Saturday, 1 May 2010


4:15 am


“To force my will on you,” Jesus replied, “is exactly what love does not do. Genuine relationships are marked by submission even when your choices are not helpful or healthy…Submission is not about authority and it is not of obedience; it is about relationships of love and respect. In fact, we are submitted to you in the same way.”

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If I have a hope, it’s that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story, and put us in with the sunset and rainstorm as though to say, “Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.”

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I spent the last two nights pondering.

I rediscovered the significance of perspectives, about living in a constant third person p.o.v: about not looking from within the situation but beyond it. We face an adversity and choose to see what God sees and we pull ourselves through these circumstances with a hope that thrives. And life is really pretty much about choices and decisions, about choosing who to believe in and deciding what steps to take to solve our lifeproblems. If anything, I’m grateful to choose to accept, follow and obey Him, because it’s literally spoonfeeding towards Life (don’t you agree? haha). Only criteria? To obey. Yet I’ve also realised the inherent difficulty to being obedient, man being in nature vulnerable to temptations. I try not to blame Adam and Eve really, because it’s in fact the Enemy’s fault. I try not to hate myself for the sillythings I do/feel/react to, but I choose to reject the Enemy’s attacks either as a cause or a consequence – I learn from them and carry on.


Perspectives.

It's all about shifting perspectives.