybe we’ve just rested for a short time, and then another difficult problem comes again. It’s normal! Jesus wants to see our maturity to react about the problem! It’s because Jesus wants to test our heart, again and again. Jesus just wants our heart become right, humble, and strong! Life isn’t just for pleasure, pleasure, and pleasure, but life is a struggle. Struggle to keep our faith till the end. If in our life we just get appreciations, we can become arrogant!
Become arrogant is very dangerous for our life, sometimes we don’t realize it. If we become arrogant, we will stop learning because we feel that our life is enough, we feel satisfied too early. We will do something just for other’s appreciations, not for Him anymore. We will underestimate the others who don’t have same principle with us. We become sensitive against critics. We become careless. We will forget our true purpose. Finally, when problem comes to our life, we will easily fall down!
That’s why I must remind myself, again and again, what is my true purpose? Coz I’m nothing without Him. In the past, I was just an absurd boy, my life changes better because I know Him. I actually don’t have power to change my life! Even until now, I still must learn about many things in this life. I still must change my bad characters. Jesus, please correct me if I’m wrong…
Today, I'm already 20 years old. Wow, time goes like flashlight right? Now I feel I am blessed with happiness that comes from Him. I feel today, this year, is quite different from my past. He really knows the best for me! He gives me health, best friends, spirit, knowledge, so many things for my better live. And I don't need to fear about my future, because my future is in His hand!
Instead, I want to do my best today. I've already received many many things from Him, now I must prove to Him that I can do my best. I will prove to Him that I'm happy with my live, with all of blissful life that He gives! So I must learn from the past but not regret about it, I must have plan about future but not afraid about it, and do all the best that I can do today.
Yeah, now I am going to the next journey. I still must learn about many things about this life, that's why I need You in my life. Please Jesus, don't leave me alone, I lean my life in Your hand...
