The "god" challenge part 1

All other gods; they are the works of men.  You are the only God, there is none like you.

This chorus reminds me of how God is Supreme over every invention,  orchestration or innovation.  We sometimes assume that gods are restricted to carved images or some symbol. This is not true at all.  Every imagination,  thought, opinion,  effort,  intervention both physical or abstract that exalts itself above God in our lives has become a god unto us. 

I used to compartmentalise my life - academic life,  emotional life,  spiritual life, financial life,  family life etc.  This resorted in conflicts such as "I don't want my spiritual life to affect my academic life and so on". This separated God from most aspects of my life because  I restricted him to my spiritual life and called him  intervene in the other aspects as my last option. I had to tune God to the standards of my life to resolve these conflicts instead of tuning my life to the standard of God which is the right thing to do.  Everything else was important except God.  This was wrong for me to do and the sooner I realised it,  the better it was for me. I had made compartmentalisation and its principles my god.

In this life we are blessed to live; let's live it serving the one God,  the Lord Almighty.

Should I WAIT or WORRY?

Lately,  I've experienced God in a measure not familiar to me.  I'm one who snaps back quickly,  hates long queues and always opting for the next best thing. 

I got cash trapped this holiday and hoped for some cash to come in from family but nothing happened. So I had to wait for my bursary to be paid to be able to pay off debts and celebrate. I waited for a very long time - longer than usual. I began to fret and became very upset.  After all my efforts of making phone calls and giving excuses to my debtors; I came to realise that I just had to turn to God for help. Then I started praying and believing but nothing happened.

There were times I almost gave up but the Lord empowered me by His mercies to continue and behold, I had been with the wrong ATM card all along...lol. In the twinkling of an eye the issue got resolved.   I was no longer cash trapped and my strength to persevere increased.

Believers,  it is scary to wait upon the Lord but scarier to worry.  When you wait upon the Lord at least there is hope.  When you worry, it takes from you the hope you could have.

I hope this blesses someone.