Last night, I was awaken by cramps 2-3 times. By 1:30 AM I awoke as I felt I was to get up already for work ( I would thank God if I wake up at 5 and will still have an hour more to sleep but 1:30AM?! I just gotten sleep!.I also had dreams I couldn't figure out. I am okay, maybe it's just my body feeling anxious for the hard days. It is normal though. It was better than feeling numb and all would just explode.
Though outwardly I am wasting away, yet inwardly I am being renewed day by day. It wasn't all that bad. Sometimes I have to go through sufferings to reach my journey to contentment to whatever i gain or lose in life. I just know that in all these, whether joy or suffering, I must always show my religion, the religion of Christ-likeness. I had my share of wrongs and mistakes and or it might be just ways for me to learn, but the important thing is what will my response be to all these sufferings.
I don't know how long should I be writing about this.
Cont.. after posting this, I found the ff paragraphs from my online reading or utmost.org
The things we try to avoid and fight against— tribulation, suffering, and persecution— are the very things that produce abundant joy in us. “We are more than conquerors through Him” “in all these things”; not in spite of them, but in the midst of them. A saint doesn’t know the joy of the Lord in spite of tribulation, but because of it. Paul said, “I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation” (2 Corinthians 7:4).
The undiminished radiance, which is the result of abundant joy, is not built on anything passing, but on the love of God that nothing can change. And the experiences of life, whether they are everyday events or terrifying ones, are powerless to “separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:39).
I should be able to prove my religion in the valley, not just in the city.
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