hey guys! how's it going? hope all is well with you guys. i know i said it like a million times but it has been insanely long since i blogged about something or written an article on my journey with God. To be brutally honest, there were SO MANY things i wanted to write about and i believe it was God's way of speaking to me too.
Anyway, it's my second semester here in Kampar (if you've read my previous article, "entering unknown terrain", i've referred it as the "land up north". hehe. moving on.) and i must say it has been an incredible journey *hearts*. God has indeed blessed me a great deal lately and one of best blessings i've had when i first got here were incredible friends. You see, God surrounded me with very extraordinary people. Why extraordinary you ask? these are the kind of people you would know are completely sold out for God and whose lives are devoted to loving others and doing His Will. They may be young, but they know first hand that God has set them apart for things greater than themselves.
1 Timothy 4:12 says, "do not let anyone look down on you just because you are young but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity."
A wise person once said that a man is defined by the company that surrounds him. Now for me, that is true to a certain extent. Because i've experienced first hand how these wonderful men and women of God encouraged me and inspired to pursue a deeper love for Him. You can have all the theology in the world within you but if that knowledge is not accompanied with an earnest, sincere and desperate desire for Jesus then you know you need to get fixed.
Glory to God for designing this entire body in such a way that every part does not contradict one another but compliments one another. Now, for many of you who don't exactly know what this statement means, God has made you and i to support and enhance one other in Him. I use to think i was fine on my own and that i didn't need people for support because God was all that i needed. But God proved me wrong by showing me that depending on your spiritual family is NOT a sign of weakness in anyway. Don't get me wrong, the bible still tells us that our hope should rest on nothing less other than God Himself.
Depending on someone doesn't necessarily mean that your complete hope is in them. People often mistaken the whole concept of "not putting your hope on men but on God" as sign that they should run a one man show. As for me, what it really meant was that we must fully rely on God for all things; including spiritual support. God's form of Spiritual support comes from the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. Think about it, God can provide us with support anyway He chooses. Be it through a personal touch or encounter with Him but i believe that He is capable of using other people as well. A perfect example is to have other people lay their hands on you to pray for you. God said after all that His body is the church and that He has made the Church so that the gates of hell will not prevail.
sincerely yours in the Lord,
Theresa
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