"How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past." -David Wilkerson
I just got home from a long day of hard work and came home to a sink full of dirty dishes. This is symbolic on how life can feel sometimes. Like you can't get a break and there is such a pile of messy situations that you don't know where to start and it seems to creep up on you when your drained of energy and the ability to think clear. I know how you feel. Life can throw its wild cards and curve balls when you least expect it. I can get tempted to get frustrated, angry, depressed. Have you ever felt like things just don't add up and just happen and you have no idea as to why these things happen? I am there with you, I can feel your frustrations and pains. We are all human and have desires and needs to be understood. Anything can happen at any given moment. You can have a whole week planned out and something comes into the sealed cracks of your well thought out plan and throws it off. Everything gets thrown up in the air like dust being shaken off of a dirty rug making everything unclear until you wait and wait for the dust to clear. You don't know where to start and you don't know what to do...It can be anything you think. It could be a trial, tribulation, your sin from your past that was planted as a seed and is now in harvest, an attack from one of the fallen angels, generational curses, or a test from God. It remains a mystery. It stresses you trying to figure it out. You just want to escape. You want to get away. So you try to distract yourself with things such as friends, the internet, books, movies, TV, some activity and so on. At the end of the day you come back to your problem just waiting there for you to face it, but you keep living the same cycle over and over and over until you have a mental breakdown. People you love and trust try to help you and in their own eyes have good intentions to share their advice that they think will help you, but it some ways it can be disheartening. You don't know why they just don't get it. Other people who aren't your friends seem to find it enjoyable to take a stab at your name, or personality or how you do things. Everything in life all juggled while there is this never ending overwhelming feeling of distress. Is this speaking to you? Are you wondering if there is a solution? Do you feel alone and your the only one going through this? If so there is hope for you as you will learn later on in this blog...
I remember when I was in Junior High I was in band and more specifically percussion. Percussion is a section of the band that plays instruments that you beat on to cause a rhythm that is the foundation and backbone of the band as a whole, without this section there would be no order in the band and everything would be chaotic. My band instructor's name was Mr.Polera. At first he intimidated me because he was very smart and strict. He was hard on us and I always felt overwhelmed. One day he told us a story that I will never forget. He told us the story about how diamond are made. Once you hear this story you too will see things in a new perspective because this story has a hidden message in it that can be applied to your life.
Coal is a dark black thick rocky shape this feels like a round piece of black chalk yet not as breakable but breakable nonetheless. Coal under years of intense pressure from outside forces such as water starts to transform over time into a clear shiny beautiful new creation called a diamond! Isn't that amazing? So what does this mean for you? Well picture yourself being the coal.You were born dirty and were thrown into a life of overwhelming obstacles and pressures. One day you encountered a message of hope. You responded to this message of hope and things seem to be better for a little while until you started facing trials, tribulations, attacks, your sin coming back to you, you feel like you you can never get a break. Just know that all of this pressure will pay off in the long run, you just don't see it right now.
