Skip to main content

I'm His

One step forward or a miss step, it would have been game over.

This week, it was official. I am now a campus missionary though they now call it campus trainee. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to divulge the difference between the two since everything is not final yet until I sign the contract and it's the first time they're having trainees so again, first batch.

It was a breather for me, now knowing my mission. (Reviewing the 3 important Ms of my life and I guess with some of you as well, Master, Mission and Mate.) But it struck me as well on how hard it will be especially I have to not just think of the work but how I will raise my monthly support. Well, in a real world you don't go into a company where you will work and you have to look for ways to earn your salary in another way, am I making sense here? No. Hahaha. My whole point is this, I am distracted by the things I'm not in control of and it made me nuts and unfocused on the work prepared for me. 

How God created our eyes and how we can see colors
just amazes me. No doubt, it's His fingers.
When I heard the song, "God said it and I believe it and that settles it all for me." I was reminded, Michelle, it's not you who will do the work, I got you. I brought you here and there's no way I would forget you. I was reminded of His faithfulness throughout the years. Resting my heart on His promises and goodness. The One who created the complexities of this life. From the 100 billions of galaxies, inside the local group where 30 galaxies exist at the edge of Virgo Supercluster, to the milky way which measures 80,000 light-years to the thousand of light years of earth from the sun (where a hit or a miss hit could fry us up here on earth, just a little difference where it is now, life won't be possible. Our maker knows what He's doing, really.) up to my heart. God cares and thinks of you. (Psalm 40:5, "Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders which You have done, and Your thoughts toward us; there is none to compare with You. If I would declare and speak of them, they would be too numerous to count.") Imagine, we're just a dot in the dot in the dot in the dot in the dot in the dot.

My favorite place on the earth after underpasses. I know,
what I like are kind of weird. 
I almost died early this evening. I was crossing in the ped xing which I thought I have the right to but this car decided to make a u-turn in the pedestrian lane while I was crossing, good thing he stepped on his breaks 'cause if not I would not be able to type this blog anymore. I thought, he was just going to overtake and so I took one more step but eventually he turned and just in time, I stepped back and he said sorry. It was all right, I forgave him but after that I thought to myself if I died, praise God 'cause I'm obeying the rules of crossing on the right place and I didn't die, praise God. (Psalm 39:4-5, LORD, make me to know my end and what is the extent of my days; let me know how transient I am. Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing in Your sight; surely every man at his best is a mere breath.) That's what I felt when I passed the application. Whether or not I get into missions or not, I would still praise God 'cause this solitary life is His bought at a price by Jesus' precious blood. 

My take home for this week is that knowing that God is Sovereign and thus we can't help but stand in awe of Him, honor (big word, it's pretty hard and impossible but we do it by God's grace.) Him in everything. Whether it be in behavior at home or outside. How I react on circumstances must be different from the worldly way of approaching it. Give God weight, the biggest weight in not just big decisions but include Him in every step that I make. 


In His Pursuit,
MichelleAquino
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Back to Basics

This is how I look like most of the week. On my screen talking to people—- virtually. This quarantine season has changed my life- a bunch. It brought me back to reality- doing the basics. I practiced my calligraphy drills, I learned how to piano, helped in the chores more than ever, bought meds and groceries for the family, got sick with the government (thankfully, didn’t get subpoenaed), helped our neighbors and driver, guards and juliets at work, shared the gospel to a bike  boy whom I rode for consecutively, read, did some arts, cleaned the house for n number of times, worked out AND CLUNG ON TO JESUS. This season taught me that I have no good thing apatrt from Christ. And that good thing is only Christ. And I would not know that if I don’t surrender to His Lordship and His will. I would have bad dreams night after night, but I have to fight it off in the morning and walk with Jesus again. It is a conscious effort to guard what I think of and fix my gaze on the author and...
Post a Comment
Read more

Short

In a short span of time that I got to know Tita has really impacted my life. I shall try to share specific things here so that I get to record how she has encouraged me. The only picture we got together.  I shall start with why the title is short. We were going to minister to a place where our mission trip team went a month prior my mom and I’s visit. We were walking and she made ayos my shorts after it was creased.  That was I think the first time I knew she cared.   I am usually jittery when meeting the mom of the man that I like. But with her, she made me feel comfortable. Pero at first, natakot din ako kasi I know na di ako umaarte like kung sino talaga ako, yun ang ipapakita ko. I don’t set my best foot forward because I know eventually, she would know me and she would know who I really am. I am very takot not to be accepted. Lalo na that is my fear— to not be liked by my future mother-in-law if the Lord wills. But on our vacation time, we got the news that she ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Freedom

Grace. I don’t deserve it. This covid pandemic has somewhat hardened my heart. It has shown my worst. And I believe that this is what really is inside me which haven’t surfaced until now. My flaws were magnified and it has sounded an alarm that I need to work on myself. That because of the too many work that needs attention, I had set myself aside. Whil reading a book on emotionally healthy spirituality, it has shown me that I am no superwoman. That I cannot change the world. That I can only do so much. And God is after my being with Him more than doing things for Him. So that is what I am planning to do as this year closes. But before that, I would love to go back to what happened last July why I started this blog with one word. Birthdays have never been a big deal for me. I enjoy having my birthday with no one knowing about it except my family. Maybe because I didn’t want to expect. I grew up loving my birthdays because of my family. But, there came a point in our life where we strug...
Post a Comment
Read more