unshakeable faith

unshakeable faith

It has been a good day for me. Woke up with a little dizziness and heatyness but the joy of the Lord carried me through. I worked though this is my off day, as to fulfill my personal commitment to complete the job at hand and it was resolved. Mom in-law cooked dinner with delicious watercress soup, just the dish for a heaty body. I drank 2 bowls. Headed for SCC bookstore to pick up some manuals for some members and was delighted to find some goodies awaited me there: a newly arrived Hillsong CD God He Reigns and a couple of things which I had wanted to get – a movie made on Mother Teresa and the specific book on how to study the Bible which I was not able to find anywhere else. Just felt that I had gone there at the right time. Above this, I received a good discount and got to hear some good testimonies from Ps Richard. God is good.

The movie on Mother Teresa was very touching to me. Although they did make her larger than life in certain scenes and since it is a movie they fail to show the real depth of her struggles, but her love and compassion for the rejected and the needy, her sincerity and the persistence within her towards the call of God upon her life not only graced the people around her during her time, it also has reached and touched me. She convinced me of the reality of God in her life and I agree with her, she would not be able to do what she did if God was not in it with her. Her legacy of yielding to the Lord for leading, faith in prayer and in God’s provision deeply encouraged me and assured me that there is no one better and more capable to make way for us than God Himself. In her own words I am just a pencil in God’s hand. He is the One who writes. We are His instruments of blessing, but have we been willing?

I could identify with her moments of despair and loneliness, the times she felt like she had no more strength to go on and the pressure she faced from within her order and without. Yet she shone brightest in the toughest times of her life because this was when God shows up and shows up strong in favor for her. I feel that these are the moments that had deepened her faith in the Lord, refined the vision she was entrusted with and purified her motives and intentions. Some of her words she said during one of those times in this movie was never be afraid to be a contradiction to the world. We face conflict and opposition, but have we been courageous and believing?

Though Mother Teresa trailblazed and much was depended upon her for leadership and encouragement, she had a close circle of friends, whom I believed God had knitted their hearts with hers like Jonathan and David. These friends stuck with her through thick and thin. The journey of a leader may be difficult, lonely and winding, but God graces it with the presence of friends, and I believe God does this for every leader regardless of where they are and what they are called to do, they never do it alone.

Thank God for such inspiration in the life of a woman who chose to live as she was called to be. For more of famous quotes by Mother Teresa, visit:
http://www.dayformothers.com/mother-teresa-sayings.html
http://www.drini.com/motherteresa/own_words/