She took a jorney.

She took a journey, she didn't really know what it was all about, she was  willing to learn, willing to live and willing to die............so she thought until the worst came upon her. She cried, could not understand, she wondered and thought what went wrong, why she supposedly did the opposite of her beliefs, until it was shown to her her real nature, her vulnerable and hopeless state. Her broken form could not mend things.

As the famous saying goes "Words are cheap,but actions speak louder than words", it was more than enough to express her real carnal nature as she realized that her promises were as ropes of sand, she had no power what so ever to fulfill any of the sweet promises that came from her mouth. Thinking all was well,she forgot on whom she totally depends.

Allowing the enemy access to the situation, doubt and fear crept in, fear of the unknown, fear that she was all alone and that NO ONE understood her. God never forsakes His own, even when they sometimes forget that. Sin has poisoned our thinking, it has destroyed us and separated us from our loving and good Creator, we have memory problems especially when it comes to God's promises,one minuet we read and rejoice in Gods word, the next we are found doubting His very pure and precious words.

We must realize always that we are broken, but through Christ we have hope, hope of being once again restored to the wonderful image that was robbed from us. Knowing this and only this will keep us on track, will keep us in line with the God's ways, as the Comforter promised to us by the Savior Divine desperately comes to our rescue, ever working to mold, shape and from the broken human into the perfect image of God.

As she daily battled, she realized that the strength lies not in her, the urge and power don't come from her, but from her Loving Savior who promised to ever be with her as she begun her journey. She then realized that the more she grew, greater was demanded from her and the greater the demands, the more grace and power was given to her..........But the story doesn't there,........its continues with joys, sorrows, ups, downs, highs, lows, mountains, valleys, you name it,but all through her journey is present a Loving and Merciful Savior who walks with her all the days of her life on Earth.

She took a journey, she cried during her journey, she grew during her journey, but best of all, she's learning to embrace her journey with Jesus Christ!

Can't we see?

I wouldn't imagine my life without Jesus. What a toil, how miserable I would be without hope, without purpose and ultimately without life! Truth is although this thought is terrible to imagine, this is the exact reality for those that do not have CHRIST in their hearts and lives, unknowingly they groan this very message through there brokenness, through their pain and misery, they don't realize that the very thing that they are looking for, better said, the very ONE PERSON that they are looking for is the MAN that saved them from their sin and has given them a chance to live again, has given them HOPE!

Aimlessly they wonder, seeking for answers but the ONE ANSWER that quits that grande and long chase stands in front of them, its like being in a vacuumed glass box placed in the world's largest city and you screaming at the top of his voice and no one hears you but they totally can't deny seeing you. Every day I am amazed at how much JESUS wants to reach out to us through so many mediums and He guaranties us that Heaven is ours only if we DO what HE wants.

Going back to the previous description, a thought comes to me,"Just how will people know?" Jesus will not send angels to come share the gospel, He instead send us, YOU and ME into a lost and broken world, not to be "superior" or "holy in our own sight" but to be mended also in our brokenness.

JESUS wants to use ME! He wants to use US to spread and share HIS GREAT LOVE.
Matt 28:19,20.

Lo, I am with you.........till the END

I  remember telling God that I wanted to be a missionary, well it didn't take too long before i was given an opportunity to go for my "first mission", it was so cool and awesome for me, I really loved the experience as I got to do two of my favorite things, make new friends and share Christ with others. What an amazing experience it was. Rising as early as 4 a.m to have our morning devotion, walking long distances and for long hours without feeding, singing happily and joyfully with my team mates as we visited our targeted locations, cooking with my brothers and playing with the little children. This was the perfect experience.

When that beautiful week finally came to an end, my heart was grieved as I returned to city life, fast cars, traffic, noisy music and a horrid busy atmosphere where everyone just seemed to care about getting business done I missed those wonderful sunrises , I missed the cool and fresh air that entered my lungs and thoroughly oxygenated my cells, the water was okay at the time of consumption but later affected me when I got back home, The experience was amazing, one that I will never forget.

Looking back at that precious moment, i thought to myself " wow, I m a missionary" with my head raised high and my hand beating my chest proudly, I considered myself officially as a missionary, and the truth is I am a missionary. The only thing I forgot is that I have always been a  missionary, Jesus made me a missionary the day that I got immersed in those waters and publicly announced my profession and faith in Him, I just needed to be trained.

Along came the training that I thought was obviously going to be easy, but little did I know that its one of the toughest struggles that I have ever faced, I speak in the present tense because I'm still being trained, everyday is training day. And everyday is different, its beautiful in its own way and comes with its own blessings.

