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You know when you try to be deep and have time for yourself to start untangling your thoughts...and then you start with one issue and end up having a long list of issues? Yes, that is what you are going to read now so sorry in advance.
'But try to live in the present!'
That was the advice given to me a while ago and I found it relevant. We waste our time either regretting that we did not enjoy the past to the max or just worrying about the future. We say yes we trust in God, but once the plan changes a millimeter we start melting down and freaking out that we have lost control of our lives. But what this advice reminded me of is to look at the past and see how much GOD carried me. It made me recall all the fearful feelings that I had with every stressful situation, failure or change of plan, and how GOD ended up surprising me afterwards. When we were kids, we were always taught that Peter was so weak and unfaithful when he denied Jesus even though he spent three years with him, witnessing a lot of the miracles, having numerous talks with the Son of God Himself, and was even warned just a few hours beforehand that he would deny Jesus. But this is what I do whenever I fear the future; I deny Jesus, I deny God’s plans, I overlook all the past years when he carried me and decide instead to be afraid and scared.
“For I know the plans I have for you” (Jeremiah 29:11)
It might be human nature, it might be my weakness, but the more I am drifted from my steering wheel the more I cannot focus on the current moment and cannot enjoy it. But how? How am I so attached to my plans, when I cannot even predict what I will be doing in the next hour? How should I not fully trust in God’s plan, when He is the Almighty and loves me unconditionally? How am I worried when I know that He is the only one who holds my future?
It is hard I think to have faith when our human nature tells us “having control = success”, but all that I am praying for you is the faith to trust, and strength to accept what cannot be changed. Because one day in the future you will look back and understand, you will recall all the doubtful moments and you will be surprised at how far you have reached and of the strength and gifts God granted you along the way.
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