Loosening the Chain

Hey everyone!

Life, it can be complicated or it can be simple, wouldn't you agree?

I know that for myself there are moments where I absolutely feel like I am "on it", like now, and others where I, well, my last post shows that it's all interchangeable from time to time, isn't it?

Never mind somebody lying to me and saying that it shouldn't be like that because life is like that; filled with up's and down's so if anybody tells me that it's meant to be stable 100% of the time, I don't know what they are looking at, but it's not life as I know it...

Repeated Resetting

I know that, in actual fact, for the healthy person life is meant to be about smoothing out those peaks and troughs so that they are not as extreme as some of the ones that I have been through over the last eight to ten years, but you know what?

Like I said last night during my Friday night chill session; for every single cut into my heart, every single shank that has gored me emotionally, every single blade that went in to the deepest part of who I am, God was there for each and every one of them!!!

I'm thankful of that!

I have to be because there have been so many times when I have been unfaithful to Him, so many times where I've missed the mark, but it is a testament of His faithfulness to me in my nearly twenty years as a Christian.

God has been guiding me immensely these past few weeks whilst He has been drawing out the talent that He has evidently placed within me during my time on creative.

I'm glad I'm back there because I belong there!

Now, have a look at this from 2 Timothy 2:13 from the Holman Christian Standard Bible version: -

if we are faithless, He remains faithful,

for He cannot deny Himself.

Do you see that? God cannot deny Himself!

So for every time I've messed up whilst I've tried to handle this crush the best way that I know how, every time I've said the wrong thing in an interview, every time that I've hurt someone close to me, GOD HAS BEEN THERE THROUGH IT ALL!!!

If I were to abandon Him in my quest to find out more about this girl that I like then I would be abandoning the only One who has ever stood by my side even when I wasn't aware of it, or even when I was the one doing wrong!

That's cold, that's disrespectful!

Final Thought

I'm wrapping this session up at the library now, ready to go grab some chips, or something, for lunch so I want you to take a look at what you are chasing after.

As much as I'm trying to chase after this beautiful, amazing, stunning young lady, even if I do keep stumbling at the minute, I simply have to make sure that it is not at the expense of the faithfulness that I have been trying to show my God in response to His work that He has been faithfully doing in me.

Making it at the expense of that is a complete no-go because how am I supposed to lead my household in the future and be a father to my kids if I am chasing an unholy focus?

And what is an unholy focus only anything that is not God!

Shock, drop & awe!