Battlefield 2007- Day 1

Hudson Taylor

Missionary statesman Hudson Taylor had complete trust in God’s faithfulness. In his journal he wrote:

Our heavenly Father is a very experienced One. He knows very well that His children wake up with a good appetite every morning… He sustained 3 million Israelites in the wilderness for 40 years. We do not expect He will send 3 million missionaries to China; but if He did, He would have ample means to sustain them all… Depend on it, God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply.

Our Daily Bread, May 16, 1992

Yesterday, I was reminded of God's providence for the people in Egypt. Today, I was reminded that God's work done in his way will never lack his supply.

The main fight for today was going to be the preparation of starch in the afternoon for the night walk that night. Logistics was going to be a big headache. We had to prepare at least 4 pails of starch for the night walk with just 3 kettles and just a few people. The worst thing was that we did not have a car to bring the equipment to Touch Centre to make the starch.

We had to make the starch by about 5pm to ensure that the starch would cool down for the walk in the night.

So at about 3, we made off for Touch Centre carrying all the pails to touch centre to make the starch but when we reached there, to our horror, we realised that we missed out on the most important part of the plan. THE STARCH!!!

Immediately, I got a trolley from NTUC and we ran all the way back to campsite as by now, we were really in a rush for time. The distance back to campsite was about a 20 min run from Touch Centre. I was really impressed by the dedication Shawn had as he ran all the way back with the trolley. But even then, by the time, we started on the starch, it was already about 4pm.

However, as we were making the starch, we came upon a problem.

No matter how we tried, we could not produce the transloosen glue that Julee wanted for the night walk. It was getting late and it was kind of frustrating as no matter how hot the water was or how much flour we used, we just could not get it. Eventually, we had to make do with the pastey white 'starch' we had.

Thank God that we did not have to transport the pails of hot paste back to the campsite by NTUC trolley again as Nick came to our rescue with his car and he helped to move the starch back to camp. Eventually, we just managed to pull it off by the time allocated. Time for part 2 of the battle which was to make sure that there was enough starch throughout the night.

During the walk, Sean started up a some fire by the drain to cook water to make more starch. Julee was adamant that we can make the transloosen glue for the night but similar to the events in the afternoon, it just could not be done.

But by God's grace, we kind of produced something out of some weird freak accident that seemed to be worse than the glue that we meant to make in the first place. It was more of an extremely sticky muah chee made of tapioca starch and it totally served the purpose in the camp as many were using it in the camp to create the effect that we wanted.

By the end of the day, I was totally beat but I could see that the whole day could not be possible without God's intervention. God provided us with strength to last the day and the starch from heaven. I could see that God has a plan for the camp. It is not my will but his will be done. The night walk was a great success although from our end, it was a big mess. Things was not organised. We forgot the starch. There was no arrangement for a vehicle to transport the starch but through God's grace. Everything came through.

I'll end this with another famous verse in the bible.

Mar 10:27
Jesus looked at them and replied, “This is impossible for mere humans, but not for God; all things are possible for God.”

P.S By the way, the transloosen glue had to be made by either corn flour or rice flour which none of us bought. We used corn flour and plain bread flour instead. :)

“If the Lord bid me fly, I should trust Him for the wings.” John Wesley