OCTOBER. Life comes in season. Don’t miss out on the joys of this season.
I am learning a lot about seasons now. Life seasons... :)
The first two chapters of the book of Exodus has taught me a lot about God, Moses, human being and myself.
Firstly, trust in God despite circumstances and standing for God are not going unnoticed by God. He doesn't minimize our acts whoever we are, whatever we did for Him. Then, God has a total control over everything. He's sovereign, and doesn't change. The same as He protected Moses, He is still able to do the same, today. What HE is expecting from us is that we make a careful planing and trust Him for the outcomes. I can testify about this truth as i came back from the mission trip in Brazil and went for my study trip in Toamasina. God has everything under control and He cares for me more than i could ever asked or imagined. I can remember how He sent a guy who could accompany me to the campus - a place where i've never been, giving me by the same time a friend to talk and walk with me all the way long to the place. That leads me to say that indeed, everything i have seen in the past gives me total confidence for the future.
Secondly, God prepares. I am now passing thru a season in my life in which i don't understand everything. A couple months ago, something happened in my life but i couldn"t focus much on it as i was preparing myself for the mission trip. Back in town, i tried to anticipate what's coming next - waiting for "a big thing" - but totally got fooled afterward. ha ha! [It seemed as if i was walking out from victory to despair. I wanted to be alone, but then alone, i could feel the loneliness until my very skin. I was turning to God, why? Silence. It started thinking that this quote was true to my life "Gravity can't forget to pull me back to the ground again". Lovely gravity.. ;)] Coming back to what i say, now, through all the sharings of my dear fellows, i could have learned that the silence of God doesn't mean that He's not working. He is working behind the scene so it's not yet finished, THERE IS MORE!!! As the same as He prepared Moses in the desert for 40 years, HE's also preparing me... for something great ! A breakthrough! And I believe that things need to be changed in my life. It has been two weeks now that I feel that God is teaching me what it means to GIVE. I try to give as much as I can offer... and indeed, GIVING gives more pleasure than receiving :)
Finally, i was reminded that i am a Foreign on earth. It helps me to face difficulties in the way that i am not home down here. If there are suffering, desert time, dry place, loneliness... but all of them are just TEMPORARY!! Besides, it's nothing compared to the coming joy that i'm looking forward in heaven :) And all the more, My God never leaves me alone. He carries me with His word (the Bible), offers me His shoulder when i'm tired of this life, gives me joyful people to be joyful with and that 's fine. I can smile :) ... I look better when i smile from the bottom of my heart. That's why, again, i would say: God is good, even when there's nothing good in me.
From this study of the life of Moses, what I expect can fit in one sentence: i want to know more about these real people of God. More than ever, i see how real these people were!! They failed, they were imperfect but that could not stop God to accomplish His will through them! I would like to know Moses better as he's a man of God, prayerful, humble, courageous in order to take example on him and on Him... in order to be a better ME so that people can see a better image HIM and are led to praise God :)
