I took some time out last night to watch an old movie "Facing The Giants" and was really inspired =) I was moved when the coach begin to encourage his team who was being defeated in all their games by telling them that their motives of playing football should go beyond their desire of wanting to win the matches. Instead, they should be playing to honor God - not only honoring God in their playing but in every aspects of their lives: including their studies, their relationships with their parents n etc. When they started getting their perspectives right, life and excitement begin to flow into the entire team - drastic transformation begin to take place in their lives.When things got tough, the coach started to invite God into his situation and chose to praise God in good or bad times, chose to love God in good or bad times and he passed that lesson on to the students he was coaching.
I begin to realize as I reflected on my own life - it's really a matter of choice. It's really up to me whether I choose to love God at every season of my life or not. Many times in my life, learning to praise God in my low moments can be very challenging - in fact it's really a big struggle. But, those times when I chose to praise Him and keep my eyes on Him - He never failed me..However, when the next low moment comes, I'll need to muster extra effort on my side and choose to praise my God and to fix my eyes on Him. This process repeats and becomes an ongoing thing in my life - there were times when I was able to praise Him but there were times when I just couldn't even utter a word of praise.
Each time when I choose to praise Him, I grow to understand more of God and myself. It's like I've just started to embark on a journey of discovery - discovering more of God and also myself. It's just so amazing. Staying faithful to God and choosing to remain in Him is a choice that I'm learning to make everyday - day by day - one day at a time...and each time, I get the excitement and thrill of discovering myself n also the God that I love =)
I begin to realize as I reflected on my own life - it's really a matter of choice. It's really up to me whether I choose to love God at every season of my life or not. Many times in my life, learning to praise God in my low moments can be very challenging - in fact it's really a big struggle. But, those times when I chose to praise Him and keep my eyes on Him - He never failed me..However, when the next low moment comes, I'll need to muster extra effort on my side and choose to praise my God and to fix my eyes on Him. This process repeats and becomes an ongoing thing in my life - there were times when I was able to praise Him but there were times when I just couldn't even utter a word of praise.
Each time when I choose to praise Him, I grow to understand more of God and myself. It's like I've just started to embark on a journey of discovery - discovering more of God and also myself. It's just so amazing. Staying faithful to God and choosing to remain in Him is a choice that I'm learning to make everyday - day by day - one day at a time...and each time, I get the excitement and thrill of discovering myself n also the God that I love =)
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