Letting go and letting Him

Life is to be shared and it definitely opens a completely new world to you when you find that one special person. However, what happens when that one person is not all that they seemed to be and all the hopes you have built in them come collapsing down.
When it becomes clear that without trading your belief’s and your God the best thing is to let go.
Just thankful that today I am working on letting go –knowing people and letting them be .I have to remember to say thank you again if only to keep me going . Right now it seems like the hardest thing to accept that a special person’s purpose in my life is done with and I have to start out again on what seems a lonely path.
My decision to let go is reminding me of my love for the saviour and am thankful that the Lord has instigated in me such great love and wisdom to discern when I should let go and let Him. I am thankful that it is teaching me to overcome my natural inborn tendencies to put myself first and instead put my God first.
I am thankful that it is teaching me to trust my father above. I am happy too that this pain is for a reason and once I have truly let go I will look back and give praise for his goodness.
Thank you Lord that even in such times you never let go of us and I pray for other young people who may have invested time in a relationship but have to let go that you give them the strength .Thank you Jesus that you are not just faithful but you are sufficient.

In Stride.

"And we know that God causes everything to work together for good for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose for them."Romans 8:28
Sometimes you read scripture and well it is just words that in the moment do not speak into your circumstances. I memorised Romans 8:28 way back as a teenager and I have since used it on several occasions to encourage me and rebound me to the purposes of the Lord in my life. Last Saturday created another opportunity for me to be encouraged with this great scripture …only that this time it spoke in my life not only tremendously but also in a whole new light.
I mean sometimes when we give in to temptation there are consequences and if you are not careful, they may overtake you. I had one of those acting so irrationally moments, that when I stopped to think the me I know and love did not fit in the picture. In addition, try as I may, questions just kept popping in and out of my head…as if I did not feel guilty enough they rolled and rolled that it started to feel like a punishment. Just as I was starting to despair that precious word took over my thinking and the more I thought I about it the more everything made sense to the point of everything falling in place if not justified.
I have never been one to think that bad things especially done by us also revolve around God’s purpose of us being fulfilled…there are no words to explain but my moment of sheer anger and acting stupidly was saving me from being taken advantage of, from being carried away with the excitement of the moment.
I do not even have words to comprehend the protection of the Lord I have felt since then and still do in everything I do. If we just pause and let Him, God is leading us on.

Building Relationships.

As a young girl I was taught to summarise the word Joy as “Jesus first, Others next and Yourself last”. Emphasis was put on the fact that if I followed that principle, then I would be assured of joy in my life. With time as I started not only to engage my brain more but also to relate more with people, I couldn't help but think what a joke the whole "joy" concept was. Time has taught me that putting others before you is easy if they are going out of their way to make you happy. But what happens if all you are getting is hurt and rejection from those you have put first at all costs? The truth is whether I want it or not, you and I need people to live life with. Needless to say, it is a continuous struggle if we are to put others no matter what before ourselves.

However why not start just by involving people in our lives? After all our lives are enhanced by the relationships we have. I am sure you have had one of those days where a kind word, hug or kiss from a special loved one and in some cases a stranger has made a difference to an otherwise gloomy day. I believe human beings are relational in nature. The world has put it simply as "No man is an Island", and I couldn't agree more. In addition, relationships are very vital to the quality of life that we have.

Growing up in a not so small family, I had those moments where I just needed some time to myself and as a teenager; I asked one of my married friends if they ever had that urge to have space away from their spouse. ‘Of course’, was the reply as naturally we all need that one to one time when we can reflect without any background noise although however, that is not to say that people aren't important for if we can't get along with people, then there's a ceiling on our lives. A better way of looking at it is how the Ten Commandments are summed up. The first to the fifth of the laws relate to our relationship with God while the sixth to the tenth, our relationship with other people.

Every one of us was created to have a relationship with God and a relationship with other people. If you thought you could do without people, there's no way out since relating to both our creator and fellow man is the most important thing we can do. Someone else said that in order to be happy in life, we just have to spend time with the people we love. Put in another way, we have to place value on the people we live with and in the end everyone will be happy.