You ever been through so much in a short while that it seems everything is just piling up and one of these days you are going to reach your breaking point. It has happened to me before, the most severe was three years ago, I wasn't in such a good place. I was smiling fine, trying so hard not to get on the bad side of people and just living, but I wasn't really happy, by God's grace I overcame it and God opened my eyes to learn from that situation.
Life can be challenging, especially when it feels like you are under so much pressure to do your best for something. Or it could be you just merely facing one problem, and before you are out of one you've entered another and then it becomes so much that you feel choked. You wanna cry, you may even want to cry in public but something holds you back, maybe your pride. You may even be one to not talk to people alot, so its worse because you keep it all in. Sometimes you sleep and wake and just want everything to be over.
I came to realise something, the first time you are hit by a storm and instead of talking it out in prayer, but choose to stay right there to make sense of it and keep being gloomy about it, it will to pile up. Then another one comes and same thing and then another comes and they just keep piling up. You keep arranging burdens to bear for yourself on your back.
The reason why this happens is because we let go of the place of trusting God and letting him bear our burdens, even when we know he handles them well. The devil lies that we are more capable to carry our own problems but as a Christian you are no longer of yourself but of God. You feel that particular care is too humane for God to handle or we trust God for a minute and let go the next. I have also come to realise that most burdens we chose to carry are based on us forgetting who we are in Christ. What's in the world or what the world has to say about you is not true, deep down we know it's not true but we believe it and keep a grudge that it was said. Greater is the one you have in you and what he has given to you in him.
We forget peace is what God has freely given us. Happiness is what God has given us but we still have to choose it. God has given us the free will to choose what we want. While we are still in our perishable bodies, we will face so many trials. But then the've become God's yoke to bear not ours. Sometimes what's pushing you is right under your nose that you can't seem to get past it. But have you prayed for wisdom on how to go about it? Have you left it onto God. Have you poured out your heart to the person God wants you to pour it out to? Are you letting go and forgiving who ever offends you?
You are free to cry but after those tears understand that God can never leave you.
Things happen that may want to take away our happiness, in fact, you may even become unhappy but realizing that you are not holding on to your happiness in Christ and choosing to be happy is all that matters.
Sometimes we are so used to worrying that even the little things that never made you worry now have your attention. Take a moment to breath and pray. If you need to talk to somebody do so. I may not be able to solve your problem with this writeup but talking to God about it will help you.
Sunday, 15 March 2020
Saturday, 7 March 2020
Are you fruitful?
But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruits in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!
Reading through Galatians 5 down to verse 22, I was drawn by that verse, not that I hadn't seen before, but it felt different this time. To show how familiar I am with this verse, I remember a time my mother taught it in children's sunday school when I was a child. She made it into a song for us. I remember clearly how she took her time to make sure we were able to memorise that verse as a song. I liked that song so much that it stuck with me till adulthood.
As a teenager, those days I thought the law to be the way. When I wanted to reprimand myself to be sure I was still the holy child of God who kept the commandments, i would remember this verse sometimes, it was more like an obligation for me to conform to it, like things I needed to possess to be a true child of God. After i had the revelation of the gospel of Christ it made me realise, I had all of it in me. It was who I was. So yesterday, evening, I came across this verse again. The question I asked myself was, Was I bearing these fruits? even though the seed have been planted in me. He has given me love, joy, peace, patience, kindness and goodness but i had to be intentional/conscious about bearing this fruits. This fruits are signs that the seed planted in us are being watered (by the word, it is also a sign of our deligent walk with God or our yield to the Holyspirit) and that its springs forth to bear fruits.
Are you letting yourself bear fruits of what has been planted in you? It's already in you. The reason we bear this fruits is because they are beneficial or I should say they are edible to people God has brought us in contact with. We also reap for ourselves the benefits of bearing this fruits, it's a yardstick to see how much we've grown spiritually.
Lastly, because you went astray or distant doesn't disqualify you. We are his own and even when we go astray, he upholds us with his right hand and prunes us so we may bear good fruits, but you have to be willing to let him.
1“I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. 3 You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.
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