Faith,Hope and Love

Hihi,

I am the fourth to post! Nothing spectacular about that -.-................
But! I just want to share about faith, hope and love. If you are asking why I post something like this, it is probably because of compassion I guess.

Last year when I was going to city collage for my crash course. I came upon an old guy who wasn't wearing shirt. At Tiong Bahru, the slopes are quite steep. The topless uncle is barefooted in his wheelchair. Although I was late for my crash course, I still went forward and help him. This old man was nothing out of the ordinary. So I ask him where he wants me to push him to. He was topless and barefooted. He spoke little and uses more of his finger to give me directions. In the end, he led me to NTUC. Nothing is wrong with that, I thought. So I went on pushing him, the startling issue was that he led me to buy TOTO! I help him get a paper, and he scribe some marks at the paper and hand me the money. The money he gave me was coins, loads of coins. Cent by cent, dollar by dollar. His money was not kept in a fanciful wallet but just a humble plastic bag. So, for the first time in my life, I brought 4D for this uncle (of course through someone. Don’t think I will break the law hor….) Following that, he directed me to the toilet. Being a wheel bounded person I went into the handicap toilet with him. If you people think that the poles are useless, I came to see how vital those poles are for handicap people. He couldn’t really stand up and I use great strength to help him up. At this point of time, I have a feeling he rarely bath. I mean if he needs people to help him to stand up, I pondered about how he can bath himself. The toilet trip was long. The last destination was the coffee shop. So what did he kept by his side? A plastic bag of money, some newspaper and bread brought from the cake shop. By the way, when he brought 4D, he was really thankful for what I did to him. He’d say that if he every win , he will give me all the money. The point is not about him striking this lottery or not. It is just that at the point where you are so old and maybe lonely, you’d realise what is important are relatives, friends and for myself God. Money can’t buy them, neither can money make them. There we were at the coffee shop, once again I have to help him up after buying coffee for him. One and a half hour have pass. I realise how late I was for my crash course. I told him that I have to go, I push him back to the mall. I couldn’t bear leaving him. I got his address and make a short prayer in Chinese for him. Although it was not that of a good prayer, he kept nodding his head and has faith for what I supplicate for.

That was the last time I saw that old man. I tried tracking him by the address he gave me but I couldn’t find him. For me it was a very heartfelt experience. Throughout the whole 2 hours, I came across this verse:

1 Corinthians 13:13
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Through the Oxford dictionary
Abide: To stay or live in something

The bible states clearly that now, live in faith hope and love. Somehow, this verse never says that hope and faith is not important. It just says that living in love is the foremost important thing to do. I have made a cycle about faith, hope and love. It will be put up the next thing I will be posting about. In the meantime, let us continues to live in faith, hope and love…..

Yes! For all those schooling people, good luck for all upcoming tests and exams. I guess we will be praying for one another daily. Like what the bible says:

James 2:20
20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?
Remember about what Pastor Tan preached concerning change? Two types of people can’t change: The dead
And
The fool.
I hope you are not nominated in any of the category. =) All the best for a new year of studies.
With love,
Kang Wei