Thought of Life II

Remembered two months ago I blogged on the condition of Alex Teoh and how he has been so encouraging to us around him although he was lying on his bed. As time goes by, I thank God that he has become stronger and stronger right now. He started to be able to get himself into wheelchair and he started to come to church for service with some help from bros & sis for transportation. Alex had discharged from Mount Miriam Hospital I think a week ago and now he can even do some basic chores for himself. We thank God that although for the moment he is not able to walk by himself but yet we can see his determination to try his best so that he gets stronger as days past by. The spirit of never give up is something that we can learn from him. He also asked our fellowship to go to his house and we did that for last week's young adult fellowship when we concluded the book of Romans. I think it would be more convenient for him to have fellowship with us at his home than to go to Church.
It shows such a big contradiction as I looked at him and the other brother who is fit and healthy physically but unwilling to stand up after the fall spiritually. It is such a sad thing to see him coming to church without joy and peace in his heart. The face shows as if everyone is owing him hundred million dollars and as if we are all his enemy. In fact, I cannot understand what this brother is thinking about and what he wanted to show us with this attitude in church. Can you tell me? To him, I would say that what we can do is to continue to pray for him and to show our love to him while waiting for his return to have fellowship with us. Everyone will have good and bad times but we should be able to stand up once again after we fell to the ground. A few of us have been asking him to come back to the fellowship once again and his reply is always no, I am already dead! This is the total give up in life and even enjoying himself in sins. I can see that this is a totally different story between him and alex. Maybe he is thinking that he is right and we are all wrong... I do not know. But do really hope that he will come back to Christ once again.
God, have mercy on us!

Learning to love from "Come Back, Barbara!"