Moral Home and Mrs. Gan
I enjoy serving the Moral Home folks at Labrador Park on second Sundays. It's firstly a joy to watch and learn from Deacon Tan to see how he serves these folks. Also, their simple faith makes me wonder and marvel.Particularly, the first few times when we started to bring them out to Labrador park for our monthly small service, Margaret had been very grumpy, often scolding and complaining. Once I heard her talk about her bitter experience with her mother and scolding her mother as she recounted to Deacon Tan. The next month however, by the grace of God, she came happy and smiling. She apologised for her behaviour on the previous month. And now, very often she is so joyful to come for the little worship we have. Often apologising at very little things, and eager to sing hymns.
It's wonderful to serve the Lord. It's wonderful to see God changing lives of people. So many people whose lives the Lord saved and changed. All in His intricate means which we do not and cannot predict.
Talking about God's ways. Today in Sunday school we started the introductory to systematic theology. Pastor Joseph says that one of the necessity of learning theology is that we may apply it to our lives and know what is right and wrong to do. On this, he mentioned how he was discussing with Uncle Thiam Ann how to break the news to Mrs Gan on Thursday night (for details read the previous post). Theology teach us what is the role of husband and wife, and necessitates that Mrs Gan as Mr Gan's wife need to learn the truth. The Bible taught them what is right to do, so they must do it. What is left then is to pray that God would prepare her Mrs. Gan. So, they spent half an hour praying over this matter.
Praise the Lord! That very night God prepared her heart. It was that very night that she learned, from the Lord Himself, that her husband is now with Jesus.
How great Thou art, LORD!
O Lord my God! When I in awesome wonder
Consider all the works Thy hands have made.
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed.
Refrain:
Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee;
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee:
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!