The challenges that we face as believers are meant to propel us forward and advance. They put pressure in us that allow us to think outside the box, knowing that our God is exceedingly beyond the capacity of what human intellect can grasp.
My intentions are not always yours,
and I do not go about things as you do.
My thoughts and My ways are above and beyond you,
just as heaven is far from your reach here on earth. (Isaiah 55:8-9 The Voice)
Before I came to experientially know our Lord Jesus Christ, I never really thought I seriously needed a Savior. Yes, I knew there was God Whom I prayed to in church every Sunday and called upon Him every time I get entangled with challenges in which He faithfully answered me, but until I had a personal encounter with Him, only then I somehow understood how life is to be lived when we are in union with Jesus. It is a life full of love, joy, hope and peace, in spite of what is going on around me.
“The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I CAME that they may HAVE and ENJOY LIFE, and have it IN ABUNDANCE (to the full, till it overflows).” (John 10:10 AMPC)
You may be wondering by now what it means to live the “NEW NORMAL” life after this global pandemic. Hmmmm …
Yes, we all have our own opinions, ideas and insights about this in which we are all entitled to and be respected well. I, too, have been thinking about this and realized what would be the “New Normal” for me.
“And He gave them this illustration: “No one rips up a new garment to make patches for an old, worn-out one. If you tear up the new to make a patch for the old, it will not match the old garment. And who pours new wine into an old wineskin? If someone did, the old wineskin would burst and the new wine would be lost. New wine must always be poured into new wineskins. Yet you say, ‘The old ways are better,’ and you refuse to even taste the new that I bring.” (Luke 5:36-39 TPT)
“For this is how much God loved the world—He gave His one and only, unique Son as a gift. So now everyone who believes in Him will never perish but experience everlasting life.” (John 3:16 TPT)
I believe this is the most memorized verse in the Bible, yet I wonder how many of us really came to put on the brakes, to pause, to think, to meditate, to regurgitate, to digest, to confess and to declare until it becomes a part of us.
“I AM He who lives, and was dead, and BEHOLD, I AM ALIVE FOREVERMORE. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.” (Revelation 1:18)
“IT IS FINISHED!” (John 19:30)
“Tetelestai” (Greek) means “Paid in full; Payment remitted”
“For the earth will be filled
With the knowledge of the glory of the Lord,
As the waters cover the sea.” (Isaiah 6:3)
