Anyways.
Here I am. I'm back home after having been gone 2 weeks. I'm back in my familiar surroundings and I'm back in a familiar situation. A situation very close and similar to where I was back in December, before my big trip to Hong Kong.
Before leaving the country, both times I was in a place of feeling really spiritually lame. Lame in the exact sense of the word - feeling incapable, stuck and helpless. In both cases I didn't really feel like spending time with God. Being thrown into a different culture was another added stress, because that meant adjusting, it meant being on guard and more self-conscious. All that takes energy, and all my focus is poured into those face-guarding activities, so my spiritual welfare usually suffers.
Now I come back, feeling the same way I did back in December. This time around, I'm not panicked, or feeling a sense of desperation to get myself "fixed". Facing this scenario, round two, I have trained through the first round, and have learned from the past. The wind and waves have knocked me down, but I know God hasn't left me, I know He will bring me through this, this is only a season.
The thing to do is just get up and get back in the saddle as soon as you can. I've started to think less on the "failures", and pitfalls I've run into, and have just learned to keep enduring, continue striving. One step at a time, claiming the little victories.
When your focus gets distorted, you just have to check-in, change perspective and set it right again:
The thing to do is just get up and get back in the saddle as soon as you can. I've started to think less on the "failures", and pitfalls I've run into, and have just learned to keep enduring, continue striving. One step at a time, claiming the little victories.
When your focus gets distorted, you just have to check-in, change perspective and set it right again:
"If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God." (Colossians 3:1-3)
It's in us to be able to set eyes on things above, on the things of God, as opposed to the things on this planet that steal our attention constantly. And the promises of God are so much more assuring, so much more peace-bringing and joy-filling.
Our first "job" has always been to love God and to serve Him wherever we are. Time's pretty limited so it's best to humbly learn from the mistakes, saddle up and press onward, hearts set on our hope in Christ, always persevering.
Our first "job" has always been to love God and to serve Him wherever we are. Time's pretty limited so it's best to humbly learn from the mistakes, saddle up and press onward, hearts set on our hope in Christ, always persevering.
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