The Angelic Messenger
The whole world mourns the passing of
the greatest man in this century – Nelson Mandela (1918 - 2013). He is like an
angelic messenger from heaven to break and lead the stubbornness of humankind
to freedom. How many more Mandelas are there? The road to freedom has not been
completed yet. Are we not chosen and called into this journey since we believe
that we have been saved by Christ? Let us do not just stop at admiring this
great step Mandela has taken instead to make ourselves available to become a
small messenger for freedom and reconciliation.
With this appeal and thought, I wish
you and your family God’s richest and meaningful gift of all time – His Son
Jesus Christ. He is the most authentic and precious angelic messenger God has ever
sent to us. His road to freedom is also a terrible, painful, sacrificial and
arduous one. The Scripture has asked us to imitate Him.
This past one year we, in the family,
continue to try to imitate Him. We fumble and fall along the way often. His love
is so immense that we can just lie in the fallen state and thrown in the towel
but have to get up and journey on. We keep telling each other the brighter side
is still ahead.
The life of a bishop is actually a
wonderful one if minuses all the church’s squabbles and conflicts. Mandela
inspires me daily to bring healing and reconciliation to the churches in the
diocese and in the nation. This road is like a road of a thousand miles but I
have not even walked one mile. Apart from this is the challenge to post the
right person to the right church. The great number of retiring clergy and the
poor addition of new clergy have pushed me to a tight corner to create new
ingenious way of workers i.e. to raise the laity. The diocese has stepped into
a Decade of Discipleship. 2014 will see the first School of Disciple-Makers in
the diocese. Health wise and sanity – I think I am still okay and within range.
Siew Lan is ever busy with her MICPE
supervisor-in-training scope as well as her theological studies. The ever non-stop
assignment is bugging her daily. She has been accompanying me to most of the
churches but gradually she will come along less due to her own commitment. In
the midst of busyness, she enjoys her involvement and challenges.
Joshua is reading his Masters in
Information System. Hopefully he will complete mid next year. He is now
studying in NTU Singapore. Tien Li is his girl friend. She is also in
Singapore. Sarah and Ching Seng are working in Singapore, too. All of them have
to earn to pay back their university loans. Charlotte has returned from Texas
in June and now working in Alpha Malaysia in the Campus Ministry in KL.
All of us are performing well in the
Lord. With the impending changes to the weather, political, religious and
economic scene of this nation, we need to pray for wisdom and long-suffering.
On one hand, we are to be wise as serpent and on the other, as innocent as
dove. We pray the Lord will lead us to be His angelic messenger even if we are
the small ones.
May the good Lord bring you and
family
a meaningful Christmas and a visionary New Year!
Shalom,
Bishop Moon
Hing, Bisfe Siew Lan
& Joshua, Tien Li, Sarah, Ching Seng and Charlotte Christmas 2013
& Joshua, Tien Li, Sarah, Ching Seng and Charlotte Christmas 2013
