I'll keep this one short and precise! Or atleast I'll try.
So God has a sense of humor. I began writing this post and barely a minute in, a blind man comes up to the shop where I work for some loose change. He isn't the first to come over begging for change yet he is the first who didn't remain silent like all the others. He was talking to his companion the whole time wearing that "do you have something to put in this jar cause I have things to do" look! :-))))
Then one of our customers watching him says, "he cant see but he looks like a man who has sight."
Wow! When he said that I immediately thought of all those times I too looked like a person with good sight when all along I was blind [spiritually].
I remembered a line in an old hymn, "I was blind but now I see."
I honestly thought my sight was fully restored the day I gave my life to Christ.
I saw His glory and I saw how blind I had been all along. I thought I was seeing right!
Well the scales may have fallen, yet seeing is a PROCESS in any believers life.
[Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face
to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully
known. 1 Corinthians 13:12]
Just recently I was thinking about how the way I SEE GOD affects how I see everyone and everything else.
If I keep my eyes on God, when a problem arises, I'll only see it as an opportunity to see Him manifest His power.
If I keep my eyes on God, trials aren't dreadful because they are simply a way for the Holy Spirit to work His gifts within me.
If I keep my eyes on God, weakness is really just a chance for Christ' power to be made perfect in Him being my strength.
If I keep my eyes on God, I am able to reach out to hurting people instead of seeing them as "people with issues!"
If I keep my eyes on God, when need arises in another persons life and they ask of my help, I am then able and eager to meet it instead of seeing those people as burdens.
If I keep my eyes on God, a child asking questions even when I'm busy isn't a disturbance but the blessing of a very inquisitive child.
If I keep my eyes on God, a baby crying isn't a headache but a baby simply communicating!
Seeing God changes everything!!
In essence seeing GOD is what we call FAITH.
Looking at what is before us, and choosing to SEE Him in it.
Looking at what ISN'T and still choosing to SEE HIM.
Faith is spiritual sight!
And I'm excited to SEE GOD, every day, in every way that He can be seen.
JOB 19:26-And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God;
Wednesday 23 January 2013
Tuesday 22 January 2013
FEELING INSUFFICIENT? WELCOME TO THE CLUB!
Happy new year people!!
22 days in and by God's grace I will finish this post.
Haven't blogged in over a year and the truth is that I haven't been able to do so. I have over 20 unfinished pieces on my computer to show for it but all in all I bless God for the gift of writing and more-so for that of reading. I read many beautiful books last year. I admit I'm a slow reader yet I am proud of it. I believe that sometimes each page, each beautiful revelation must be taken in slowly and surely so that it may be understood.
I believe that 2012 was my year to just hush up and read. Anytime I thought I had a lot to share was when I wrote the least.
In all honesty, I believe that it was God's doing.
Although it was His will for me not to write as much, I struggled and I had moments when I WANTED IT BAD!!!
Other times I was frustrated that He didn't want to use me in that area. I feared I had lost my gift and doubted if I ever had it in the first place. I feared that I was no good. I felt insufficient in many areas of my life and I looked down on every gift God had given me. It was a real struggle. A battle that only me and God knew about. NO amount of encouragement could have made me feel any better. I needed to be afirmed by God Himself.
Yet here I am writing this simple post as a testimony of believing God when you doubt yourself. For the longest time my problem was unbelief IN GOD. Now I find that believing Him isn't the problem [we're still working on this daily] and that my greatest doubt is that of my own capabilities.
Thank God for grace. Thank God that He alone is the AUTHOR and FINISHER of our faith. Thank God that we are enabled through Christ to do all things. Thank God that He finished the greatest work that He started through the life, death and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ.
How does this affect me? How does this change my way of thinking and how does this alter my downcast emotions?
WELL IN A BIG WAY!
It is liberating to know that I don't have to try all those SELF-HELP tactics to boost up my self [flesh] up and that all I have to do is feed my SPIRIT MAN with this NOURISHING-EMPOWERING WORD that we call the BREAD OF LIFE. In doing so, the more I come to understand that I ONLY HAVE TO BELIEVE IN GOD. There lies my strength and hope. There is where I find my belonging in His BECOMING. I dare not look down on the gifts that God has given me. They are good, perfect and from above, tailor-made to suit my personality and character.
