Grow strong in weakness

On Pursuing The Passion the author got to see that life is tricky.

In life people may encounter so many loose ends, so many torn relationships that need not be knotted, but resown. {Warning: This Blog Struggles To Form Sense.} We all would like to live in nice places under good conditions, not growing weak, but becoming strong and being noticed.

The writer thinks

Life  itself doesn’t honour us with much in the way of praise for each small accomplishment. Not a lot of checked off boxes.
We usually have to go out of our way to check off those boxes. We usually have to put life on hold to cross off those boxes.

So why so obsessed sweetheart? Why so un-content? {Type/aside}

When we look around us we can find people who had bad luck in their life. There may be many where tragedy struck down and could not have their degree completed. Other may have earned some good title, but suddenly, by accident, they lost everything and have to start live all over again.

It is lovely when such bad luck comes over them that they could consider those previous years of study and work not as a waste because through it all they could be enjoying, embracing, and growing.

No day is a waste. That’s the ultimate goal. But maybe its not so much what you accomplish each day that determines whether or not time has been ‘wasted’, but rather how much you have enjoyed. Working your dream career or as an IHop hostess does it really matter?

This could be a good lesson for us. Perhaps it is not so much what we accomplish each day, what is going to determine whether we succeeded, used our time of being here well, or just wasted our time. Though many of us may waste a lot of time on our way in life, we should be continually looking, but looking for what?

We should spend time in looking for a good way to install ourselves in this world full of friction. We should try to make a “ruwe bolster” or “blanke pit”,a good strong shell. Each person in this world has to make his rough diamond into a shiny strong stone, and not being a soft husk.

Every day we do have to work at our selves. Many Christians who call themselves reborn do think that once they have found Christ, call themselves ‘reborn‘, got baptised, their work will be finished and they will be saved for ever. To my regret, I do have to disappoint them. I do have to tell them they are not yet halfway. They are only at the beginning of a new way, but luckily they have found already the best way to follow. But they should know that there are many deviations on that road as well, and they still might take the wrong turn.

The trick of life does want to lure us and wants to lead us up the garden path. We shall feel the strong winds of the trucks, the heavy lorries we pass, the many persons who want to fool us, deluding us with lovely words and promises. Every day again we shall have to make choices. Over and over again we shall have to make new decisions. It will not end until we do find an end to our life, and than everything shall be finished for us, while the others shall continue their own way.

In case we are not careful and would continuously be worried about what we should do or continue to look back “what we have done” we perhaps will not see the light behind the smog. We shall be so busy “making something of our life” that we may forget living that life. Lots of people do think they might buy time and they might buy their way to a prosperous life.

Time isn’t money. Whatever you don’t accomplish today, you can try again tomorrow, but please just remember to live.

Live today, live tomorrow, see what good happens to you and do not concentrate on the bad things that happened to you. Looking back onto what went wrong shall only make you blind, while you have the fog-lights shining in front of you. Step into the footlights, shine and be happy. Share that happiness while you count your blessings. Do not forget that you are here in this world to be yourself and to develop yourself. Make use of it and let others share you. Be the seed for yourself but also the fertiliser for others.

Know your weaknesses and use them to grow strong.

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Read also:

1. The business of this life
2. Monotony of life
3. Live …
4. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands
5. A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses
6. Only I can change my life
7. If you want to go far in life
8. Remember that who you’re being is just as important as what you’re doing
9. Unconditional love
10. Change
11. It is a free will choice
12. Your life the sum total of all your choices
13. Thirst for happiness and meaning
14. Suffering
15. Suffering-through the apparent silence of God
16. Faith and trial
17. Suffering produces perseverance
18. Be happy that the thorn bush has roses
19. Just an Ordinary Day
20. The work I do, let it be done good
21. Frank risks taking
22. Self-preservation is the highest law of nature
23. Count your blessings
24. Leaving behind the lives we have touched.
25. Words in the world
26. Power in the life of certain
27. The truth is very plain to see and God can be clearly seen
28. Choose you this day whom ye will serve
29. Walking in love by faith not by sight
30. No time for immorality
31. Be Honest
32. Honesty beginning of holiness
33. Who are the honest ones?
34. If you have integrity
35. Be strong and take courage
36. Peace Takes You
37. Created to live in relation with God
38. Humility and the Fear of the Lord
39. Life in gratitude opens glory of God
40. A Living Faith #5 Perseverance
41. A Living Faith #6 Sacrifice
42. A Living Faith #8 Change
43. A Living Faith #10: Our manner of Life #2
44. Articles about spiritual-growth on Stepping Toes
45. Articles by Marcus Ampe concerning Life
46. Articles About Life
47. Articles about the Way of life
48. The Way to life
49. Spiritual-growth articles on Marcus’s Space
50. Joy: Foundation for a Positive Life
51. Memories are important
52. End of the Bottom Line
53. Give your worries to God
54. God should be your hope
55. Ask Grace to go forward
56. God wants to be gracious to you
57. Cosmos creator and human destiny
58. The redemption of man by Christ Jesus
59. Believing in God the rewarder
60. Being religious has benefits even in this life

Also of interest:

1. Giving up on depression.
2. the detrimental cycle I call life….
3. Hard Lessons

Make something out of life.
Give peace a chance.
Live and let live
enjoying life.

Grow strong in weakness
and help others to become strong.

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