In a few days time its another year for me, an added number to my years of maturity. I like to think of it that way rather than seeing it as dreadful threat to my existence. Life is too short. "Live to love and love while you are living" just one of the most powerful essence in someone's life. The capacity to love can venture all possibilities. So today, since it's the "love month" I would like to share a story about love and life. You see, when you have to choose beyond this two options that's when it gets complicated. But my intention of writing this today is not to complicate things but rather encourage you to choose not just wisely decisions but choose godly decisions. The story you will read below is adapted from a real life story of Christians today.
Leila works at a coffee shop and she loves what she does, she enjoys serving people coffee as for her seeing happy faces can cheer her up easily. People knows her moods as they are accustomed to her welcoming presence and when she's under the weather it clearly shows. She is also a die hard fan of films about romance and drama. Enrique however is a handsome witty young upcoming director, and was at the city for a short - film they were shooting across the street from where Leila works. Everyday he pass by the coffee shop to grab his favorite Venti Caramel Macchiato with extra caramel shots. Every single time Enrique comes to get his coffee Leila was there. It took a simple "hi" and "hello's" to make a short conversations that end up having breakfast at the dinners around the corner of the same street. The new friendship starts to blossom and Leila was captivated by the interest of being around the young director. To her it's love and passion that catches her attention to this middle-aged man who makes movies. And just like his love for coffee their meetings became frequent and people start to notice. You see, Leila is already committed to a wonderful man who is not perfect but has love her dearly for years. The kind of love that she can't live without. Sooner or later she found herself at a complicated situation wherein she needed to choose between the director who cared for her and showed her his works and his passion she was attracted to him in a way it was distracting her from her life. She was about to choose to cling on to what she thinks is love or her life? Love for the director and her life which is her fiancee. It's true that you may think you love two person at the same time but those love that we feel inside if you meditate closely enough you will see that the love you feel has different intensity. When you list down between recognizing advantages and disadvantages it's never enough criteria to choose. Love was never lost, you can always find reason to love something or a person. But life, is the only one you can have which can never be replaced once its gone its never coming back. And the best kind of life is a life which centers God. Love can be found inside a person's capability to share the feeling and the emotions. But life is a decision you make to continue to live with love and compassion. It's your everything, living is everything.
......Leila had chosen her fiancee, she realizes how much her fiancee had love her comparing it to the ones who didn't. She realizes how much God had love her for giving her his lovable and understanding fiancee. Despite being blinded by the mere attraction of what the enemy offered her she chose "life" the kind of life that centers God and the kind of life that brings her to His will. You might be confused for now because the enemy will try to convey you away from God's will for you. Lure you at the best way possible to distract and destroy you. But stop condemning yourself you are never made perfect. But God perfectly made you to walk through rocky road so that every situation; the tragedy, the excuse, the wrong decisions will make you realize that it's all part of His greater plan in your life. For without those simple tragedy you won't find your greatest journey. Leila and his fiancee are bound to get married this year and their love now abounds a hundred fold.
"Your tragedy
is your
greatest Journey"
~Mhelai Padawel
The bible says:
"Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places."
~ Ephesians 6:11-12
.....Being a christian is not being a perfect person with no blemish and free of sin in fact being a christian is like walking in an open field wherein your become a suitable target of the enemy just by carrying the name of Christ. Having an encounter with the schemes of the enemy have reminded us to armed ourselves of God's greatest weapons "His words and His love" "every single day". In this time when you have a broken heart or a broken soul remind yourself of God's grace because in Him there is no condemnation, you may be walking in a battle field but be secured that no matter how many times you may fall God is with you and you simply need to choose "life" and choose "God". It doesn't really matter who you were but what really matters is who you've continue to become because of God. Focus on what's really important but never forget what you have gone through. It's like leaving a stamp mark in a cave to keep record of your trials, so you can look back and see what God had overcome for you. Leave it in the cave and close it, you only visit it to leave another stamp mark but never ever carry them back. This an encouragement to a friend of mine who was lost but now found. A familiar face who have fallen but had risen up all for God's love.
I leave you with the song: "All for Love"
by Hillsong United
Let this be an encouragement that even for how many times we have broken His heart, but still God forgives if only we ask that's how much He loves us
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