Pause...look back...look forward...rejoice!

[jehoshabeath]

If nothing else, being sick has given me the chance to take a time-out to stop and reflect on my life and how I'm spending it. Since it will come to an end eventually (though not an ultimate end), I need to regularly pause and reflect on what I am choosing to do with the time that God has given me. As the preacher says, "Better to go to the house

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[anonymous]

I hope you get well soon. It is amazing how some tribulations cause us to reflect on our life and faith and hence get to realize and learn some new things for the glory of God(Paul through his thorn could learn that God's grace is sufficient and that God's power is made sufficient in weakness--2Cor12:9). From the past two weeks i had also received some troubling news regarding one of my brothers. He was involved in a car accident and was in ICU. At that moment i wondered if i had tried enough to present Christ Jesus to him. I wondered on the will of God, realizing that my Christianity is very fake and hypocritical, realizing that any day i could loose those around me. Every person i see on the street tomorrow might not be alive. Yet i do not find myself praying and crying for their salvation. I can see how spiritually lazy and disbelieving i am. However still God answered my prayers for my brother, he showed a miraculous progress and now can move his head and even communicate. I realized that God desired that he be alive, God is really our God whether in dearth or alive, only if i could serve him with all my heart and guide the lips of others to learn to praise him while alive. Something was also impressed upon me was that, if God desires to see a sinner turn away from their sin than perish it means that Satan instead desires to see a sinner perish than turn away from their sin. How many die in this world with not coming to the hearing of Jesus Christ. I think i also need a serious time to reflect for i have become traditional and comfortable though not having made God's business of preaching Christ my business.

May God guide each step you make and may he be the source of your strength as you seek and to serve him. Please take care.