This season has been nothing but overwhelming.
Most cliches are being so real in my life , there are lessons that I want so much to embrace and treasure in my heart and there's a new revelation that makes me repent.
- Cliche's being so real in my life:
Jesus is everything.
Jesus is our all in all.
A life that's fully surrendered to Christ.
Jesus is in full control of my life.
Fully trust in Him.
All I am for You.
Take it all, take it all.
Only Jesus.
He completes.
He is our sole completion.
You can only be complete in Jesus.
Everything you need as a woman is found in Christ.
Jesus is THE ONE.
I am totally surrendered to Jesus.
Everything. All in all. Only One. The First. All. Fully. Totally. Sole completion.
Those sayings and words sound so familiar and all this time, I thought I grasp
them well.
I thought I'm doing good in this, but not really. I realized that I'm still learning
and by His grace, it's becoming real. Like a flower's petals that bloom in it's time.
In the past, I had the tendency to just fit Jesus into my life, but now I realized that I should be building my life around Him. That He really got to be the reason for living. Learning about the brevity of life made me think of my life and my purpose more. In conclusion, life is still and will always be about Him.
Jesus, be my everything.
- Lessons that I want so much to embrace and treasure in my heart:
-Outward-focused life
When I'm so focus with myself, my problems, my issues, my pain, I noticed that I was not being productive and it feels like I'm not living out my purpose. God just recently opened my eyes to see the need of other people. I happened to stumble upon stories of some Christian Women in history who changed the world through their outward-focused life. Women like Elisabeth Elliot, Carrie Ten Boom, Sarah Edwards and Amy CarMichael inspires me in serving more and in doing more. Their lives are really His and His purposes. They loved Him and others so much and made a great impact in lives of people. I loved this part while reading about the life of Amy CarMichael (a missionary to the children in India in the 1900s):
"When the children were asked what drew them to Amy, they most often replied 'It was love. Amma (Amy) loved us".
Their lives and situation were not perfect but they trusted God and allowed Him to use them. Oh to have an outward-focused life!
- WOW Project
This stands for Woman of Word Project.
We're learning about the Bible (it's authority etc.) these days in the church and the importance of meditating His Word was pounded on me. I learned that meditating is also repeating and memorizing. Thus, it became goal to memorize at least one verse a week.
I'm happy that last January I memorized the following:
Ephesians 2:10
For we are God's masterpiece. Created anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago.
Ephesians 3:20
Now all glory to God who is able according to His mighty power at work within us to infinitely accomplish more than we might ask or think.
Colossians 3:16
Let the Word of Christ dwell in your richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all truth, singing hymms, psalms, spiritual songs with thanksgiving to God in our hearts.
Revelation5:9b
For you were slaughtered and your blood has ransomed people for God from every tribe, language, people and nation.
This is not just for the sake of memorizing it is for the sake of future use. I'm also learning that His word is meant to be used. It's not to be displayed. After all, His word is our Spirit's Sword. We fight the lies using them and grow more in the knowledge of Him.
Let's be women of the word yeah?
-Life is Short
Finding it hard to breathe sometimes, my grandmother's wake, a booklet entitled "Life is Short (enjoy mo ang buhay)" by William Girao and a talk in our Victory Group in the office about the brevity of life made me think more about life, my purpose and what I'm doing about it. It made me long to prioritize the activities that will just impact the eternal destiny of a person. I'm praying to share the Gospel more and to serve more. Nawa ang buhay ko'y maging gamit na gamit Nya! Amen!
New revelation that makes me repent:
Proverbs 31: 12
Oh how I'm doing my MOG harm all this time.
Thinking and longing for someone else other than Him and him is not honoring at all. Imagine talking about your man about another man right? oh oh. I've been writing to MOG about my crush weeks ago and God just made me realized that it's not right. "All the days of her life" means even today, I've got to honor him. Yes, it's permissible to have a strong crush on someone today but is it beneficial? I know it isn't. It just make me have unnecessary kilig , thoughts and pain. HUHU. Nothing against crushes it's just that, I noticed it's not good for me. Learning to just go and focus more on what He wants me to do in this season.
I know it's easier said than done (like naiisip ko pa din si crush at times, I have to just snap it and focus my thoughts on Him and talk to Him) I'm just really clinging to His grace in all these.
After all, all things are possible in His Name. :")
So there, I pray that the cliches that I mentioned above to be more real in my life , for the lessons to be embraced well and for my repentance to be proven true.
This season has been nothing but overwhelming.
***Photos (first and last) by Larm Rmah and Christopher Campbell on Unsplash
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