Trust Thy Brothers

In line with the burden these days, the perfecting of many in service, the Lord taught me some precious lessons of life. Trust thy brothers! 

As our official workload grows and the ministry is prevailing in this country, there is also a need to reciprocate the increasing need by bringing in more serving ones. One particular brother was brought in after much fellowship and prayer. He is to coordinate with me and relieve me especially in the IT works of the company which I have been singlehandedly handling from the very inception of our company. Perhaps, now its time to unload myself of this burden and expand the work. As this brother began to serve, many incidents also occurred now and then. Health and family matters were definitely unavoidable, yet it clogs many official works and we seemed to run behind schedule.

I tried to do things like before using my own technical skill and finish off the works. But that would mean an extra work for me as the service has been assigned to another brother who came in to serve. Though I tried to go my way, the Lord did now allow me; but simply taught me to trust my brother and wait until he can be back for normal service. In the meantime, I still tried to do what I intended to do; the Lord just led me to "shut up" and also shut down the work on which I was working on, leaving me no choice but to wait and trust my brother to come back to service.

This incident taught me two things: to serve within my limit and trust my brother's function and service, even if I think I could do the same task, or even better. These are very experiential lessons. Similar lessons are also being learned with the brothers and sisters who are serving in coordination with me. I had my opinion, but on expressing them, they all have a better opinion than mine. Therefore, I simply learn to drop my own opinion and went along with their fellowship. In this way, I discovered how good and how pleasant indeed it is to be in coordination and learn to say amen; trusting my brothers.

Trust thy brothers! They blessings in disguise. Blessed is he who trusts his brothers, their coordination shall be blessed!