"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance."
- Ecclesiastes 3:1,4
"Prayer is solace for the restless soul."
"The acid test of where your heart is: where does it go when you are alone? Your religion is revealed in solitude."
- Tim Keller
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What is Love?
Before, I thought that being in love was having a certain person around- to make you happy when you’re down, someone to lean on & a constant that would go through things together with you.
Now, I picture it quite differently. Love is strength from another. One that gets you encouraged & inspired. Your weaknesses are his strengths and he makes up for your flaws perfectly. Finding “The One” is not finding another you in the crowd. It’s finding that person who’s going to build you up & pull you along when you’re left behind in life. Someone that’s not afraid to be honest with you but at the same time, someone who’s patient & forgiving.
Watching “The Lucky One” & “The Vow” made me realize that when it comes to my life partner, him being cool & cute is not going to cut it. He has to have character and above all, someone that’s firm and rooted in God.
I want to have confident assurance that even when the going gets tough, we won’t give up on each other. That the challenges we face will draw us even closer to each other rather than drive us apart. That the love we share would be strong & firm throughout the different seasons.
I believe that he is out there & one day when I meet him, I’ll look back and know that everything that happened before was worth this. Every wait, every heartbreak & every doubt will be no more.
“Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.”- 1 Corinthians 13:7
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"There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering."
- D.A. Carson
“Letting go is not a one-time thing but a moment-by-moment occurrence. On some days, you’ll feel like you’ve done it. And on some days, you’ll feel like you’re back to square one. But despite that, don’t be deceived into thinking that you aren’t moving forward.”
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It is the glory of God to conceal a matter.
Proverbs 25:2
There’s a reason God’s will in specific situations is so difficult to know sometimes. There’s a reason that not everything is black and white. It can be difficult to discern God’s will for a lot of situations.
Who to date.
Where to go to college.
Who to marry.
Where to move.
What job to take.
And it’s not because you’re not praying. You’re probably praying a lot. It’s not because you don’t want to know His will. You probably aren’t lacking that desire.
But according to this verse in Proverbs, it’s because God conceals.
But why? After all, that seems counterintuitive to God’s purposes and using you in them.
The reason isn’t because God doesn’t want you to know His will. He wants you to know it more than you want to know it. God has something so much greater for you instead.
Him.
God’s not up in heaven hiding His will, hoping you’ll never be able to find it. But He does play hide and seek. He doesn’t just want us to find His will, He wants us to find Him in the process. Because if His will was in plain view, we would seek it instead of seeking Him.
That’s why he conceals it. That’s why it’s so hard.
The point isn’t for God to make His will plain. His will isn’t the main objective. He is the main objective. He wants you to discover Him above all else.
As you run after God and his good, pleasing, and perfect will, remember these two truths:
God isn’t the shortcut to your best life. He is your best life.
God doesn’t want to give you the guide for your life. He wants to be your Guide.
The scariest possibility for your life isn’t getting God’s will wrong. It’s getting God’s will right but barely coming to know God in the process.
You could love the right woman but lose your first love.
You could find the right career but then make it your god.
That’s why He doesn’t just write His will for you in the clouds. At the end of the process, He wants you to know something far greater than what you should do next with your life.
He wants you to know who He is.
""True love isn’t so much a dreamy feeling that you have; it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially - even, or perhaps, especially, when you don’t feel like it."
- William R. Maltox Jr.
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“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.”
- Isaiah 26:3
To fix your thoughts on God means to think about Him often. And how will that give us peace?
When we remember that God is in control, we won’t despair over the turn of world events.
When we remember that God is all-powerful, we will know that He can handle any problem we may encounter.
When we remember that God is all-knowing, we won’t worry about the future.
When we remember that God is all-loving, we will live confidently, knowing that He wants only what’s best for us.
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"Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
- Howard Thurman
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
- Marianne Williamson
