Week 7

Francis was a man who had mercy to the poor. There were many things that I learned from him. First was his compassion to the poor. He sacrificed many things to minister to them. Another thing was his total obedience to the will of God. It is to deny himself to follow Jesus Christ and to do the vision that he had seen. I learned that following Him is not easy, and sacrificing, even you family, is not easy in practical sense of life today.

I remember when I was turning to college. There were many opportunities that I had for my studies. There was an offer to study music outside the country, taking a course of psychology at university, taking education course with free tuition and fees. Those privileges were beneficial to me, but if I did grab those, I am not here at bible school and studying more about the Bible and God. It was one of my experience that could relate to the decision making of Francis. He sacrificed comforting status of His life and embrace the life of poverty.

I will continue to seek His will first before I will make every decision in my life. It is to be careful to follow His will and not my will. Then, I will also ask some advices from my mentors about the decision that I will be thinking to help me decide the right thing to do. Of course before of these I will pray for wisdom that I can choose the right thing to do and it can glorify and honor God. I believe that this steps could be hard sometime because of the desire that I may have but I will really ask guidance from Him because I know that He knows what is best for me. ss