I’ve seen the hue I would love forever
I want to marry the other,
But I surrender,
Because You know better.
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This was taken in my run that week in the park near our home, I was in the beginning of my run and the sun is high up but no worries for my tan |
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My fruitful run last week. Looped in the park twice, looped in the jogger's lane a lot of times. That's why it looks like that. I should run in a letter M next time. HAHA. |
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The sky and antennas in the park where I usually run. |
I was reading this book by Bill Bright, entitled First Love and the Lord just rebuked me in Revelation 2 which talks about the Ephesian church who have left their first love and that is exactly what happened to me.
I know things in my head but I don't do them and so in one of my runs, I experienced cramps in who knows when was the last time I had locking toes. That is like, deliberately going to what you want to do and not what God wants you to do. And I was so rebuked as I watched a video about a young boy who gave emphasis to the Holy Spirit living in Him as He obeyed the Lord's leading to Him to give His savings to His brother. How about you, how are you in yielding to the Holy Spirit?
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My first cramps in a while. This is part of running. |
Running on empty. I’ve been running and running until I finished my 9.6 kilometer run that day. Had to walk home to drink my first taste of water and guess what? I just had a drop of water, of course not, I drank two glasses of water effortlessly.
In the Christian life, you would think of others first because that is the example Jesus has given us. Philippians 2, He humbled Himself despite of He has every right to demand because He is God. He has all the right to complain and be entitled but no, He served people. He washed the disciples' feet even though He knows they would fail. We will never attain to His standards, He is Holy, that is why His grace saves us, because He gave the standard to us and gave Himself up for us to experience His love and yet we deny and/or leave that first love. We can only love because He first loved us. We cannot give what we do not have. That is why the Holy Spirit was sent for us to be empowered to love Him and love others for His light to shine in us and they would know that we are His disciples and for the other people to also experience Jesus in their lives.
Revelation 2 says, look how far you have fallen and go back to Him. Repent and Run to Him again. My cramps cannot stop me from running. Life may have knocked you down like how the sun is in this summer but take heart, Jesus has overcome the world. He is victorious. And again victorious in the end. He is on His throne. He is Good.
As I saw a rare butterfly in that area of the park, I was astonished and just stopped from my fast run which made me a little dizzy. Let us stop and thank God's goodness and faithfulness today. Stop being cranky, start being thanky.
In the Christian life, you would think of others first because that is the example Jesus has given us. Philippians 2, He humbled Himself despite of He has every right to demand because He is God. He has all the right to complain and be entitled but no, He served people. He washed the disciples' feet even though He knows they would fail. We will never attain to His standards, He is Holy, that is why His grace saves us, because He gave the standard to us and gave Himself up for us to experience His love and yet we deny and/or leave that first love. We can only love because He first loved us. We cannot give what we do not have. That is why the Holy Spirit was sent for us to be empowered to love Him and love others for His light to shine in us and they would know that we are His disciples and for the other people to also experience Jesus in their lives.
Run to God's directions.
And I pray that when we run on empty, we will tap on to Him and not tap out on life.
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Sun can burn me but not kill my love for running. My confidence is the Lord, that He loves me so much despite of my tanness. |
As I saw a rare butterfly in that area of the park, I was astonished and just stopped from my fast run which made me a little dizzy. Let us stop and thank God's goodness and faithfulness today. Stop being cranky, start being thanky.
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Sunset as seen in the train station. |
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Dusk in our home in the province taken last holy week. |
And as I run, I am challenged to disciplined and go the extra mile and not stay in my comfort zone. To continue to step up my game. Same with my relationship with Jesus, it is to know Him more and love Him more until I die and see Him face-to-face. May my heart just long for Him for the rest of my life.
I’ve learned a new place now with the Lord despite of not
where I want to be because I was dreaming of a beach recently, but wherever God’s
presence is that is where I want to be in.
In His Pursuit,
Michelle Aquino
Dear God, I pray that all the people who would read this would look where they have fallen, repent and do the things they did at first, to love You above all. In Jesus, Name, Amen.
In His Pursuit,
Michelle Aquino
Dear God, I pray that all the people who would read this would look where they have fallen, repent and do the things they did at first, to love You above all. In Jesus, Name, Amen.
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