Service is not enough
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009God’s greater wisdom bloomed just this morning after attending so many ILCs and SFC retreats that surely empowered me to understand my God is loving and full of mercy.
The Global Leaders Forum in Tagaytay on 2006 really fired me up. To illustrate my experience, I saw God giving me a battle gear in my new quest of really seeking Him. God used the sharers to tell me these weapons.
- being a leader will not protect you from temptations
- no matter how fallen I am, He is there waiting for me to embrace His mercy and love
Armed with those weapons, I faced the next days of being an SFC servant in search for God. True enough I found Him and it was so great!!!!!
I became a servant more and more because God spoke to me through each service and God refined me through each service. This went on up until the time that God invited me to refine my wisdom. I felt that there is something wrong with my service, why is it not the same as before. Still holding on to Him and not letting go of our walk, I asked Him that question and we embarked on another journey.
To cut the long story short, God revealed to me a treasure as I end my prayer time this morning à SERVICE IS NOT ENOUGH because it is in TEACHINGS, REFLECTIONS and PRAYERS that I will get the chance to know Him more and more. In knowing Him more and more my service became better and deeper.
I’ve treated myself as a servant but in fact I am God’s beautiful princess that He loves so much whom He has called to share Him with others because He is not just mine, He is also yours.
As how I describe serving Him it is à Working in the vineyard is singing ‘SO BLESSED I CAN”T CONTAIN IT.’ And the blessings are not the material things, now I can say that the greatest blessing that I found is the TRUTH of JESUS CHRIST. He is the greatest treasure that I’ve ever had.
Some of the greatest truth that He has armed me with are à
- No matter how sinful I am, His love for me is constant and will never ever change, what I just need to do is to embrace it.
- As I battle each day of spiritual warfare of temptations and sins, He assures me that He is there to help me. All I just need to do is to ask for what I need in prayer.
- I tried to battle pride using my own strength and it tired me and I still fell. When God revealed to me that I just need to pray for humility, the next battle surprised me because I found myself protected.
The key in all of these is a humble heart before God knowing that I need Him each day of my life, knowing that I don’t have anything to boast of before Him because who I am today is because of Him.
My constant prayer is ‘Lord, I don’t know if I will be able to resist temptations and sins when it comes but if ever that comes, equip me and remind me that all I just need to do is to pray to You and to know that You are with me and have already won the battle. All I just need to do is to hold on and claim that victory, never giving up on Your tight embrace. You have said ‘It is finished.’ Help me to finish the race with You.’
For all of these may my great merciful and loving God be praised!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
