my memories
Monday, January 23, 2006
I have been reading my friends' blogs and msn nicks and I have realised that many of us are going through many problems and difficulties in our daily lives. The most interesting thing about this is that we are all going through it at about the same time and these problems are causing many of us to be very spirituallly down.
I know that many of my friends are going through much frustration, anger and sorrow because I am going through it too. I just want to say this: don't be discouraged. Don't let these difficulties hinder our relationship with God. These problems are attacks of the devil in an attempt to distract us from Jesus. The devil knows that after the camp, we have all been on the spiritual high. Jael has also started the year 2006 with the determination to spread the fire of Jesus and we are taking baby steps to becoming the army God wants us to be. Thus the devil is trying to destroy this determination by throwing difficulties in our paths. He wants to destroy the army, God's Army in Jael.
Since this is so, let's take the other approach to these problems. Let's take these difficulties as tests from God as well as opportunities to grow even stronger and immune to the devil's opposition. It is going to be tough but then when you think about it, the army to be formed is going to be even stronger than when we form an army which has faced no problems at all. Rather we face the problems, sort them all out, and gain experience when the army is still young than face similar problems in future when the army is growing rapidly. If it were the latter, we will be overwhelmed. By then, it'll be more difficult to handle even though it can be handled with God's help.
Don't fall away from God! As we face our problems, keep on returning to God and cast our burdens upon Him. God will be there with open arms to receive you even if you are the most ashamed and distressed. Even though we might not feel like praying at that moment, just pray. That feeling is only something that the devil uses to bring us away from God. Ask God constantly for strength and endurance to go on, for courage to stand up for the truth, patience to deal with others kindly, joy to take all the problems with (what we call in JJ) positive attitudes, love to love those who persecute us, and PASSION to love Him much more than before!
Lastly, don't be afraid to confide in your friends or family. God has placed them around you not for nothing. He has placed them beside you to grant you listening ears. Similarly, He has placed you around them to grant them listening ears. I thank Jesus for Pearl and Fish because they have been the ones who have encouraged me when I am down. I would have fallen into the same trap of faling away from God if it were not for pearl and fish. Thx pearl! Thx fish! =D And THANK YOU JESUS!
Allow me to be your listening ear too, if you need one. We need each other and must support each other to keep this army alive.
lots of loves
char
5:03 PM
the scent still lingers
