“Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body.”—NIV Ephesians 4:25
What make you feel secured today? Money? Social status? Relationship? Health? or Trust in God?
Once I was lost, but I am found! I used to trust in God and had strong faith in God is in control, but God know me better than I do! I can stay with God when things are going well into my way, but when storm comes, my "faith" crushed into brokeness in life. I started to predict my future everyday as I was not sure what would happen in my life and what was causing me stumble. I forgot about how to live a normal life, eat, drink and sleep seems not possible to me when insecurity swallowed me up.
I used every way to secure my social status, earn enough money to enjoy the better off lives and become obessed on relationship and looking forward to someone who can protect me. I used to be honest and open to others, but betrayal and trials push me to defensive to othes. Everyday and night, the negative thoughts will beat me up and it seems to me I couldn't rely on anything. I listened to people's advice, not to share, not to talk and mask on and off, but all of these advice making the things total wrong.
Not until the day, God came in and completed broke me. Hopefully, one day I can become a better me and like the NIV Ephesians 4:25 said: "Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body."
Today, take the first step to repent and ask for God's forgiveness, once we can forgive ourselves and not repeat the sins, we can start to trust others and take a further step to live a normal life. No one is bad, but since we are too weak to sin, we don't have enough power to withstand temptation and make others bad persons. Using God's loving and merceful lense to see things and don't jugde others can bring us back to Christ! Amen!
