The great "Course"

Here I stand within your presence longing for your touch
A thousand days cannot compare to one day in your course
Hold me now and never ever let me go
My Jesus, my precious Saviour, I’m forever Yours!

This song has been reverberating in my heart so vividly recently! Specifically, the word “course” caught my attention. With great curiosity, I began to look up the meaning of that word & found 32 ways we can use the word “course”. I felt the following 7 ministered to me:-

-a direction or route taken or to be taken.
-the path, route, or channel along which anything moves
-advance or progression in a particular direction; forward or onward movement.
-the continuous passage or progress through time or a succession of stages
-a particular manner of proceeding
-a mode of conduct; behavior
-to chase; pursue.

The song goes “a thousand days cannot compare to one day in your course”. Wow, what a strong statement we say as we worship Him. The path that we chose is continuous, progressive and advances towards His direction. It is a mode of conduct or behavior and it comes with a pursued heart for Him!!!! When we decided to take on His course, it is a permanent progression towards Him. Day by day, we grow closer to Him. We are DRAWN towards Him. It is a manner of proceeding in our lives now.

The fun that we frequently have, those nice places we usually go with our friends for a great chill out after a long week, movies and games we played to rest our mind, all these thousands of happenings going through in my life… As I quiet down, and reflect on this part of the song, it made me realize that my satisfaction is complete only when I am with Him always, when I began singing songs of worship & praise, or when I listen to some of the sermon CDs that pastor has preached. Every events going on bring about gratification in my emotions, but it is only temporal. Only His presence & doing His work bring permanent joy in my heart.

Jason picked up a “managing homesickness” leaflet at the foyer for me, and asks me to read. As I was reading, I came to realize that what had shaped my life these 2 years. It is my passion of serving Him. It brings joy! It brings satisfaction! It brings excitement as I anticipate seeing His works come into place. It changed my life totally, and my relationship with my parents & sister, praise Him we grew even closer… & how I relate to people around me.

As I am settling down in Planet Shakers city church, really excites me to see the dynamics of the church. The church beats as one body; with passionate hearts of serving Jesus and seeing greatness come through as they serve God. People are praying for each other, edifying one another with verses they read in devotions, prophesying and imparting lives around them. I am excited to see how I can be a part of this family, and what God wants me to learn in this church. Can’t wait to be discipled, and start making disciples too. This course is progressing to a next level, a level totally foreign to me, yet I am eager to learn.

I remembered what Ps Matt Fielder said, “Jesus said “GO & make disciples” & He continue saying “& I will BE WITH YOU ALWAYS”” We need to GO out to people around us. Let it not just be “My Jesus”, let it be everyone around me’s Jesus!