Reflections
it's 4 in the morning, and i'm still awake pondering the complexities of life. Things have been going awry the past one week, and i wonder whether God is trying to tell me something during the past 7 days. Cancer is a scary thing as it is, but when it strikes close to home only does one realize the whole impact of a few cells gone wrong, and the preciousness of the delicate balance the whole body is about. Relationships that seem rosy may hide massive undercurrents that explode when you least expect it. People whom you expect to see tomorrow may just disappear today, due to 'unforseen unfortunate circumstances' like road accidents. Charities may just be huge corporations going by a different name, like shakespeare's rose.
Things just aren't what they are on the surface anymore. What you see and what you get are two entirely different products, and no amount of time is ever going to reverse this trend. Promises are no longer made to be kept, but created to be bent, and deception is another name for the game called life.
Somehow it is in times like these when i am awake in the wee hours in the morning dismayed at the state of humanity that God gently reminds me that though the world may 'progress' from bad to worse, though every foothold i trust may fail me, though i despair at the fragility of human life despite the advance of medical technology, there would be one who will always be whom He said He was, is, and is to come, because He cannot change. When everything else is deceptive, transient and/or unpredictable, there would always be one whom i can fully entrust myself to, because He said that He is good, and He cannot lie, and He cannot change.
we have an anchor that keeps the soul
steadfast and sure while the billows roll
fastened to a rock which cannot move
grounded firm and deep in the Saviour's love.
Because of this i will choose to rejoice in the Lord regardless of the circumstance, because He won't let anything happen that is not under His control, where it is best.
"...say to those with fearful hearts, "Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you."" -isaiah 35:4
"Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all you who remain of the house of Israel, you whom I have upheld since you were conceived, and have carried since your birth. Even to your old age and grey hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you." -isaiah 46:3,4
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever" -Hebrews 13:8.
Thank you Father. Your will be done. Amen.