This week, I joined a TV commercial competition at my campus. At the beginning of the competition I was being sulky and angry to the committee of the event because they don't do their job well. I forgot being the salt and light. I just wanted to be angry and criticize everything.
During the brainstorming with the team it didn't get any easier. Ideas were really hard to come by. I was losing my faith. I was filled with despair. I felt that this is getting impossible
Thankfully, in those moments I was constantly reminded by the story of Peter walking on water with Jesus. When Peter started to worry and look at the circumstances he started to drown. Just like Peter, I must not focus on the circumstances and be discouraged by it. But still change didn't come easily, I was still struggling in my heart, things are still very hard. Deadline was coming really fast, plus we got UTS too on the next week.
One afternoon, after shooting some scenes and editing them, we were filled with despair because the scenes don't look good. They are not meeting our standard. We were thinking of just changing everything.
I was being overwhelmed with stress. It just seemed impossible today. I thought of giving up. at that time, I decided to pray and be alone in my room. While I prayed I had the urge to ask all of the team members to pray together. Actually I was afraid of this, I don't know how they will react. But I just put on some faith and hope and do it.
Before we prayed that night we shared some testimonies. It turns out that we all realized that all these times we have not acknowledged God into our work. We're not really doing this for and with God. We were being away from God. That's why we were so drained and joyless. Felt no hope and filled with despair
After that, we decided to eat and relax a little bit. While we were eating, just like the morning sun, another idea came, giving us light of hope in the dead of night. The idea is much much much better than the first one.
The next day we make our concept into reality. we were all joyful and thankful while brainstorming and shooting. It was full of passion and effective. After shooting in the afternoon, we continued straight away with editing that night. It was a really long process. cutting, putting things together, making sequences. It was such a huge puzzle. We also had to match movement and the beat of the song. it was a loooonggg night. We had to change it several times until we found the best sequence. Amazingly, we weren't exhausted. We were really passionate about it.
The hard work in the Lord totally paid off. the result came out to be VERY VERY GOOD!!! KYAAAAA~
Through this experience I am very thankful that we're all being rebuked by God and were able to come back to Him and walk together again I truly learned that God is really good. He is still faithful even though we weren't faithful. . He blessed us abundantly. He works in all of us. Giving each one of us unique abilities that complement each other. Making this team wonderful to glorify His name. And indeed joy is found in the intimacy with Christ.
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