An old post from facebook

Yesterday(Saturday) was a really crappy day for me, not only did i have an 8 am exam ON A SATURDAY, but everything just seemed to go wrong. Everything that bugged me all semester just escalated and I found myself getting aggravated with everything and every one. I felt like no one really cared and I was a burden to most people. I felt like i was just sitting and watching everything go down the drain, i had no motivation to do anything and just sulked in my misery most of the night.

Luckily today was a new day. I slept late and just relaxed most of the day, and then on to Upper Room Fellowship. A very common phrase used at URF is "tonight is going to be a little different" and tonight truly was. We were in a new location and we were forced to be closer (literally) to people then most would find comfortable. I was unsure about tonight and did not find myself in the spirit to worship, but God has a way of using us, even when we feel useless. As we were singing I just grabbed the Bible that was sitting next to me. Almost right away God revealed Himself to me. I flipped to Romans 8 and started reading in verse 18. (Passage posted below) The first thing I read was basically stating that even though I suffer now, there will be a day of glory that God will reveal to us in due time. In this i found hope.

After feeling like the world was out to get me and I had no purpose God assured me that even though i suffer now, there will a time when there will be no pain and suffering and i will be with my Lord and Savior. In that we should find hope. We have freedom in that. We might not now where the Lord will take us or when He will reveal His complete glory to us as His sons and daughters, but as the passage states, we should wait for it patiently.

I might not be perfect, but thank the Lord that He sent the most perfect thing to all of creation. He sent us His son to be OUR sacrifice, and yet i still find myself letting the little things get me down. Why is it that this simple fact does not keep me satisfied. Why do i seek more? Of course i disclose these thoughts by saying, im only human, but thinking more on them, i can not use this as an excuse. I am not just human, but i am a Christian who should seek Christ in everything. I dont want to be the person who says meaningless excuses to make themselves feel better.

The God is preparing me for something, i feel it, i just dont know what. He sure does though. Im really ready to see what God has in store.


ROMANS 8:18-25
18 Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. 19 For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. 20 Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, 21 the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. 22 For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children,[a] including the new bodies he has promised us. 24 We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope[b] for it. 25 But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)