150902 Thank you for the teacher dedication service

"Vision" by Anointing

Summer is coming to an end and it's September again. That means it's time for school. The first week of September also means teacher dedication service at church. Everyone who serves as a teacher comes to this service to dedicate themselves as teachers again. A while ago, I was wondering what the point of this was. But after today, I realized how important it is to dedicate yourself before God as His servant, before the church, and before each other. As I am serving in the preschool ministry at church, I participated in today's service. The teachers have to prepare a song and present it after the message. The song is called "Vision" - it's a Korean Christian song, which was popular about 10 years ago. I remember singing this song often, as I was involved in a Korean Christian club.

As we were practicing, one verse caught my attention. In English it goes like this:

To every tribe and tongue,

all nations join the song,

endless praise to salvation's one true Lord.

I was singing and reflecting what this meant. Instantly, it reminded me of Cambodia. Cambodia is a different tribe from Canada and Korea. However, we believe in one true God. We speak differently, and cannot understand each other, but we worship our Heavenly Father, who gave us His only Son to die for us, in order to forgive us and give us the eternal life. There are a lot of first generation Christians in Cambodia. Still, as the majority of the population believe in Buddha, we have to pray for the people of Cambodia. Cambodia is just one country out of 196 countries in the world. There are about 6,500 spoken languages in the world. According to OMF, only a little over 1% of the population in Cambodia are Christians (Click to read more about Cambodia on OMF). I'm not sure how many countries or tribes are unreached, but just by seeing the percentage of Christians in Cambodia, it is evident that a lot of work is required.

Another thing that was memorable during the evening was during the sermon. The pastor said "where there is passion, there is sacrifice also." I think it is true. If you have a passion for something, you would have to sacrifice something. So, what am I passionate about? Am I passionate for God? For the gospel? For the people whom He loves? Then what am I sacrificing to share my passion? It's something I need to think about more.