This is the sekuel..
Saya beneran sangat ingin menuliskan hal ini. Buat saya ini sangat penting. Bahkan teramat penting, sehingga ini bisa dibilang merupakan perenungan saya kenapa masih harus pergi ke gereja sekalipun males dan berbagai alasan lainnya.
Sebelum melanjutkannya, saya pikir anda yang membaca tulisan ini boleh sejenak membaca tulisan saya terdahulu yang dibuat hanya selang satu hari saja, supaya nyambung gitu. Soalnya bisa aja ntar anda gak ngerti apa yang saya tulis ini.
Lalu, untuk menjawab komentar-komentar atau celetukan anda-anda seperti judul di atas, mari sama-sama menyimak apa yang menjadi pergumulan saya mengenai hal ini.
Tak usah diragukan lagi, saya pernah punya alasan yang sama dengan anda semua. Kita sama-sama tokh? Masih manusia yang penuh dengan kelemahan, sekaligus juga penuh dengan karunia dan anugrah (kalo kita sadari).
Lantas, apa yang membuat saya tetap mau (kalo gak mau dikatakan terpaksa) datang ke gereja? Waw.. ini dia nih.
1. Saya ke gereja (rumah TUHAN) buat mencari TUHAN
Right, just right... but not that simple. Jawaban ini dipakai buat menjawab alasan nomor 2 di tulisan kemaren. Jawaban ini buat my side of soul yang merasa sebal kalo ke gereja teh mesti ketemu sama Pak Majelis yang kesehariannya tuh ternyata suka nggodain pembantu orang laen, atau mesti ketemu sama si pengurus komisi anu yang tukang memanfaatkan jabatan, dan lain sebagainya.
Lha kalo tiap ke gereja saya muak melihat mereka, cara satu-satunya bertahan adalah mengingat bahwa kita mencari TUHAN tokh?
2. Saya ke gereja buat bersekutu dengan temen-temen seiman.
Is it Right? Ya, betul juga. Kita ke gereja buat ketemu sama temen2 seiman. Ini buat menjawab alasan nomor 1 kemaren walau gak sepenuhnya bisa menjawab. Paling tidak justru disinilah kita harus mulai menggalinya lebih dalam.
Hasil dari perenungan saya adalah menggabungkan dua nomor di atas tersebut.
Kita ke gereja, yang adalah kumpulan orang-orang percaya yang berkumpul di suatu tempat, untuk memuji dan menyembah Tuhan.
Di gereja kita ketemu Tuhan dan ketemu sama temen2 seiman itu dong. So, dua alasan kita mesti ke gereja adalah dua pihak yang akan ketemu sama kita itu.
Kenapa kita mesti fokus ketemu Tuhan? Soalnya, waktu kita kecewa dengan sesama, sahabat kita, teman baik ataupun saudara kandung kita sendiri, Tuhan gak pernah tuh ngecewain. Iya gak? You must admit it.
Sementara kita harus ketemu dengan sesama kita supaya kita punya 'alat ukur', temen diskusi, pembanding, penyalur dan penerima berkat Tuhan.
Makin bingung ya? Begini nih.
Saya tertarik untuk menyelami apa yang dimaksud 'persekutuan'. Persekutuan, bersekutu dengan temen2 seiman. Itu sesuatu yang kita jalani, kalau saya berarti until now udah 30 tahun lebih nih bersekutu sama temen2 seiman. Tapi maybe justru baru 1 tahun belakangan ini saya lebih dan semakin mengerti arti persekutuan tersebut. Persekutuan bukan sekadar hahahihi ketemu sama si Ci Anu atau si Ko Anu, atau anak2 sekolah minggu yang ini, si aktivis, si tukang kritik, si tukang ngatur. Persekutuan disini adalah bagaimana kita belajar dan mengavaluasi diri setelah bertemu dengan temen2 seiman itu. Setelah evaluasi berulang-ulang ditambah memperbaharui hubungan terus dengan TUHAN deh, baru tuh kerasa nikmatnya datang ke gereja, nikmatnya gak pindah2 gereja, menyenangkannya menantikan hari Minggu itu datang dan sebalnya tatkala hari Minggu itu segera berakhir.
Evaluasi apa sih Lex?
