What I learnt By Playing Games

What I learnt By Playing Games

16/1/15

Edwin Koh Boon Leng

After Farmville, I told myself no more games as they can be so addictive. Nothing wrong with the game, just me haha. How I got into Clash of Clans was by "accident". My little boy started of the game, but he just did not carry on after a few plays. So one day, I picked-up my wife's phone to check the game out and what was so interesting about this game? Since then I've been hooked. Its a simple game where you form your own "territory" and then you join a "CLAN" to battle wars with other "Clans".

These are what God taught me. Go figure ! God uses whatever He can to teach you truths too ! He can ! Why not ! He is God. So here are lessons that He has given me and here I share them with you.

1.Life is very much socialising. Being in the right group does not mean you necessary will overcome all of life. We are not in life to be mere CONSUMERS and Takers. To go further, we have to contribute to the "CLAN" by contributing to the needs of others too. How can we contribute? Its by becoming generous and kind. In Clan, we don't ask of judge them who they are..we just donate troops and reinforcements !.

2. You can leave the clan if you are not happy. Its like you can jump jobs or job hop frequently. However assuming job hopping, frequent instability in life does not mean you go forward. Most of the time you start from the bottom again. It brings instabilty to your progress.

3.One of the major ones God showed me was about myself. Sometimes we "dare" not attack major targets because we prefer targets that WE KNOW we can overcome easily. Why stress ourselves so much right. But of late, I asked God..is the ministry or my life just about 30% only?

You see if we see blessings of 30% it means..God is 30%..we are 70% still in charge.  If we see blessings of 60% it means..God is 60%..we are still involve but at 40%. If we want to live on the edge of faith ! it has to be 100% God and ZERO % of us.

When we went to Australia Sri Lanka last year, the effectiveness of the ministry was 100%. That's why I ask God the above.

In 2015, something in me has to break and give in to God so that God can do much more thru me . What is it ? I'm not sure too. Maybe I know but am afraid to commit to it..because it means FACING the bigger challenges not knowing if can overcome..but surely can because in facing bigger challenges, we stop relying on ourselves but OH DEAR LORD !!! HELP ME right ...

4. How to go forward? If we have tried going forward in Clans..but can't and our territory always gets overwhelmed..it is time to sow and sow and sow to upgrade..upgrade and upgrade. Because level 3 cannons surely can't overcome level 5 giants or troops. So there must be a process of paying the price to sow and sow and invest ! Its a cycle ..this one. 

So you see ! God uses what we do to teach us sometimes !

So glory to Jesus Christ !

God Bless

Edwin Koh