Masalah.
Siapa sih yang nggak punya? Bahkan banyak dari kita yang sering berkata,”Duh,
masalah gue seabrek banget”, “Kenapa nggak ada habisnya sih masalah? Selesai
satu, ada lagi yang lain”. Ada beragam masalah, beragam juga responnya. Ada
yang ngeluh, ada yang cepat putus asa, ada yang jadi sedih terus-terusan, ada
yang jadi makin dekat sama Tuhan, tapi banyak juga yang jadi jauh.
Renungan
saya semalam membahas tentang Ibrani 5:8. “Although
he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.” Even Jesus
suffered. But through His sufferings, He learned to obey. Yesus menggunakan
penderitaannya untuk belajar taat.
TAAT.
Belakangan ini saya juga lagi belajar banget untuk taat. As we grow up, our challenge to obey, isn’t mere ‘to cheat or not to
cheat in class’, it isn’t mere ‘to violate the traffic light or not’ either. As
we grow, the obstacles will be more difficult, until it comes to obey in your
sufferings.
I realize when difficulties come, I start to
compromise things. Saya tahu apa yang baik—apa yang seharusnya saya
lakukan, apa yang Tuhan mau saya lakukan, tapi sering banget saya berkompromi.
“Tapi Tuhan, kondisi saya kan lagi begini—lagi banyak masalah, masih harus taat
juga?” atau “Tuhan, dia aja begitu, masa saya harus begini?”. Masalah sering
kali jadi alasan untuk nggak taat. Masalah jadi alasan untuk nggak saat teduh,
untuk nggak ngobrol sama Tuhan. Bahkan, mungkin kita pernah mendengar ada yang
berkata,”Gue lagi kecewa sama Tuhan” atau,”Gue lagi jauh nih sama Tuhan”. Masalah,
jadi alasan kita untuk kecewa terhadap Tuhan. Dan gawatnya, sering kali kita
merasa hal tersebut adalah hal yang wajar. It’s
okay to withdraw from God once in a while, especially when you’re sick of your
problems. Don’t you realize? When you think that’s normal, you let satan win.
Max Lucado on his book “Tells me Those Secrets”
wrote in a chapter named The Secret of Victory, a story of “The Song of the
King”.
Three knights are given a quest by the
prince that the first knight to journey through the dangerous forest of Hemlock
and arrive at the king’s castle will be granted the hand of the princess. The
Hopenots infest the forest and attack travelers who foolishly pass through
their domain. The only way to find their way through the forest is to listen
for the king’s tune played on a flute three times a day. This will lead them in
the right direction. Only one other person knows the tune, and that is the
prince giving them the quest. Each knight is allowed to choose one companion to
go with them. One knight is strong, one is fast, and the last is smart. The
problem is… the Hopenots imitate. So the knight that will complete the quest
must be able to know the king’s song completely and follow it. False flutes
might blow but he would be able to recognize the one, true song. Temptation
might play a pretty tune, so we must truly know God’s song so we will follow
it.
To know God’s song means to follow Jesus. When
Jesus suffered, what did He do? He learned to obey. Your suffering is your
battlefield to learn to obey. Taat yang nggak pakai tapi-tapian. Taat yang
nggak peduli kondisi hati kita sedang bagaimana. Taat ditengah penderitaan. To suffer, then to obey.
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