Gini nih, let's say hari Minggu ini saya dateng bareng istri. Anter anak sekolah Minggu, and then karena kita berniat untuk kebaktian di sore hari, maka kita nongkrong2 aja dong di sekitar gereja. Dan, bertemulah kami dengan si Ibu Ani (Anu terus kan bosen, ganti jadi Ani deh, soalnya anakku sering mengumpamakan nama seorang ibu sebagai Ani). Ibu Ani kami sapa dan kami sedikit berbasa-basi saja menanyakan keadaannya. Eh, tak disangka tiba2 beliau curhat, seakan gak punya tempat curhat lagi di gereja ini dan kami jadi pilihannya. After that, sekalipun mungkin kita terbengong-bengong dan setengah malas juga denger keluhan orang, saya menganalisa pertemuan tersebut. Apakah Tuhan memang menyiapkan saya dan istri untuk menjadi pendengar bagi si Ibu Ani? Jawabannya pasti iya. Duh, kenapa pula saya dihadapkan dengan curhat-an yang 'membosankan'? Jawabannya, Lex. Ibu Ani cuman butuh telinga yang mau mendengar, gak perlu nasihatmu dan kau juga melakukan seperti yang seharusnya. Itu jadi berkat yang besar di hari Minggu ini buat dia.
Dan saya cuma termangu. Sadar kalau saya bersalah sekali dengan memiliki perasaan bosan atau mungkin agak kesal karena sepertinya gak ada gunanya mendengar curhat tersebut untuk saya. Andai saya gak datang ke gereja? Wah, kesempatan jadi berkat buat Ibu Ani akan melayang dong.
Evaluasi lainnya..
Saya ke gereja dan melihat si Doni yang selama ini terkenal kalo ngomong teh rohani banget. Dan kali itu juga saya baru memperhatikan dengan lebih teliti apa aja sih yang dia lakukan, atau kebiasaan dia teh gimana sih kalo lagi ikutan kebaktian. Dan hari itu bukan cuman si Doni yang saya perhatikan. Hari itu saya memperhatikan juga yang lain-lainnya. Saya merasa malu kala melihat Mas Hari yang sekalipun begitu sederhana, dia nampak begitu bersahaja. Rasanya saya malu sekali waktu membandingkan diri saya dengannya. Saya masih kesal akibat kata-kata si Joni kemarin sore yang mencaci-maki saya dengan perkara yang sebenarnya hanya perkiraan dia saja. Saya gak bisa memuji Tuhan setulus Mas Hari karena masih ada rasa dengki dalam hati saya. Di sisi lain, saya dalam hati juga mengkritik habis-habis cara si Doni beribadah. Saya tahu betul kalau dia suka mencari-cari alasan yang keliatannya rohani untuk menghindari pelayanan tertentu. Si Eni yang kemarin baru saja menelpon saya dan bilang kalau Tuhan berkehendak dia gak ikutan paduan suara lagi padahal jelas2 kalau dia cuman malas. Akh, semuanya seakan penuh berseliweran di kepala saya. Khotbah sudah tak tersimak lagi, yang ada hanya evaluasi diri. Emangnya kamu sudah sebaik apa, Lex? Pake nge-judge si Eni, si Doni segala. Lex, kalau emang mereka benar demikian, bukankah kamu punya kesempatan untuk menegur mereka dalam kasih? Dan berpuluh-puluh pertanyaan dan pernyataan lainnya Tuhan sampaikan di pikiran saya.
Jadi, apakah kita masih harus datang ke gereja? Jelas harus. Bagaimana kita mau mengukur ketaatan kita akan 2 hukum terutama? Saya rasa hukum kasihilah Allah dan kasihilah sesamamu haruslah dilatih di gereja. Gereja itu training center. Saya pastikan gak mungkin lah seseorang bisa mempraktekkan 2 hukum terutama itu tanpa berlatih di training center yang namanya GEREJA. Trus, emang mesti berapa lama training di gereja? Seumur hidup, Bro, Sist!
Bukankah hidup kita berubah terus? Jaman berubah terus? Teknologi berkembang terus? Penyakit bertambah terus?
Wah, rugi lah kalo kita malah nyantai2 di rumah, nonton khotbah di tv dan berharap itu cukup untuk kita dalam menghadapi keseharian kita. Rugi juga kalau kita cuman berkata kita malu datang ke gereja karena banyak dosa, karena si Alex yang penuh dengan dosa ini pun bisa menjadi malaikat bagi Ibu Ani, si Alex juga bisa menjadi barometer buat si Doni, dia mungkin setelah melihat Alex malah terpacu untuk berbuat lebih baik lagi dalam hidupnya, atau mungkin justru dengan melihat bututnya si Alex dia jadi terpacu untuk menjaga standar kerohanian hidupnya. Inget kan kalau batu pun bisa dipakai untuk memuji Tuhan tatkala kita semua gak ada yang mau memuji Tuhan?
