In KL...

I'm now in KL.. working.. and what time is it? 9.43pm on a saturday nite. Tomorrow have to come in again in the afternoon and most probably working till late at nite again. More terrible than my last trip.

Well, tomorrow i'll be going to DUMC for sunday worship. Hope i can destress myself there and find peace with God. Since working, i've gone astray from him. I know that last time i heard people and frens saying that some strong dedicated christians who were on fire for God in their campus life totally went cold after going out to the society to work. At that time i was thinking how could they be? Have they forgotten about Him? Why they put their work before their God?

Ahem.. now i'm in their shoes... It isn't easy when there are just so many things to distract you. For one, work... it's a new thing.. and you want to do well there. So you spent lotsa time in that. By the time you get home, you just want some entertainment. Before you know it, you are lying on the bed sleeping. The next morning, woke up and rush for work. If work life is busier. Can say there's no time at all. Wake up, work, go home, sleep then work again. Of course, no time is not an excuse at all. Coz if one have the desire to do quiet time, there's always time. Just depends in the will and discipline. What happened to me was, one day i decided to just rest and skip the quiet time. Also the same for the next day. As days passed by very quickly when working, i din realised that i've not done my quiet time for so long.. soon it became a habit.

And with work life, one will start to think about earning more money, saving money, managing on finances, thinking about a car or a house perhaps. With so many things in your mind, God is so conveniently forgotten. And guess when does he comes into the picture again? When you needed help... Pathetic eh?

Nevertheless, the most important thing is being able to wake up soon enough to know that one's relationship with God needs some serious mending. I'm trying to work on mine. It's not easy. Going for sunday services is definitely inquestionable, but have personal devotion time with God everyday and spending time just being with Him, i'm still struggling.

Actually this trip to KL, God has taught me something important. No matter how busy we are, or how far we are from Him, God is always there watching over us. Hoping that we'll spend some time with him everyday, waiting. Why do i say that is this... last monday, I went for an audit work in KL, alone, to Morgan Avenue II. I took a taxi to that place. Upon reaching there, it shows Morgan Avenue I. I asked the taxi driver, where is morgan Avenue II? He says just behind Morgan Avenue I. I say sure? He says yes.. just ask the people here. So, i paid him and left.

Carrying my heavy laptop, i just felt that somehow this is not the place that i should be going as i have came to find Morgan Avenue II the day b4. I thought this was the back entrance, so i just went into the building. Everything just seem so unfamiliar and wrong. I asked one of the guards who were standing nearby. "Is this morgan Avenue II?" . He looked at me and said," Morgan Avenue II is not here. This is Morgan Avenue I, jalan tunku abdul razak. Morgan Avenue II is at Jalan Yap Kwan Seng." I was stunned. And a bit panic already.. This means that the place that i need to be is totally at a difference place!! And i don't even know where i was. Looking out at the road, there were no taxi. It was just a small road. Looking around, there was no landmark, nothing to show where I was. Everything looks so unfamiliar. I then decided to go into the building, to see if there's any main entrance there. Alas, i can't even make out where is the main entrance! It was indeed a funny building. Thinking of calling a taxi.. but then i don't even know where i was and where can i tell the taxi to come fetch me. Double panic.

I was thinking this is just great! Now what? Well, i decided to walk back to where i came from and ask where can i wait for a taxi. When i was walking walking walking... someone familiar walked past me. I was a bit shocked. It was someone that i knew from my church in Kch. I don't know why is he there, but he was there. He looked at me and smiled. I waved and said hi. Then as he was about to walk past, he asked," Where have i seen you?" I said,"Church" and smiled.. Then we did our normal pleasantries like why i was there and why he was there. Then i told him my situation and asked for guidance. I was hoping he could even bring me to Morgan Avenue II.

He then told me i won't be able to get a taxi there from here. I was like oh no.. then how? But.. he says i can walk there. He taught me the way. I guess he could see that i was rather worried and panicky. He assured me that it is very easy and near as he has just walked from KLCC, which is near Morgan Avenue II. I was so thankful and grateful to have someone familiar and so fatherly in showing me the way and calming me down.

Maybe people will say that it was just a coincidence, but i don't think so. So far the days that i have been in KL, i have yet to met anyone i knew from Kuching. Let alone from the same church with whom i know can be trusted and relied on. But at that time, at that point... we actually met, walking on the same path in the big city of KL. It was not someone whom i only knew by name or reputation in the church. But someone whom i have chatted and known personally b4. At the time that i needed help with no one around to help, God sent an 'angel' to me. When no hope seems to be there, God provided a way that i never thought possible. Not a stranger to show the way, but someone i knew to show me and provide me comfort. In the time of despair and helplessness, God was there.

For me this is a big thing because God showed me that his ways are higher than my ways, his thoughts higher than my thoughts. He was watching over me, every steps that i took. I would never have asked or thought for such a help from him, sending someone familiar to me. Perhaps just a taxi or a kind person. He provided me more. Thinking back, i still can't possibly imagine how i could met that person at Morgan Avenue I at a weird time as 10am, which he should have been in office by then. God did not just provided enough, be provided more than i could ever asked.

Well, i don't know about you, but I am going to get back to God. Somehow... I don't want to be like most people, whom upon reaching 30/40/50 years of age, looked back in their life and found that they have not done anything but just work. What we see around us will all perish one day but what we have in Him who is the beginning and the end will never perish. A life with meaning can never be a life without Jesus.