Decisions, decisions
I致e been invited to sit on the exco (executive committee?) of Graduates Christian Fellowship Malaysia, GCF. It was pretty shocking because I知 not even a GCF member yet! I went for one of their camps last month, a camp geared for young working adults. That was my first contact with them ever.
Then again, if you consider that the GCF president, who extended the invitation to me, also happens to be Mom痴 brother (ie. my uncle), then it probably isn稚 so shocking after all. But the invitation DID come right out of the blue. And he might be my uncle, but I don稚 communicate with him very often. So that explains why I致e never had any contact with GCF before this.
I知 praying about the invitation. My uncle wants an answer by the end of the month. It would be a totally new area of ministry, and well, that痴 always scary.
The other thing I知 praying about is my church. I have to make a decision about whether to stay or to move on. I致e been dragging that decision for more than a month now and I知 still not sure. A close friend told me to put out a 吐leece� asking for a sign, like Gideon did when he asked God for the ground to be dry, and the dew to rest only on the fleece; and when God did it, Gideon reversed things, asking that God would let the ground be covered with dew, yet the fleece would remain dry.
I知 not too comfortable with this 吐leece� idea, maybe because I want God to speak to me directly. He does that most often through His Word, but so far I致e not heard anything concerning this matter. Maybe my antennae need tuning. *grin*
I once read that if we are going to ask God for a sign, we should ask for something that is not likely to happen in the first place, so that if it does, we would know very clearly that it was God痴 doing and not just coincidence or our stubborn minds interpreting circumstances the way we want them to be. King Hezekiah asked that the shadow on the staircase would move back ten steps, but I知 not bold enough to ask God for such spectacular signs. Sometimes I don稚 know whether it痴 faith or presumptuousness on our part, that we could actually ask � even insist � that God react the way we want Him to. 泥o this, and I will know.� A bit scary.
Anyway, I sort of have a tentative 吐leece� laid out for tomorrow, although the sign I知 thinking of (I haven稚 actually come out and asked for it) is something so fantastic I don稚 think there痴 the slightest chance of it happening. I don稚 want to publicly say why I feel the need to move on from my church, but if any of you want to know, shoot me an email and I値l be happy to share with you in private.
I would appreciate your prayers as I grapple with these two decisions. Thank you so much! Have a blessed and restful Sunday.