So, kenapa menunggu lagi? Yuk, dateng ke gereja dan bersekutulah dengan temen-temen yang kaubenci, yang kauhormati dan yang lain-lainnya.
Showing posts with label believe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label believe. Show all posts
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Beneran deh, gua gak mau ke GEREJA
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The Red Cliff Reflection
After taking much time to wait, I've watched the RED CLIFF movies (part 1 and 2) at last. I must say that this exposition of 'Romance Of The Three Kingdoms' is very interesting.
I've known about Romance Of The Three Kingdoms since 1990, I've played the PC game, read the comics, read the books. It's always a pleasure when I think it over. This legendary history is one of a great influence of my life beside the BIBLE for sure.
This story finally is the triangle power of Wei, Wu and Shu kingdoms, where Wei kingdom ruled by Cao Cao and located at North of China, then Wu kingdom ruled by Sun Quan located at Southeast of China and Shu Kingdom, ruled by Liu Bei and located at Southwest of China.
For long time I adore Liu Bei as a charismatic ruler who is very concern about his followers. Though he is not a great warlord or great commander, Liu Bei is a low profile ruler who has great followers. Let's say Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, Yan Yan, and great strategy-man, Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang is the center of this history, cause he is hmmm... great thinker, Sun Tzu's expert, wheather predictor and so many things are in his head.
It's hard to write this posting without telling most of the history, but the reflection about this story are :
1. Loyalty
I learned about loyalty from Guan Yu. He is a very loyal man. Though Liu Bei lost many war, and Guan Yu has most capabilities to leave Liu Bei and join Cao Cao, he never think about it. He always support Liu Bei and do whatever he can to save the Shu Kingdom.
Beside Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei, and most of Liu Bei's followers has great loyalty.
2. Friendship
It's interesting when I saw RED CLIFF, Zhou Yu (from Wu Kingdom) and Zhuge Liang are one of the great sidekicks in this history. Zhuge Liang strategy, combined with Zhou Yu's can give Wu-Shu alliance (with only 50.000 men) get their victory over Cao Cao (who has almost 800.000 men with him).
They realize that someday they will fight each other on the battlefield, but when they have to combine their strength, they do it very nice.
may be I will continue about this later. But Friendship and Loyalty are the most life-value that I got on this great history.
I've known about Romance Of The Three Kingdoms since 1990, I've played the PC game, read the comics, read the books. It's always a pleasure when I think it over. This legendary history is one of a great influence of my life beside the BIBLE for sure.
This story finally is the triangle power of Wei, Wu and Shu kingdoms, where Wei kingdom ruled by Cao Cao and located at North of China, then Wu kingdom ruled by Sun Quan located at Southeast of China and Shu Kingdom, ruled by Liu Bei and located at Southwest of China.
For long time I adore Liu Bei as a charismatic ruler who is very concern about his followers. Though he is not a great warlord or great commander, Liu Bei is a low profile ruler who has great followers. Let's say Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, Yan Yan, and great strategy-man, Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang is the center of this history, cause he is hmmm... great thinker, Sun Tzu's expert, wheather predictor and so many things are in his head.
It's hard to write this posting without telling most of the history, but the reflection about this story are :
1. Loyalty
I learned about loyalty from Guan Yu. He is a very loyal man. Though Liu Bei lost many war, and Guan Yu has most capabilities to leave Liu Bei and join Cao Cao, he never think about it. He always support Liu Bei and do whatever he can to save the Shu Kingdom.
Beside Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei, and most of Liu Bei's followers has great loyalty.
2. Friendship
It's interesting when I saw RED CLIFF, Zhou Yu (from Wu Kingdom) and Zhuge Liang are one of the great sidekicks in this history. Zhuge Liang strategy, combined with Zhou Yu's can give Wu-Shu alliance (with only 50.000 men) get their victory over Cao Cao (who has almost 800.000 men with him).
They realize that someday they will fight each other on the battlefield, but when they have to combine their strength, they do it very nice.
may be I will continue about this later. But Friendship and Loyalty are the most life-value that I got on this great history.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Don't Judge a Book by its Cover, right?
Sometimes I really feel not good when someone look at me and say something that describe me like I'm a rich and success guy. It's really annoying, you know? Why? Because the fact is not that simple.
The word NEKAD is nearly right to describe what I'm doing right now.. or nowadays. With all the living costs and all the effort - me and my hunny - made, this is a hard life. But... above all, i really appreciated that God gives us this life. Though it's hard, we still can enjoy this life.
