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Picking your struggle

Matthew 16:25   “For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it ”   Honestly this past week has been quite hard, and if you’re a consistent reader of this blog, you’re probably saying in the back of your mind “well what’s new ? ” . Despite the difficulty of this week, I came to a realisation: a realisation that I think we should all adopt in our lives. Our lives are a sequence of struggles: not always bad , some worse than others, but something seems to be always going on. It’s very easy to dwell on those issues and feel like you will never endure, but what’s the alternative? When we gave our lives to Christ, we made a decision : to fully devote ourselves to H im. Sometimes we forget that the decision we made wasn’t unitary: it’s a daily choice to pick up our cross. The alternative to the struggle we face as Christians is to be in the world: to dwell in a life of sin. We know that sin gives temporary pl easu...
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An Unforgiving Heart

Mark 11:25   “And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses ”   If there's a singular thing guaranteed in this life is that humans will be humans. People hurt people : they may say things that hurt you, do things the hurt you and make you f eel...hurt. I think I’m getting to an age where I’m starting to see more people do things that I don’t appreciate, it can be friendships, family or people you work with whether school or in the office. With all those different people can come this internal damage called ‘ unforgiveness ’.   It’s one of those things that isn’t solely  seen internally but also produced externally. We all know someone that when a certain person walks into a room, their whole mood changes. Almost a s if that person is a trigger for anger: spar king negative emotions just based on the presence of them. For some of us, that person th...
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Feeling out of place

Matthew 5:14-15   “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead, they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house ”   The past couple of weeks have been very hard for me. You know those sad montages that you get in those movies, that’s kind of how my life has been recently. It feels like I can’t do anything right and my every move is getting criticised or judged. Whether it’s my family or friends , I always feel singled out, like I don’t belong. I always feel...out of place. I don’t know if you feel the same way about yourself at times, but it’s not uncommon in this world t o feel alone. With so many isolated people, it’s ironic that we all go through the same thing.   From the verse, we see that isolation is almost an inherited trait from the Lord, not in the sense that we should feel lonely, but i n the sense th at God calls us. Isolation doesn’...
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Reflection: Lives of Consecration

Romans 8:14   “For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God”   You know those nights where you’re just sat in your room and you’re just thinking ? Physically you’re not doing much, but mentally you’re going overtime. Well, that’s what happened to me a couple of days ago. Thinking about a lot, one of those thoughts was examining my life. I looked at all the things that made me, me . I started to match my life to Jesus, to see if there was a comparison , and I could pick very little things. I saw how unforgiving I was in certain situations, I saw how I didn’t use kindness in that interaction , all things I wasn’t proud of. In times like this, it’s very easy to be disappointed in yourself and hang your head down, b ut I think in all our lives, we can use this as an opportunity for change.   When was the last time you looked in the mirror? What did you see? The things that we see are most l ikely vain : maybe it’s the way our hair looks, or the colou...
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Having Hope

Romans 8:18   “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us”   Recently my mental health has been at an all-time low. With that comes anxiety, overthinking and constant pessimism. In times like this, it feels easier to give up with everything rather than simply enduring. A constant thought that has entered my mind is that “it will always be like this” and “you will always feel this way ” . These are all lies from the enemy to stop me from having one thing: hope.   Hope is one of those things that is talked about from a very theoretical standpoint. We say things like “stay hopeful” or “keep having hope ”, but what does that look like when you feel like your whole w orld is going to end? What does hope look like when you struggle to talk to God, struggle to read your bible, struggle to do anything.   Looking at the verse, we see that there is a comparative element when it comes to hope: “present suff...
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