Hia guys, happy NEW YEAR!! I wasn’t able to write on the first Sunday but then again, I won’t fail to write now. (hehehe!) We had a wonderful praise and worship today despite our number (usually more people go to church at 10am than 12nn) with new songs that I wasn’t familiar with, yet still had a great message in its lyrics. The word was also awesome, taken from Mark 7:24-37. This chapter basically talked about the faith of a Syrophoenician woman and the healing of a deaf and mute man. The pastor gave it a nice theme by the way entitled “Sweet Brokenness” because it was about being broken as a person, so that we can humble ourselves before Christ Jesus.
In this generation that we are facing, a lot of people I can say are being broken. An example would be facing difficult situations in our life that are tough to get out of like loss of a job, financial problems, drugs, problematic relationships in the family or loved ones, and many more. And in the passage of Mark 7 that difficult situation for the Syrophoenician woman was her daughter being possessed by a demon. And after doing all her efforts to help her daughter whom she loved so much she didn’t give up and humbled herself before Jesus and said “YES” to the will of the Lord who healed her daughter. I know it may sound weird to say “YES” and “AMEN” to the Lord during difficult situations in our life but honestly, it’s the BEST decision we could ever make because only God knows the best and directs the right path that we should go on. Humbling ourselves before the Lord lets us understand that He has a plan and that we don’t need to fight these challenges alone, and being “sweetly broken” allows us to think less of ourselves and start leaning on Him. (hehe!) Like our pastor would say, allowing the Lord to take control would mean us decreasing and the Lord increasing. I Corinthians 15:58 says and I quote, “Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm in the Lord. Let nothing move you. Always give yourself FULLY to the work of the LORD, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.”
As we go on to the deaf-mute man in the following verses, doesn’t he remind you of someone? Yup! You guessed it, it reminds us of US when we didn’t have the Lord, we were both DEAF in what the word of God had to say for us and MUTE that we weren’t able to speak of His message to others. But by the grace of God through Jesus, we’ve been born again through faith and His spirit lives in us if we willingly accept Him and our lives have now become a reflection of our relationship with our loving God. Isn’t it wonder?! I do think so. It said in the bible that God actually used His spit in allowing the man to speak, isn’t that kinda weird?! But then again God has His ways, and awesome as it may sound but actual human saliva, which I just learned, has painkilling effects 6x that of morphine which is a chemical compound called “opiorphin”…you can research about it if you like, seems unbelievable, well believe it.(hehehe!)
So you see, GOD has His ways, His time and His plans and all we need to do is humble ourselves before Him and allow ourselves to be sweetly broken and say “YES” and “AMEN” to the LORD. God loves us, he would not allow us to endure pain that which we cannot bear. May all who have read this continue to delight and submit to the LORD, for He is our hope and His promises are true and most of all He loves you! Till next time…ciao!
