Beyond You

You exist in this world for a reason. There is an impact you must make on earth. It wasn't a mistake you came in this time, you could have been put here before or after now. Why now? It's because you have a purpose.

You thought you were ordinary - just one of the billions on earth. You ask what difference does it make that you are here? Well, if you weren't that important, the devil won't be on your case. He attacks you constantly, bruise your heels, cloud your mind with hurtful thoughts that depress and make you lose hope that you can never be a voice in this world.

Well, that's a lie. God didn't plan that you will go through the things you went through. But if you went through it, He is using it for your good. Because all things work together for good to them that love God and called according to His purpose.

The things you went through were supposed to take you to a place beyond the consciousness of yourself. There is an agenda beyond you and you are part of God's plan to light up the world.

It is easy living the life you are used to, but it's better to enter into the recruitment plan of God. Where you are made beautiful and a wonder to behold. The way the Lord is not easy. He breaks down, and then structure the new life in you. That life is beyond you. The end result is a masterpiece but the process could be messy pieces.

God is the one working on you to become, and through you others can become. This is the life. Where you are not in your own world, but spreading love abroad in your heart. Where His plan, kingdom, and the government finds expression. The aligned Life. The Christlike Life. Being the Light of the world and the salt of the Earth.

The life where you don't judge everyone by what you think you know about them, but see beyond actions and reactions with Love. You become the empathy map of God. The life where you become the Lord's epitome of mercy, favor, goodness, and grace. People can see and experience it in and from you.

A self-centered life is vain. You have every reason to justify yourself. No one knows what you've been through. No one can know it all. You can summarise the things you have gone through into a 2-minute lecture of what you've decided to pick from it, but that is not fulfilling and you know it.

It will do no good to you especially if all you've got is the bad energy and negativity in your story. There is more in that story that has kept you till now and made you hope. Though silent, you are unconsciously waiting and longing for something beyond you.

You can decide to stay there and lick your wounds and tell yourself you'll be fine a million times. Or decide to find a physician, go through the process of healing, and come out a beauty.

You can choose to hold on to the ashes of what your past has taught you to become — a dry bone in the valley, or you can let go of the old you, the pain people have caused you, the rejections you've faced, and your stereotypical ideologies. Let them go and embrace the faithfulness of God, the beauty he wants to make out of those ashes, and the army out of your dry bones.

The glory that will be revealed in you is better than the suffering in your past. You don't have to be the victim of that pity story, you can be the eyes of the Lord to see the pain of others and the hand that raises people, the shoulders that people cry on, the model of Hope in God, the army of the Lord labeled UNDEFEATED. Helping, building, and defending the people. Embrace the Life beyond you and be a channel of HOPE.

Shalom.