Maturity
Dr. AR Bernard’s service is truly revelational and gave me so much strength in my spirit and soul. When I asked, “How do you find the service?” Someone said to me the other night, “I’m a very matured Christian because I have been through many things in my life, that’s why I can relate to what he’s talking about.. The pastor and I are on the same level of maturity. The things he said are the same stuff I tell the people around me.” I was thinking, “Hmm… so is there anything you learn from this great man of God? Or nothing is new under the sun because you are already a mature believer?” Many months back, I remembered another person said the same thing.
Matt 5:6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.”
I start to think if I would ever be contented that I am “matured” enough. I hope not because it most certainly will never be true. There are so many things about God and in God that our life span of even 100 years will never be able to teach us. Yes, we may have gone through what we think are the toughest moments that human beings can ever go through, but I guess we will never be able to have the perfect faith on our own. When Peter thought that his faith cannot be shaken anymore, he denied Jesus. That shows me that I am a mere human, and that I need to totally rely on God no matter how old I get. No matter how many times I hear the Word, read the Word, pray the prayers, I must know that each time, there is something more. Every opportunity to hear the Word, is a chance that I need to hold on to with my life. (Wow, my Father has given me eyes to read the Word, ears to hear the Word, mouth to speak the Word and limbs to serve the Word.) And because the devil knows the power of us having the Word, he attacks it. Either to stop us from listening to it, through the busy-ness of life. Or to put trials that oppose the exact Word that was given. Whether it is busy-ness or trials, these are temporary satisfactions pale in comparison to the eternal value of the Word.
Matt 24:35 “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.”
Then I’m reminded to give thanks to God for putting me in such a great spiritual family. Week after week, I hear from great men of God and know that I have not yet arrived. But God is not a respecter of man, whatever He can give to the man on the pulpit, He can give it to anyone who desires it (an intimate relationship with God). Pray this desire will not end… 
