Growing up I've always been told by friends of many,
"My problems seem so insufficient compared to yours. You go through all this and yet you remain strong."
I always heard this being told to me but I never really took these words into my heart. I always knew that I'd have life, hard! But that much more I also believed that God trusted me that much more for me to endure it. Til this day I know in my mind and heart that he wills to use me and my life as a walking testimony to those who don't believe. To be used as his hands, his feet, his words.. bringing me so humbled to the ground at the thought that someone as IMPERFECT as me can be used by a PERFECT God, I just cannot fully fathom nor grasp fully that concept!
"Don't compare your life to anyone else's because you do not know what their journey entails."
When I go thru my dark times in life, I never try to place the mentality that "I'm going thru more than you are." But at times as a means for my hunger for love I unknowingly self-pity myself so I can TRY to allow people a glimpse of the pains that I had to endure. But I came to this realization when I came before the cross. I have NO idea how much pain and blood was shed for me. I cannot physically feel his pains that he bore for me to have LIFE. But likewise, no one else will ever know or feel my pains and sorrows. As I look to Calvary, I see all that Jesus endured and all that he sacrificed, for me. And that leaves me beyond humbled to the floor. I gained life through his sacrifices and likewise I pray and hope that all people who God sends my way will also see the dark times of my life as a testimony of how I found the light as a means for them to find LIFE!
Without darkness you cannot see the light. For in daylight you're oblivious to the sun. But when the sun sets, all you see are lights. Find the light that will guide you..
God is the way!
-live productively
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