A great photograph by cousin, Seraphina.
It has been weeks since I have shared my thoughts and summary of inspiring sermons from what I heard from church. Well, here I am back again, stitching the remains of what will turn into a fragment of God’s garment.
This was sermon by a preacher from Ghana.
From what we observed through our daily life, people are dying by the day, minute and even second. By approximation, the total deaths can be accumulated up to a whole country already! Fancy that! How fragile are the lives of human beings. Among all the millions of lives that had been lost within the period of time, have we wondered in our minds.
“Why is it not me? Why a I still alive?”
Actually, the main reason is because… God has a purpose for everyone in this world. There is a purpose that lies in everything He created. As long as it’s not accomplished, we will still continue living. God wants us to create testimonials in our life. It is not about how long we survived on earth, it’s about how we change our lives into a true testimonial.
Will and desire. Sometimes we tend to spare a certain amount of time only to God, due to self privacy. It’s archetypal for us to reserve our Sundays only for God, as for weekends… we can pour out a whole list of reasons to put our God aside from our side. In short, we are prone to forget about him at times.
Notice at times of depression, sadness, melancholy God also folds his arms and does not lend his helping hand, it’s because we do not give all our time to him. As what the importance of desires and will, we need to have these to surrender all our time to Him in order to build an intimate relationship with God, so that we are not easily tempted by sins.
James 1:13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted by evil and himself tempts no one.
The devil is no other than mischievous, devious and deceitful. By hook or by crook, it will search for millions of ways to attack our will and desire. We are actually loosing heaps of faithful Christians by this. It’s a battle, a long, dragged out battle between the devil and us.
Though we are above all, we have boundaries because we are humans. It is inevitably to say that we are limited and confined. Despite the thirst for freedom, our wills and desires has to be with boundaries. God wants all disciples to pay full attention to these 2 important elements of life and follows them. It is a key to ensure that our plans will go through, something that was born great and was supposedly delivered.
God has visions and plans but it is a downcast that many was not accomplished because of the lack of will to walk within our boundaries. The devil may fade the boundary line, at times we ourselves are confused where lies our boundaries. When we skip over the fence and looses focus or didn’t tame our wills and desires, we will miss the plans of our life.
Thus, have the will and desire to surrender our lives to God, so that we won’t miss what’s ahead of us.
