Iron Vs Iron

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another
-Proverbs 27: 17

I spent the whole day after church with Daniel yesterday. SW had a lot of marking to do so Daniel Ho and I went out. I even had the car and Dan came to the foootball traning with me. The best moment we had was when we had dinner at Dan Ryans and we just do our usual doctirnal discussions.

When we were around Sec 2 or 3, I remembered that we had one prayer session at the church's basement staircase. We were praying for revival in our lives and we were squeezing each other's hands so tight I thought we hate each other. But it was passionate prayer man! He was one those guys that had an sprititual awakening and he was so eager to share. However I was not as spiritual and I was didn't sound enthusiastic. On hindsight I think I tried to be a wet blanket coz I was some kind of envious of his great faith.

Today, I may have grown spiritually more mature, but I still lack a great deal of understanding. Daniel "came back" to my life at a moment when I need an impetus to add zest and understanding of Scripture. Did u know when we became close again? At the last Jacob Prasch conference, I think it was either last year or the year before. I was so shocked to see him there, when we saw each other, I just went up to him and gave him a big brotherly hug. It was then I realised he was attending IBS on Thursday and we began to keep in touch more and more often since then.

I am glad that our friendship have stood the test of time. It was a real test man, coz when Daniel left Grace, we have some kind of a on-and-off relationship because of our some differences. But we always knew we had a friend in each other coz we have always kept in touch thru IRC, ICQ and not MSN and Blogger. You can see from our online journal how we spur each other in faith. It's really awesome man! I am learning so much from him coz he is so well-read. I admit, because of him, I've become too lazy. I'd just ask him to explain certain stuff to me, but he is really challenging me to read more to gain better theological understanding. I am so grateful to God for Daniel!

I have other close friends like, Clement, Daniel Lim and Peter Tan (the St Teresa's High Sch friends who are in Grace) of whom I am closes to Clement. He was the first person I brought to church in my life and it's so awesome to see him grow from strength to strenth and now he is married to one of SW's closest friend, Soann (the other is Shuli, Suhui Jie's sister). So awesome right?