With the little years blessed me by the Lord, I have come to see that being a missionary is being like Jesus, its reflecting Him in everything I do, its representing Him in the best way that I can knowing that my flesh and carnal nature will battle against His will, its putting His will before mine and totally living in surrender and obedience to Him, its seeking to please Him even if the whole world wishes to stub me for choosing Him, because He was not of the world and the world knew Him not John 15:18.19, now more than ever do I understand the words of my Commander and Chief, He was right and there is no shadow of doubt in His words. His words are pure and true.

Being a missionary doesn't en tell leaving my country and going into the deep and dangerous zones of Africa or the Amazon jungle as most of God's children think, instead its about being like Jesus wherever I am, wherever He takes me, in what ever position He places me, Its about giving my all to Him regardless of the circumstances, regardless of the consequences, its not being a fanatic, its expressing and showing how much I love Him by doing all that pleases Him, even if i risk loosing what I want and think is best. Its about giving my heart to Him and letting Him take ownership of it without claiming it back.

We live in a broken and lost world that is need of knowing the truth, well what truth? The truth that sanctifies us, His HOLY WORD, the true character and image of God, a loving God that did all that He could just to save us, a loving Son that gave His own life to be sacrificed as an atonement for sin, The world must know the truth, and you and I have a responsibility in this great work, enough talk and lets actually DO the will of our Father, lets DO the work of Him that sent us.

Being a missionary is about humiliating myself to the world for Jesus and being persecuted for His name sake. Being a missionary is being for Jesus and like Jesus until the END, that they that are in darkness may know Him through His disciples of light. Knowing this ONE thing, that "LO, I am with you until the very END" Mat 28:20

Beautiful things

When we take the time, like seriously take the time to sit down and look, we will truly see that many things around us are beautiful. We often grumble and complain about many things, not bearing in mind and remembering the wonderful and beautiful things God has given us. The human being, naturally ungrateful and never satisfied can only find true satisfaction and joy not in things that he posses, or the things that he holds most dear, but only when he learns to put God first in all he does and allows Him to shape and mold him according to His will.

Jesus told us that if we seek first the kingdom of God and all its righteousness, the rest shall be added unto us, Mat 6:33. Its only when we see things through the eyes of God, see things the way God wants us to see them through the Holy Spirit, that we will see things to be beautiful, God's children should never dwell on the negative, we must always look for the good and positive side of things and people regardless of the circumstances.

Beautiful things are everywhere, but sometimes hidden, beautiful things exist, but we are too blind to see them, most beautiful things are right in front of our eyes but we just don't see them, sometimes we choose not to see them because we choose to see things our own way.

I want Jesus to teach me to see things beautiful and embrace and appreciate them while I have the breath of life in me. I want Jesus to teach me to have a grateful heart regardless of the circumstances, to be content in whatever lot. I want to see things the way Jesus sees things and DO things appropriately, according to His awesome will, Ecc 5:18,19.

I know that even in we live in a hopeless world there are still some beautiful things, people, places, books, animals, you name it but above all the REAL BEAUTY in things is not categorized by their color, their form, their appearance, but by GOD'S PRINT OF LOVE in them!!!! Ecc 3:11.

Love

Hmmmmm....... when I look at this 4 lettered word, I have great respect and fear for it. Well that wasn't the case a few years ago, in fact up to now, I don't know how many times I have used this word but all I know is that in the most times, I abused it.

When I sit down and reflect through the true meaning of LOVE, I am amazed by how much the human race has cheapened and degraded this great and powerful word, not only is it a word, but its an ACTION too. Many times we tend to use it without even knowing what it means. There's a old saying that goes, "If you don't mean it, don't sing it", and I'll substitute some words there and come up with my own saying, "If you don't mean it, don't say it."

And its true, I mean, why on earth do we need to pretend and show the world what we are not, to me it makes no sense, it makes no sense to smile to people when we don't mean it, when were are not sincere in heart, it makes no sense to be there physically for a person when deep down in my cold and stony heart I am complaining to death. IT MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL!!!!!!!

Seeing that this makes no sense, what should we do???? If we are truly God's children as we claim, we definitely know that world's way of doing things should not even be an option on our list of "possible solutions", and exactly what is the "world's way" of resolving this problem??? The world's way of resolving this problem is being cold and selfish, its totally ignoring and forgetting that we are brothers and sisters in Christ, that we are one body. And we know that that is NOT the Lord's way!!!!!

If we really want to know the true meaning of LOVE, we should seek its source, we should seek its initiator or its author. And thank God that we have it both documented and demonstrated in His word! 1 John 4:7,8 says "Beloved, let us LOVE ONE ANOTHER for LOVE IS OF GOD, and everyone that LOVES IS BORN OF GOD and knows God.He that loves not knows not God; for GOD IS LOVE." and  there it is written right in front of our faces.

