A Disciple's Journey...

A Testimony from Brother Lee Keng Lun on his journey as a Disciple of Jesus Christ.

It has been 2 months after the completion of the discipleship course I've been taking since last April.

I remember that time when Cam (my beloved current housemate) told me to about this course that he has embarked on and encourage me to enroll in this course, I was reluctant to this idea, mostly because I was (or thought I was) “not ready” for the course.

But the Holy Spirit has impressed on me on these verse later on:

“Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. (Hebrews 5:13-14)

I realized that Jesus has always been only a part of my life, but I never really let myself to be mature and full grown in the Lord. Ii seem that God is challenging me thru this verse to move on, to “pick up the cross” and be a true follower.

Thus I changed my mind and decided to take the course. I’ve to say it was a giant leap of commitment and faith on my part, as I really had NO idea what I was getting myself into for 34 weeks!

As the weeks went along in the course, I found myself reading and meditate on scripture, more than any other time as before. There is time were I found the course was difficult to participate in due to extensive scripture passage reading and heavy workload, my mind was lack of attention. Sometime I can read a chapter in a bible and all of a sudden realized that I do not know what I have read at all :-p. Then I realized how hard it is when Paul say, “I discipline my body and bring it into subjection” ….

But Praise the Lord! For His grace and strength that sustain me, prayer from my cell members and encouragement from my discipleship members to preserve faithful. :-) .Christ was with us every week when we come together to worship, learn God’s word, sharing and praying.

It started with ruts of routine but slowly it had helped me to develop a consistent pattern of spiritual disciplines. I learn that good spiritual disciplines are crucial if I want to be transformed into Christ-like and transformation needs patience and it is an on-going process (definitely more than 34 weeks …)

In overall, Discipleship is not as tough as I expected:-p. It required a full-time, life-time commitment, but as pastor mentions on week one Discipleship Explored, it is indeed “an active, vibrant learning process”, if we depend on God’s grace and the Holy Spirit to work in us….

God Blessed!!

Lun