I am an adventurous person. Whenever I’m at
our place, most of the time, I am outside. That’s who I am. Haha. It’s not
really my thing to just stay inside the house and do nothing, as much as
possible, I want to explore everything and everywhere that I can go to. Yet, I
can’t go far away because I’ll miss my family. That’s why when I went to
college, I don’t know how long will I survive to a school which I am not
familiar to. Yes, at first, I do not know what CLSU is. I just took the exam
without knowing what course I will choose. And Praise God! I passed. Maybe God
has different plans for me than that of mine.
The desire of every freshmen student who
lives far away, in my opinion, is company or family. Everyone needs family in a
place where their real family cannot be with them. Some went to fraternity,
sorority, organizations in their colleges, and many more, just to look for the
comfort, the family they wanted. Me, hmmm, I did look for those things, but I
was blinded by my own interests. Not knowing what God’s plan for me, I too
joined college based organization but quit later because of dissatisfaction,
even in the university ROTC-Officers but quit again because of failing
subjects. None of these feels like family. During hard times, I tend to solo
every problems that was given to me, and no one wants to share the heaviness of
those problems. I cried out to God, “Lord, gusto ko ng mga makakasama na di ako
iiwan!” Then, a miracle happened.
I went to this youth service with a friend,
and there I felt peace while worshiping the LORD. There’s this one organization
that is moving or the hands and feet of the Church to reach out the Students of
CLSU in order for them to encounter and know the plans that the LORD God had in
store for them. They are called LASO or Lakas Angkan Student Organization. If
you saw them for the first time, they just look like normal students playing,
laughing, studying, but when you get to know each and every one of them, you
have missed something about them. Each and every member of LASO is not just an
ordinary person, but all of them are supernaturally chosen by the Lord to lead
this generation. They may have different personalities, but they have one goal.
True enough, they are noisy, funny, “matitigas ang ulo at makukulit”, but what
makes them unique with other organization and people, is their Love for the
Lord. No other people can do or share the love of the Lord to others than those
who have encountered His love.
I joined LASO not because it is easy to get
in there (believe me, it’s not. Hahaha) but because I know and I believe that
God wanted me to go and be part of it because He wanted me to have this family.
To feel like I’m not always alone, that I have a family too away from home. But
I’m not always for fellowship eh, I wanted to glorify my Lord and Savior with
the help of this organization. We may not look like much, but we believe that
when God is with us, we have everything.
Dear LASO Members,
Officers and Alumni,
Kahit alam ko na sobrang kulit natin
minsan, I believe that God created this organization for a purpose. To tell you
honestly, it was the power of God that brought me here to this organization, it
is not even on my own will. But when I saw how God moved in this organization,
there is no way that I’m going to let go of this chance to serve Him through
LASO. I know that there are times na hindi tayo magkasundo sundo, but I believe
we can change all that. Paulit ulit nating dinedevotion yung we are of one
body, the body cannot work if hindi nagfufunction yung ibang parts. Kaya I know
na we can do better than this.
The way we are acting now, I don’t think
God wants this. It is still not enough. But I believe that one day, we will
achieve that disciplined person that we want ourselves to be. Continue to chase
after Christlikeness and never stop until you’ve achieved perfectness. Seems so
impossible diba? No, it is not. For God created us in His likeness. God is
perfect, therefore we can be perfect if we strive and chase after the holiness
of God.
My brothers and sisters in Christ, we must
be the leaders that God wants us to be. I am writing this not because I wanted
to be famous or anything, but God wants me to remind you that all of these
things, is not about us. It’s not about how we do well on those performances
that we are having, it’s not about how well we memorized the bridge to life or
how many verses we have memorized, but it is about Him. It’s about the power of
God that is at work in each and every one of us. It is about His great love that
is so uncontainable that even those who have freshly encountered His love
already wants to share it to others. That’s what God wants. Let’s not focus on
how we can change the lives of people, but let us focus on how God changes
their lives, maybe we missed something important. Haha. Anyway, continue to be
a disciple and a leader at the same time. And oh! I almost forgot, the Holy
Spirit reminded me that we are Ambassadors of Christ, by Ambassador meaning, we
represent Christ. So before doing anything, we must ask ourselves, if Christ
was in my situation, will He do this? A simple question yet has a great impact
on our lives. Continue to shine His light upon this world, and we know that our
work is not in vain.
God Bless You all :)
Sincerely Yours,
Dan Drexel Dela Cruz
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