Plan for growth

We are planned for growth

God planned growth in our lives not failure. In times we might face setbacks and disappointment but we have to understand that it is always during tribulations that we come to understand ourselves better. It is during crisis, we are challenged of who and what are we really made of. 

As I studied the scriptures, the scripture always talks about how all things and our days have been written in God's book. He had already recorded every part of our life from the beginning to the end. God knows every disappointment, every loss and crisis we are facing.

When we go through a disappointment or a loss, a part of us may be in a lost of labyrinth, but there is always a part of us that encourages us to keep on going. More than often, our disappointment talks us out of that encouraging voice. It remind us that it is difficult and it is impossible. 

I want to encourage everyone who is reading this post to keep moving forward, because there is another chapter in front of you. The choice is, we have to be willing to walk into it. Sometimes we focus too long in trying to figure out why something didn't work out the way we wanted, why a relationship didn't last, or why we weren't given the position we worked so hard for. We may not understand everything we have been through. But when we keep pressing forward, not letting bitterness take root, we will come to a chapter in our future that will pull it all together, a chapter that's going to make sense.

When I was young, I used to love fixing jigsaw puzzle. Most of the time I will find a piece of puzzle that didn't look like it fit anywhere. After trying every way, I'll just put it aside knowing, it will come to a fix as I focus on other pieces. We realize that when the puzzle come closer to being finished that there will be a perfect place for that unfit piece.

So what is the problem earlier on? It's because all the other pieces weren't put together yet. And this is true for me and my life. I may have challenges and issues that I cannot comprehend. But Now I have convinced myself that in life, I don't need to know all things, or ask all the why to everything. You know something, life can be so much happier trusting God and stop asking so many why. 

Sometimes we will wonder, if God is so good, then why are lousy things happening? It doesn't seem to make sense in a way right? Well, we may not see it yet, but many times, it's the issue or challenge, heartbreak or disappointment that happened, which redirects us to the great things God has for us in our future.

I know and I know that God has just the right pieces to make my puzzle fit together. The puzzle may not make sense now, but I shouldn't be discourage, because I always know that another piece which is coming up is going to pull it all together. I can trust in a good God who design the puzzle of my life.

:) 

Love Qi