YOU ARE NOT USELESS
65-year-old sitting for SPM for the first time.
Headline of a recent online news.
If you think you are old, useless, not worthy, not good enough, let the determination of an unbeliever motivates you. No, i am not asking you to take SPM; the Malaysian Certificate of Education, is a national examination taken by all fifth-form secondary school students.
GOD IS SOVEREIGN
i am not ashamed to tell you that i am frequently motivated by, non believers, indirectly. When the Word said,
Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. Philippians 2:4 NLT
i do not look out only for my own ego that has the tendency of belittling others, but i take an interest in others. If you are prideful, another words, high opinion of Christianity than others, and you cannot accept others to be better, then you have an attitude problem. It not about Christianity, but an unresolved issue of ego.
Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall. Proverbs 16:18 NLT
Unbelievers are neither representing the Christian God nor Christ Ambassadors. But God is sovereign. He is in control of the lives of believers AND unbelievers, just as He did so in the Bible, e.g., King Cyrus of Persia. In the ‘upside down world’ of God, You cannot limit what God can, or cannot do. You just cannot.
8 “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. 9 For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9 NLT
True, our natural thoughts are nothing like His, BUT if you have an intimate relationship with the Word and allow Him to work within you, and through you, His thoughts will shape yours, just like the potter and the clay. Your access to His thoughts through the Holy Spirit increases, while your intimacy with Him grows.
For, “Who can know the Lord’s thoughts?
Who knows enough to teach him?”
But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:16 NLT