Today's Reading

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. Romans 5:1-5 NIV

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do you always wonder why do the NS men have to "suffer" during their BMT?

I got a taste of that suffering during my early days as a recruit in an uniform group, yep, you might have guessed it right, we wore ugly green uniform that needs to be starched!! (I was like huh? What is starch ah? - thankfully for me, I have a mother who enjoys starching my uniform whenever I need them to be starched as she enjoy reminiscing the days when she has to do it for my uncles hahahaha)

In the first 3 months of being a recruit, I was shouted at, screamed at for at times no reasons. Punished for nothing. Made to run around the school like as if we were training for a marathon, told to put things together in double quick time (for what I dunno, maybe to give the seniors more time to torture us??). Ate, drank, peed, bathed in record time.... and I can tell you the 5mins break that the Subaru Challenge has is a luxury!

Why in the world did they have to do all that for??

Because, "suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope."

And I truly believe that character requires shaping through some hardships.

Till today, those of us who have suffered together, stayed together, close friends for the past 18yrs.

So the next time you feel like you are under the mill, think of it as an investment towards your character, it can only add value to you as a person.