Today I take assessment of the quality of my life, and I know that there have been so many changes in the way I face difficult situations. I know that the gifts God has given me are not to be received lightly. The most important thing that has been made clear in the many blessings that have been given to me is that, God has patiences and with me it is a big blessing. This time as I reassess I want to point out some of the things I've learned that I had not seen before.
The way I understood the word faith needed to be assessed first. In the past few years the Bible and the Dictionary have become my best friends. What I didn't understand is the word of God didn't have to be complicated if I just took the time to understand it's meanings. So when I saw these words in the definition of faith, complete trust, I realized I was guilty of not completely trusting God, and what the Bible say that faith is.
Now faith is the substance of thing hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Hebrews 11:1.
I had not learned to completely trust God, sad but true. I was still living the way I did in the past, where everything stayed the same and I was determine to stay there. Through all things taught in God's word, along with the people , place, and circumstances that have been instrumental in my growth process, I know that my lack of knowledge would have destroyed me. So I took another look at my past life,and moved forward with my life.
When God showed me Assessment, Focus, Perseverance, and Legacy, the four words that would begin to change my life. I was to take stock of my life up to that point, and define the quality of my living. God wanted me to focus my energy on what was important, rather than what I was going through. My source of strength had to be Jesus, the Bible, God's word along with the dictionary. These are the tools that would help me to understand what I was to do with those four words. Then I was to let go of the assessment of the past, because looking back was suppose to help me not hinder me. I would judge the worth or importance of what I saw, and then move on.
Focus, now that I can see clearly, my focus has to be centered on the supreme example, Jesus, the guide to obtaining a better quality of life. He told Nicodemus in John 3:3, what was necessary for the kingdom, and the same ingredients are needed to opened eyes, and cleansing of soul.
The dictionary defines Perseverance as a continued course of action in spite of difficulty, or opposition. As I write this the first and most important commandment come to mind. The key to the best quality of life is God's love. What I give to God has to be the best I have to offer because He loves me best. Perseverance in my case means that I'd have to develope the kind of determination I have never had before. A kind of stubborn courage, that over powers anything life throws my way, and know that God's way is the only way to walk through.
The right way means that I will assess every failure, while moving forward with change, and always through Jesus, prayer, and repentance. And as I continue to learn my life will become less complicated, because for every difficult situation, there is in God's word a formula to over come adversity. Yes life sometimes is still going to hurt, but with continual prayer, faith in my Lord and savior Jesus Christ, perseverance will come.
The Legacy, what exactly do I want to be past on to future generations. To some I might be growing old, but to God I'm just becoming what He had planned for me. I use to think that I should have already known what I'm writing, but I wasn't ready. What I was discovered is that parts of who I was were broken, in need of repair. I was like a puzzle with missing pieces, and Jesus held those pieces,and all I had to do is ask for them. It's like a door that has been closed, and suddenly without expecting it, it's open. I would write now and then when I had the time, but it wasn"t until I saw the Passion of Christ, did I see what I was missing. The movie was meant to open eyes, but the ending showed me something different, something new. No one saw Jesus when he first got up, and if you saw the condition his earthly body was in hanging on that cross, the end had to change your life. I saw what God did for his Son, it gave me kind of closure to the bad of life, and it show that nothing is impossible when you truly believe.
It all comes back to what love means in your life, God loved His Son, we know this because none of us would have survived Jesus' kind of love. But the love I give to my heavenly Father, His Son, and the Holy Spirit, has got to be powerful because I have taken the time to learn that it counts, it's what made the sacifice was necessary. There is so much more to the learning process, and knowing Jesus is where the anwsers are.
