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He has taught me to renew my mind, my heart & my strength so that I can live in God’s purpose for me. With a year older, I am a lot less naive and a lot more hopeful still. There’s one thing that never left me, that is wonder. For all this year has to unveil, here is my prayer to the Lord:
Is it that you feel stuck because your own sins has kept you stuck in the same cycle of trouble? Here is where a lot of Christians falters. A lot of us believe in Jesus, but never allow His Kingship to rule their lives. Which areas of your lives are you not surrendering to God? No wonder, we are battling the same battles like we did 3-5 years ago. “Show me your battle, and I will show you a place you are not surrendering”
Where was church when I needed them? My requests for help fell on deaf ears.Here is where I show up every Sunday to. And rather than showing grace to walk with me, I was met with "get your life together.”
How can the Church drive you away when you are stumbling in your sins, instead of walking with you in the messiness of your faith? This is when I realized, you dont' have to be the most knowledgable about the Bible to be a good Christian. Rather, often times, what people need is you being a good friend to them for you to be a good Christian.
This is Church at its best. Instead of preaching at people, but walking with people.
Though I know He has promised me, “The man I have for you will be worth the wait”, Though I know I am booked with work this season and He is calling me to a time of ministry of deeper friendships and giving, Though I know He is pruning my heart still, the middle is confusing and full of uncertainty.
It starts to get lonely in Friday nights And now looking back seems good. What to do in the waiting when you are tired and lonely?
Did you mess up that you think you are beyond saving? Overwhelmed by your guilt and carrying shame like a blanket? You are not alone. Jesus can speak to where you are right now. “Yes, you are broken. That only makes you more beautiful now than you were before.” My friend said.
How blessings followed after suffering I am yet to see. It is easier to look back to what I have built and dwell on its ashes, rather than chart the uncharted and begin the rebuilding.
John Bunyan wrote on the Pilgrim’s Progress, “You’ll find your steps shallower or deeper as you believe the superiority of the King.” It’s here that He call you to trust.
You’re in your mid-20s, thinking you would have things figured out post-college. yet you’re still clueless? You compare your life and FOMO kicked in? Aka you’re in a quarter-life crisis. So you search for your calling, but what is this calling?
Since the global pandemic, I mourn because for a lot of people, their lives have not gone as planned. Do you believe God is in control and is good through it all? I still do. I hope you will too. May this be a time when beauty and purpose are born.
How often do we live life on autopilot mode? We wake up, check up our phone, and dread work. We settle into the mundane day-to-day and complain life is a bore. How will it change if you choose to live in the here and now?
