Newness

Poem

So it’s 25^thof December again and yes we have the hustling and buzzing, everyone going around, the cooking et al. Maybe this is just me, I don’t enjoy the façade and the unnecessary trouble and stress; well Christmas has moved from being about Jesus to being about family, holiday, traditions, and don’t get me wrong, Family is good…I super love my family … but the whole affair of the season just makes it really choking….Cant it just be quiet and sweet, a little food, less going around, quiet enough for introspection and retrospection…and an atmosphere that emphasizes Jesus as the reason for the season.

It seems like January 1^st 2013, was just yesterday, how fast the year went…huh.*winks* + *hmm*lol (I should come up with an icon that expresses dis better) I was going through all of my posts and my personal notes through the year and if I had to draw a graph…it would look like an area where there’s a lot of valleys and some mountains (inconsistencies, dramas et al)…. I’m learning consistency in my walk with God, but then consistency makes you self-reliant…being continuously broken enough to be God confident is actually the deal of walking with God. I haven’t gone over all of David’s psalm at the same time, but going through some of them, I realise David had his own times too, times when he was super excited, times when he was afraid, times where he fell, times where he was up…..but in all of the psalms, David was God dependent and God confident; God’s friend. So am sitting here today with family gone to church and am thinking, is my life worth the birth of Jesus, am I living for the birth and death of Jesus…amidst all the dramas I’ve gone through, all my moments…it will still always come down to living life to the fullest for the birth and death of Christ. Living a life worthy of the birth and the death of Christ isn’t based on my works; we know that “by strength shall no man prevail”, we also know that“For it is by grace we have been saved, through faith and this not from ourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that none can boast.”, also I’ll always go back to the Scripture that says “To live is Christ and to die is gain”.

I got really tired this year and funny just before I started typing this, I saw a picture of a pastry shop, apparently no one was buying their pies and they had a lot of them. A pie shop should smell of pie, we should be able to smell the pie…so well someone told them to pack all the old pies and throw them away and make fresh pies…..well the freshly made pies brought a lot of customers and there was no waste. My point is….in the midst of dramas, et al…there’s a tendency of losing value, losing the dreams, losing faith, and losing being in sync with God. The way we can’t pour new wine in an old skin, it’s time to take out the old skin and the old wine….and ask for new wine to be poured in the new skin. I’m sitting down and checking out my level of faith and how much I believe….I’ve not lost it, but I need refreshing and a newness….So I guess it’s time to throw away all the baggage, all the drama et al……..I’ll say again I desire to know nothing, save Christ and him being crucified….So where do I start from, with throwing away all baggage…hmm..a friend told me to be real….i guess I’ll probably start from being real(real is pretty ambiguous here though)… and take each day has it comes…close my eyes to all the dramas, all the things that seem not to work and focus on Jesus; the Author and the Finisher of our faith.

Am about to wrap this up and am reminded once again of the coming of Christ….so while we go through the hurdles and motions of life, we need to consciously prepare for his coming. When? I don’t know… How? I’m not sure…. Just be ready…

Till he comes I’ll keep writing, and we’ll all keep living to the Glory of his name…

God Bless You and Happy 2014