Friday, December 30, 2016

TRUST





I watched a movie yesterday and in the scene, one of the characters said “Trust goes both ways”. I think it is true. I myself have been thinking lately about trust because I probably have a big trust issues to men (literally, especially). Being born in a broken family where my dad had broken our trust, it is especially hard for me to trust a man. Do not get me wrong, I have a lot of guys’ friends, and two brothers. I can trust them easily, but when it comes to a romantic relationship. It is another stage and a big mountain to climb for me. 

I had some relationships in the past, none of them I could find trustful. From that I learned it is actually really hard to be honest and selfless in this fallen world when temptation just comes from all the areas in life. Not only from the secular temptation but even amongst the Christians community itself, further more even in the midst of us who called ourselves a believer. People fall into temptation, and when that happens trust is hard to regain or even restore. That is when the relationship broken. 

We can’t never trust human completely, we are all flawed. Putting trust in God is the only way. Especially when someone betrays our hearts with their short fallen. Human relationship is a complicated thing and when it is broken, the evil uses it to break our divine relationship with or without us realizing it. When human’s trust is broken, our tendency is not to trust God anymore by one of the other thoughts that we put blame on God in letting people broke our trust and heart. I have seen it happening it a lot in people, even with my mom. It took her years to be able to trust God again after her trust to my dad being broken. 

A lot of young people left their standards or church because their trust was being broken by human relationship. I know what they felt when they decided to walk away, I had my trust being broken in my life. I questioned God, confused with the situation, wondered why He let that happened in the first place. Wondering if I could I trust Him to take care of my heart. If He can, so why He let the heart being broken by the trust given?

We are left with so many questions in a lot of things in life. No, we can’t completely trust a man, because we betray one another in so many ways, everyday. But, I do trust that we can still trust God even when our trust is being broken by the others. We can always trust Him to take care of the broken things.

It is not God we can’t trust, but it is ourselves, and our sinful desires and selfishness. We don’t understand most of things that happen in our life, but our part is not to understand them all. Our part is to trust God and to love the others no matter what, even when they break our trust because God also still loves us no matter what, even when we break His heart every day. Trust me, it is not easy, that is why we have to learn to trust Him every day in all situations, and we will not find ourselves put our trust in the wrong place.

"Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit."

Jeremiah 17:7-8

 

Monday, December 5, 2016

Little stung



I got stung by something when I was catching fish using a small fishing net on the shore with my friend
It was our last catch..
The plan was just to do it once because my friend wanted me to experience how to catch fish using fishing net with the help of the local worker in the rustic resort where I have been working for surprisingly seven years now (although it is on and off)
It was our third rows, when I was excitedly moving just a bit of ahead from my friend because I saw jumping fish in the water and I was hoping that we would be able to catch it
The stung started to swollen when I got off the water, then I soaked my foot with warm water just in case it had poison or bacteria
It has been six days now, it is not as hurting as it was but it got itchy
It is not red anymore but getting darker
It is healing, I know
But somehow my hands is always wanting to touch it or rub the stung because it is itching

I made me thinking of wounds in our life.  Sometimes, something that wound and sting our heart will get itchy when it is actually healing
It keeps on wanting our attentions to put our hands on it when it will not help at all but instead it can even make the wound worse
We just have to keep doing whatever we are doing and trying not to think about the wounded things and keep our hands away from the itching thoughts that is actually is about to heal
We can’t entertain the itching skin by scratching or rubbing it. Same thing like we can’t entertain our thoughts by keep coming to the same thoughts and feelings that is actually getting to heal
Yes, time will heal it, but what we do during the time is also matter
We can’t stop moving because we have a small wound on our foot and kept regretting why that happen
We can’t stop living because we have a small wound in our heart and kept regretting the small amount of years from the whole years we have lived.

One stung on the water when you were trying to catch fish and enjoying the life of the fisherman can’t make you take all of your baggage and run back to the city and never enjoy the seafood again
Same thing, two or three years of bad experience from your whole life years living on earth can’t make you stop living and throw yourself under the valley of regret for the rest of your life
What you have to do is to heal the stung, fry the fish you caught and enjoy it with your friends
What you have to do is take a little a moment to grieve, heal in the way you need, and enjoy what God has been blessed your life, friendship, families, exciting job, people you work with and your future ahead.
A little stung can’t make you stop enjoying the life in the fisherman islands
A little hurt can’t make you stop enjoying the other parts of your life God has been blessed you with

It will all heal. Don’t let your feet stop walking because the unexpected little stung