There’s no greater call than when you said, “Come follow me”
That God has a plan for your pain, that He will not waste it and that He causes all things to work together for good for those who love Him, for those called according to His purpose.
He’s a purposeful God, and nothing He does is by sheer coincidence, when we hand our lives over to Him, He is not careless with them and if we’ll just ask Him to give us His eyes, to give us His heart, He’ll completely change the way we view our pain.
I turned 18 on Thursday, and I didn’t really have much time to ponder what that meant on the day because I had two of my final Biology exams and it didn’t feel much like a birthday at the beginning. And I’ve been trying out that phrase in my head, “I’m eighteen” in my head and it still feels like I’m sixteen right, to be honest but I just wanted to talk about life and some of the things God has done and it’s so good to remember the things that God has done in the past because it gives you so much hope for the future and it fills your heart with praise and gratefulness to Him and it makes you understand that God’s plan might not be clear whilst you’re in the moment but that there will be a time when you look back and you’re like, “Oh goodness Lord, You really knew what you were doing”.
The fact that I’m even alive today is completely God’s doing. My mum had a pretty life-threatening C-section and the doctors had told her that although it was the best option; it was likely that she would die or that I would die. And we’re both here today. And sometimes I just place my hand over my heart and I just remember, on those days when life seems so bleak and hard, that God has put me here for a reason, that I’m here not out of chance but because He wanted me here.
And that’s the kind of mind-set God has had me in since Thursday, He’s just pushing me to remember every single second of the day why I’m here. That I’m here because of Him, that I’m here to know Him and to make Him known, and that any day that I’m not living my life with those things in mind, is a waste.
You’re here, and He’s saying the same thing to you, life is a gift, every day is a gift, what are you gonna do with it? Who are you gonna give it to? What is your life gonna be about? What do you want people to say about you? What do you want Heaven to say about you?
My biggest prayer for you and me is that we surrender to God in fullness, that we have Him not only living on the inside of us and making us like Him but that His essence would flow out of us every single day and that every person that we meet would know that we are His.
A Saviour who turns tragedies into love stories. This is the God I know.
Mind-blowing message at church today by this guy and I got to speak to him for a few minutes after as well, so humble and so Christlike, I’m inspired.
