Live for the glory of God and not for myself

Lately I have prayed for the grace to forgive someone. It’s really hard to say sorry and more so forgive. You tell yourself that you have forgiven the people who have persecuted you but when you see them, in an instant, you will feel all the anger coming back to your heart. And it’s like that everytime.

I thought that asking the Lord for the grace to forgive is like asking Him a christmas present. You know, easy… something He’ll give you the day after you prayed. But no, He made sure that I felt first the lonely and heavy feeling of not forgiving and then He’d blow me away with a compassionate heart.

I got my grace from Him last tuesday. When I saw in my persecutor’s eyes agony, loneliness and suffering, I felt so sorry for her I could almost cry. But I didn’t. All of a sudden, I just forgot all the things that made me hate her and all the things that she did to me. When I asked myself while I was going home from the hospital, “Why were you angry with her again?”, I couldn’t make out an answer. Seemed like I have forgotten why I got angry with her in the first place.

And not only that, God gave me the capability to share compassion, love and concern. I was able to acquire my most-prayed for grace of forgiveness through the love that God has shown me. His compassion shone on me which made me forget her past mistakes with me.

I am definitely in awe of the Lord. :) Praise God. :)

I just realized a few moments ago that dressing up, making yourself presentable, good-looking and down-right beautiful outside also adds glory to the Lord.

There’s something lovely with the way a person handles herself with confidence everyday, looking her most pleasing self as best as she can and sharing to everyone the beauty that the good Lord has bestowed upon her.

This may be minimal in comparison to the inside beauty that a person must possess, but it does give off a wonderful aura that attracts many people. :)

It’s like, you get their attention through of your beauty outside and gives them enough reason to stay because you’re much more beautiful inside. They’re more or less connected.

I love the thought!

I had a very busy Saturday. I had an appointment with my doctor that afternoon and a christmas party that evening.

I went home at 2am, slept for 7 hours, ate breakfast, went straight to the supermarket to buy stuff for the potluck dinner I was going to, returned home to eat lunch and went straight to see the doctor, had another xray and went to a cafe to read a very important mail.

While doing all this, my client was constantly calling me because of some project that required an artist that day (it’s a weekend and it was really hard to get an artist during weekends).

Everything was moving too fast. And I realized I haven’t prayed yet. So while I was in the hospital waiting for my number to be called, I prayed to Him and lifted every worry-some issue in my life to Him.

All of a sudden, the client called and approved our study (the artist can go home and I can stop worrying my arse off!) and I sorted out all the stuff I needed to sort out for the party. :)

All glory to the highest God. :) I’ve just experienced another encounter when God answers my prayers instantly. Goodie!

This morning while I was on my way to work, my immediate supervisor called me about some issue about the documents I am handling. They were having questions that triggered my realization that I am failing at something that God has placed in front of me.

I know for a fact that I must not fail Him and in the situation this morning, I knew I wasn’t doing my best for the Lord.

Perhaps it was some wake up call from the Big Guy up there for me to actually start “Working” again hehe… I’ve been pretty lazy these days. One reason may be my lack of enthusiasm for work since going back. I just woke up one day not feeling like I still want the same job… so I just let things slip and take its own course.

But because of this event this morning, when I was jolted to the core, I realized that I have a choice in life- to face this today so tomorrow I can face something else or just back out from it completely and fail my little mission for God.

I chose to face my scary boss. :) I think I did alright.

Glory to God.

Living for the glory of God is not just a one-time goal that I have for myself rather an everyday thing. I place this as my number 1 goal in life, to live for someone other than myself—God.

I know that through this, life is much happier, fuller, healthier and lovelier. :)

So everyday, I’ll be posting a deed that will add more glory to my Father. Hopefully, I’ll be able to post at least one deed a day haha. :)

Love one another! :)