There are 2 things which I wanted to share. =) Well will fill u in on that if I remember next weekend. However just felt that I should share about what the Lord has been doing in my life. HE has been ever faithful. Sometimes just like my sis said today that going to church can be quite creepy because the messages spoken just hit the exact spot and what more if its for weeks on end. The passages, the questions, the prayers I make the Lord seem to reaffirm them on Sunday service or even through just gathering with His people.
You know the things I have said to the Lord is that my land is desolate. Dried. Struggling so hard but no results on end. Its like everything I do, I do to my best yet the outcome just seems to show the other way around. I guess its been so ever since the ending of last semester. I just felt I have reached that breaking point and I know the Lord has been carrying me through but today the message spoken was so clear that the LORD Restores my soul. One thing which Pastor Rhoden spoke which really hit was it's not true that when we come to the Lord we have to give up things rather the Lord adds value to what I already have.
It's amazing how I have always this picture that I am a sheep but I forgot what a sheep is all about and when he was just going through the list of the description of a sheep it's just so me. Slow, filled with parasite, no honing skills, can't fend for myself, and.. can't remember what else. But when I saw the list it just shout one thing Useless. The amazing part is that I always have a different idea of a sheep because my actions seems to speak so. I shy away when my imperfectness is shown. I try to cover it up before the Shepherd but I am a sheep and that is who what I am. Useless. Amazing thing is how the Shepherd reacts to the sheep. It talks about how the Shepherd does everything. When the sheep falls the Shepherd picks it up. The sheep knows not how to find pastures and the Shepherd is the only one that can guide the sheep to it. (Psalm 23)
How often in my life that my Shepherd seems to be my life, the circumstances around me, the plans. What a blessing is it to have a Shepherd who cares. If only I will let Him be my shepherd and not wander off. When Pastor spoke about his testimony he shared that when we plan we realise that it just doesn't go our way and the doing things our way doesn't seem to bring satisfaction. How true! The night before that 'Ah Pa' was just saying to me 'you and your plans'. 'Ah pa' always laughs at me because I am one who likes to lay out my life dictating it with all my timeline, my schedule. Amazing how he reminds me that the times I have been planning the Lord seems to just turn it all around. He always tell me to just go with the flow kinda thing which of course I can't stand his laid back attitude. :P Sorry Pa! He knows it anyway coz I always tell him so but there is much truth in what he tells me.
Anyway, Its so true that when the Lord restores He will give back what the locust have taken. I need not worry, I need not be anxious, I need not fret. I do need to be in competition with the people around me. I don't have to fight for my spot in things. I don't need to hide what I have. I need not be afraid that others will take advantage of me for the Lord is my avenger. I will trust in Him.
(Taken from today's devotion)
We are never to view people or organizations as competition. The Bible says that God has already assigned our portion. We need not have to manipulate outcomes.
"LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup; you have made my lot secure. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance" (Ps 16:5-6).
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