Living It All 4 HIM!
Purity is a crown that I wear proudly!
I have denied myself.
I have taken up my cross.
Now I am following him!
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As I was reading the eighth chapter of Crazy Love by Francis Chan, it came to me that I am such a fool sometimes to think that I can handle everything by myself. I come from Haiti where, if you are a Christian, when you are sick with malaria, cholera, HIV, cancer, or typhoid you have no choice but to kneel and pray that God heals you. When you are hungry you would cry to God to give you strength to sleep through the night, and hopefully tomorrow you’d find something to eat. When you want a job, you would pray to God about it. When you needed money, you would just ask God to bring a good samaritan your way. When you are sad, you would call out to God to bring joy to your heart besides everything else that’s going on.
Yet, coming here in the USA, when I am sick with a cold or a severe headache guess what I do? I google my symptoms (Ha!) and then I decide to go to the doctor. When I am hungry, I run downstairs, open my fridge, 8 out 10 I wouldn’t like what is in there, so I drive to the restaurant. When I need a job, I update my application and send hundreds of emails. When I need money, I call my parents or I ask for more hours at my job. When I am sad, I turn on my ‘happy’ music, or I’d go to the movies, or call a friend to cheer me up. When my grades aren’t looking good, I go to my teacher or advisor, or I just drop the class (can you relate?). When I am tired, I jump on my comfortable queen size bed, turn my fan on, put the music on and sleep. When there is really nothing I can do about it, then I decide to ask God to help me get through it.
All that to say that I come to realize that I rely too much on myself and this world. I am thinking what do I need God for then if I can handle all my problems and can manage to find a solution for all of them on my own? I want this to change. I want to live by hope and by faith, only. I want to believe in miracles again, and I want to trust God fully with whatever is going on in my life. Trust that he has been taking care of me, and that he will always be there for me no matter how many stupid mistakes I make.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
—Proverbs 3:5-6
and do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.
My favorite lines:
1.”So men, grow up! Put down the controller, how about you lead her with grace instead of trying to control her.
2.”So for the singles, become friends first before you ever become lovers. Pursue Jesus as your foundation, before you get under the cover.”
3.”A strong friendship before marriage will make a good marriage after.”
4.”Marriage isn’t just sex, it is conversation and laughter.”
5.”You might share a checkbook or a house, but are you actually friends?”
6.”If marriage isn’t a commitment, then what is the point of the vows we say?”
7.”Till death do us part, really means till the feeling goes away.”
8.”It is not the love that sustains the promise, it is the promise that sustains the love.”
9.”When you trust in me, you no longer have to hide.”
10.”You are spotless, you’re blameless, there’s no sin in you.”
All of it basically haha!
This is quite beautiful.
(via kidwiththebulletsoul)
What if you woke today with the things you thank God for yesterday?!
To follow up with the previous post, the kidnappers released the husband Sunday. He was taken immediately to the hospital because he was shot in the leg. He said that they let him go in order to go find the money that was demanded for the return of his captured wife. The kidnappers at first asked for $200,000 US, in further negotiation they settled for $80,000 US. Mind you no priests in Haiti is making that much money. I so wish my dad had that much money.
My parents said everyone was helping by giving money to the priest to meet the demands of the kidnappers. My mom said the money that was donated wasn’t even half of the ransom. Everyone was praying. Mom said all night Tuesday she was ‘talking’ to God, and so many other people were doing the same. On Wednesday they received news that the wife was released, and no money was given. Like me you are probably asking yourself, but why did they release her without they money? why didn’t they kill her? well it was the power of prayer and FAITH. GOD ordered the kidnappers to let go of HIS daughter and that they aren’t more powerful than HE is.
How do I relate this story to my life?
Last week in bible study we talked about trust and how we, humans, feel the need to control our lives and the lives of others. Talking for myself, I know that I am a control freak. Often, it either goes my way or it doesn’t happen. It is difficult for me to trust people, I make lists for everything, I like to do everything myself, I like to be active and structured, I am very stubborn and I am slightly insulted when someone asks me for advice and doesn’t follow what I had to say. Such bad habits for someone who is trying to build a relationship with GOD. I am working on that though. I am learning to trust HIM and HIM only.
In bible study someone mentioned Romans 8:28, the same week while listening to klove radio the same verse was cited. I thought that was amazing!! and I literally told GOD at the moment “I hear you GOD, and I am letting go, I am trusting you with everything that I am”. One of those fun moments again with God alone in my car ;) Anyhow, thinking about what happened to my neighbors, it is so easy to hold on to our problems and to think that we can do everything for ourselves. What would you do if you were that husband? if you were there daughter? Would you have enough faith to sit back and trust GOD to do his will? That’d be hard for me, although that is all GOD asks from us. This was phenomenon and I am so astonished, one more time, by the power of GOD and most importantly FAITH! Trust HIM fully, try HIM and see how it feels. For me, relief is the word that explains it. I feel relieved to hand everything to HIM and to let HIM take care of me and my zillion problems :)
“And we know that in all things GOD works for the good of those who love HIM, who have been called according to his purpose”. Romans 8:28
In other words, even bad things can workout for those who love HIM. When I think about it is there really ‘bad things’ when GOD transformed them into amazingly good things? I know that every seconds of my days GOD is actively working on my ‘bad things’. I just need to TRUST!