Hey... sometimes there are wise words that my friends told me. One of them told me 'our children is the precious gift, you know? When you meet others, they won't ask what car do you drive or where is your house first. Mostly, they ask how many children do you have?' Oh, it's really cheer me up. Hahahaha.. so I already have 2 now.
Actually my business seems growing rapidly, especially the contractor which established in the beginning of 2008 with my other 3 friends. For about 1 year and 4 months, we've already have more than 10 projects worth more than 3 billion rupiahs. It's a blessing and we thank God for His kindness.
Another business is the 'renovation store' that starts in January 2009. Me and my wife start this business with hope that Kota Baru Parahyangan residences needs our stuffs when they renovate their houses, also we can supply the contractor company (mentioned above) for building materials which in the finishing category.
Now I'm still thinking and thinking all over again how to earn more money to survive from our debts, living costs (which also growing rapdily. Hahahaha) and many things that costs us.
I'm starting an online job that pay me by clicking ads.
I plan to open a forex online trading also.
Any idea, friends? Hope You can share with me.
The word NEKAD is nearly right to describe what I'm doing right now.. or nowadays. With all the living costs and all the effort - me and my hunny - made, this is a hard life. But... above all, i really appreciated that God gives us this life. Though it's hard, we still can enjoy this life.
Hey... sometimes there are wise words that my friends told me. One of them told me 'our children is the precious gift, you know? When you meet others, they won't ask what car do you drive or where is your house first. Mostly, they ask how many children do you have?' Oh, it's really cheer me up. Hahahaha.. so I already have 2 now.
Actually my business seems growing rapidly, especially the contractor which established in the beginning of 2008 with my other 3 friends. For about 1 year and 4 months, we've already have more than 10 projects worth more than 3 billion rupiahs. It's a blessing and we thank God for His kindness.
Another business is the 'renovation store' that starts in January 2009. Me and my wife start this business with hope that Kota Baru Parahyangan residences needs our stuffs when they renovate their houses, also we can supply the contractor company (mentioned above) for building materials which in the finishing category.
Now I'm still thinking and thinking all over again how to earn more money to survive from our debts, living costs (which also growing rapdily. Hahahaha) and many things that costs us.
I'm starting an online job that pay me by clicking ads.
I plan to open a forex online trading also.
Any idea, friends? Hope You can share with me.
Labels:
believe,
dollar click,
God's blessing,
online job,
paid to click,
projects,
provides,
share
Sunday, February 22, 2009
I Believe He will provide all
This day's Sunday service is the last one from our church 4 weeks' Mission Month. The last ten minutes, our Pastor encourages us to 'stand in the gap' between the non-believers and GOD. Pray for them, asks God to forgive them for their sins. And the last thing is fund raising to mobilize many mission programmes.
I realize that Our family is not in good conditions economically, we just started our first shop called restore and we just planned to apply our son to Cahaya Bangsa Classical School which is an expensive school in my opinion (but they did great on their education concept, really!). I don't know if I can finish the commitment. Last 2 years, I just avoid filling the forms and said to myself. "No, I won't fill that but I will spend money for mission."
This time, I can't help myself to avoid the moment again. Before the service, my hunny asked me to think about God's LOVE Mandate. Well, in fact, I already think about this over and over again and maybe this time I will have my conclusion.
In that moment I prayed to God, "Jesus, you're the reason that I want to make this commitment again. Please help me to finish this at the end of this year. You command me to do this, I believe that you'll send the funds to me so that I can give them to save Indonesia, to save many non-Believers. Please just show me what you want me to do."
So... the commitment is made now. I Believe He will keep His promise and will provide.
Thanks Jesus. You make my life sssoooo rich.
I realize that Our family is not in good conditions economically, we just started our first shop called restore and we just planned to apply our son to Cahaya Bangsa Classical School which is an expensive school in my opinion (but they did great on their education concept, really!). I don't know if I can finish the commitment. Last 2 years, I just avoid filling the forms and said to myself. "No, I won't fill that but I will spend money for mission."
This time, I can't help myself to avoid the moment again. Before the service, my hunny asked me to think about God's LOVE Mandate. Well, in fact, I already think about this over and over again and maybe this time I will have my conclusion.
In that moment I prayed to God, "Jesus, you're the reason that I want to make this commitment again. Please help me to finish this at the end of this year. You command me to do this, I believe that you'll send the funds to me so that I can give them to save Indonesia, to save many non-Believers. Please just show me what you want me to do."
So... the commitment is made now. I Believe He will keep His promise and will provide.
Thanks Jesus. You make my life sssoooo rich.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)