::my journey with Loving God::: Friday, March 1, 2013

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Christian Daily Devotion: DREAM HOUSE

Christian Daily Devotion: DREAM HOUSE: There was a little girl who lived in a small house. From their very simple house, the girl often looked across the valley, where a b...

GOD'S PLAN IS ALWAYS THE BEST|! (\Christian Daily Devotion)

How do you feel if you never get things that you really want? It’s a bit annoying, actually, but that’s how I feel about this life. Sometimes I thought that I was a kind of person who knew exactly what I really wanted, such as to which school I wanted to study, but I was wrong.

I used to think that my choice is the best choice in life. And because of this “wrong independent thought”, I had to make many times of adjustments. What kind of adjustment? Well, when I entered my senior high school, I remembered that I came there with low low motivation. Why? Because It was not the one I wanted. I had to arrange my feeling every time I went to school, and it took about 6 months for me to realized that I was there not by coincidence, but by a plan that only God who knew.

It happened again when I wanted to go to university. I was planning to enter one of the universities in my city right after graduating from senior high school. But God set another plan. My parents had no money to bring me in, that’s why I had to find it by my own (it means that I have to work first to get some money for college) and it took three years for me to have them. In the fourth year I knew that I could not enter public university since I’d missed the proper years to join the submission test. Finally, I went to a private college not for from my house.

The college where I studied used to be a quite popular college (with its major faculty), but a year before I entered, there was a problem inside the foundation and a huge demonstration could not be avoided. Because of this problem, there were only two classes in the first year, in my year.

What could I say then? I felt like I was in the wrong place and at the wrong time. I said that because I still did not know what His plan for me, and I started to realize it when I was in the second semester.

Because there were not many students, the lecturers were more focused on us and I had less difficulty in earning good score in almost every class. It also influenced the dean’s consideration in giving scholarship. In short, I could get finance aid until I graduated and had more chance to deepen my knowledge through several competitions. And the best thing of all, I could also know good new friends in God. In conclusion, I finally knew what’s God plan for me.

We might think that we know everything, that we know what’s the best for us, but trust me, God’s plans is far more better compared to our plans. What we have to do is being patient until He reveals those plans. You may not trust me, but you absolutely can trust Him.

HOPE (Christian Daily Devotion)

"Oh, God... what's going on with today? Everything doesn't go right. Is there something wrong with me? Are You punishing me, or just testing me? Do You hate me???? AAAHHHHhhhh..."

That day was truly truly truly tiring day. I think it was the most tiring day in my life. Can you imagine? I woke up late. I forgot several things to prepare the last day. My motorbike suddenly failed. The computer didn't work. I made a lot of mistakes during my performance. I was on my way home when it suddenly rained. I had to struggle under the rain and it suddenly stopped when I was home.

When I remembered this, and wrote this, all that I can feel was angry. And I almost forgot one thing that made me "fix" again. I heard my senior pastor read a verse, Rom. 5:3-5. I know that this verse doesn't talk about kind of suffering that I've been experienced, but it still give me strength, especially when it mentions about HOPE.

In every difficult situation, God wants us to see HOPE; hope that everything will be alright again, hope that difficult times will be replaced with joyful times, hope that God is always planning something behind all things happen (where it is always something good). What do we have to do is to believe and give thanks. It might sound simple, but remember this, "There is power in simplicity."

Then, be grateful, and just believe!!!

Father in heaven, thank you for everyday that You've given to me. Teach me to be grateful and believe, teach me to see Your wonderful creation, hope, each day. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.

Heb. 6:19

a worry list

Years ago, in an article in seminary magazine, Paul Borden gave some helpful suggestion for worries:

1.start a worry list- write down what you're worried about.

2. Turn your worry list into a prayer list- Ask the Lord to work in those situations you're concerned about. Pray specifically for your needs and depend on Him.

3. Turn your prayer list into an action list. If you have any insight that there's something you can do about your cares, do it. As we turn our worries into prayer and action, Borden says, " Paralysing anxienty can be replaced by concern for the responsibilities of life."

WHAT YOU HAVE MADE A MATTER OF PRAYER SHOULD CEASE TO BE A MATTER OF CARE.

THE LIVE I WANT TO BE......THIS IS MY LIFESTYLE.....

I want that Humility, I want to be humble, Lord I humble myself before you. I believe in a breakthrough this year. I don't want to waste anymore time on pride and let satan rob me from the wonderful blessings God has in store for me. I want to walk humbly. I'm created to serve you and the body of Christ, to worship you, to build relationships, putting others before me, loving one another, lift each other up. I'm hungry for more of you Jesus, draw me close to you. I understand it is a life long process. I understand humility is one of the highest graces and the hardest to attain. I understand it's not an easy walk, but I know I serve a mighty God and believe with all f my heart that You are with me and delight in such pursuit. Come Holy Spirit and teach me humility.

As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: "What do I really need right now to be happy?" What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way. No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions. Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world -- that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me -- is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life. I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know ... that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow? Even after all this time, The sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with A love like that. It lights the whole sky. There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living.