Since this is the first post for this year... Happy New Year!! Happy and prosperous 2015!
"For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb."Psalm 139:13
This month has been a month filled with ups and downs. Its been the rollercoaster month. And in this month I've discovered a lot about me and about my faith and I would like to share this with you.
I felt the pain of loving someone that is far and also the pain of hurting someone you love that is near. They both suck equally as much. I've realized that I am a bit more selfish than I care to admit and also that I have more insecurities than I care to show. I guess its part of the process of growing up, becoming independent, seeing your dreams come true and also realizing when some might not come true.
Psalm 139 came to my mind this morning after not having the best day of my life yesterday. Maybe I got a wake up call from God telling me no matter what you do, your mistakes are no surprise to me, its part of me making you what I want you to become. Just follow through with this, learn, change, grow and become what I have planned for you.
Some of us wonder why certain things happen to us. Like why would someone become a killer, or why would someone abuse of someone else, why are children starving in Africa. And well I don't know. It might be because humans are greedy, maybe God wants us to be the good in this world of bad things. He wants us to be the light yes. But in this Psalm there is a hope for us, in these dark places.
'If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.'
Psalm 139:11-12
A lot of times I hear people say that God punishes them for the mistakes they made, it isn't so much a punishment but the consequences of our actions. God was ready to punish his people many times, but he warned them before, even after they failed God gave them a chance to repent. He always sent his prophet to tell his people: ' Look guys, you made a mistake, there is still time to fix things, just say you're sorry and stop messing up. You got a chance here, if not well you guys will be punished.'
And most of the time when they repented God forgave them. Gave them another chance. Today we have Jesus. He gave us the ultimate chance, the ultimate forgiveness. He took a stand for us and said I take over your sins, past and future, just repent in time.
And I'm not saying this is like a free pass to sin, but once you understand the magnitude of this sacrifice it will make a change in you. It is making a change in me.
Today my eyes opened to a whole new me. I realized that I messed up and God is giving me that pull telling me 'hey look I'm giving you a chance here, take it.' And God is probably telling you something like that also.
He created you with a purpose. Everything that has happened to you in the past, your mistakes, everything has led up to you being who you are today. Good things and bad things have made you who you are today. Are you happy with that? And if the answer is no, have you ever thought why you aren't happy with it? Of course I don't know, I've had my share of a difficult emotional life, but God has blessed me enough to help me go through it all, and it wasn't bad compared to certain cases I've studied in books. But when I think about it, I guess I try to be positive, but the fact that you went through something bad in your past, it gives you a huge survival testimony. And if you're in the way of God, if you believe that Jesus gave his life for you on that Cross, if you stop and think for a moment that you were worth it, everything that you have been through is part of God's plan for your life. This might sound cliche, but he does give his toughest battles to his toughest soldiers, and once you are here you aren't even a soldier anymore, you're his General, you're his Captain.
Today I want to encourage you, that if you are going through some tough times do like David did, he didn't see the Giant in front of him, he counted the blessings and situations his God had gotten him through to prepare him for that exact moment. It was all training for the fulfillment of the ultimate goal. Right now you are in training camp. He is preparing you to become a General, a Captain, to be his heir. And if you had a difficult past, remember God has a plan for you. He made you, he knitted you in your mother's womb. He knew what he was going to do with you before he created you. He created you exactly for that purpose. Never forget that he has a plan and he will use what you have learned from all of it for his purpose. You are his living testimony. You not only survived but you came, you saw and you conquered.
He will soon show you what the purpose is, just keep looking at him and he will build the road on which you have to walk towards Him.
God bless you and be a blessing to those around you!
