ENDURANCE (I)

In life, we have choices. When we choose to do something despite trials and tribulations in our way, we chose to endure in the things we do. Yet, if we "endure" something due to a lack of choice, we are in fact just putting up with the very thing we had to do or deal with.

As Apostle Paul said, we press on in the things we do. Endurance is something that everyone should have or else, learn to put the little endurance power to practice to increase this ability. To succeed in whatever that we do, to step out in faith, to pursue something that God Himself put in our hearts, we need to endure.

In my short little journey thus far, I had endured pains and heartbreaks, and I choose to press on thanks to mom and dad, and the rest of my family, who had been encouraging me when I am down on my knees. I thank God, that throughout this journey, even when I fell down again and again, crying out in pain, angry even at Him, lashing out in seeming defeat, yet He held me up and strengthen me to continue. And when I looked back, my eyes were open to the kind of changes that He had been doing within me. I needed each one of that, and He alone knows my heart. While the rest of the world stood judging my outward expression, I can take comfort that my God is a God who looks at the heart, and the agony that comes with being misunderstood during each part of my journey.

And so I continue to endure in Him........