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Today’s Campus Crusade CG touched on a point that I find really important. When you give more, God will definitely bless you with more. He will never shortchange you.
Touching on that point, there are tons of examples in my own life that fully justify this principle. And yet, so often, my own tendency is to keep whatever to myself and not give it away so easily. After all, isn’t that what our parents have been teaching us since we were young? Have I, therefore, been placing my faith enough in God?
It’s time to start giving.
It’s amazing how your actions can have such long lasting consequences. Things that happened and passed does not mean that people are going to forget about them. Time may heal, oh but it definitely is going to take its own sweet time.
Yes I was wrong and I had already admitted to it. I have offered reconciliation and I know that does not mean that it will work out and I’m prepared for that. But why do people still judge me is such ways? The Word says that we should not judge, for we are all unworthy in our own ways, and unless you have been given authority, i.e. judges, you should not judge, just leave the judging to God. And yet, people simply like to judge you based on what they hear or see. Maybe it’s just inevitable. Heck, sometimes even I make the same mistake, even though I will remind myself not to do so.
Either way, I can’t change people’s perceptions or mindsets. I can only persevere on in what I believe.
One day, He will make everything work out, even if it means 20 or 40 years down the road.
I usually have a lot to say on my mind. And I sometimes tell myself that I can probably blog about this, to share my views on some things that are happening. But too often, these words escape me by the end of the day.
Being slightly on the lower side of life recently have provoked many thoughts and self-reflections; and I have gotten some answers while wrecking my brain over these issues. Things that touched, in some cases, wounded, my heart, causing me to rethink about some of the values that I’ve been holding on, and in some extreme cases, even my own identity as a person, as a Christian.
Maybe it is the sheer complexity of things that caused me to be unable to put them into words, maybe it is an unwillingness to expose my own weaknesses, maybe it is a fear of rejection of my own views, or maybe it is just pure laziness. In any case, words and writing aren’t really my best of friends.
Well, at least the climb to the higher side of life have started, and though it is slow, I’m glad there is some progress. I am delighted that God has picked me up once again, but I am not going to simply relish in the goody feeling. Make no mistake, I’m no pessimist. But life is a cycle, what goes up must come down. Failures and setbacks, and even backsliding to a certain extent, are inevitable, for they are the tools with which our character and faith is honed. By simply relishing in the goody feeling of being on the high, I am only allowing myself to forget about lessons learnt, and to be hit harder when the setbacks in life throws a punch at me. So I’m going to have to constantly remind myself of how it feels to be down and to be picked up, the promises that God has given me, the faith that He has showed to an unworthy, insolent fool like me, and the immeasurable amount of grace that He has given to me.
Growth will be present as long as there is faith that involves action.
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