Count Your Sufferings
I was recently approached by a highly blessed person who told me 'Don't be Pai seh. Ask God and He shall give you abundantly.' He also wanted me to understand the 'Once saved forever saved' theory, that it was wrong to always worry about whether God has forgiven us. Alot had been shared and it had indeed opened my eyes to new horizons.
From the sharing I realised I had so often regard my Father as my personal magician or worse sugar daddy... That my daily prayers are merely my daily 'wish list'... Sad but true. And you should see me when God says 'Wait' or 'No'. I am like a child who is ready to bring the whole world down if my father says no ice cream to me who is having a cough on a rainy day. I cannot and do not see the whole picture . I could only focus on 'NO ice cream'.
Actually I wanted very much to ask that highly blessed person what will happen if God stop blessing him and allow bad things to befall on him. Will he lose his faith?
My Faith has provided me with 3 essential elements -- hope , joy and peace. But recently I went into a mild depression. I lost hope. I didn't feel any joy. And no peace was found... And in this short period I asked God 'Why have you abandon me...?' Yet I feel my Faith strengthening. For now I feel lost when I don't feel God. For now I need Him cos I love Him. (But I do not deny I love Him cos I need Him...) And at this point I ask God 'Is this phase 2? Will you prepare me for phase 3?'
SUMMARY :
Phase 1 : Recoginse that God is the provider of all Things. Give Thanks in all circumstances. For the little pain that God has set you up today may prevent the big bruise tomorrow. You see today, you feel the present but God sees the whole picture. Hence just count your blessings.
Phase 2 : Understand that You Love God. No for the favours he granted ...
Phase 3 : Count your sufferings. Look at Mother Teresa. Guess where did she draw strength from.
I believe that our Father will want to prosper us, to provide for us, to give to us. But in this world there are prosperous people and there are also poor people. And our God is the God of both the prosperous people and poor people. Guess what will God do when half of the world pray for rain and the other pray sun. My answer will be someone has to count their sufferings and hold on to their Faith... Part of me hope that I will never be called to count my sufferings but part of me pray that maybe someday, somehow I shall count my sufferings...
From the sharing I realised I had so often regard my Father as my personal magician or worse sugar daddy... That my daily prayers are merely my daily 'wish list'... Sad but true. And you should see me when God says 'Wait' or 'No'. I am like a child who is ready to bring the whole world down if my father says no ice cream to me who is having a cough on a rainy day. I cannot and do not see the whole picture . I could only focus on 'NO ice cream'.
Actually I wanted very much to ask that highly blessed person what will happen if God stop blessing him and allow bad things to befall on him. Will he lose his faith?
My Faith has provided me with 3 essential elements -- hope , joy and peace. But recently I went into a mild depression. I lost hope. I didn't feel any joy. And no peace was found... And in this short period I asked God 'Why have you abandon me...?' Yet I feel my Faith strengthening. For now I feel lost when I don't feel God. For now I need Him cos I love Him. (But I do not deny I love Him cos I need Him...) And at this point I ask God 'Is this phase 2? Will you prepare me for phase 3?'
SUMMARY :
Phase 1 : Recoginse that God is the provider of all Things. Give Thanks in all circumstances. For the little pain that God has set you up today may prevent the big bruise tomorrow. You see today, you feel the present but God sees the whole picture. Hence just count your blessings.
Phase 2 : Understand that You Love God. No for the favours he granted ...
Phase 3 : Count your sufferings. Look at Mother Teresa. Guess where did she draw strength from.
I believe that our Father will want to prosper us, to provide for us, to give to us. But in this world there are prosperous people and there are also poor people. And our God is the God of both the prosperous people and poor people. Guess what will God do when half of the world pray for rain and the other pray sun. My answer will be someone has to count their sufferings and hold on to their Faith... Part of me hope that I will never be called to count my sufferings but part of me pray that maybe someday, somehow I shall count my sufferings...
posted by Count your Blessings at 9:57 AM
2 Comments:
hi
I love this post.. very insightful.
think I'm going to adopt this.
When the followers of Gageism prays for the pain to stop, I say NO
haha
okok.. not funny..
I'm glad that you've learnt this. and I will learn too :)
count your sufferings.
but I pray that you will read what I am going to say with the mind as open as possible.
You wrote "For now I feel lost when I don't feel God."
Don't you think that you shld be the center hold of yourself?
Afterall, any religion could have started because some crazy guy like Gage started a Gageism?
Point is.. any extreme is never good.
Count for your own worth and life, at some level.
Basing everything on G** is just blind.
Going to God is like pledging your
alligience to the Lord. Your life is not yours anymore and
you've understood that your life
and free will was bought at a price. The death of Christ.
God touches each of us differently in our hearts.
It is only when we harden ourselves to Him that we see no other way other then ourselves. In us our strength is finite and will one day dim.
In Him we plan for eternity and have faith of a loving God who's guiding and teaching us each step in our lives.
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