Take care of yourself

It is your responsibility to take care of yourself. This is solely individual assignment unless minors.

God gives us so much opportunity and capacity to make good decisions, and one of them is — take care of yourself.

1 John 3:2, Dear friend, I hope all is well with you and that you are as healthy in body as you are strong in spirit.

God wants us to live good life and live a happy life, though every time may not be a happy moment.

To live a fulfilled life requires that we live healthy to stay alive to live our lofty dreams. Only the living can live their dreams and be happy. The dead cannot!

There are few situations we cannot control, but we can control things we do to ourselves that makes us live a better life, and living a better life is what we should strive for.

Hope in Hopelessness

God wants us to be hopeful regardless of how hopeless any situation seems to be.

Romans 15:13 said, May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing [through the experience of your faith] that by the power of the Holy Spirit you will abound in hope and overflow with confidence in His promises.

We might not be able to understand everything in our lives, but we need to trust God to lead us through the darkest night.

Without hope, we will be lost and the devil will take advantage of it.

We need hope because hope is the vehicle to get us to the fulfilment of our purposes in life when all else fails.

When everything else fails, hope gives us confidence in God that He is there for us and that, though we don’t have it now, we don’t have it all figured out, and all is lost, we hope in God for a better days ahead.

And even if the better days did not come, the next is to hope in the eternity that God has promised us and given us already by the work of Jesus on the cross.

It is this hope that gives us joy and confidence in an unfailing love of God and in an unfailing God.

God is God

This is why God is God.

God does things and we cannot question why He did what He did.

I mean we can ask question, but He can answer us if He want to.

That is, God is not obligated to answer us. He doesn’t answer to us.

What it means to be a good person

You’re a good person when you show kindness to others, when you help those in need, support those who need assistance, and as much as is within your capacity live peaceably as possible with everyone you come across. This is what it mean to be a good person.

Still give thanks to God

1 Thessalonians 5:18 NIV
give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

There are many unpalatable and unfavorable events and moments of our lives that does not motivate us to thank God for, yet He wants us to give thanks even in those situations.

God doesn’t want our thanksgiving tied to only the good seasons. His desire is for His children to be grateful in both good and bad seasons because He works all things out for the good of His people.

Romans 8:28 NIV

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

God uses the bad seasons and down moments of our lives to mold us into what He wants us to be, and becoming the best version of ourselves. He uses all things for our good.

All we need to do His trust Him. That’s hard to do in a very precarious situations, but just try! This is the requirement– to try and trust Him and He will work things out for our good.

Jesus learned; and we learn

Heb 5:8 EasyEnglish Jesus is God’s Son. But he still learned what it is like to obey God. He learned because he had trouble and pain.

Jesus, the savior, had to learn and taste suffering, pain, deprivation and human frailty to become a perfect example for us, and still a savior without sin.
This way, He can advocate and plead on our behalf before the Father because He experienced all of it and He is perfectly qualified to stand before the Father and “explain” our cases before the one who created life.

Heb 5:9 EasyEnglish And as a result, Jesus is the only person who can save us. He saves us for all time from the results of what we do wrong. He saves all those people who obey him.

Live your life well

All of us will leave this world one day.

It’s how we live our lives while on earth that matters.

Lift others up, don’t pull them down

Galatians 6:1 NLT
Dear brothers and sisters, if another believer is overcome by some sin, you who are godly should gently and humbly help that person back onto the right path. And be careful not to fall into the same temptation yourself.

We live in a world full of hatred, resentment and wickedness, but Christians shouldn’t find it more enduring than it already is.

We are supposed to help one another, lift the falling brothers up, support the needy, pray for the sinful sister, cushion the broken hearted with words of encouragement, assist by any means possible, share with others, weep with those who weep, laugh and rejoice with those who rejoice, and never forget that this is the exact thought of Jesus that we should be available for one another without casting anyone down.

Whatever Jesus would do is what we should emulate.
Jesus showed great amount of love, compassion and empathy to the woman at the well and to the adulterous woman.

Even the man who climbed the tree to experience Jesus was never disappointed as Jesus, in His compassion and more than human feelings, visited the man’s home and introduced salvation to Zacchaeus.

Lift others up, by any means, don’t pull anyone down. This is the Spirit of Jesus, the Spirit of truth and the Spirit of divine Love from the Father’s heart.

Thank you Lord!

Thank you Lord!
Thank you Lord God almighty, and all I can say is thank you.
That’s why I am here to just say thank you Lord.

“I am with you” says the Lord

There’s nothing to fear because the Lord is with us.
He loves us, and perfect love eliminate fear.

Isa 41:10 So do not be afraid, because I am with you. Do not be sad, because I am your God. I will make you strong and I will help you. Really, I will hold you with my right hand. It is strong and it wins wars.”

We are not alone; God is with us