Faithful Friends

“Faithful friends are a sturdy shelter:
whoever finds one has found a treasure.
Faithful friends are beyond price;
no amount can balance their worth.
Faithful friends are life-saving medicine;
and those who fear the Lord will find them.”

Ecclesiastes or Sirach 6:14-16 NRSV

~ Lord, please bless me & my family with faithful friends! ~

"I Have Eternal Life!"...

Those were the exact words from Josiah on 7 April 2010.

This very significant BIG day marked the new spiritual birth of our beloved older son Josiah. Rewinding how this all happened...

31 Mar, Wed- BSF shared about the Samaritan woman at the well (John 4) and how Jesus gave "living water" (ie. eternal life) to those who ask and believe. The Samaritan woman asked, believed and immediately received the living water Jesus promised her. She was so filled with the Spirit that she went back to the town to share with her townsfolk (note that she did not associate herself with them cos of her 5 former husbands...read all about it yourself in the bible).

7 Apr, Wed- Rushing to BSF and was trying to recap our previous lesson with the kids (in case some of you don't know, both Josiah and Joshua attend their preschool BSF program).
Setting: crossing the long bridge from bus stop to St Andrew Village

Josiah: Mama how do we have eternal life?

Mama: You need to believe that Jesus is the true God, invite Him into your life. We usually said the sinner's prayer to invite Him, that is, to tell Him that we have done naughty things in the past, asked Him to forgive us our sins; invite Him to your life and then on, live a life to please Him... (something like that, can't remember the exact words liao...haiz)

Josiah: I want to say the sinners prayer now, I want eternal life now!...

Mama: On the bridge? the surrounding is too noisy, let's do it at a quieter place, either at BSF or at home, ok?

Josiah (excitedly still): ok ok...

To cut the story short, in the presence of Papa, Mama, and Didi, we witnessed our beloved Josiah saying the sinner's prayer and receiving Christ after BSF!

All of us congratulated and gave him our hugs =) & his reply was simply

"Yeah!!! I have eternal life already!"

Praise be to God! Our prayers are answered! As for Joshua, AKAN DATANG! lol...