Life is just so unpredictable, a sudden winds of change, a sudden blow, it's very fragile and short. Very weak and very much unpredictable, beyond our comprehension, beyond our expectation, how it happen, why it happen, how things to be arranged. So many unknowns and so many hurdles that we required to pass through. After another hurdles, comes another one, seems that life challenges is just unending. Some seems to run fast, strong enough to jump up the hurdle, higher level was set infront after the another, to test the strength of the atheletic. Some that is not much well-trained will fall easily. In such race, some speed very fast, some just walk slowly, some barely even can crawl, but all persevere on for the sake of the ending-line, maybe some looking and focused on the prize that set before them. Some half way through just give up running, some fall many many times, yet pick themselves up and dust themselves down and continue on the journey of race....
In our Christian Journey, it's different...we fail, we fall, we run so slow, but what counts is the determination and perseverance not to give up. It's more of the power and strength above that guide us through the journey. Our aim is not so much of the prize, but the prize heavenward in Christ. But a lot time we give up and say.."I just can't anymore, the race is to hard for me, I am not capable of running, I'm tired...I don't think I can". But then, after some struggles, we rise up again, we find our anchor of hope, we find the strength and help to rise up. To rise up everytime we fall. How? How to rise when we fall again, and rise up and fall again and again? How wretched and so weak and fragile, but how? Let us not focus on our self, on our weak point, let us lift up our eyes on the hill, where does our help comes from, but the Maker of Heaven and Earth. Why is it so frequently that we lost that focus that the Lord of Heaven and the Earth, the one that lead us, the one that form us, the one that Omnipresence and available, the strength is free, how to draw strength from Him? How to die to the self and stay pure, how to rise above our troubles and stay victoriously and pure before Him?
Yeilding to the Lord, meditating in His Word and His Presence, ask for insight, listen and do it. Appy the Word with deed, action, draw the strength from Him, His Word to sooth us and open way through the narrow road. That's what we got to do? Not by might and not by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord. It's not that we able, He ENABLE us. To Him be the Glory both now and forevermore.....
