Today was the most extraordinary day that I have experienced in a very long time. I felt that today’s events could have only been planned by God for the greater good and I am extremely grateful to God for it. 
I went for the Christian Fellowship Committee interview today and it seemed to have happened so quickly after I submitted my application last friday. I received the message that my interview was today on monday and I was getting the jitters since then. Would God want me to be in the CF committee? Was it his will that I should go? Questions like this flooded my mind during the anticipation of the big moment.
I went around asking my other friends who applied for CF comm if they had an interview today but some of them said that they had heard nothing about when their interview was scheduled and only one said that she had her interview today. I was wondering why my interview was scheduled so early when I handed up my form on the deadline, the latest submission I think.
I remember that for weeks I had been praying about applying for the CF comm. Initially I had decided not to, but after receiving an sms from a friend, I decided to go for it. She said that she was going to try out for the CF comm and she was going to leave whatever worries she had to God. At that moment, I realised that God would always be with me and that I should never be afraid to try out for something that I felt that I really wanted. All I wanted to do was to serve God in school in any way that He wanted me to and so I tried it out, to give off my all and to let his will be done in my life.
At about 4pm this afternoon, I said goodbye to my friend Jeslyn in the library and went down to the PCCG room, the one where I thought that the interview was going to be held but when I got there, it was pitch dark! I tried peeking through the rooms on either side of the room and I saw the CF comm in the room on the left. Perhaps they were still having the interview with the one before me, I thought and decided to wait outside the room. Getting a little anxious, I went over to the GO and asked where the CF room was, just in case I was supposed to go into a waiting room before my interview or something. After getting some directions, I met Madam Sophia Ng along the way and she said that she would talk to the applicants for CF comm later and I should go the CF room with all the CF comm members for my interview.
Eventually, I got to the room I was supposed to be in with help from Mel and I was immediately ushered into the PCCG room where she prayed for me before taking me over to the interview room. She made me feel so much better as I was a complete nervous wreck at that time.
The atmosphere in the interview room was so friendly, the CF comm members were so lively and joking with each other that I felt at ease quickly. The CF comm, the teacher and Cynthia, the Christian worker, started the interview by asking me to tell them about my family. I launched into a length monologue about my Dad and my Mom, while wondering if the detail that I was giving them abt my parents’ working lives was what they wanted to know.
They went on to ask a lot of personal stuff about my testimony, anything that God did in my life that was special to me, what message I wanted to bring to ACJC, why I wanted the role I wanted, would I quit basketball for CF if the meetings clashed, what I would do if I were in the comm, about my weaknesses, any spiritual gifts that I had…
There was a lot to say, I felt that I had dug up a lot of information on myself that I had not revealed to anyone in a very long time and I admit that after the interview I was feeling really happy but tired. My heart felt like it was placed on a platter, all vulnerable and defenceless to be offered to them to judge if I was good enough to be on the comm. It was really all that I was that I offered to them today and I am really glad about that.
I thought that I offered to God all that I had and He would cherish it with all his heart and guard it with all his strength and mould me into his image, to do his will in my life, to lift his name on high in my life. I really want to thank God for this opportunity to allow me to try out for the CF comm because it helped me to remember how blessed I was for coming such a long way from what I was two years ago before I met him and that he always knew me and had a plan for my life. Whether or not I get in, I pray that I will be able to lift his name on high in my daily life in all that I do.
I love you, God
