Setia dalam Perkara Kecil

Barangsiapa setia dalam perkara-perkara kecil, ia setia juga dalam perkara-perkara besar. Dan barangsiapa tidak benar dalam perkara-perkara kecil, ia tidak benar juga dalam perkara-perkara besar. Jadi, jikalau kamu tidak setia dalam hal Mamon yang tidak jujur, siapakah yang akan mempercayakan kepadamu harta yang sesungguhnya? Dan jikalau kamu tidak setia dalam harta orang lain, siapakah yang akan menyerahkan hartamu sendiri kepadamu? (Lukas 16:10-12)

 
Ayat di atas mengingatkan aku untuk setia dalam perkara-perkara kecil yang telah dipercayakan Tuhan kepadaku dan melakukannya dengan tekun dan tulus. Namun kadang timbul godaan untuk mengambil jalan pintas, khususnya dalam hal-hal yang terkait dengan pekerjaanku di bisnis properti. Sudah menjadi rahasia umum kalau kadang terjadi sikut menyikut antar agen properti, baik antar kantor maupun dalam satu kantor. 

Ayat di atas juga mengingatkan aku seandainya aku mengambil jalan pintas itu, mungkin Tuhan tidak akan mempercayakan perkara-perkara besar kepadaku. Akibatnya bisa jadi aku akan kehilangan bagian hartaku di kehidupan kekal nantinya. Betapa menyedihkannya kalau hal itu terjadi!

Bapa, terima kasih Engkau telah mengingatkan aku untuk setia pada perkara-perkara kecil yang telah Kau percayakan kepadaku. Bimbing aku untuk selalu setia dan tekun dalam pelayananku, agar aku boleh Kau percayai juga dengan perkara-perkara besar nantinya. Biarlah hanya di dalam Engkau, aku dimampukan untuk tetap setia sehingga pada akhirnya aku dapat bersuka cita karena harta yang telah disediakan bagiku di Surga. Amin

BSD, 10 November 2012    

Betapa Indahnya

A. Susilo Wijoyo, Pr

Saat jiwa dahaga dan lapar,

Engkau puaskan kami.

Dengan santapan rohani
Tubuh dan Darah nan suci.

Saat jiwa mengering dan hampa,

Engkau segarkan kami.
Dengan santapan surgawi
Tubuh dan Darah nan suci.

Reff:  Betapa indahnya Perjamuan Kudus,
          betapa indahnya saat kami menyambutMu.
          Betapa indahnya kehadiranMu,
          yang bertahta kuatkan iman kami.

The Good News

One day, alone in my room,

I think of the things in my life

I am especially thankful for,

the things that I am proud of.

Then I turn to the things I regret

and wish had never happened,

especially my sins.

When I am thus engaged, Jesus Christ walks in.

His presence brings the sweetest joy and peace.

I tell Him some of the things about my life that I regret.

He stops me with the words,

“That is all forgiven dan forgotten.

Do you know that love keeps no record of wrongs?” (1 Cor. 13:5).

The He goes on to say,

“In fact, your wrongs have not just been forgiven.

They have even been converted into grace.

Have you never been told

that where the sin was great,

grace was greater still?” (Rom. 5:21)

This seems too good to be true

for my poor fearful heart!

Then I hear him say, “I am so pleased with you,

so grateful to you.”

I begin to protest that there is nothing in my life

that He can be so pleased about or grateful for.

He says, “Surely you would be grateful beyond words

to anyone who did for you

even a small part of what you did for me?

Do you think I have less of a heart than you?”

So I lean back

and allow the impact of His words to hit me,

rejoicing in my heart

that I have such a God as He.

Anthony de Mello – “Wellsprings”

Guide me always dear God...

“I am the Lord your God,
    who teaches you what is best for you,
    who directs you in the way you should go.” (NIV, Isaiah 48:17)

Recently I came to like this particular verse, because I feel somehow it is related to Isaiah 55:8-9“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Instead of making my own plans and find my own way, it looks easier for me to just follow His guidance.

In order to be able to do that, I need to open my heart, my mind and my life to whatever plans God has in store for me. I also need to learn to be more sensitive to my conscience, so that I would be able to recognize Him when He speaks. Therefore I’ll know which way He would like me to take; through reflecting things that happen in my daily life or through prayers and some quiet moments to hear what He says through the Holy Bible. 

I learned from some past experiences that should I made some wrong turnings in my journey of life, somehow He will lead me back to the way He wants me to go through.  The circumstances usually will guide me to His path. This doesn’t mean that I give up because I meet dead ends, but because finally I understand that He won’t let me go this way or that way... Hence I give in to His will, believing that He has great plans for me, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” (Jeremiah 29:11)

Thank you God for always guide my way in the direction which You want me to go... Enable me to always listen to Your voice. Help me to understand that You only want the best for me, even though I have not see the good things yet... Because the best is yet to come when I’m always be with You... 


BSD, 16 November 2012