LUX – [luhks]

It is definite, we’ll spend our future somewhere. And the future arrives daily, ready or not.

…and this is where I am bound to (my inheritance): Matthew 25:24

If you want to know yours, check with the Author. He’s written the road map in the pages of The Bible.

So I got the job. Not a compromising position but the exact work I was hoping for. I thank Jesus for He is with me all the way. Indeed, His blessings always has no added sorrows in it. Well… New Year, New Life! I’m claiming 2011 as my year — year of restoration!

2010 wasn’t exactly bad. In fact, this is by far the most wonderful year. The transition wasn’t easy at all. From leaving my previous job, broken relationships, going out of the country, restful months (the kind which I never had), inward conversion, etc.  Looking back, I realized all these things were not at all major setbacks but what happened was divinely arranged and beautifully timed.

Things didn’t happen as how I wanted it to be. Still, I keep it in my heart and in time I will have it. It shall not tarry. I believe all things work together for good and if I just put my trust upon the Lord no devil in hell and no man on earth can keep His promise away from me.

It’s been a while that I haven’t put anything into writing. Probably because I’ve noticed that the matter always ran around sadness or broken heartedness. Well, people go through this stage, I get it. But not knowing how to get out of the vicious cycle is different. Things can be desensitizing and deluding to an erroneous idea of healing. Leading to a worse condition. Cutting your soul deeper. People begin to conceal things by chasing fleeting pleasures. Not knowing they already flirted with disaster that is just waiting to devour them. A lot of things in this world just seem to look so lovely and harmless. Cute and mesmerizing.  But just like a wolf in a sheep’s clothing, it catches the person vulnerable and defenseless. People thought being too adventurous is downright cool and epic. But they are absobloodylutely wrong!

Yet, I’m not in the authority to judge them. I cannot cast the first stone. I was once like them. Short-sighted. Proud. Self-sufficient. Sinful. I did things I couldn’t imagine I am capable of. I realized that man is simply wicked. Iniquity is innate in everyone. Dwells in the deepest soul. Runs in the blood. Abides in the bones.

I was starting to climb the corporate ladder. I was doing well. Or so I thought. Honestly, I was very busy and very much empty. But God has better plans for me. Indeed, there are many plans in a man’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails (Prov 19:21). After 26 years of anything goes, rash decisions, some level of self-sufficiency, brokenness… He allowed me to travel 4,351.95 miles to get my full attention and to know for what, why and Whom I am made for.  I was washed by the blood of Jesus and became a new creation. I say it is real, when you accept Jesus in your life… everything is new. When He works, it is an inward conversion and heart transformation. Not behavioral modification of human effort.

…….to be continued.