I came back home yesterday to visit my family in New York for the weekend and it’s been good to recharge and catch up with my family after many months of working hard and living in the busyness. Today we had a revival at my home church and I decided to go even though ABC was showing my favorite of the Harry Potter series, deathly hallows part 2. Upon arriving at the church, I reunited with some old faces that I missed and it was just so good to see them all. I don’t, and haven’t had any efforts to keep in touch with them while I was in Michigan.

The sermon covered whether God is worth it or not. In the midst of all the things we do and have, we often compare ourselves with others and wonder if what we’re doing now is worthwhile. Whether it be the sleepless nights spent to study and having to wake up early to go to church, or the specific career that we chose and the money we’re making, following God is worthwhile. The sermon was based on Psalm 73, where Asaph first mentions of God’s goodness and quickly shifts to how he’s jealous of others who seem so prosperous and declares all that he has done, and it just seems like they’re done in vain. But later he realizes that God had always been beside him when he walked into the sanctuary of God, realized that God is his strength and that  eternity lasts through God.

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. (Psalm 73:26, ESV)

During the worship, I was feeling so joyful. By being able to sing my heart out with my eyes closed, I was able to recall 12 years of past memories within that church and specific ones with those around me in the sanctuary. Man, I don’t know why but it was as if God had made me recall them to realize how good he has been to me, and why God took me so far away from home and to bring me back at times like this. Afterward, I was also able to catch up with old faces and even some faces that I just met too. Even for me to catch up with an old buddy named Mark, and to be able to give him a ride because I drove alone to the church, it is all sovereign. I wondered if it was a mistake and a waste of money to come home for this weekend, but I’m thankful for this time, woot!