City on our Knees

Just love the words to this Toby Mac song...

Through the fog there is hope in the distance
From cathedrals to third world missions
Love will fall to the earth like a crashing wave
Tonight’s the night
For the sinners and the saints
Two worlds collide in a beautiful display
It’s all love tonight
When we step across the line
We can sail across the sea
To a city with one king
A city on our knees
A city on our knees
Tonight could last forever
We are one choice from together

I just heard 2 lovely messages from 2 different people over the weekend, one was a gathering in appreciation of the staff and volunteers of both HealthServe and Karunya clinic at GWL's (check out the pictures below!), the other at service the next morning. They both touched on the passage about Jesus talking to the Samaritan woman at the well. But with 2 different emphasis. I think it's amazing how one story can be seen in such different light yet fit together so beautifully.

What is true religion?It is when we encounter God ourselves, be transformed into His likeness and start to feel and see what he feels and sees for His creation - a love that I still struggle to comprehend. That love then compels us to feed the hungry and thirsty, reach out to the unlovable, touch the untouchable and introduce salvation/hope to the hopeless. -- A tall order, I know, but with each step, with each success or failure, hopefully I'll get closer to how he sees me to be. I've heard these messages before, but I've only just barely begun to catch a glimpse and really understand what it means to live it out.

Celebration@Goh's Lodge
It was a celebration of imperfect people who've decided to lay themselves aside
and learn to live the preaching, I was honoured to be in their company.