Find Us Faithful

Tis' the season for farewells and goodbyes.
This time last last year, I had to bid my fair share of goodbyes to friends.
And what d'ya know, after a year (come May marks a year), I'm still in Penang.

Closest to my heart was my group of PKA friends.
Recently, PKA had their annual Farewell Night to celebrate the 3 years of seniors who have walked down the path of university life while at the same time, faithfully serving Him.
It was a night to celebrate and to 'complete' their journey as university students.
As tradition would have it, PKA's 'Find Us Faithful' mime was passed down to the first years, who I'm sure have presented it flawlessly for the graduating seniors, acknowledging the completion of seniors who have ran this part of the race faithfully.

It's a powerful song and to PKA'ians who have graduated, it's not just a sentimental memory of our uni life and our good old days serving in PKA, deeper than that, it's a reminder to us of God's faithfulness, enabling us to walk through the 3-4 years in USM while sustaining us with His strength to continually serve Him.
A reminder also that as we run the race, we run for the people behind us.

Listening to this song still gives me goosebumps.



Find Us Faithful
We're pilgrims on the journey
Of the narrow road
And those who've gone before us line the way
Cheering on the faithful, encouraging the weary
Their lives a stirring testament to God's sustaining grace

Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses
Let us run the race not only for the prize
But as those who've gone before us
Let us leave to those behind us
The heritage of faithfulness passed on through godly lives

Chorus:
Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful
May the fire of our devotion light their way
May the footprints that we leave
Lead them to believe
And the lives we live inspire them to obey
Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful

After all our hopes and dreams have come and gone
And our children sift though all we've left behind
May the clues that they discover and the memories they uncover
Become the light that leads them to the road we each must find

Repeat Chorus


To all graduating senior of Batch 2009,

As you bid all your goodbyes and farewells, take time to sing thanksgiving to Him!
The friends you've met, the results you've achieved, the activities you've organized, the legacy that you've left behind, comes from Him alone.
I know the idea of moving forward and leaving uni life may seem utterly bleak right now.
But rest assured, His hands have already chart out a new journey for each of you.
As for the journey behind you, let it be a "testament of God's sustaining grace".

We, the seniors of 2008, find you faithful :)

"Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us,
and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus,
the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."
Hebrews 12: 1-2