When we were in Myitkyina, Myanmar, I met this cute little angel. She is a (PK) pastor's kid. Herself and her mom went with us to Nankan, where the dad is pastoring a church. I will never forget this child for what the Lord has taught me through her annointed lips.
I remember, her mom teaches her to speak A-B-C and 1-2-3 up to 10. She is just one year old but she can already do these! One night she awkwardly approached me, then I tried asking her to do A-B-C..
and it goes like:
me: A
baby: A
me: B
baby:B
me: C
baby: D
me: E
baby: E
me: F
baby: eef! (followed by a loud contagious laughter!!!!)
and it went on and on with the same pattern, that when we come to the letter "F", she will burst into laughter! and it was outrageous and uplifting. The whole house was surrounded with an unexplainable joy because of such laughter. I was telling myself then, this is something like what they would call the "Holy laughter" Lord right? But then I wondered what it really meant.
Until about 18 days later, when I arrived in Chomthong and Chiang Mai, Thailand, the Lord gave me an impression about what the child's laughter was all about. I have been meditating on the Lord's Word in the book of Matthew since before I left the PH. Yesterday, I was in Matthew 18 and it came to me that this chapter is talking about forgiveness. I was thinking what is the significance of forgiveness to me this time when I don't think anyone has hurt me or hurting me at the moment. Then I was reminded of how the Lord started with my walk with Him. He reminded me of His great love and forgiveness for me and through that, He instructed me to forgive my dad for that great offense he did against me and mom and the whole family in 2006. (This needs 5 more pages for the whole story!) It was not easy but when I obeyed God, it was liberating. Such forgiveness gave way for me to have a new life with the Lord, and everything changed from then! I love my dad even more than before. And I can't imagine life if I did not obey God back to that time.
Going back tot he 'analysis', if Matthew 18 was about FORGIVENESS, then I looked back on the past chapters (Matthew 1 to 17), I have noted that everything was stressing on FAITH.
Today, in Matthew 19, the Holy Spirit encourages to FOLLOW Christ!
So,
Matthew 1 to 17 = stresses on FAITH
Matthew 18 = talks about FORGIVENESS
Matthew 19 = encourages us to FOLLOW Jesus
and all these are making great sense and significance in my life today. The Lord used the child's lips to give me a fresh vision! The Lord was speaking to me through this baby. What an annointed young minister!
Here is a video where the little angel's laughter continued from that house to the church. She was laughing loudly whenever the line "I'll do my best" goes. That same laughter was what I was talking about above. And that laughter went on and on and on.....
Now I am on my way to write a book out of this.
The book will focus on the Gospel by Matthew.
May the Lord's will be done! Glory to Him alone.
