Happy Birthday Indonesia

Zechariah 8:11-12

¹²Seeds will thrive in peacetime.

Vines will produce their grapes.

The land will yield its crops.

The sky will produce its dew.

I will give the few remaining people

all these things as an inheritance.

¹³Just as you, people of Judah and people of Israel,

have been a curse among the nations,

so I will now save you,

and you will become a blessing.

Don’t be afraid. Let your hands work hard.

(God's Word Translation)

It was an interesting day today,

as it was the first time I celebrated my nation's national day

in another country, Singapore.

I woke up quite early and rushed to the Indonesian Embassy this morning because the flag ceremony starts at 9.30am.

I was glad to meet my other Indonesian scholar friends there

as I hadn't seen them since even-myself-don't-know-when.

It just feels awesome when all the indonesians come together

to the embassy to celebrate our national day

though we are not in Indonesia.

I Believe it was the pride we felt about our nation that gathered all of us

there this morning.

Even though the weather was really hot,

it was a happy occasion when we saw our flag rose high and not some other country's flag :D

It makes me, and maybe all of the others, feel back home again

anyways, after reading a post in facebook, I decided to write about it : Zechariah 8:11-12

It's about God's promise for a nation, "What the Lord will do for Zion"

It is an amazing promise made by God who never breaks His promise

but as I read it again, I notice this part "Let your hands work hard",

it shows that even though God made a promise that He would never brake,

there are still terms-and-conditions :

He still needs us to do our part.

We can't just ask God to do His part while we ourselves do nothing.

We need to change ourselves first, do our best

to change our country and then expect God to do the things that aren't in our control.

I myself need to learn to work harder and build up my country Indonesia for a better place

I do hope our country could improve,

free of corruption, pollution, crime, drugs, etc.

Don't you, other Indonesians whoever is reading this,

want your country to be like that too?

Someone needs to start first, right? Let's start from ourselves :)

Last but not least, I wish Indonesia a very happy 65th birthday!

GBU

Jennifer~

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