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Saturday, February 28, 2009
The spirit of Job - paradigm shift I have been thinking about this question: What if...one day you realize all the things you have taken pride in has disappeared? For my case, what if one day I no longer am capable to play the piano, violin, guitar, flute, I no longer have any sense of music, I am not as smart as I am today to go Uni, I don't have anything outstanding physically(right now I really like my nose, hair, long legs and height muahaha), I don't live in such a blessed family environment? What happens? Will my whole world crash? Pause. When everything you take pride in has been stripped away, what is left of you? Is there anything still valuable about you that still makes you love yourself? ..... Those things made me ME. How could I survive if they are stripped away? This was my initial response. I couldn't imagine how hard it would be to accept my fate when one day I get into a car accident and lose a limb...I can no longer walk properly or play musical instruments. But I begin to realize there's something wrong in this response. It's just not right. There's something out of balance, to be giving up on life just when those things got stripped away. It's just not biblical. And I began to realize those things does not necessarily make me ME. They are simply my "outer skin". If they are stripped away, my value in God doesn't change at all! Rather, God has everything in control. And as a Christian, I gotta have faith in that. God is bigger than any talent, gift, ability, situation, tragedy that has been given or has happened. Which is so true. But we sometimes miss that perspective because our minds cannot conceive the things of the Lord. And I believe that is God's message through the book of Job. :) Let's put our faith and self-worth in the right things in life!!! Today - CCC Labels: contemplative, revelation 9:26 PM
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