The "Encourager's" Role
>> Saturday, March 03, 2007
"i'm very busy," "No, I'm busier," "No, No, I have this and that to do. I am the busiest!"
It never ends does it? Yeap, everyone has their own responsible and share of busy life. No one escapes the word "busy." Whether you're a millionaire or a small kid, somehow you'll still have a certain responsiblity to fulfill.
Today, we have decided to pray on the topic of 'encouragement' for our GRYP Pre-Service Prayer. It was a suggestion from Toefl simply because he felt that we should remember to encourage one another especially when we are all serving together and are our brother's and sister's keepers. As the different ones started praying, a thought just came to me. I just thought how sometimes we can be so caught up in comparing how busy we were and forgot that we were suppose to encourage other in our busy times.
Somehow, I was convicted to pray for the group about that. That we would not be too hooked-up trying to win the "who is busier race" and instead continue to encourage each other to move forward even in that busy times. Not to pushed responsiblities away and in the same time being understanding to each other. We should not condemn those who are busy and start saying things about them if they are unable to serve more. Instead we should find out whether if they are really struggling or if they need help in whatever they are into. As brothers and sisters, God didn't put us there to discourage them, but encourage them to go on.
That itself puts me into a new perspective when I look at people who are busy now. Sometimes, its not that they don't want to do more but they just can't and they need we the 'encourager' to help them to move on...
It never ends does it? Yeap, everyone has their own responsible and share of busy life. No one escapes the word "busy." Whether you're a millionaire or a small kid, somehow you'll still have a certain responsiblity to fulfill.
Today, we have decided to pray on the topic of 'encouragement' for our GRYP Pre-Service Prayer. It was a suggestion from Toefl simply because he felt that we should remember to encourage one another especially when we are all serving together and are our brother's and sister's keepers. As the different ones started praying, a thought just came to me. I just thought how sometimes we can be so caught up in comparing how busy we were and forgot that we were suppose to encourage other in our busy times.
Somehow, I was convicted to pray for the group about that. That we would not be too hooked-up trying to win the "who is busier race" and instead continue to encourage each other to move forward even in that busy times. Not to pushed responsiblities away and in the same time being understanding to each other. We should not condemn those who are busy and start saying things about them if they are unable to serve more. Instead we should find out whether if they are really struggling or if they need help in whatever they are into. As brothers and sisters, God didn't put us there to discourage them, but encourage them to go on.
That itself puts me into a new perspective when I look at people who are busy now. Sometimes, its not that they don't want to do more but they just can't and they need we the 'encourager' to help them to move on...
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