So, I guess I should lay out the reason why I started this story.
As a guy who grew up in Hong Kong, I'm used to what the society told me to. Get As in DSE exam and grab a bachelor degree with all of your energy. Yes, you heard me. GRAB a degree . This place is way too competitive that people are competiting for 15,000 degrees while there are way more students than the available degrees. Unfortunately, I am one of the bachelor degree chasers. I am not saying getting a degree is not important. It is quite important considering what the degree can offer you:analytical skill,advanced English, reasoning skill and the countless opportunities to interact with exchange students. (best point!) Being a college student is awesome but the Hong Kong society has twisted it as some sorts of vocation training school. If I'm right, please correct me if I'm wrong, university exists for thinking outside of the box. Somehow, we are more in the box than ever. People define themselves by their major. The truth is that degree is just a degree and it doesn't define who we are. This is the same case with our jobs. I read an very inspiring article from Relevant Megazine and may I quote, " If our life purpose was restricted solely to our profession or role, it would end just there. It would be compartmentalized into a very small picture of the big picture of life and it would create extreme pressure to find the perfect job. And anything short of the perfect job could become a fertile ground for dissatisfaction or disappointment. But God’s purpose for our lives goes far beyond us."(http://www.relevantmagazine.com/life/career-money/your-purpose-not-your-job#oBgKhByAyQzRYwfV.99)
I'm not suggesting that simply because of my unwillingness to be an accountant to induce what I am saying. It comes to my observations that people define themselves by their jobs after working as an audit intern in a CPA firm for 3 months (the 4th month is coming). If my co-workers will to look outside of the box, to realize that they don't be define who they are, they will not be in that firm for sure. I'm totally for people working as an auditor if they have the calling to work in that industry but the reality is just because they couldn't get pass themselves to make a difference. They are scared to write a different stories.
That's the art to against the current.
Job... I would say it is whatever God calls us to do. It doesn't necessarily mean it feels like "perfect job" . It takes effort to find it sometimes,like what I am doing right now. I think... If we are feeling being slaves as an auditor, there's no reason to force ourselves to do it simply because of self ccompulsion to work in that industry. To be a slave, especially standing as a Christian prospective.
Time to talk about my first step of my process
Recently I really like a song from Bethel Music called "No Long Slaves".
I was stucked in China for 2.5 months to perform auditing work and I gotta say... I felt like a slave to work and worry a lot. My faith got quite weak back then because I think about how to deal with my co-workers and getting things right. Believe it or not,the longer to stay in Hong Kong society, the easier you forget the purpose to work and who you are in Christ and to Christ, so this song is such a reminder and I'd like share it with you before the end of this chapter.
Verse 1
你用旋律 來解脫我
You unravel me, with a melody
以一支歌
You surround me
去擁抱我
with a song
施予拯救 逃離敵人
Of deliverance, from my enemies
懼怕全然消失
Till all my fears are gone
Chorus
我再不是
I’m no longer
恐懼的奴
a slave to fear
而是神的孩子
I am a child of God
Verse 2
從我母腹中
From my Mothers womb
你已選了我
You have chosen me
祢愛
Love has
已喚我名
called my name
我被予 重生
I’ve been born again,
生於 祢的家
to your family
祢血 在我身流淌
Your blood flows through my veins
Chorus
我再不是
I’m no longer
恐懼的奴
a slave to fear
而是神的孩子
I am a child of God
Bridge
祢分隔 大洋
You split the sea,
讓我一路無阻
so I could walk right through it
祢的愛 沉浸了所有畏懼
All my fears were drowned in perfect love
我能高歌
You rescued me，
全因祢的救贖
so I could stand and sing
成為祢的孩子
I am a child of God
This is a journey to remember my identity , in Christ.
" For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves"
~Leviticus 25:42
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