A PASSION UNFOLDED ...nabasa ko sa TEAM SULONG GROUP...try to reflect on it...nataamaan ako jeje
Just had a wild ride in the "so – called" LIFE that people often times refers it… but honestly, I want to call it the great adventure of a simple and ordinary journey to a phenomenal and breathtaking discovery of existence…
Why? Everything is so ironic and paradoxical, if someone would try to look it in the way the world sees it… Everything is somewhat backwards to what we believe in…
I have come to realize that we will never GROW unless God takes us away from things and people that really meant so much to us. We will never UNCOVER things and the mysteries of life if we just stay in one corner seeing the same old stuff that already becomes a routine. We will never LEARN unless we feel tiredness, pain, sorrow and persecutions...
Ironic isn't it? That God still needs to break our hearts for us to see that HE SHOULD BE IN CONTROL!
Sometimes we feel that we are all alone and that the world was falling apart right in front of us, hurting us without reservations, taking away everything that is close to our hearts. We sometimes feel that we are too tired to continue breathing and living. We feel that we are alone and that no one loves us anymore. We feel that no one sees the cries and heartaches that we have. We think that we are not appreciated and no one sees the potential that we have and the capabilities that we can do (sure thing that everyone feels the same way)… and what's so real is that sometimes we don't accept the fact the we are imperfect and that there will always be people better than us.
And do we accept that we feel these feelings and think these thoughts?
Oftentimes, we do, but most of the time, we don't, because what we seem not normal seems to be normal because our primary reason is that we just want to make a difference in the lives of the people around us. Not knowing that PRIDE is eating up the mere values that we stood up for.
Well, everyone does sees this portion but we are so lucky that we often have bumps and u – turns and punches on the head because we have an awesome God that never QUITS on us…
We may be undergoing a lot of hardships and troubles in life, but was there a day that God plainly abandoned us? NONE! He still continues to show His love to us no matter what!
This may sound a little bit corny or clichéd but what I speak of is the truth… now we see that a lot of people are testifying that there is satisfaction and fulfillment in their lives because there is a GOD!
Precise and simple but it really rocks! Knowing that our lives will never be the same because of the one God that brought a new kind of lifestyle, craze and leaning to it.
Amazing isn't it?
Nah! We just owe it all to the one true God that is worthy of our praises. The creator that uniquely shaped us to perfection (so never doubt and have insecurities that we don't look good, or we're fat or whatever… at the back of it all, we are the handsome prince and ravishing princess in God's eyes!)
We owe it all to an amazing and incredible God that never abandons us and accepts us despite of the past that we have lived. So why put any reason to not TRUST Him and give our all? And also have a ridiculous thought of abandoning Him?
Every disappointment, hardships, pain, persecutions, sorrow, tiredness should only be felt in an ample time then DROP! Drop it all to GOD! The same God that forgives and takes care of all of us…
Victories and Joys should be treasured in the heart and not in the minds (to avoid PRIDE) that in times of struggles we have memories to remember for us to be STILL choose to be HAPPY!
Whatever state of our hearts now, circumstances or situations we are in, we choose to be where we are! So CHOOSE GOD and CHOOSE to stay HAPPY no matter what! We have a BIG God that is BIGGER than our problems!
Now I see that we need to unfold the passion that we have in doing this extraordinary work that God has called us to do… Building the church of the future and building the church of the Poor… No matter who we are, what position we have, or where God has placed us, we are equal and share the same amount of sacrifice to have a better country and world to live in. No one is greater than the other. Only God is the greatest for He is our master. But we are also called to be submissive to anything or anyone that He has placed before us.
Astounding! God ROCKS our lives transforming it to a better one…
And do you know, what's the greatest thing about all of this?
Giving up our future… Thinking less of our selves but more of others… Being happy, peaceful and winner in spite and despite of hardships… and laying down the most precious to us… and moving forward even if it entails our lives…
IT'S ALL WORTH IT!
Mike Ybiernas
YFC Missionary
"Trust in the Lord and He will help you. Walk straight in His ways and put your hope in Him..."Sirach 2:6