Thoughts of life

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Life is like a maze sometimes, and it is easy to get lost. Everyone, it seems, expects so something different from us. There is pressure coming at us from every direction to keep others happy and meet their needs.

We put a large amount of emotional and mental energy into studying the important people in our lives and trying to decide what they want from us. We then attempt to become what they want us to be. In the process, we may lose ourselves. We may fail to discover what God wants, or what His intentions is for us. We may try to please everyone else and yet not be pleased ourselves.

Someone who Undertands:

Jesus understands us when nobody else does. He even understands us when we don't understand ourselves.

People only see what we do, and they want to know why we are not doing it better, or why we are doing it at all. Jesus knows why we behave the way we do. He sees and remembers all the emotional wounds and bruises in our past. He knows what we were created for. He knows the temperament that was given to us in our mother's womb. He knows and understand our weaknesses (which all of us have). He knows about every fear, every insecurity, every doubt, all our wrong thinking about ourselves.

Once we enter into personal relationship with Him by being born again (accepting Him as Savior and Lord) , He begins a process of restoration in our lives that will not be entirely finished until we leave the earth. One by one He restores to us everything Satan has stolen from us.

We must aggresively resist the legalistic attitudes that are prevalent in our society.

Jesus understands us, He loves us unconditionaly and He is committed to working with us through the Holy Spirit---and He does not condemn us while He is at it.

The world demands that we change. It persistently gives us the message that something is wrong with us if we cannot do what is expected of us. On our own, we will never be able to do all that is expected of us. Our only hope is in who we are in Christ.

Apostle Paul said:

"I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself. My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me."

(1 Corinthians 4:3, 4 NIV)

I am not the least concerned with the fact that you are deciding what is right and what is wrong with me...and even passing sentence on me. Neither you nor anyone else can put me down unless I put myself down. (And I'm not doing that). But though I don't know of anything against me, my ignorance doesn't mean I am correct in my appraisal because the final evaluation is in God's hands.

Me:

My life is not perfect, I may not be successful like the other and not living the life the way I pictured, I may not be good in expressing my feelings and showing to the other the way I care, I may not be a good speaker, or sometimes can't control my temper and also got hurt and judged by other people, but this is the way I am and I know God is busy processing my life and changing me the way God wants me to be.

And I think I am on my way. For the moment just enjoying my life the way it is no matter what.

Like what Joyce Meyer said:

'Enjoying life is not based on enjoyable circumtances. It is an attitude of your heart, a decision to enjoy everything---even little, seemingly insignificant things---have a part in the overall "big picture" of life'.

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