Of Joy Restored

Posted by Wayne (Melbourne, Australia) on 6 July 2007 in People & Portraits.

I guess it really was a test of my faith. The whole of yesterday I was struggling to remain stedfast in faith in His promises for me. There was a function at church that I had to go for and at the beginning there was a time of praise...and in all honesty I found it so hard to give thanks...but as I did I found myself reflecting on how many things I have to give thanks for...of how the joy of His salvation is indeed sufficient for me. From the fact that I've got a loving family, to the fact that my results aren't that bad and my identity is founded in Christ's vision of me and is completely independent from my successes and my failures, to the fact that I'm actually in an awesome church surrounded by awesome people and just the fact that for all that its worth, my life is not my own and has a purpose to it that is far greater than why my human mind can conceive.

Interestingly enough, people around me are now going through similar experiences and I now have the ability to use my experience to give them encouragement and to lend them a hand. It is so true that in my moment of weakness, it is also the moment when God shines the brightest. I have hope and I have my God...and it indeed is more than enough for me for He pours back in abundance.

As an additional update, because of my failure in one of my subjects, I got to meet up with a course advisor and she was able to offer up alternative solutions and so all is now well and fine. In fact, I might even get to go to Shanghai next year to work for a while at a law firm and get credited for it =D cos the course advisor I was talking to was in charge of that program!

Thank you everyone for your support and your comments. I appreciate them so deeply.

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