Quiet Time 26 March 2012

For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16 NLT)

Excerpt of the devotion I'm reading and what jumped out at me in caps:

"... In your own mind-darkened, will-paralyzed, conscience-dulled soul, God can make the light penetrate and turn the darkness of your own life into day, IF YOU WILL LET HIM.... Let the Light come into your heart BY FAITH."

We may not understand many things that are happening to us and around us. We are just living day by day, thrown back and forth by the winds of circumstances and human planning. Many of us (me included) think we got it all planned out, and we're set for success and victory. Short term - it may seem so. But long term - we are going in the same direction.. Towards physical death which is something we cannot control.

God is saying, believe in me and you shall have eternal life. God is asking us to believe in Him, not prove Him, not find Him. Just simply believe. And what jumped out at me is, we need to say yes to God's offer, firstly, and then have faith.

Having faith means to believe in what we cannot see and trust fully without doubt. We have faith in the daily things. We have faith that the toilet bowl will flush after we do our business. I have faith in the Korean school even though I have never personally attended it before. I have faith in the food I eat, trusting that it won't give me a tummy ache.

So what's so difficult in believing in God?

Personal application point: I've been struggling with doing QT on a regular basis. Somehow it has come to a point that I fully believe that I cannot do it. Yes I am really quite discouraged by my perpetual lack of focus!

From this devotion, I learnt that it takes two hands to clap; I gotta decide to have faith in God, let God work in me, and God SURELY will transform me into the person He wants me to be. I need to have the simple faith to believe in miracles that yes, I will and I shall have a regular QT!

Ask, and I shall receive! I wanna ask God for more faith and determination!!

Amen.