Cambodia Trip-after a Medical Missionary Trip
This is an AI translation, pending the author’s review.
It’s been over a month since I came back from Cambodia. I’ve had a great deal of time to reflect. Time to draw some conclusions.
Throughout the trip I felt, powerfully, God’s provision and the fruit of serving with one heart. Where people live and work together, unpleasant things are bound to happen. But after we prayed together for one another, nothing came of them that we would not have wanted to see. In serving, I saw what unity of heart can do. I am especially grateful for the wholehearted service of the non-medical team members.
My faith, and my heart that had been growing colder by the day, were deeply moved. God spoke to me again. It is not that he ever stops speaking; it is that I wasn’t listening. My heart opened up… We shared, served, had devotions and prayed together, and this time it wasn’t the usual one-off “fire” that usually experienced in retreat camp. This time God truly touched my heart and would not let me keep slacking. But I am still very weak…
When I first got back, my mood was very low. In fact, in the last day or two of the trip it had already become more than I could handle. The people and things I encountered there, the passing of two classmates, plus my own spiritual struggles… it was a bit too much.
(Note: I wasn’t very close to Rosie, yet I had known her for many years, since the summer of Form 6. The news came as a shock… I was so, so sad… and could only answer with tears.)
Life and death don’t only appear at work; they are in my own life too… never this close before. The gap between rich and poor was also very close to home. So many, many people live far harder lives than we do.
Back in Hong Kong there was little time to process my own emotions. Thank God for his own teaching:
- Life is limited and the time for serving is short; nor do other people have all that much time to be served by me.
- Meditate anew on my relationship with the Lord… and make my covenant again…
Pray: God, please lead me to stay in Your presence, follow the path You have prepared for me, and help me put down my pride. I just want to do what You have told me to.