Currently on Sat duty and still feel dizzy. I just took panadols.
Yesterday I was just in the room, sleeping all day, missing all the activities and church fellowship. I was so down with back pain and headache. Today, it persist.
These days, my attention is caught by anxiety, depression, and weariness. I know it when it hit me. I've been there. Problem is I'm hard headed. I always work fast. Always wanting to hit goals when I could just give it up. Always trying to control situation cos I grew up being so responsible. Times when God is asking to give all burdens, give all anxiety, all anxiousness, all the plates I have, all the balls, I give some, not all. Today it hit me. I am so stubborn. I am one of those people who wanted things to be finished always, hit goals, push harder when I am told to give up and change heart.
I was too stubborn to cast my anxiety on him despite knowing that He cares for me. He said.
ALL, not some, not partial, I reminded myself.
What if true security comes not from what you can see, but what you can’t see?
Here's what I just read today.
Here are five tips born from years of the author's own successes and failures, and from counseling countless college-aged Christian young people on what God wants them to do next:
Start with a massive dose of humility. The art of learning anything begins when we acknowledge we don’t know everything. My friend Steve Smothermon puts it this way: “Not even God can teach the unteachable.” Want to know what God wants you to do? Get humble. God brings humility to you so He can do great things through you.
Embrace your uncertainty to find greater clarity. We can do one of two things when facing uncertainty – run from it or lean into it. What I have discovered is that our greatest clarity – of what’s really important in life – can come from those times of greatest uncertainty about what might happen next. Those times force us to focus on what matters most, both to us and to God.
Get intentional about your life direction. Mark Twain once spoke of what he described as a “soap-bubble life.” Way to many of us drift through life like bubbles, not really sure where we’re going and why, just waiting to pop. Don’t just get busy, get intentional about where you are going and why.
Surround yourself with people who know more than you do. Perhaps no piece of advice could be more critical to younger readers than this: You don’t know what you don’t know. Even though you may think you see the big picture, God has given you access to people who have been there, done that. That doesn’t mean you have to do what they did, but you can gain wisdom by listening o them. Your peers may mean well, but they know just as much – or less – than you do.
Ask the right questions. Discovering God’s will for your life is not like working with hand grenades where if you pull the wrong pin — BOOM! Walking by faith is more a process than an event. John C. Maxwell put it this way in his book Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: “If you want to be successful and reach your leadership potential, you need to embrace asking questions as a lifestyle.” It’s hard to go wrong with asking questions. Even if they’re not always the best ones, each answer moves you forward.
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