Last Sunday's WKRZ was a continuation on the important topic of "Calling". There are 3 types of Calling: General (for Everyone!); Specific (Only for you); Immediate (what each of us are to do). We ended the previous session (2 Sundays ago!) understanding the "General" call of God for all creation. Remember the 3 Lost Items of Luke 15? (i) The Lost Sheep (ii) The Lost Coin (iii) The Lost Son. We're all lost @ one point or another in our lives but our gracious heavenly Father seeks us out ... as early as in the Garden of Eden, when man first fell to sin
"And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam amd his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, "Where are you?"" Genesis 3:8-9
So ... Wei Lim took us through a portion of the "Specific" Calling. He mentioned 3 important questions we'ld have to ask ourselves some point of our lives:
1. Who is God?
2. Who am I?
3. Why am I here?
These 3 questions have to be answered in right order. All man have to fi
rst answer "Who is God?". The answer could be "I don't believe there is a God in the first place!" Well, that will determine the answer to the 2nd question .... "Who am I?" Well, if you don't believe there is a God, that implies that you are in total control of your life and ..... I guess you made yourself god of your life. However, if you answer to 1 is "Yes, there is a God and He is Jehovah/ Yahweh/ Jesus", then how you see yourself in qn 2 will align accordingly.With the assumption that everyone in the class knew God as the Eternal Father "who has saved us and called us with a holy calling" (2nd Timothy 1:9), Wei Lim explored deeper the 2nd Question "Who am I?"
However, before we become all "self-centered" in our quest for personal enlightenment. Wei Lim reminded us of the significance we each have within the body of Christ, no matter how different we are.
"For in fact the body is not one member but many. If the foot should say. "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body" is it therefore not of the body. And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased." 1 Corinthians 12:14-18
Therefore, in knowing "Who am I", we would begin to explore our "shape" i.e. character and eventually our giftings and ultimately, our Life's Calling. However, remember that it's God who "set" each of us "as He pleased". Wei Lim shared (as an example) that in his younger days, he had been exposed to many musical instruments e.g playing the clarinet in the military band. However, through his experiences, he realised that he wasn't gifted in the area of playing music. Hence, if he coveted after someone's skill @ playing well on the clarinet and stubbornly pursued the "dream", he will be miserable in the end because, the would have realised that he is to be the "eye" and not the "ear".
Wei Lim introduced a popular character profiling tool: D I S C.
D - Dominance
I - Influence
S - Steadiness
C - Compliance
Everyone had a sheet with character words describing certain traits and we're to rank them accordingly to how close these words describe us. Finally, we plotted a graph and wa lah!! We'ld realise which of the 4 profiles best describe us.
Here's a link that explains each profile in more depth:
http://www.discusonline.com/UDISC/contents_iv.html
For the younger ones, the character profile may change as they go through life's experiences. For the older ones, likelihood is that the profile will describe much of who you are.
Hence, knowing "Who am I" is a crucial step of find out the ultimate question of "What is my Calling?"
Stay tune till next Sunday to find out more ....
Yg
