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And Loves Me So Hopelessly

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I highly suggest that you listen to this song first before you read this prompt.  (click the photo to listen) "And in the trials You are the strength and provider You were my friend in the fire Jesus, your love was there..." I was a kid born in a God-fearing family. A kid raised in Sunday School, ever familiar with all the Bible characters, memorized the Books of the Bible from Old to New testament. I was that "bright kid", so as most of the adults say. I was that "good kid", so as everyone who met and knew the background I lived in. I was that. Good. Girl.  Yet I was still undeserving. I am still a sinful creature in the eyes of God. No matter how hard I wash and cover myself with fig leaves, God still sees the scarlet red of sin bursting out of my soul. I'm unclean. And will forever be unclean, if I did not accepted Christ as my Lord and Savior. Fast forward, January 17, 2021, after years of pretending. After years of hiding my true state, after pret...

Tomatoes

"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" II Corinthians 6:14 Everyday, we encounter different people. Different habits. Different kind of talk. Different views. Different style. Different lifestyles. And it is definitely hard to pick the people you would want to share your life with as you journey along. The battle with your own self versus your new self in Christ never ends. Sadly, most of the times, we tend to let our selves win over what Christ wants us to do.  We tend to choose the people this world offers. Have you ever thought why you tend to do that? The world offers a variety of people, specially made for you to fall down of your Christian life. It can be a crush from your class who is an unbeliever and when he told you he felt the same feelings, you gave up all your beliefs and followed your heart. It can be an unbeliever friend whom you have come ...

In Place of Victory

  Read Zechariah 3  "And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of fire?"          —Zechariah 3:2 (KJV) As I had my morning devotion, I was praying that the Lord would touch and talk to my heart like what He did with the past week when I attended a youth retreat in Lucena, Quezon. I reluctantly opened my Bible and found myself looking in Zechariah chapter 3.  I read it once, yet I know I missed something big in this chapter. So I read it again, and opened my laptop to help me understand this chapter. After reading all the commentaries and further meditating on it, I was overwhelmed with all the information and wisdom I got from this chapter alone. It was a mixture of salvation, promise, and protection that God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ gives to His children during their daily walk with Him.   I want to share what I learned and fo...

Relieved

I thought I can learn to live with it... I thought I can manage to smile it away... But no.  Deep inside the trying me, my heart was trying to follow what my mind kept on chanting: You can live without them. You can live by your own self. Just like how you first came into their lives. It was bearable, but every time I remember it, I begin to realize I am so far away from where I last saw myself.  I was desperate for healing. and I tried to look for it on the wrong way. I thought it was just a little whispering I had to go through for a short while because wounds are still open and exposed to the air of people and circumstances that continuously bringing pain.  I know the truth. Ever since I ever known the Scriptures, I was taught to pray and ask God for the strength as I searched for the missing answers in my life. All along I thought it was as easy as praying when I was a little innocent child. As I grew, I felt the additional inch away from the Lord. I am active in chur...

Beyond What Eyes Can See

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  It took me 2 days before I have the courage to write something about February 27, 2021... February 27, 2021, was a painful day for me. As the sun sets down below the sea just behind our humble home, so as the time God decided to take my Lola home to heaven. And I just want to share something about her, and about what I feel when I lost her... Saturday, February 27, 2021... I just finished singing hymnals to her. I also tried my very best to play Canon in D in my violin, where I still suck on the fast part of that piece. I really don't want to leave her side since yesterday was a very rough day for me and I hadn't had the chance to take care of her the whole day because of school. I just had a bad outcome for our final defense in our Entrepreneurship and I was exhausted from all the thoughts running around in my mind. I was totally in panic the whole day, so Saturday was my relief. And this day was the time I avoided every gadget and just focused on taking care of her. My aunt...

A Not So Play Safe

         In life, there are things that we thought was normal to us and things we think was okay to do. We always think there were things that if we do, will benefit us, and others. But that's what we think. NOTE, WHAT WE THINK.          Things you might consider as an escape, might be a prison for others. Sometimes, running away seems to be an answer for the messy surroundings you're tired looking of. Running away might mean peace, understanding, and calmness within. But what we think was safe and easy for us, is hard and unacceptable to other people.           I had been on this situation for a lot since I can even remember. And I just realized these things just this week that I've been doing this nasty thing for years. I don't want to be left hanging and see every person I love and got attached to just leave and the door was still open, making me plant a little seed of hope of the chance of them going bac...

A word of encouragement

We all find something or someone who would satisfy us. Satisfy our needs, satisfies our desires, satisfies our happiness and everything a human could ask for. We want a steady and smooth-sailing life.     But sometimes, life surprise us in every aspects of our lives. We experience pain, loss, grief, or agony, from things we chose. But we just can't accept what happened . We're being indenial of those painful experiences that made us broken, unconfident, dependent, or WEAK . We tend to blame God for letting them happen because as He says, He's in control, so why would He allow such devastating thing to happen in your life?   I myself have been there. And I'll tell you right now, that I might still fall into that deep hole I've made few years ago. Up until now, I cry over that "spilt milk" of my life. It was difficult to move on realizing it made you weak. It made you see yourself more lowly than ever.  I constantly blame myself and God about my wretc...