Makes you stronger.
I suppose we are all familiar with that phrase.
There are times when I feel so depressed or sometimes sad, seeing how some friends make the wrong decisions. Especially when they actually know the truth, what they should do, and yet.. they follow their heart, emotion, hormone, whatever it is.
Being among youth who are sometimes eight or ten years younger, you just couldn't help feeling sorry for them when they took the wrong path you had taken when you were younger.
You would sometimes try to advise them. But it doesn't always work. And that is the moment you come to understand the pain in your parents' heart when they saw you made those mistakes in your teenage days.
But I am now slowly learning to remind myself that sometimes.. it is the mistakes that God allows to happen. The best way to learn is sometimes to make mistake. It would have been ideal if everyone could follow Paul's advise for Timothy.
We have heard it times and again. Preachers are telling us to be excellent in our youth. And yes.. that is possible. But lets face it, anyone could be Timothy but definitely not everyone is.
And God almighty knows that. He knows we would make mistake and hurt in the process. But He is there to make sure we won't be killed by our wrongdoings. Instead, when we surrender to Him, He would forgive, forget, heal and make us stronger.
With mistakes come wounds.. some wounds will stay forever with you. But overtime, you will no longer remember the wound for the pain it inflicts on you. You remember the wound for the mercy He has for you.
There is a season and reason for everything in this world.
But His goodness and mercy.. they endure thru seasons and beyond reasons.
I suppose we are all familiar with that phrase.
There are times when I feel so depressed or sometimes sad, seeing how some friends make the wrong decisions. Especially when they actually know the truth, what they should do, and yet.. they follow their heart, emotion, hormone, whatever it is.
Being among youth who are sometimes eight or ten years younger, you just couldn't help feeling sorry for them when they took the wrong path you had taken when you were younger.
You would sometimes try to advise them. But it doesn't always work. And that is the moment you come to understand the pain in your parents' heart when they saw you made those mistakes in your teenage days.
But I am now slowly learning to remind myself that sometimes.. it is the mistakes that God allows to happen. The best way to learn is sometimes to make mistake. It would have been ideal if everyone could follow Paul's advise for Timothy.
We have heard it times and again. Preachers are telling us to be excellent in our youth. And yes.. that is possible. But lets face it, anyone could be Timothy but definitely not everyone is.
And God almighty knows that. He knows we would make mistake and hurt in the process. But He is there to make sure we won't be killed by our wrongdoings. Instead, when we surrender to Him, He would forgive, forget, heal and make us stronger.
With mistakes come wounds.. some wounds will stay forever with you. But overtime, you will no longer remember the wound for the pain it inflicts on you. You remember the wound for the mercy He has for you.
There is a season and reason for everything in this world.
But His goodness and mercy.. they endure thru seasons and beyond reasons.
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