Tonight was a really crazy night. Well, actually this entire day was just a really tiresome day because I had been working on a project since the time i woke up to the time i had my afternoon class. Then after my afternoon class ended, I went out to see the annual Halloween parade that the city does. So by the end of the day, I was drained both psychologically and physically.
The Halloween Parade was really enjoyable and fun but what really bothered me was the amount of negativity in the crowd. Many people were complaining about the crowdedness and the traffic the parade was causing. And it really made me think again about the consumer mind set that we as humans have. Because every person in the crowd would complain, if their needs were not met. Wether they could see the parade from where they were standing, whether they could get across the street without having to wait, wether they felt tired, wether they were happy or not. Like everything was very draining and I found myself being very self fish for what i needed, which ultimately led to complaining...
By the time i got back to the dorms, i was ready to take a shower and go straight to sleep. However, as i was checking my phone, I realized that the touch screen on my phone was not working.
I started to freak out. Several questions started clouding my mind. Will my alarm still go off tomorrow? What if it doesnt? What if im late to my class tomorrow morning? What if i need to contact my friends? What if i get into an emergency and i need to use the phone?
And as i was asking myself all these questions and doubts, an endless list of questions for my future also started to add onto the list.
In hopes of relieving my anxieties of my problem with my phone, I made an appointment with apple for the next day that i was free to go and fix my phone.
However, even after booking my appointment and knowing that i was "safe", really didnt give me a 100% feeling of assurance...
So I turned to the word...
Tonight i read Hebrews 11,12& 13. As i was reading it I was reminded of how great God is.
Hebrews 11 mentions all the people in the bible who were successful in everything they did because they had faith. It mentions Abel, Enoch, Noah, as well as several other people. The list of examples of people who were faithful really goes for a long time, which shows the power of God and the outcome of being faithful to his word and what believing in him 100 percent can really do.
Hebrews 11 mentions all the people in the bible who were successful in everything they did because they had faith. It mentions Abel, Enoch, Noah, as well as several other people. The list of examples of people who were faithful really goes for a long time, which shows the power of God and the outcome of being faithful to his word and what believing in him 100 percent can really do.
Verse 5 in chapter 13 " Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."
Verse 6 "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?"
Verse 8 "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever."
and Verse 20-21 "Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus. that great Shepherd of the sheep,(21) equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him; through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever Amen."
These verses really shook me up and woke me up. Its crazy how quick we are to forget ,even after seeing how much and knowing how the Lord has worked in our lives, how great the Lord is.
Its crazy how quickly we can become blind to the abilities of God.
You see in verse 5, the Lord said he would NEVER leave us nor forsake us. Meaning he will never leave us alone. He is ALWAYS there on our side. He's like literally calling out to us saying "LOOK AT ME! LOOK HERE, because I can give you rest!"
And that really struck me because I really was able to feel the immense love that he has for his children.
I have seen God work in my life in mind blowing ways, however, even after witnessing his works in my life, I was still was blinded by the problems of this world. I let the problems, which really are very petty problems, be magnified and block my view from God, pushing God away and replacing him with my anxieties.
When in reality, those problems are microscopic. They are all very minuscule things that God could so very easily handle.
I let those things have a hold of me. And after reading verse 8 in Chapter 13 I was reminded that the Lord was there for me and is there for me and will always be there for me.
He was shouting "HEY LOOK AT ME ! FOCUS ON ME!! Because I can make everything right. I am able to solve the problems that seem like huge mountains to you because I am God. "
He's saying to focus on him, not because he wants you're worship or because he feels like he's not getting enough love from us. (He's the God of all things, the Creator of this whole entire universe, and we are but specks! ) He's not calling out onto us because he wants to fulfill his own self fish desires, but he's calling out to us to look to him and to give our 100 percent attention to him because he knows that when we look to him we are having faith in him, and through that faith we find hope. Which ultimately delivers us from chains of anxieties, feelings of overwhelmingness, worries, doubts, etc that weigh us down and blinds us!
HE WANTS US TO BE FREED AND TO FIND FREEDOM IN HIM!!
Which means, he's calling out to us because he loves us and he wants us to feel loved and feel 100 percent assured that everything is going to be great because He is on our side.
And that, my friends, is TRUE LOVE. The only love that we can receive from the Father of all things. The name above all names. The King of king. The big G, not the little g's. The Alpha and the Omega.
The love that the Father has for his children.
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