A Moment With Bon Jovi
Today, I had a great moment with a friend. We were just catching up on life and stuff while sucking apple juice in a small eating place. I did not like the drink at all. It was like gulping down concentrated sugar. Apparently, my friend enjoyed it. He must have gotten a rush from all the sugar consumed.
We shared about our marriage, our plans and our dreams for God. I was really glad that although we had been serving God for more than 13 years, our zeal and passion and dreams had not dwindled a single bit. We were still as wide-eyed and excited about God and His vision as ever, while adding greater wisdom between our ears (I hope!)
I sincerely do not believe that as we grow older, our zeal for God should reduce in any way. If for anything else, we should love God even more as we gather more experiences with God in our lives. I had seen people grown to become cynical about God and His dream for our lives and our world. To grow “mature” and not believe in biblical idealism could be termed as cynicism.
As we grow older, we should certainly not be as ignorant or simplistic as we were in our younger years. We should have added wisdom under our belt. To not grow more mature while only living off pure zeal could possibly be termed as naivety.
Thus, as we mature, we must grow in both wisdom and zeal. In doing so, our idealism in God should be further reinforced and lived out even more powerfully.
My friend and I encouraged one another to live out the ultimate fulfillment in life and not settled for anything less. Just as our conversation digressed to a less serious topic, the music of Bon Jovi came blasting through the in-house speakers. It was a song that both of us know (I sang part of it but I could not recall the song now). It was a song of our growing up era. My friend could even quote a whole chunk of the lyrics off the top of his head.
Bon Jovi
Like what my friend said, it was indeed good to do life with friends. And if I may add further, it is even better to do life together with friends for His purpose.
We shared about our marriage, our plans and our dreams for God. I was really glad that although we had been serving God for more than 13 years, our zeal and passion and dreams had not dwindled a single bit. We were still as wide-eyed and excited about God and His vision as ever, while adding greater wisdom between our ears (I hope!)
I sincerely do not believe that as we grow older, our zeal for God should reduce in any way. If for anything else, we should love God even more as we gather more experiences with God in our lives. I had seen people grown to become cynical about God and His dream for our lives and our world. To grow “mature” and not believe in biblical idealism could be termed as cynicism.
As we grow older, we should certainly not be as ignorant or simplistic as we were in our younger years. We should have added wisdom under our belt. To not grow more mature while only living off pure zeal could possibly be termed as naivety.
Thus, as we mature, we must grow in both wisdom and zeal. In doing so, our idealism in God should be further reinforced and lived out even more powerfully.
My friend and I encouraged one another to live out the ultimate fulfillment in life and not settled for anything less. Just as our conversation digressed to a less serious topic, the music of Bon Jovi came blasting through the in-house speakers. It was a song that both of us know (I sang part of it but I could not recall the song now). It was a song of our growing up era. My friend could even quote a whole chunk of the lyrics off the top of his head.
Bon Jovi
Like what my friend said, it was indeed good to do life with friends. And if I may add further, it is even better to do life together with friends for His purpose.
posted by Jeff Chong at 11:45 pm
6 Comments:
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Hey! Pastor Jeff, make a guess which is God's team in the EPL:
1) Man u
2) Man u
3) Man u
4) Liverpool
wa....pasta jeff... u put Bon jovi pic ture ah...
cool. pic!
haha.
yeah, thanks for sharing. wish/pray the same for myself and the others too. bout growing in wisdom and zeal for God.
amen.
Pastor... Just a quick that thought arose in regards to Bon Jovi while reading your blog in how they have continued to appeal with their music and 'coolness' over the years(since your era =p).
Guess likewise we as Christ-followers should work just as hard if not more in continuing to be relevant and 'appealing' to those around us.
A lot of people can talk the talk...but they don't walk the talk....
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