For many young people of my age, being a full-fledged graduate would mean stepping out into the society to look for a job and start earning your keep. Following this, there would be a drastic change in the lifestyle when you stepped out to work. Recently, I had been in touch with a friend who had just started working in a new company and she savoured the opportunity to fly overseas instantaneously to work. 

For the past few months, I have found myself attending a Senior youth cell group where many of this category of young adults are gathering and meeting once a week. Apart from the regularity of meeting, there isn’t much thing excitement and support; active devotion to God’s words, sharing our lives, possessions, and most importantly interceding for the each and everyone through prayer. I knew that must be something being mentioned in the Book of ACTS about living together as a believers and so I came to ACTS 2:42-47.

When I read this passage, I see that the meeting of the believers was very spontaneous and natural. It didn’t require much coordinating and attendance taking, seeing who’s present and who’s not, no hassle to find someone to lead the bible study, and so definitely no trouble for the person to start to pray or sing praises to God. It was an activity so imbued into each and everyone of the believers that they found joy in doing so, everyday, and overtime, it became a “lifestyle”.

I first associate cell group gathering with “lifestyle” when I took on my new job; then I had to adapt to a new environment. From a 9-6pm idyllic period at home, now I had to undertake tasks from my boss at work; from a peaceful sleep at night, now I had to anticipate calls and rush off to hospitals in the middle of the night. It was a siege, an arduous thing that could happen. To find respite and comfort from work, I started going to my aunt’s place regularly for homecooked food and prayer after that. When situations are tough and not to our liking, the first thing that we usually stop is prayer, so when you are not wanting to pray, all the more you will need someone to pray for you.

Eventually, this became a “lifestyle”. Now, I look forward to going to my aunt’s place every week after work to eat my most favourite home-cooked foods. Afterwards, we’ll pray together. I looked forward to it. What is your “lifestyle” like? Maybe it’s going home after work to face a computer again playing some stimulation game, or it may be reading a book enjoying the thrill of the suspense the writer has provided. Whatever it is, I see that activity as something that is so incorporated into your life that it is your ”lifestyle” or “style of life”.

And what about the believers then? They loved to meet up, to the extent, everyday. They meet up in the houses of other believers, devoting themselves to the apostles’ teachings - how I wish the thing we craved today is the preaching and hearing of God’s words and applying it to our lives! And also the fellowship. To the breaking of bread and to prayer. How many of us dread going to prayer meeting or have a regular prayer life that we intercede for people other than ourselves? The believers became so knitted that my possessions are not mine but yours too. We share. And thank our Father for his favour on us.

The Lord added to their numbers daily those we were being saved, and many others soon had this “lifestyle”. Has the meeting together with other believers become your “lifestyle”?