The title of the sermon which is also conjunction with Mothers' Day is He Makes Me Strong.
- We don't need to be perfect for God, and even to serve God.
- God chose the ordinary or even the foolish things in the world to show the wise that they are wise not because they are smart but because God gives them the wisdom.
- Fear and doubt are men's greatest enemy, We must be able to take control of our own feelings or else we will lose peace and the vision that God gives to us.
- We will have more joy, peace and order if we let God be God.
- If you cross the line, you will lose anointing.
- Need to learn when to "hands-off"
- Young adults/older children > Leave them alone, act as advisory, pray
- He makes us strong: Don't need to feel bad if something doesn't turn out to be good.
At the end of the sermon, Pr Eric mentioned about what a friend told him about this generation, as in my generation is a funny generation. She said that even attending a job interview the mother also follows, and then keep asking the person-in-charge about the details, blah blah blah.
Actually I wanted to say that, it's not that our generation is funny. It's our parents' generation who are funny. I believe that noone wants their parents to follow them to attend a job interview (though there might be exceptional cases lol). They want to get hot news from the interviewers fresh from the oven and are over-concerned for their children. Why I believe that my generation don't want our parents to follow us for job interviews? Because many of them are known to start travelling since they are in college, whether with friends or alone. Indirectly I'm saying that we're independent. I don't see the need of parents following to job interviews.
I nudged my Mum when Pr Eric said, if you have children who are young adults, as in 21 or 22 year old and above, leave them alone. Not sure whether she really heard that or not LOL.
Honestly saying, having a mum who is over-protective is suffocating sometimes. But, I remember what my friend once said.
He said that in one occasion, his Dad asked him to be the photographer of his event and after that when he saw the pictures, he commented that they were horrible. It's really an insult to a photographer LOL. When he saw the horrible pictures, Nick was actually choosing the nice pictures and not yet processing any pictures. This is just one of the occasion where he felt insulted by his own Dad, who asked him to take pictures and said not nice. (If you know your son's photography skills not nice then you still ask him to be the photographer for your event and then you say horrible, seriously?)
So my friend said that after he cool down (he kinda ranted it out in FB hahahaha), he understood that God was using his Dad to let him know what to do and what not to do when he becomes a father in the future. He's only 21, it's still too early but yup, he's thinking far and that's not a bad thing actually.
So what he learned is that he should be able to control his feelings because later on in life he'll face much more challenges as a husband and a father so he needs to be able to control his reaction. By the way, I think his photos are amazing. Hahaha.
Same goes to me. I learned from situations and often tell myself that in future when I become a mother I won't do this I will do that etc, but I don't know whether I'll really follow my rule or not la hahahaha.
The most important point that Pr Eric talked about is the PURPOSE. What's the purpose of bringing up your child?
To study hard, get good grades in school, get a decent job, get a decent spouse, get grandchildren, then you can die peacefully and consider yourself a successful parent?
Perhaps it works in some family. But to us, it should be doing anything that glorifies God. Get good grades so that they can use their knowledge to help others and make an influence. This glorifies God. Be a leader in the workplace and make an impact. That glorifies God. Use the money that is earned by contributing back to the society. That glorifies God. But if the purpose is to earn more money, somehow something will go wrong in the middle of the process because money becomes the purpose of life.
Being a successful parent is the most challenging job in the world. But we don't need to be perfect for this role. And we need to slowly let go and be less control in our (future) children's lives. Most important of all, if we use love to teach them and not fear, we can trust that they can survive on their own in their lives later on.
"It takes someone strong to make someone strong."
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