Title Day8 - Planned for God's pleasure...
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When we are happy, we can be more happy when we have someone to share with us whatever it is. In the same way, God wants us to live a life full of joy, hope and excitement. Such providence of God - to go out rejoicing in the fact of salvation and that grace - is important. In my case I don't live happily ever after. Now, as a student, I am humbled by the fact that I have been given an environment to study. I am not surprised that I was given a good community like Jesus Village. I think it was all given as if it were taken for granted. However, if I think that I cannot attend the first semester class right away because my family is in a difficult situation, I am sure that I will be shocked and do not know what to do. So is the community. Let's say that suddenly something happened at the church and we can't hold worship services. I don't think I'll even have the heart to look for a good community like Jesus Village, and it won't be easy to find. I have to live with a heart of gratitude for all that has been given to me now. Because it is never freely given to me.
Also, God doesn't want a part of my life, He wants the whole of my life. It is important to go to Jesus Village only on Sundays to worship, but as much as that, you must continue to offer a life that pleases God in your daily life. Beyond simply praying and singing praises, may I live in gratitude for the ample grace I have received in all of my usual life: when I eat, when I walk, when I am in class, when I study alone, when I think, when I spend time with others. maybe it's what you want
When the environment around me gets a little difficult, I often live in tears and helplessly. Thinking as if the world would stop right now. God is sad about this. Because, on the other hand, with such a self-centered attitude of life, not knowing that what drives our lives is God's rich plan full of love and grace that goes beyond our awareness, it's like the environment itself - human relationships that make me uncomfortable. This is because it is misunderstood as a study that gives me a headache, a choice of a job that makes me worry, and the choice of a good spouse to spend the rest of my life with, even if I look around. From God's point of view he would look at this in the exact opposite way. Through human relationships that make me uncomfortable, God will make me more aware of patience and love, and through hard study, He will provide me with a foothold for further growth. Through the difficulty of choosing a job, he grants me the position that suits me best, and uses it as an opportunity to truly serve what I feel as an obstacle, such as how I can become a good spouse about how to meet a good spouse in the future.
Regardless of good or bad circumstances, we rejoice and live with thanks to God for allowing us all things. Let's go forward with our faith in all of our lives, without chasing after His amazing providence. He is happy with such a life. I resolve to live immersed in the 'tree frog-style thinking' that the cause of joy is not with me, but with him.