Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Being God’s Best During The Toughest Time Of Your Life


No Christian has had an easy life. The moment you accept Jesus Christ in your heart, your eyes are opened to the realities of this sinful world and what sin does to your life. You become aware of your sins and its consequences. It becomes a burden in your heart to know how much pain you’ve caused in God’s heart. Your past sins hunt you and sometimes you come to a point when you condemn yourself for making such choices in your lifetime. Being a follower of Christ is never an easy job. There are a lot of ups and downs, twists and turns, surprises and even pain; that sometimes it’s so hard to keep track on things and adjust to situations. But guess what? When you are in that moment of so much pain and vulnerability, you can become God’s best when you obey His commands to you. It is in experiencing so much pain that we become true and sincere in obeying God’s commands. Why? Because we are driven by our heightened emotion of pain and grief, we desire to make things better, even for other people. When we help people in their need and obey God despite our dreadful situation, we find great joy and peace in our hearts. We put our faith in God because we know there’s no one else we can turn to. This obedience in times of pain is what God seeks from us all the time. Why does He allow painful things to happen to us? Well, aside from it being the result or consequence of our own choices and actions most of the time, He hopes that by experiencing that much pain, we learn something from it, get to know who He is and that we would come to realize that there are greater things He can do in us and through us if we just obey Him. More often than not, the turning points of our lives are those times when we are most broken and wounded. Those are the experiences that mold us to become stronger and be more like Jesus Christ. The purest of gold had to go through a lot of heat and purification process; so, to be God’s best is to go through a lot of fiery furnace and purification processes. But all of the pain is more than worth it.

Have you ever noticed that the most fruitful servants of God are those who had undergone so much pain and trials? Why? Because they turned their pain into real life testimonies that tell people who really God is and what He is capable of. Why does God had to allow that? Because all living people in this world is in great distress. Unbelievers just don’t feel that much burden because of their sinful nature. They find it “relieving their pain” if they resolve to earthly and temporary pleasures. But knowing Christ, the scales in our eyes are removed and we see what it really is to give in to human pleasures. We feel troubled and pained by it; but then, we also know of the love of God and Jesus Christ. We find joy and peace in that. We find happiness that we can’t contain and explain. We find contentment and satisfaction in just calling out the Name of Jesus Christ. We find peace and security in His Name. We find everything good in Jesus. And that’s the kind of testimony God wants to use to minister to other people. Our lifestyle alone can be of great and life-changing testimony to unbelievers. Just like what Jesus did during His ministry years, He lived a life full of wonderful, life-transforming testimonies; that still continues to bring people back to God, even up to this point in time and in the many more years to come.

So, whenever you’re in the toughest time of your life, remember that you can still be God’s best and He can still use you mightily for the glory of His Name and salvation of lost souls, if you obey Him. Even Jesus Christ had to experience pain and death on the Cross, though He was blameless and without sin, just so He could save you from your sins. Use your pain to serve God and He will bless you abundantly. Your pain will be turned into joy, praising and dancing. He can turn your sorrows into peace and love. He can make you His best in your brokenness. Eventually, when you have completely transformed to becoming more like Jesus, your pain becomes your joy all the time, because of the grace and love of God for you. Be God’s best in the toughest of toughest times.




Jaea Conde
Nov. 26, 2012
11:46pm

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