Jackie Pullinger. Her name has not been unfamiliar because pastor Khong has mentioned her several times when he was preaching on how the Holy Spirit has moved so powerfully in her ministry in delivering the drug addicts from addiction.
Though her seminar took place at a time when I was busy with school exam marking, I decided to go for the Lord has placed in my heart an excitement to meet up with this lady as she is going to preach on Ministry of the poor, a ministry that I am unacquainted with.
It is indeed a great privilege to meet her in person. Yet it was not Jackie Pullinger I met. I met Jesus! The God in her is so magnified, so exalted and so glorified! Several truths hit hit home. One of the truths is every believer who truly follows Jesus must in one way or other be involved in the ministry of the poor. It is not a ministry.
It is a way of life because the scriptures of God in Matthew 25 pointed clearly to it. Should I ever shut my eyes and ears to the plight of the poor, I might never have believed that I serve a God Who answers cries for help! Almost immediately, the Holy Spirit started to surface faces of friends, family members, students and strangers whom I should lend a helping hand to but I have failed or refused to do so because I have been so self-centred and so consumed with my personal weariness and fatigue.
That day, the presence of God was so strong. I wept. I wept over the hardness of my heart. I wept over the fact that I am so impoverished in my understanding of God and His incarnate. I wept over how little I love compared to Jackie and my God almighty. That day, I met up with Jesus and He entrusted afresh His heart to me. I made up my mind. I do not want to shield myself from being in touch and involved with the pain, the brokenness and the poverty that is rampant in humanity. The Lord has started the process of helping me “see” them and He has also started the process of enabling me to do acts of kindness for those around me.
Thank You Lord for the second chance!
Lay Ching
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