I met up with old mates yesterday. School mates. It has been a long long time. As my friends were chattering away, all I could think of was, how time has moved on. We had been caught up with our own lives, and now the only thing that brought us together was our history together, in high school.
We never thought we would be where we are, each of us moving forward in a different direction. Imagine a compass, and 4 directions. All with different aspirations and life directions. Can't imagine what it is like in 10 years time.
I also thought how easy it was to compare each one's lives with each other. J and I should probably feel the most inferior, because on paper, both of us are not earning and our friends have wonderful and satisfying careers. Both of them are also no longer single, while J and I remain single. They're more accomplished professionally, and we have nothing to shout about.
That's why I always come back to the fact that God is good. He never compares. He is happy with the work of His hands. I AM the work of His hands, and He said that it is VERY good. There's nothing more compelling, attractive and complete than to be called that. Genesis 1:31 says that, "31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day."
My income does not define me. Nor does my achievements and my failures. The car that I drive is too shallow to define me, not the house that I might own too. I am not defined by what I wear. I am not defined by what and how I speak. I am defined by what God says about me. I am branded and modelled after Him, and when the Creator says that I am a very good 'product', then what He says makes me me.
I like this. It takes away so many inadequacies that anyone can feel. I know that I don't have to try any harder, to achieve anything more, to say things right to be accepted and to do the right things to be loved. Liberation that must be. I love God, ain't He cool? =)
loved by the Creator of the cosmos and ants,
gracey
We never thought we would be where we are, each of us moving forward in a different direction. Imagine a compass, and 4 directions. All with different aspirations and life directions. Can't imagine what it is like in 10 years time.
I also thought how easy it was to compare each one's lives with each other. J and I should probably feel the most inferior, because on paper, both of us are not earning and our friends have wonderful and satisfying careers. Both of them are also no longer single, while J and I remain single. They're more accomplished professionally, and we have nothing to shout about.
That's why I always come back to the fact that God is good. He never compares. He is happy with the work of His hands. I AM the work of His hands, and He said that it is VERY good. There's nothing more compelling, attractive and complete than to be called that. Genesis 1:31 says that, "31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day."
My income does not define me. Nor does my achievements and my failures. The car that I drive is too shallow to define me, not the house that I might own too. I am not defined by what I wear. I am not defined by what and how I speak. I am defined by what God says about me. I am branded and modelled after Him, and when the Creator says that I am a very good 'product', then what He says makes me me.
I like this. It takes away so many inadequacies that anyone can feel. I know that I don't have to try any harder, to achieve anything more, to say things right to be accepted and to do the right things to be loved. Liberation that must be. I love God, ain't He cool? =)
loved by the Creator of the cosmos and ants,
gracey
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