Unity of Community

Community is a group of people living together in a place that have the same vision and mission for the future. I have a beloved community here. I live inside the community. I love the community. My community is my friends, my family, and my home. It’s been more than three years I am here. I found my home when I knew them for the first time. We have the same vision in this community, to be blessed for the family, for the people, for the nations, and for the world.

To change the world, we need to change ourselves first. To be blessed the nations; we have to start from the inside, which is our community. It’s not easy as we say, of course. We have so many different races, languages and customs. We’re very unique. Some people just like a stone and iron. They are going so rough when they meet and try to interplay, but they are changed easily because they have the same characters. They don’t need much time to understand one another. It is different with the people who just like wind and water. Sometimes they need more time to understand the other means. If the stone meets the water, the stone will change even it needs so long time. Everybody is different. They have their own way and their own period of time to be changed and we’ll find it in the community.

The community teaches you the way how to smile, to laugh, and to enjoy the infirmities of life. As long as I am here, I never feel lonely. There are always the crazy times they make so I can’t help myself for laughing. So many challenges in this life that sometime make me want to give up. My community keeps me stronger. 1001 reasons can make me fall down, my community is only the reason how I can survive.

The community shapes me up to change our bad characters and they open our mind for everything that we never seen before. For example, I was a high tempered person before I knew my community. I learn to control my tempered because my milieu (social environment) demand me to change my character or I’ll be hated by them (Oh no!). They also show me that this world is not as small as I know. The world has been developed each and every time. So I need open my mind so that I am not left behind. That is the community plays the role inside of me.

The community is not always good for your feeling, but your community is always good for your future. Why? Because from your community you’ll get your characters! There will be some people who will always make you angry, cry and so on, and so on. You don’t need to run away, you just need to fight! That’s the time you are shaped by your community. God knows the right place where He throws you. It is never be the wrong place if you understand His ways to shape you. The good things for you are not always the good things for God. So you just have to know what kind of community that you have. Is it a community that more pays attention of your feeling or more pays attention of your life and future?

God gives me the marvelous community here in 3M. I didn’t choose my community, but I am chosen to be here with them. All of things here is not always as beautiful as I see, but I know that it is always good for me. All of the rules, the commitment, the place, the people, everything. Because I know that to be a leader we have to be led first. I don’t like this community, BUT I LOVE IT! That’s why I survive here. I don’t need more reason, because I have the reason: I find my home and I find His grace for me.

Do not be fooled. "Bad companions ruin good character." -1 Corinthians 15:33-