Someone is Paying Attention

“I love the Lord for hearing me, for listening to my prayers. Yes, he paid attention to me, so I will always call to him whenever I need help.” Psalm 116:1, 2 ERV

2013 is a challenging year for me and my family. There were work changes, kids going to college, rising cost of living, budget etc. Then there is my health risk. It’s been 1151 days since my stent #2 but the more days added to the count, the more I anticipate that stent #3 is coming although I am in perfect health and has been keeping up with my weekly 40miles bike ride and 2 mile swim and running. I know that I don’t really have a real problem but as a normal human being, I feel burdened at times about life in general. As for now, my focus is long term planning for the kids. Brent is going to college next year and I had been influencing him to stay at UT Austin for the undergrad and he can go out of state for the med school later. We already setup his Texas Tomorrow Fund for 4 years and he can use that with less cost for us since the tuition is already paid off.

As I contemplate on these matters daily, I’m always reminded that I worship a God in heaven that can manipulate my circumstance to make it favorable for me.

I don’t really know what the future holds for me but I know that in every move I make, someone is watching over me.

I will remain faithful regardless of what I see, hear, feel or experience because I know that in my heart someone is paying attention.

To some of you who has far greater issues in life, hang in there. Be patient, be still. Don’t make a lot of big changes in life without consulting God in prayers. Sit down for hours and get a piece of paper and a pen and ask the Holy Spirit to enlighten you on your next move. I don’t believe that roses will drop from the sky into our lap but I do believe that God imparts us with wisdom to handle any difficult situation in life. Write them down for deeper study.

My 2-week mandatory vacation is coming to an end and as I look back in the things that I planned (me and the Holy Spirit) to do for the two weeks of downtime, I made some great advances. I gave credit to God’s enlightenment as He guided me in every step. So far, things has been a little different. I’ll enumerate the wise things that I came up during the 2-week downtime later on. Some ideas were brilliant that I would not have thought about it without the Wisdom from God.

I know that when things get so difficult, we tend to run away from our beliefs and faith and we start to doubt of everything we believe in. We imagine that we might just had a hallucination of the things that our faith brought us. Sometimes I feel that way when I see an impossibility in front of me. I think it is normal for us to doubt. Without it, then our journey of faith does not produce excitement and anticipation. It’s ok to doubt because even the Bible is filled with stories of people who tends to question the presence of God. One thing that I’ve seen throughout the Bible are the stories of struggles and despair but one thing common to all those stories are the triumph at the end.

Please know in your heart that all these tiny life difficulties are just “a setup/prelude” for your triumphant victory at the end.

See it at YouVersion.com:

http://bible.com/406/psa.116.1.erv