The Struggle

I walk alone.

I used to travel the road to salvation

in a foreign land

with other souls just like me:

sorrowful…

hungry…

struggling.

Everyone carried their own load.

Each burden we lifted up to the Lord,

united for the glory of His kingdom.

As I journeyed back to my native land,

I took on a new path and was forced to isolation.

I now fight the battle alone.

However, my faith is great and I know

that though the road is dark and long

and weary is my heart,

the Lord will take my hand and lead me.

I will then find rest

and rejoice knowing that

I am in the arms of the one who created me.

No longer will I be alone

for the Lord will come and take away

the sorrow…

and hunger…

and He will end my struggles.

I walk alone,

but NO, I am not lonely.

written: November 5, 2002
By Krystal

 

Borrowed Inspirations

I saw these today and they inspired me.

 

I don’t know who wrote or created these, but I am really thankful I stumbled upon them 🙂

 

Saving Grace

Reading: Mark 1:1-45

It will be a memory that is forever etched in my heart and mind: the day I accepted Jesus into my life and became a Christian.

2002, August. It was the Sunday I first came to Guam after giving birth to my first born just several months earlier. I was yearning for my son, and was feeling burdened by the sacrifices I had to make, leaving my family back home, desperately trying to keep my wits together. I was invited by an elderly gentleman I had only met earlier that day to come with him to church that Sunday, since he knew I probably didn’t have any plans that weekend. Not really agreeing to the idea of attending a christian church, I reluctantly said yes.

As soon as we walked into church, we were immediately greeted warmly and I instantly felt comfortable. As the service began, I felt a stirring in my heart, a happy, excited feeling! Then the music team started playing and I immediately felt like I was connecting with the lyrics. I remember thinking “This is exactly how I feel or what I need to hear”.. Needless to say, by the time the praise team was singing “Breathe”, my arms were already up in the air in praise, adoration and all humility, and It was just waterworks from then on!

It was as if all the pain and loneliness were welling up inside me and the tears became the outward display of what I was really feeling inside. I was a mess! I knew why there was an empty feeling in me despite the happiness I felt with my husband and son. That was because I didn’t have a Saviour. But before that service ended that morning, I finally did have a Saviour. It was the most exciting feeling I ever felt!

40 And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.”
41 Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.”
42 And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean.

As I read today’s scriptures, I began to reminisce this great day of my salvation. I was like the leper: filthy and unworthy. But Jesus saved me and healed me, and I became clean, worthy of His kingdom. This is one gift I will forever treasure and never take for granted.

Thank you, Jesus, for your saving grace, for dying on the cross for my sins, for making me pure and holy and worthy to be called yours. Amen.

 

Never In The Dark

Reflecting today on one of my previous posts:

READING: Isaiah 60:20

A life lived without the Lord is like wandering through an endless tunnel… dark, dreary and depressing. It is no life at all! It is merely taking breaths, moving from one place or another, without purpose and without direction: an aimless pursuit!

Many of us have taken countless months, or perhaps years in search of that light at the end of the tunnel. We grope in fear, in silence, and dread for the unknown and the unseen things of the world, only to end up back to where we started, back in the pit and void of a meaningless life.

A sailor lost at sea finds his way back home with a distant light shining from a lighthouse. A lost soul finds refuge in the guiding light, the hope and inspiration of the one true Light.

The truth that many of us have failed to realize or accept is that there is only ONE LIGHT, and that is the Lord! We only need to let Him into our lives, let Him take us by the hand and lead us out of that tunnel.

The Bible says that the “Lord is our everlasting light”. His light has no end. With Him leading us, we will never have to be in the dark again! We never have to grope in mournful sadness. With God, everything has meaning, direction and purpose! Now, isn’t that a life worth living?

I pray that you will find that light at the end of the tunnel and that the hope of the Beacon of salvation will lead you back home. Ask Jesus into your life and be in the dark no more. Step into God’s everlasting light!

Never in The Dark
Isaiah 60:20
September 8, 2008