This year for some reason I feel so overwhelmed with emotions. So many blessings...unexpected ones...so many blessings each day...His grace is new every day. His peace beyond understanding is just out of this world. His perfect timing even makes me feel at awe at His grand designs. You know how life makes more sense when you look back on the past? And you get to see things more clearly? That's how I feel today even more acutely than ever... PRAISE THE LORD for everything good that comes my way... THANK YOU for your love, THANK YOU for the closed doors... THANK YOU for the open doors that I never even expected to be open... THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU... And for you, dear readers, enjoy this lovely video clip...Kim Yunaaaaaaa on ice!!!! :-D
About a month ago or so I was feeling sick and tired. Of what? I guess the correct answer would be "the fallenness of mankind". I wasn't sick and tired of mankind per se, but just that part of mankind, including that part in myself (or maybe especially 'coz I know that part exists in myself).
I guess the trigger was when I read this online forum that talked about two different people from two different cultures and the heated debate went on and on and on. There were at least 100 "commentators", but I only found about 1/10th who were the voice of reason. Some of the commentators made me feel sick and disgusted.
It's so easy when I look at that fallen part in myself that for example if I'm struck by someone, my instinct would be to strike back. If I'm hurt, my instinct would be to fight back or to have my revenge. Maybe for different people, the "fallen" parts are different than mine. But still the fallenness exists.
I don't mean to say that I'm giving up on mankind, but I'm just saying that there are times when I just want to get away from humans 'coz the fallenness of mankind makes me sick.
I talked about this topic today with a friend and she said she thought she was the only one going mad ha ha ha...she also experienced this and she said that she also wanted to get away from people in order to "reduce" the amount of possible "negative thoughts/feelings/reactions" that come from dealing with other human beings.
However, at the other end of the spectrum, after feeling so disgusted and sick like this, I wonder why God still loves us just the way we are, despite ourselves. I mean logically thinking I know that God is love, but my human brain is wondering that after all the wickedness and ugliness that humans can do, isn't it beyond AMAZING that He still loves us? That He's sent Jesus to die for our sins? I still can't comprehend the depth of His love for us...it's WAY beyond what my human brain can understand. Having billions and billions of "children on earth" behaving the way we are many days a year...I'm THANKFUL that God is God.
There are moments when God seems to be silent. There are moments when you can hear God's still, small voice speaking to you...to your conscience, to the deepest part of your being. There are moments when you can hear God's LOUD voice booming at you.
Today is one of the days when I heard God's LOUD voice booming at me. It was SO loud that I couldn't have missed it even if I wanted to. I was reading Our Daily Bread and there were so many words in today's passage that really shook me inside.
He listens to me. He comforts me. He understands. That's all that matters.
Glory to Him who cares for me, Someone who's but a dust in the wind...