I need not worry about writing as everyone else does. I need not feel like that I lack eloquence. I need not compare my gifts to those other wonderful gifts that others have, I need only BELIEVE in God because He started this and He will finish it Himself.
Today I have written. It may seem as a small thing in your eyes but to me, this is a serious MIRACLE!
I am praising God as I type this.
I pray that He may heal you and take away all those insecurities as He has me.
Above all don't stress. I may have teared up many times staring at the blank screen of my laptop. I may have felt useless in that area yet it all changed when I was recently encouraged by a friend of mine.
She told me that the greatest story was that of writing our love in the lives of others. That type of writing isn't done with a pen or on a keyboard. It is story that is written by God alone and experienced by us. Friendships are beautiful stories and each season shared with another person is simply another chapter in our life stories.
Im more excited to LIVE in that story.
I can say it with confidence that if my life amounts to merely one chapter in print, then it is well with me for it is ONE LONG BOOK in God's sight.
To live and write again.
22 days in and by God's grace I will finish this post.
Haven't blogged in over a year and the truth is that I haven't been able to do so. I have over 20 unfinished pieces on my computer to show for it but all in all I bless God for the gift of writing and more-so for that of reading. I read many beautiful books last year. I admit I'm a slow reader yet I am proud of it. I believe that sometimes each page, each beautiful revelation must be taken in slowly and surely so that it may be understood.
I believe that 2012 was my year to just hush up and read. Anytime I thought I had a lot to share was when I wrote the least.
In all honesty, I believe that it was God's doing.
Although it was His will for me not to write as much, I struggled and I had moments when I WANTED IT BAD!!!
Other times I was frustrated that He didn't want to use me in that area. I feared I had lost my gift and doubted if I ever had it in the first place. I feared that I was no good. I felt insufficient in many areas of my life and I looked down on every gift God had given me. It was a real struggle. A battle that only me and God knew about. NO amount of encouragement could have made me feel any better. I needed to be afirmed by God Himself.
Yet here I am writing this simple post as a testimony of believing God when you doubt yourself. For the longest time my problem was unbelief IN GOD. Now I find that believing Him isn't the problem [we're still working on this daily] and that my greatest doubt is that of my own capabilities.
Thank God for grace. Thank God that He alone is the AUTHOR and FINISHER of our faith. Thank God that we are enabled through Christ to do all things. Thank God that He finished the greatest work that He started through the life, death and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ.
How does this affect me? How does this change my way of thinking and how does this alter my downcast emotions?
WELL IN A BIG WAY!
It is liberating to know that I don't have to try all those SELF-HELP tactics to boost up my self [flesh] up and that all I have to do is feed my SPIRIT MAN with this NOURISHING-EMPOWERING WORD that we call the BREAD OF LIFE. In doing so, the more I come to understand that I ONLY HAVE TO BELIEVE IN GOD. There lies my strength and hope. There is where I find my belonging in His BECOMING. I dare not look down on the gifts that God has given me. They are good, perfect and from above, tailor-made to suit my personality and character.
I need not worry about writing as everyone else does. I need not feel like that I lack eloquence. I need not compare my gifts to those other wonderful gifts that others have, I need only BELIEVE in God because He started this and He will finish it Himself.
Today I have written. It may seem as a small thing in your eyes but to me, this is a serious MIRACLE!
I am praising God as I type this.
I pray that He may heal you and take away all those insecurities as He has me.
Above all don't stress. I may have teared up many times staring at the blank screen of my laptop. I may have felt useless in that area yet it all changed when I was recently encouraged by a friend of mine.
She told me that the greatest story was that of writing our love in the lives of others. That type of writing isn't done with a pen or on a keyboard. It is story that is written by God alone and experienced by us. Friendships are beautiful stories and each season shared with another person is simply another chapter in our life stories.
Im more excited to LIVE in that story.
I can say it with confidence that if my life amounts to merely one chapter in print, then it is well with me for it is ONE LONG BOOK in God's sight.
To live and write again.
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