A Thank You Letter
My big thanks!
A big thank-you to all the people who felt threatened by me for reasons that I couldn’t understand yet, who tried to belittle me at first glance, who tried to humble me, tried to teach me a lesson, etc. My big thanks to everyone who brought pain to my heart and tears to my eyes: the betrayals, the deception, the lies, the slanderers, the low-key studying of me, the knives in the back, the hatred, the jealousy and constant comparison. To all the people who ever meant evil to me, THANK YOU!!!
Another thank-you for the hard circomstances, the losses, the setbacks, the moments when I genuinely had to humble myself, go to God looking for what I was missing, and review myself. Oh thank you
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And my last but not least thanks to my Father God, in Christ Jesus. Who allowed it all, as it all would work for my good. Even when the devil and his minions would get a pass, God would still be fully in control and would not let me bear beyond measure. Just like Joseph, you get to realize : they intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done. Then you get to shake your head in both gratitude and awe.
To one side…
Be encouraged, friend. If you gave your life to Christ, hardships in your life are regular-degular workouts, lol. The Lord did warn us : “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
The peace He asks us to have in Him is real because He has overcome, so you will overcome. In fact, it is a sacred privilege because there can’t be any greater tools of preparation for who you ought to become than this particular training field.
And then, when you start tapping into the next season, ain’t no way you won’t feel grateful for it all! For this amazing work it has done in you! Just like you cherish your transformed body after submitting it under the pain of your workout sessions. They slowly but consistently developed your muscles and strength to more capacity and it’s now more and more noticeable. People who hated to see you coming will never realize that giving you hell was the exact practice your becoming era needed
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So to my real sisters and brothers in Christ, again be encouraged. Spiritually, there are just two sides, and we’re on the same one. What God grows in each of us remains resources for one another. The troubles come first before you get to understand the why of the why! Then you’ll understand this feeling of gratitude that now fills my soul in this particular season. Trust God, the only thing that I can tell you. God is trustworthy. Cry your tears, brace yourself in Him, but stay firm and face it all. That’s the way to your glorious becoming. The season when you’ll see more clearly God’s hands on you. The season when what used to get you on your knees, defeated, now barely gets your attention, and if it does, you easily crush it between two fingers. The season when you yourself can also see the transformation and have mad respect for it, fully assuming it.
To the other side…
Now, to those who are still in the woo-woo stuff, I’ll tell you what: if hardship is the gym for us, you’re just the weights. But your purpose could be more meaningful if you surrender your life to God. You would become a son or a daughter of the Most High and you’d belong. However if you keep choosing the opposite side, there’s no winning there. The best you’ll get is to be used as a painful instrument by the devil, who hates you too just as much he hates those he uses you to attack or harm (while God will keep making it serve our growth; He is the gym owner btw). Then, when the sessions are over, you’ll just stay there, lying on the ground, heavy and void of life, in the dark..
But you could do better: come to Christ. That’s God’s plan to welcome you, for He loves you.
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