Its been quite long since I actually wrote a decent entry in here. This past two months has been very difficult and taxing for me spiritually, emotionally, intellectually and physically. My mind has been filled with many worries and unfortunately I gave in to my weaknesses and I crawled back into my shell again.
Today, I went with my family to Church. It has been very long since I last went to one, for after the Church we attended back in Pangasinan broke up into two factions, nothing has been the same ever since. I knew my spirit wanted to go since Saturday night. I knew it was telling me it was time, that I was ready and that it knew I wanted to as well. My family had been attending this new Church they found a couple of months ago from a family friend that Mom had in the hospital. This morning when Dad was waking me up, I felt how much I was being stopped by something I could not see. I can clearly feel it pushing me down on my bed, telling me not to go. It almost succeeded. I wanted to give in and just sleep, but my spirit was calling me. My spirit knew I wanted to go back to Him not just in thought but physically as well. I needed the Church back in my life. With the help of God’s name, I was able to push away what was stopping me from going to the Church today, and take part in the service.
When I got there, I was overwhelmed. The people inside that room were all singing and praising God and you can see them unashamed to cry. Men and women, children and adults were there offering themselves to Him. Each one elated that they are able to wake this day to worship and give thanks to Him for everything. Being there was like finding that something I lost. Even though something in me was still trying to tell me that I shouldn’t care, that I should just shrug it off, that service I went to today changed something in me.
The pastor talked about the journey of the Israelites to the Promised Land, and in the sermon he shared with us 3 important lessons that I clearly remember. The first lesson was God telling us to keep our focus on Him. In our world, there are many distractions that keep us away from Him. We find many things that keep us busy but we must remind ourselves that if our focus is not on God, we are bound to get lost. So we must always keep our senses up so we an avoid the temptations that lure our focus and attention away from Him.
The next was that keeping our focus on Him is not enough. We must also be clean so that He can work through us. A person who has given himself to God would be a living example of the change in his life. Once we have accepted Him, we choose to turn our focus away from everything else that is against His will, and by doing that, we become clean.
The third lesson he shared was that we must not only keep our focus on God and become clean, but that we must also listen to Him so that we would actually hear what He is saying to us. In order for us to fully live for God, we must listen to what He tells us and follow it. We must take that step to show Him that we have fully given ourselves to Him because we accept and do what He asks us to do. Taking that step takes faith in God, for we start to rely on Him rather than our own capacities.
On my own, many things seem impossible, but with God carrying me through everything, nothing is impossible.
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Right on, Nika, right on..
There are a lot of things in this world that pull us away from God, and if we don’t re-examine ourselves, we would seldom feel that we are already too far away from Him.
More often, the lure of temptation is stronger than our righteous self. It is because God wants to see how we endure and keep Him in mind even under difficult circumstances. Worse, we remember Him only in times of sorrow or misery. In times of success and happiness we forget to be grateful to Him. And so we also forget that nothing happens in this world without His consent.
It takes a lot of selflessness and steadfastness to restore our righteous self and sustain piety, but once we are there - clean, pious and ever-obedient servant of the Lord, we become triumphant, invulnerable and most loved and pleasing in the eyes of the Lord. This is the essence of keeping ourselves with the Lord.
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hi guys! plug lng po ulit
- available na po yung chapter 13 ng walang paglagyan sa tagalog online pocketbook
- http://tagalogonlinepocketbook.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/kabanata-13-walang-paglagyan/
- need ko lang po tlaga ng suggestion pra sa last two chapters kasi lately na ba-blanko isipan ko, pasensya na.
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with God nothing is impossible, tama ka, nika.
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Philippians 4:13 “I can do everything through him who gives me strength.”
Holiness is made up of the decisions you solidify every minute.
God bless you in your renewed love for Him.
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