TREASURE IT!
"For everything in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--comes not from the Father but from the world." 1 John 2:16
When I turned 40, the phrase "not of human pride but by God's design" was given to me. I haven't read it anywhere and nobody has used it before. To the best of my knowledge, it is entirely unique for me.
John Mason wrote, "You were born an original! Don't die a copy."
I believe all of us want to have that sense of being different from the rest of the world. Though God has created all of us "in His own image and likeness," He made us distinct from one another with the quirks and perks of our personality.
Our quirks were shaped, to a great extent, during our childhood years and whether we like it or not, admit it or not, we're all born to dysfunctional, imperfect families.
Today marks the 8th week of my second pregnancy this year. I don't want to blame my hormones but something seems askew in the way I think and act these days. I am (more) easily irritable, whiny, clingy and lazy.
Yesterday I watched an Instagram video where the lady spoke about "speaking life" into our lives and situations instead of agreeing with any negativity. I was like, that's entirely impossible and... crazy.
But then, knowing what I know to be true about who I am as a follower of Christ, it is never crazy to speak life into 'dead' or 'dead end' situations. God created the world by His mere words, didn't He?
What's crazy is to try to live my life in the eyes not of my Creator but in the eyes of the world.
This world is becoming crazier and more dysfunctional by the minute. Just Google up the statistics and you'll see crime rates, poverty, hunger, rape cases, incest, addiction of all sorts, on a rising trend. The numbers may seem to decrease for a time but in reality, it is not going any better.
I don't know about you but I am prone to compare myself with someone else and that triggers me towards a downward spiral of discontent and ungratefulness. It is an ugly feeling.
My life is actually a mess right now and my 'condition' renders me incapable of doing the things that I ought to be doing. And I can't just "speak" life to it. I have to do something.
But when I look into what I have, when I look into how incapable I am to provide for the services of a househelp, what can I do? Whom do I run to for help?
Certainly God wouldn't just rain down cleaners from heaven and clean my house in a snap of His finger. I mean, He can but He won't.
What am I trying to drive at?
I need help. I am desperate. I need to stop comparing myself with the world and create my own world, my own beautiful world. But HOW?
"For everything in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--comes not from the Father but from the world." 1 John 2:16
When I turned 40, the phrase "not of human pride but by God's design" was given to me. I haven't read it anywhere and nobody has used it before. To the best of my knowledge, it is entirely unique for me.
John Mason wrote, "You were born an original! Don't die a copy."
I believe all of us want to have that sense of being different from the rest of the world. Though God has created all of us "in His own image and likeness," He made us distinct from one another with the quirks and perks of our personality.
Our quirks were shaped, to a great extent, during our childhood years and whether we like it or not, admit it or not, we're all born to dysfunctional, imperfect families.
Today marks the 8th week of my second pregnancy this year. I don't want to blame my hormones but something seems askew in the way I think and act these days. I am (more) easily irritable, whiny, clingy and lazy.
Yesterday I watched an Instagram video where the lady spoke about "speaking life" into our lives and situations instead of agreeing with any negativity. I was like, that's entirely impossible and... crazy.
But then, knowing what I know to be true about who I am as a follower of Christ, it is never crazy to speak life into 'dead' or 'dead end' situations. God created the world by His mere words, didn't He?
What's crazy is to try to live my life in the eyes not of my Creator but in the eyes of the world.
This world is becoming crazier and more dysfunctional by the minute. Just Google up the statistics and you'll see crime rates, poverty, hunger, rape cases, incest, addiction of all sorts, on a rising trend. The numbers may seem to decrease for a time but in reality, it is not going any better.
I don't know about you but I am prone to compare myself with someone else and that triggers me towards a downward spiral of discontent and ungratefulness. It is an ugly feeling.
My life is actually a mess right now and my 'condition' renders me incapable of doing the things that I ought to be doing. And I can't just "speak" life to it. I have to do something.
But when I look into what I have, when I look into how incapable I am to provide for the services of a househelp, what can I do? Whom do I run to for help?
Certainly God wouldn't just rain down cleaners from heaven and clean my house in a snap of His finger. I mean, He can but He won't.
What am I trying to drive at?
I need help. I am desperate. I need to stop comparing myself with the world and create my own world, my own beautiful world. But HOW?
