clothes & the banner of God

June 28, 2002

it's a weird subject heading i know.

i was about to take a shower this morning and i noticed that my mom's dress was hanging off the shower curtain pole thing (sorry, i don't actually know what those are called.. hehe). i couldn't really take a shower with that thing there cuz it'd get all wet and stuff, so i moved it to my parent's bedroom to store it. anyhow, during my like 5 second walk to their room from the bathroom, i noticed how the dress moved in the air as response to what i was doing.

and so i started thinking about clothes. the clothes that we wear shapes itself to the wearer. if no one wears the piece of clothing, it will remain flat, lifeless. but once someone puts on that piece of clothing, it becomes alive, and instantly fits the wearer. in the same way, God has breathed life into our bodies, which would be completely useless and dead without it. and God has shaped us and still is shaping us to the person He wants us to become. and we are alive because He's given us life. our lives are not our own. they're His. so everything we do in life, should honor and glorify Him. why? because it's His life breathed into this once lifeless body. i don't know if i'm explaining it well, but i thought it was really cool how that worked out. :)

about my course selection stuff, i didn't get to talk to cecily today. apparently no one was at the design office the ENTIRE day. weird, huh!? so i guess i'll be taking 5 courses in the winter, two days being at sheridan (that's not going to be very fun with the crazy driving) and i won't get any break either. aiya. i'm really crossing my fingers that i'll get into the wednesday class cuz then it'd make everything work sooooooo much better!

i was watching passion on a hill last night and one of the things louie was talking about, was the banner of God flying. it was such a cool talk. he was sharing about an experience he recently had with flying a kite, and how that kite somehow got stuck to the weather bane of a restaurant and flew all night (it was like a cheezy 2.99 kite too). and he was showing that how the church should remember that. that it's God's banner flying over us. one banner. so it doesn't matter which church gets all the people or whatever, what really matters is that God's banner flies over us. and so to glorify God in all that we are doing, we should see what God's doing and join Him. it's not i'll get this person to my church or anything like that. it's God's working at this place, let's go join and help out kinda thinking. i loved the analogy he used. it wasn't anything super special, but it really drove the point home. just the fact of having more bands of string together. it becomes STRONGER to break. the more, the stronger the string is. and that's how the church should be like. louie brought up a point that kinda struck a chord with me. he was talking about how most of us never pray for other churches. it's basically we pray for our own churches cuz we're so caught up with it. and while that's fine, we need to remember the universitality of God's church! :)

so yeah, the coolest thing today was when i gave tim a call and was asking him about using etcbc for our practise for the august 31st thing. and he told me to give hoang a call cuz their church was really supportive of helping out other ministries even if it's not in their own church. i was kind of skeptical at first. i mean, why would hoang let us use his church for practise when none of our members go to that church? one banner, for God's glory. and to my surprise, he was totally fine with it. apparently they have a cell group there at night, so he said it was fine. how AWESOME is that? :) that's unity man. i was so happy after that. it's just incredible.

i'm not too sure how i'm going to deal with this whole one banner, God's glory thing, but i do think it's going to be on my heart for a WHILE. perhaps i can try to impress this upon others cuz it's a huge thing! :)

things for august 31st are looking up. katie informed me that redeemer won't make us pay to use their sanctuary. so it's just a matter of making sure our times don't conflict with them. :) wahooooooooooo! praise God :)

that's all from me tonight. i won't be posting for the next few days cuz i'm away at the mcbc retreat. we'll see how that goes :) g'nite!

Posted by Leo Chan at June 28, 2002 2:00 AM