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When we are low, and the howling of storm assails us, we feel shaken. We can actually feel the cold wind that threatens our sanity. It’s just a cold wind. But then we tremble in fear. It’s as if, it can tear us down and bring us to be nothing but rubbish.  We try to hold strong  on anything that is visibly within reach. Our instinct tells us to cling to anything that looks strong and stable.

In facing life’s struggle, it’s no different. our emotion will sway us to the other side in a blink of an eye. Our perspective of life changes in a matter of seconds. Just as fast our vision reaches the far end of the mountain, so our hearts are, in casting doubt and fear. We can never trust ourselves. The world tells us to trust ourselves, in christianity we have to do otherwise. We cannot follow our heart. It is corrupt. It is incapable of producing wise decision. It is well-proven by man through time. But the need to anchor ourselves to someone or something is an immediate need. We have to execute it without delay, else we might found ourselves drifted to far by the waves of sin and its curse.

Through time, there’s only one that remains constant. He stands within and without of time-space dimension. In the affairs of men, His counsel never faltered. He bring to pass His plans - swift and accurate. He was never unfaithful with His promises. He keeps them. For thousand of years of man’s earthly affairs, and witnessing the rise and fall in his struggles, God never changed. As He have been faithful- being the God of Abraham, the God of Jacob, and the God if Israel,- He did prove His trustworthiness to man. He don’t have to prove it. He is God any way.

Steven Curtis Chapman

Imagine this
I get a phone call from Regis - he says, "Do you want to be a millionaire?"
The put me on a show and I win with two lifelines to spare

Picture this
I act like nothing ever happened and bury all the money in a coffee can
Well I’ve been given more than Regis ever gave away
I was a dead man who was called to come out of my grave
I think it’s time for makin’ some noise

Think about this
Try to keep a bird from singing after it’s soared up in the sky
Give the sun a cloudless day and tell it not to shine

Think about this
If we really have been given the gift of life that never ends
And if we have been filled with living hope, we’re gonna overflow
And if God’s love is burning in our hearts, we’re gonna glow
There’s just no way to keep it in

Wake the neighbors
Get the word out
Come on, crank up the music, climb a mountain and shout
This is life we’ve been given, made to be lived out
So la, la, la, la, live out loud

Live out loud
Everybody
La, la, la…. la, la, la-la,…. la, la, la, live out loud
I wanna hear everybody sing
La, la, la…. la, la, la-la,…. la, la, la, live out loud

Every corner of creation is a living declaration
Come join the song we were made to sing

Wake the neighbors
Get the word out
Come on, crank up the music, climb a mountain and shout
This is life we’ve been given, made to be lived out
So la, la, la, la, live out loud

While others are working out their worthiness of God’s blessing, I never remember an instance that God let me feel am worthy of the things He gave me. I can count tens, and even hundreds of blessings that comes my way, but none of it was given because I’ve done something to be worthy of it. In fact, He let me have it the other way around - to be blessed when am amiss before Him.  I want to accomplish great things on my own, but I’m always disappointed. I cannot. I simply cannot.

God never gave me an opportunity to boast on things he gave me. It’s the reason why am always unsure of what is prepared of me in the morrow. Things go just the way He wanted it to be. It’s been a long time when am convinced He can make things work for my good- if only I would let him. If only I would acknowledge His sovereignty over me, over the things around me.