Reflections...

In case you're feeling despondent, here is a subtle reminder...

Rhema...

On replay...

Easter

Easter of 2020 will go down as a very painful one in history due to the pandemic. The amount of lives lost every day due to people succumbing to the virus is alarming! The very first time we hear a high number of deaths, we are startled! However with time, unfortunately we become accustomed to hearing these numbers...
Be reminded that these numbers are actually reported, meaning the deaths are actually more... real humans, real deaths, real losses, real pain..

The pandemic has taught us various lessons.... one being that we are powerless regardless of who we think we are, what we think we have & where we think we are located...

For those of us who are Christians, it reminds us that the arm of flesh will indeed fail us (Jer 17:5) and now more than ever we need to put our confidence in God...



My prayer today is that as the resurrection brought light & hope, may the light of God illuminate our hearts & lives especially in areas where we have experienced so much darkness. May the hope that His resurrection brought, give us hope to live our lives with heaven in view as we realise that we can either become instruments of good or instruments of destruction.

May we realise what truly matters and may we never go back to living our lives the "way we have always been"

Wishing you & yours a peaceful Easter.

Verse of the day

Reflections...

What sort of person will you become when this is all over?

Work on your self-image

If you pay frequent visits to this blog, you should know that UCB's word for today is my favourite devotional. The messages are ever so timely. This is yesterday's which I was supposed to post. The link is also beneath the post in case you want to read more or even subscribe. 

Iyanla Vanzant said, ‘Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We can’t…draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.’ That means how we see ourselves determines the kind of relationships we establish. Many of us harbour a low sense of self-esteem. We deem everyone else as being more important than ourselves and think meeting their needs is more important than meeting our own needs. We compare ourselves and allow others to determine who we are, and become dependent on their approval to prop up our identity. 

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But it’s a slap in the face to God to look at another person and say, ‘I wish I were like them.’ God made you for His own purpose, that you might reflect a unique aspect of His glory. As believers in Christ, we’ve been given a new identity as children of God. We weren’t created to live dependently on any other person. Rather, God is restoring us to the image of His Son and making us whole (see 2 Corinthians 3:18). In Him we don’t ever need to be afraid to be who we really are. It’s time to develop a true opinion of yourself based on the truth that God made you exactly, precisely, intricately, wondrously, and uniquely you – a one-of-a-kind creation for which there’s no comparison. The psalmist wrote: ‘You…scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe…How precious it is, Lord, to realise that you are thinking about me constantly!’ (Psalm 139:16-18 TLB).

https://www.ucb.co.uk/word-for-today/46028