| CHURCH BELL It was a sunny winter day when I was preparing for the final tests of a semester in my medical school. I had made up my mind that I would not work on Sundays. The tight curriculum and horrible final exam schedule however drove me to study on that Sunday. Guilty feeling never left my mind all that morning since I woke up early in the dawn. And the next moment, somehow I forgot the guiltiness as well as worship while I concentrated in the study. Meanwhile, my mind was totally absorbed into the medical books and there was nothing but the upcoming exams in my mind. At one moment, something woke me up. It was the church bell ringing, which reminded me of my deepest hunger for the fellowship with Jesus. I just had to go to church. I felt something inside me challenged me to stand up and get dressed. Yeah, I was a little late for the worship but my soul has never been so much satisfied because I realized one day when Jesus comes back, when the trumpet sounds, my soul will respond just like this even though my soul be in deep sleep. |