The Most Unbelievable Thing
I was really touched during cell group today, when Calvin did the icebreakers.
First he asked us to share an unbelievable incident that had happened to us in the past. Everyone's incidents were really funny. Mine was how my mom had been warned by the doctor that I might possibly be retarded because my head was too big when I was a baby (abnormally big). Other people shared about how their moms had driven themselves to the hospital while they were in labour, how they had dated the prettiest girl in town, etc.
And then Calvin said that he would share something unbelievable with us. This something unbelievable was that God would actually be willing to be born in a humble stable, to be despised and rejected and killed, just so that our sins would be forgiven and we could know him. It seems like a deal too good to be true, and something so unbelievable, that all you have to do is believe and you will have a whole future with God and can live life with Him in your heart.
Then Calvin said, "There's something even more unbelievable and amazing than this. You know what that something is? That something even more unbelievable, is that despite having this good a deal, despite God having already done that much for you, there are still some people in this world who refuse to take it. That's what is even more unbelievable."
Somehow the words and the way he was looking straight at me cut my heart, and I thought about how I always try to intellectualise things, when sometimes simple faith is more than enough.
He's flying back this Thursday :( We're going to miss him alot.
First he asked us to share an unbelievable incident that had happened to us in the past. Everyone's incidents were really funny. Mine was how my mom had been warned by the doctor that I might possibly be retarded because my head was too big when I was a baby (abnormally big). Other people shared about how their moms had driven themselves to the hospital while they were in labour, how they had dated the prettiest girl in town, etc.
And then Calvin said that he would share something unbelievable with us. This something unbelievable was that God would actually be willing to be born in a humble stable, to be despised and rejected and killed, just so that our sins would be forgiven and we could know him. It seems like a deal too good to be true, and something so unbelievable, that all you have to do is believe and you will have a whole future with God and can live life with Him in your heart.
Then Calvin said, "There's something even more unbelievable and amazing than this. You know what that something is? That something even more unbelievable, is that despite having this good a deal, despite God having already done that much for you, there are still some people in this world who refuse to take it. That's what is even more unbelievable."
Somehow the words and the way he was looking straight at me cut my heart, and I thought about how I always try to intellectualise things, when sometimes simple faith is more than enough.
He's flying back this Thursday :( We're going to miss him alot.
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