The other week at church, the speaker mentioned three things:

  1) Faith
  2) Foundation
  3) Fellowship

Perhaps it was the alliteration which helped me to remember it, but I think these points also stuck to me as something that I need to watch myself for.

My first four months in Singapore haven't been super spiritually great, and looking at that list above, I would have to agree that those three aspects are quite important to keep in my walk. Looking back, I see that yes, I had faith, but seriously continued exposure to foundation and fellowship.

Losing any one or more of these three aspects can be quite detrimental to one's walk. Lose your faith, and you lose the reason to keep up with anything in your walk at all. Lose your foundations and you'll heading off track to somewhere, which will likely misguide your faith. Lose your fellowship and you'll lose the opportunity to be spurred on and to spur others on towards Christ.

So take two, for my remaining three months in Singapore, I know that I need to make the effort to get back to my foundations and fellowships (is that even proper English?). I finally hooked up with the youth/college/careers cell group at the local church I've been attending last night, and in someways, it was encouraging and quite refreshing. I need to stick with this.

Yes, the next three months will be over soon, and I'll be back in the perceived/expected comfort of TLCF and UWCCF again, but then what opportunities to grow in my faith would I have missed? And am I really honouring God with this opportunity He and He alone has given me to be in Singapore?

At the beginning of the cell group meeting, the leader posed a question asking what the nicest thing someone has done for you before, and how you responded.

How do I respond to what God has given me? How have I reacted to Singapore? I'm not sure I can give a very satisfying answer? I mean, it's not that I'm saying I need to do something to repay God for blessing me with this opportunity. But it could be as simple as just saying a sincere thanks. And offering up sincere worship.