It’s About Time

I am most grateful to God for providing a place for worship after a few months’ of searching and praying. The spirit of the folks at NBTC was excellent, despite the sweltering heat of non-functioning air cons during the last phase of our stay at JJK, the people just continue to enjoy the fellowship of one another, carried on ministry responsibility throughout the time. This augurs well for the future of our church.

Despite the lack of facilities, the Lord still allow visitors into our midst. Except for the right spirit and the exhortation of the Word and exaltation of the Lord, we really don’t have anything to show for. Yet they kept returning. This is assuredly that it is not so much the facilities but the Word that keeps people coming back. Of course, I am not saying that it is okay to neglect the aesthetics of the church. After all, God is a magnificent Being and He makes all things beautiful and excellent. Should we as the believers of God Almighty do anything less?

Then again, a place of worship is but a venue whereby God’s people gather for corporate worship. When the Rapture comes, what will happen to all these physical amenities? They will be left to the ravages of time. But for the believers, this central place for corporate worship is a place where things of eternal consequence and significance are being done in a physical locale. It is important that we as NTBC keep our focus on that which has eternal significance. We gather weekly for exhortation and exaltation. We invest time and sweat to teach our youngsters the Word and the value of eternity. What we do here is both for TIME and ETERNITY. How we do it impacts others for the same reasons. May we learn to do God’s work in God’s way through God’s means so that we can enjoy God’s blessings.

My prayer for NTBC in this new location is that we might continue to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ our Lord. As we encounter different sets of challenges in our personal lives, May all that has been taught are rightly translated into our regular decision making and value system – not for the years of TIME alone, but for all ETERNITY.

Today marks another new chapter in our lives as new parents. We put Amanda in her car seat! This car seat was passed to us from a mutual friend whose child has since outgrown the item. So we had this item for about four months now but never did install it in the car. One thing for sure, Amanda dislikes cramp spaces. To strap her down would give her the creeps and she would scream to get out of the child car seat for sure. So we eased her into the idea that it is fun to be in the car seat by leaving the item in the living room for the time being. So each time we strap her for a few minutes and had fun talking about the niceness of being in the seat. I suppose the idea grew on her.

Finally we install the child car seat in the car yesterday, and today we put her in it and drove off to church. Amanda did well in that relative short time span of about twenty minutes. She came out still a happy camper. So thank God for that. You can just imagine the stresses of driving around with a screaming kid dying to get out of her car seat.