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iamjassmine · 2 years ago

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It's been a while....

Ecclesiastes 3:1

"For everything there is a season and a TIME for every purpose under heaven"

It is clearly said in this passage that there is a right time for everything. May it be personal, in your profession, in your goals, in your family, and in your life. There is a perfect and precise time for everything. Some may take a day or two, a week, a month, but some take a year or a decade to happen. And when our patience is being tested, we start to think "Why good things always take time to come to me?" "Why it's taking time for me to experience my ultimate goal?" And that's when we start to compare our lives to others. We start to feel pity towards ourselves and throwing questions everywhere. And we start to feel jealousy, unaccomplished individual, sadness, hopelessness that you think "Maybe God doesn't hear my prayers" and that God has favoritism or something like that. Well, I've thought about that a lot once or twice, even thrice whenever I see some people are more successful than I am, happier than I am, more accomplished and fulfilled people. As I compare myself to them, I feel sorry for myself........for a moment..... But then I realize a lot of things I have that other people don't have. I have a healthy family, we still eat nice food or even in restaurants during payday, we still have shelter that protects us, we have beds to lie on to rest, we have people who love us, and we have God who's always there when no one else was. We are blessed more than we can imagine and I realize the things that made me feel jealous, sad, or hopeless, are quite superficial, unimportant 'cause these things are only temporary, it's just for a moment and yes a memory to remember. But then I think about the promises of God, great promises that He will supply all my needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:19), “And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work” (2 Corinthians 9:8). God surely bless us with our NEEDS and most of the time we pray for our WANTS. God does not always give what we want for a reason. It might make you or break you. But in every decisions you are making in life, right or wrong, if you come back to Him, He will let You through it. Oh! And I thought about death too... As the bible says from Matthew 6:19-21, "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." So if your heart is in this world, you are a property of this world, but if your heart is after Him, you are absolutely a property of His, a child of God.

That is how I overcome jealousy, I constantly remind myself that I am blessed more than I deserve. That I am in the right place and when He wants to move me, He will in His perfect time. That I have some things that other people are not fortunate to have. When times I feel like God is not hearing me, I will always ask myself if I am listening to Him in the first place. Honestly, most of the time I don't because I do not allow Him to control my life. I always thought I am one step ahead of His plans for me and that I am hurrying things up. But I still thank Him endlessly for being so patient with the stubborn me. He always reminds me on Isaiah 55:8-9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts" And that gives me reassurance and confidence that I am protected, I am in the right place, and I will be there in His perfect season.

Thank You Lord.

"I believe you're only getting started"