Remember the Dream We are Fighting For

Remember what we are fighting for.

There is no such thing as "mundo ko". We are in a place where we are right now, along with the optimum growing condition factors that is there, we have our friends and family, we have our favors and struggles. We communicate. We interact. We respond and we react. We have a voice. We cannot truly live in such a place full of life that actively intersecting our reasons for living and then we stay boxed to our own comfort zone.

When we put walls around us, limiting the life bound for us, we lose our purpose. We lose our sanity. We begin to believe that the world is the problem, that the world is crazy. We begin to close our eyes to any possibility of human contact, allowing only those we believe we own.

Remember when God placed Adam in Paradise, God said that, "It is not good for the man to be alone." that's why God created a suitable helper for him. And we are now living in the New Testament generation where "We" are part of one body, the body of Christ. Therefore if one among us is hurting, the whole body is sick. We are not meant to be alone. If somehow we felt that something is missing in our life, maybe it is something we deprived ourselves of, that which was already there in the midst of us, ready and waiting for us to leave our own world and join the project of God.

Being hurt, offended and depressed is part of the process, but it must not hinder us from trusting God and trusting the people God placed in our life. There is no guaranteed escape from these emotional attacks that is devouring us, we are the sure target. We are to get through it. We have to trust God the way He trust us to be strong in Him. Besides, we cannot see how God moves in our troubles when we closed the door of any possibilities.

I thank my God for the gift of accountability. It is my protection in the times I have to face the things in my life that I have no control. When my emotions get high above me, I can rest in the promise of God that He is still above all things and that He is in control. I thank my God for the gift of fellowship, they are my accountability partners. 

My cellgroup leader told me one thing that I am holding on to this week, she said, “Hindi kita kayang protektahan sa mga bagay na hindi ko alam.” It is a call for us to be accountable to the life of the people God placed in our life, no matter how much they may offend us with their words or actions or their lack of actions.

We have to be able to press through all the pains we battle, the guilt we harbor in our hearts, and the offense that strikes us. Come on, we are to protect the character of God in our life.  What happen to the grace and mercy we used to know? Let nothing separate us from the love of God. Anyway, we cannot go anywhere beyond God’s reach. Let us hold on to a DREAM we all remember fighting for, we remember dying for.

“No power in the sky above or in the earth below--indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 8:39 (NLT)