Specialness

Sometimes I wonder why it is that we desire so much to be special to someone, to a group, to a couple of people, to a crowd.

No one wants to be the second best. No one wants to feel the rejection of “not being good enough.”

Sometimes the things that hurt the most is when people forget about you. Like when someone sends invitations out and you weren’t invited, when someone forgets you were in fact present during one of those “good times”, when you were there for that inside joke. Even as far as when someone tags people in something on facebook and they forget you.

Being forgotten by someone feels like you don’t stand out to them. It really hurts.

But, something is wrong when it comes to self pity. It means now are you not only pushing away God’s love, now you’re blind to it as well.

Sometimes when you find yourself in the situations of loneliness is when it’s the hardest to be the loving one. You really just want someone to come to you.

God is coming to you. Wake up. Open your eyes. You have to let go of the loneliness and what else is unfortunately attached to it so that you may rise again in Christ.

Let go of loneliness to open your eyes to God’s love again, because only through God will you know love. And until you can find full satisfaction in God, you won’t find it anywhere else.

It’s not about you.

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less.” -C.S. Lewis

“Lord God…Help me…May I know the true joys that are found in giving my life for others.” -Prayer for Direction, St. John Bosco

"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us to love." -St. Augustine

“Know I love you. I am God almighty, believe and be satisfied.”

Preparation

“God doesn’t choose the prepared, He prepares the chosen.” -Anonymous

Love one another.

"This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. ¹²Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous. ¹³Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. ¹⁴We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. ¹⁵Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.

¹⁶This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. ¹⁷If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? ¹⁸Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. ¹⁹This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence ²⁰whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and He knows everything.

²¹Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God ²²and receive from Him anything we ask, because we obey His commands and do what pleases Him. ²³And this is His command: to believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as He commanded us. ²⁴Those who obey His commands live in Him, and He in them. And this is how we know that He lives in us: We know it by the Spirit He gave us." -1 John 3:11-24

Sun and moons.

"The light we might show forth is like the light of the moon, which has no light of its own, but merely reflects the light of the sun. The moon should not then boast as if it was the creator of the light which comes forth from it. Much less should we, who many times show darkness in place of the light we should be reflecting from the Lord." -Pride vs. Humility by Michael Fackerell

Hands

"A basketball in my hands is worth about $19.
A basketball in Michael Jordan’s hands is worth about $33 million.
It depends whose hands it’s in.

A baseball in my hands is worth about $6.
A baseball in Roger Clemens’ hands is worth $475 million.
It depends on whose hands it’s in.

A tennis racket is useless in my hands.
A tennis racket in Andre Agassi’s hands is worth millions.
It depends whose hands it’s in.

A rod in my hands will keep away an angry dog.
A rod in Moses’ hands will part the mighty sea.
It depends whose hands it’s in.

A slingshot in my hands is a kid’s toy.
A slingshot in David’s hand is a mighty weapon.
It depends whose hands it’s in.

Two fish and 5 loaves of bread in my hands is a couple of fish sandwiches.
Two fish and 5 loaves of bread in Jesus’ hands will feed thousands.
It depends whose hands it’s in.

Nails in my hands might produce a birdhouse.
Nails in Jesus Christ’s hands will
Produce salvation for the entire world.
It depends whose hands it’s in.

As you see now, it depends whose hands it’s in.
So put your concerns, your worries, your fears, your hopes, your dreams, your families and your relationships in God’s hands because…
It depends whose hands it’s in.

This message is now in YOUR hands.
What will YOU do with it?
It depends whose hands it’s in."

-via christiangirlnz.tumblr.com

Gentlemen

“Nice guys finish last because they make sure their woman comes first.” -dee-kidd

"Looks at a woman and doesn’t have the desire to have sex with her. But looks at a woman and has the desire to care for her. He doesn’t look if she has big boobs or a nice ass. But at the fact she is beautiful in the inside. He doesn’t pressure to do what he wants. But listens, because, he’s a Gentleman." -Anonymous

"A true gentleman will not be attracted to the behaviour of a lady who does not allow him to behave as he ought. It is only when a woman carefully keeps a guarded heart and sets her sight on Christ alone that her conduct will compel a gentleman to rise to the challenge of winning her heart and proving himself to be a man of God and a man of honour." -Anonymous

Human

"God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily." -Monica Ponce

"At his best, man is the noblest of animals; separated from law & justice he is the worst." -Aristotle

"What is man in nature? A nothing compared to the infinite, a whole compared to the nothing, a middle point between all and nothing, infinitely remote from an understanding of the extremes … equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed…

Let us then realize our limitations. We are something and we are not everything. Such being as we have conceals from us the knowledge of first principles, which arise from nothingness, and the smallness of our being hides infinity from our sight.

Our intelligence occupies the same rank in the order of intellect as our body in the whole range of nature.

Limited in every respect, we find this intermediate state between two extremes reflected in all our faculties. Our senses can perceive nothing extreme; too much noise deafens us, too much light dazzles; when we are too far or too close we cannot see properly; an argument is obscured by being too long or too short; too much truth bewilders us." -Blaise Pascal

Common Humanity

Love is that "common humanity" factor.

"All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves." -Blaise Pascall

Emotions

"Feelings were never meant to be owned. For example, you may be happy now because someone did something for you that made your day, but you won’t own that happy feeling forever just because someone did that for you today. It isn’t because you were not satisfied, but you didn’t learn then. If I had to put it, I’d say feelings are more like experiences. To truly understand a feeling, you have to learn from it, grow with it. Perhaps learning why or what really made you happy today may let you cherish and keep the happiness with you longer. Was it because of the effort? Or simply because it was someone ‘special’? Either way, if all you did was just try to own that happiness, you will never find it back. But if you’d try to learn from it, every time you look back at that person; you smile, because you are reminded of everything they did for you.

Maybe feelings are the true lessons in life." -via Erin Tangco

"If I only do what I feel like doing I’m not a believer, I’m a feeler." -Bill Johnson

"The most common mistake Christians make in worship today is seeking an experience rather than seeking God." -Rick Warren (The Purpose Driven Life)

"Don’t make permanent decisions on temporary emotions." -Anonymous


God has called me not to feel Him, but to have faith in Him.

Strength

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have." -Anonymous

"My heart and my strength many times they fail but there is one truth that always will prevail: God Is The Strength Of My Heart." -Don Moen