Hello all,
Today I want to speak about waking backwards.
There is a passage in the Bible that called my attention this week and I have been mediating upon it this last few days.
"Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? Have you suffered so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain?"
Galatians 3.3-4
I will share an experience here with you of what happen to me.
Few years ago I came to Ireland and became a bit cold in my faith and communion with God. I was leaving with people that was from another denomination and, because I did not had a job by that time, not able to speak proper English, I end up by accommodate to that life of nothing.
I got a work receiving 60€ per week and I had to pay the rent of a room, buy my food, have few € to be able to call back home, but, as you can imagine this was not enough. I end up by living with people that had a hard condition as well, eating from their food, sometimes people would bring me food, cutting the long story short, I came to Ireland ready to depend on God and end up depending on people.
All this happen because I got relaxed in my faith, in my daily communion with God, getting weaker and weaker and when I looked behind, 4 months after, I was really far from Him, the One who brought me to Ireland.
I stopped feeding my spirit and started feeding my flesh, my will, end up by committing sin in my words and actions.
I went really deep, and found myself completely alone. As the Bible verse is saying, all that I suffered in the past was in vain as I was no longer in spirit but hearing laud and clear the voice of my flesh.
How can we know if we are hearing the voice of our flesh? Very easy, the moment you start giving excuses to all God's will and commandments, there you are, you are obeying to your flesh and only your flesh is been your lord.
But you know, I have good news, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel.
I stopped been pity on my and accommodated to that miserably life and took an action.
I went after the One who could take me out of that situation. He helped me to overcome myself because I reach out to Him with all my soul, my strength, my heart.
I put my will totally aside, my feelings, my stupid flesh and started to use only my intelligence, my mind.
I decided to become perfect in spirit and that lead me to a life that I would never expected.
I really learned how to depend on God as I was alone in this country.
Few days after a great job opportunity came, though my English was not that good, I had now the conditions to go every day to church, to get more involved with His things.
" Have you suffered so many things in vain.." - no definitely was not in vain what I went through because I acquire experience and today I can say that no matter what happen, no matter the circumstances, no matter the size of the mountain or how deep is the sea in front of me, God can open that sea, help me to remove the mountain and open doors where there is only wall.
I learned that all things that I passed I can use today to help others and share with them my experiences and how I was able, with the help of God, to overcome all of them.
See you all very soon
Ana
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