Hate it when that happens! I was so engrossed on the blog I was writing just now and I finally completed it. Then I found out that I lost my internet connection! I checked my drafts and it wasn’t there! It’s just so unbelievable and frustrating! I poured my whole heart into that blog and now it’s gone š The momentum is gone too, I couldn’t redo now, I’m just aaarrgghh!
But then I heard a very still voice ask me, “Was that blog really to glorify me or yourself?” Wow! It dawned on me that maybe God did not allow me to publish that blog because I was too busy being creative, trying to impress the readers that I failed to check my heart. Yes, God sometimes prevents us from doing things because He knows He will not be glorified.
As I am writing this confession, I remember my devotion this morning. It was in the Ā book of Malachi. God was reminding the people to be faithful, to be faithful to their wives and even in their tithing.Ā
God wants me to be faithful in everything I do, in everything He has entrusted me with.
He wants me to be faithful to my husband of eleven years.
15Ā Didnāt theĀ LordĀ make you one with your wife? In body and spirit you are his.[a]Ā And what does he want? Godly children from your union. So guard your heart; remain loyal to the wife of your youth.Ā 16Ā āFor I hate divorce!ā says theĀ Lord, the God of Israel. āTo divorce your wife is to overwhelm her with cruelty,[b]ā says theĀ LordĀ of Heavenās Armies. āSo guard your heart; do not be unfaithful to your wife.ā Malachi 2:15-16
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Faithful to my children as I take care of them and continue to home educate them as long as God wants me.
18Ā āSo commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words of mine. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders.Ā 19Ā Teach them to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. Deuteronomy 11:18-19
Faithful to my profession as continue to provide health services when needed.
23Ā Whatever you do, do your workĀ [a]heartily,Ā as for the LordĀ [b]rather than for men, Colossians 3:23
Faithflu to my leaders by submitting to their authority and being accountable to them.
13Ā Submit yourselves for the Lordās sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority,Ā 14Ā or to governors as sentĀ [c]by himĀ for the punishment of evildoers and theĀ praise of those who do right. 1 Peter 2:13-14
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And most of all faithful to God who saved me from eternal separation from Him. Faithful to Jesus Christ whom God used to cleanse me from all my sin and transform my life anew.Ā
I know that there would be times I would be unfaithful but I know God would surely remind to go back to the commitment I made with Him and that is for Him to be the Lord of my life. At the end of my so-called life, I am hoping my God will tell me, “Well done, my good and faithful servant.”
42Ā AndĀ the Lord said,Ā āWho then is the faithful and sensibleĀ steward, whom his master will put in charge of hisĀ [a]servants, to give them their rations at the proper time?Ā 43Ā Blessed is thatĀ slave whom hisĀ [b]master finds so doing when he comes.Luke 12:42
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