YOUR STEADFAST LOVE ENDURES

The songwriter once sang: Your steadfast love endures to the heavens, your faithfulness reaches to the skies... I think I now understand those lines. As I interact with people I have realized that my endurance level with any man/woman is very limited. We may have struck an excellent friendship from the moment we first met or it developed over time. Whatever the scenario, I have understood that as time goes on and either distance or human frailties set in our patience begins to wear thin. Those exciting feelings we had towards this individual when that chord of friendship first struck begins to fade away. We begin to see clearly that no one is perfect and then we make the choice whether to continue this path of friendship or to go out separate ways. We then begin to see how limited we are as humans to endure with anyone for a lifetime. On the other hand is God Almighty, who created us. One would think, He is Almighty, He loses nothing whether or not He is in a relationship with any man because He is sufficient in Himself but He stoops to relate with each man/woman He creates and follows us daily, steadfastly till He gets our attention. He works at pruning us (though the changes in our lives are dependent on our cooperation with Him) to look more like Him. For me the character of God that will forever amaze and blow my mind is His steadfastness. I give up on my fellow human especially when those inconsistencies begin to surface but He doesn't. He follows us till we take our dying breath. What better show of love? Truly, Your love indeed extends to the heavens...

Frailty of life

In the last one week, I have had the priviledge of seeing life from a different perspective. It suddenly occurred to me that whatsoever we acquire, incur, we boast about in this life we leave behind.
It is only the things we invest in the lives of people whether for good or bad that remain in their hearts when we are gone. Whether or not people will truly sorrow is dependent on the kind of investment we made in their lives.
The question to me and you today is:

Do the investments in the lives of people you are living with, meeting, relating with have eternal significance?

Do you invest your time, attention, resources, emotions into the relationships you have?

Or do you emotionally drain those around you, till they are almost dead?

It calls for deep reflection...

SUFFERING

The concept of suffering is not a foreign one in the broken world we live in. In different ways we experience it whether through our wrong actions that bring about natural consequences, other people's actions or inactions that bring painful hurt, natural disasters, diseases etc. The list is endless! As I think more about it, it drives me to ask what stance do you and I take when we suffer? This is because it goes a long way to determine whether we'll come out refined by our sufferings or bitter. I don't want to even talk about the issue of denying that suffering is part of our daily living (subject for another day). Do I chose to ask questions categorizing the suffering or asking God what do you want me to learn in this process? Suffering is in our lives to refine and purify us; to grow us so much that we can extend the grace we received through our experience to others. I beg to say that suffering is not painful and meaningless but can be used by God for our greatest good.