STRETCHING BEYOND

I'm sure many of us may have experienced muscle pull or ligament stretch. And have we ever thought how that can relate to our walk with God? Recently I had an experience where my ligament was been stretch on my back, and it was painful, and i felt like I am going to fall apart. But thank God for all the physios who will help to loosen all those stretched ligament.........

Anyway, it brought me to realise that in our walk with God, at times when we are being stretched or pulled to step beyond our normal comfort zone, there will be pain. Just like the pain i experience in my back, it is the same in our walk with God. But of course, God brings us through that pull and stretch, so that we could continue enlarging our capacity of "normal comfort zone" and that helps us to grow.

It is a painful process, but yet I can't deny that it will help us to grow. Recently, I shared with a group of students about the ingredients to GROWTH. And I pop 2 vitamins into the minds of these students - Vitamin F & Vitamin T (which is Faith and Thankfulness). And again looking at that, faith is required to help us to grow. Do we have faith that God will stretch us and help us to grow to the fullest potential? Or do we think that the stretch is too painful and we prefer to give up?

This faith we have in God is not just the saving faith, but it is the faith where Jesus said "Faith as small as a mustard seed can move mountains"........

Anyway, it is no doubt that we need to keep having faith in order to grow. Faith that God will lead us to His highest calling; Faith that God will draw out our highest potential for Him; And faith that God will deliver us from the "pain". Are we able to persevere in our faith until we see that pain overcomed, and our calling being fulfilled. It seems like the pain will always, continuosly be there, until the day Jesus brings us to His highest calling.

Praise God for the pain and sufferings...............................

"But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed."

1 Peter 4:13