Do not ask anyone to be kind, generous, loving, persistent, and committed to you when you cannot even be kind, generous, loving, persistent, and committed to God. Well, even if you do, you don’t have the right to demand from others. You cannot tell them they are unfair. You cannot tell them you are worthy to be treated better. If you just look at your real position before God, it will actually be a shame.
Yes it is a shame, but you are blessed because Jesus has removed that shame. If you accept Him as your Lord and Savior, and if you believe that through His blood, your guilt and shame are counted against you no more, then you are free. It is only through Jesus that you acquire such freedom.
Life is not about merits, it is about this privilege set by God. It is free, but it is your choice if you are going to receive it.
Being free means being content as well. The outcome is seeing yourself committed to tell yourself and the world, “Christ is enough for me”. And with your head up high you say, “hate me or love me, it doesn’t matter, for my Heavenly Father loves me and looks forward to be with me in eternity once I am done here..”
Hate me or love me, I will continue to press on. I will forever be thankful for what Christ has done for me. I will tell the world, from the east to the west, that there is no other way to heaven but Christ alone. Call me arrogant, but if arrogance is the way to tell you the truth, I might as well be one in a positive sense.
Hate me or love me, I still want to see you after we are done here. Why? Because i love you, for heaven’s sake! You don’t have to love me for me to love you. Christ is enough. Everyone whom my Father loves, I also love. Even though it is hard, I will. How? He teaches me to persist. He teaches me to be in a commitment that is hard to maintain. He gives me strength and wisdom to keep that commitment to love even the most unlovable people. I myself is hard to love too so why should I continue complaining?
It is so hard that many times, I want to quit. But God Himself never gives up on me. People may give up on me but never would God do that on me.
Well God is greater than me, and though at times I give up, He still brings me back on track to do it again. And though many times I fail, He picks me up again, put be back on track again, and again and again. My God is persistent. I should be persistent too.
My God is committed to me.
I should be committed to you too.
dot.. dot.. dot.. what am I trying to say here?
to be continued.. :)
-chibi