1 John 4:16  "And we have known and believed the love has God has for us. GOD IS LOVE; and he that DWELLS IN LOVE DWELLS IN GOD and GOD in him" its quiet clear what God is trying to tell us, He's trying to communicate to us that HE IS LOVE, without Him, I as a sinful human being can never love anybody, without JESUS, I don't know what LOVE is. More so, how dare I claim to LOVE GOD but yet hate my brother 1 John 4:20?????? again IT MAKES NO SENSE, God wouldn't do that and as He children, we should never do anything that HE wouldn't do.

Many times, especially among my fellow youths, we ask God for companionship, sometimes when things don't go our way, we take up the stirring wheel, move God from the driving seat and cruise through with our own miniature plans, forgetting that HE IS THE AUTHOR OF LOVE!!!!! when we finally come to our senses and reason with Him, we will see that IT MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL, If I don't know GOD, the author of LOVE, how on earth am I supposed to truly LOVE my fellow human being?????? and this is not just the " hollywood" type of love because clearly, that is NOT LOVE, TRUE LOVE is a HIGH and HOLY PRINCIPLE and if any claims to love, He ought to check diligently its source.

Thank God that He has not only documented this but demonstrated His great love for us in that while we were yet sinners, CHRIST DIED FOR US Romans 5:8. Because " for God so loved the world that HE GAVE his ONLY begotten SON that whosoever believes in HIM shall not perish but have EVERLASTING LIFE" John 3:16. And He is most definitely willing to TEACH US and INSTRUCT us His awesome and marvelous ways of LOVE, we are not alone in this, God is exceedingly wise and merciful and He remembers that we are dust, He is willing to help us only if we surrender and allow Him to transform our lives.

I personally want to learn more about LOVE, more about GOD, that I may best reflect my Almighty Father of LOVE, that I may give without expecting to be given in return, that just like HIM, I may put the needs of others before my own, that I may BE what He wants me to be, dying daily to self and my selfish desires because I know that there is much more than what the human eye aims , there's much more to life that achieving my goals and desires, there's much more to life that having all my dreams fulfilled. And that's BEING WHO GOD WANTS ME TO BE!!!!

Today.......... I ABIDE!!!

Seconds turn to minuets, minuets turn to hours, hours to days, days to weeks, weeks to months and months to years, years to many more years and the list goes on............

I am amazed at how much time flies and passes us by quickly, one moment we are found in one situation and the another moment we are found in another. Only God the giver of time, knows the true mystery behind the ticking clock, it never stops, it keeps moving and moving and keeps ticking and ticking.

The sun rises, the birds sings their songs, later it goes down again and waits for its time, its time to begin another day and do the same thing over and over again.

Under the command of time and Gods never ending mercy and Love, I rise and live to see a day, not knowing whats in store for me, what surprises await me or what blows I'll receive from the day. Although I have a plan laid out and certain objectives to fulfill, there is only ONE person in the control room, my captain Jesus, well, this does not mean that Jesus has a remote control and I have batteries built within me that follow His every command. Instead He gives me the keys and allows me to drive......... while He seats in the front seat with me. He tells me which directions I should follow and which ways are safe and which are not.

Some days, I don't even want to listen to Him, I just want to go my way and choose my direction, those are the worst days I will admit, but every time I stumble and almost hit into a big tree, He takes the wheel and leads me in the safe path. There is always this struggle, this fight against His sweet and loving voice, something that naturally doesn't want to obey Him as Commander and it  always lands me in trouble.

But thanks to His word, I am told that "I am made clean through the words that He speaks to me" John 15:3, Great joy dwells in my heart with this good news but there's only ONE thing that's lacking, and that is ABIDE! Jesus says "ABIDE in me and I in YOU"  John 15:4 its this simple instruction that brings chaos between us because my sinful nature does not allow me. although this is so, my WILL will obey because I CHOOSE JESUS! Romans 7:22.

Doesn't matter the struggle, doesn't matter the conflict, its tough and rough but all the matters is I CHOOSE TO ABIDE in JESUS! even if my weak sinful and carnal nature does not agree. 1 John 3:2

So Today........I abide,  i fell, i stumbled, i made Him sad and am not glad, but today.......I ABIDE in JESUS!!!!!
*this will go on until the day He comes to take us home, until we are transformed from these bodies of sin. 2 Corth 16:52, 2 Corth 5:17, Gal 2:20.

All Things Work for Good - AudioVerse

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