"Boxing Finished in 68 Words."

No one is exempted. We're just facing life in different approaches yet we're similarly aware about experiencing troubles, trials, and problems in life. 

Problems are a part of our lives. It's impossible to live without them. Yet we can handle it because it doesn't affect us much and/or we have the ability to make it solved immediately.

We all have it. It just differs in the scope, extent, and degree. And we choose not to be affected by it so that we can still make our lives moving.

If I were to tell you the details of what had just happened to me recently for the past few weeks, probably you would say, "Really?" "It looks like you do things as if nothing seriously happened to you."

Actually, yes. There is. I have just encountered a lot of them lately. And they are not the easy ones that I always meet. I'm not telling these so I can get special attention from people. Those who know me deeply can prove that. :)

But I will not go to the direction of telling all those that I had and have for you have your own too, and it will just digress me to my objective why this thing is created.

Don't worry, my friends. All is well. The enemy and the circumstances may try to knock me down but they cannot knock me out. The fact that I know that greater struggle results a greater reward, I am more determined not to throw in the towel. The punches that have been thrown against may have staggered us yet we chose not to give up the fight. We know the end of the story from the beginning. And it spells victory.

As I was composing this, we've just resolved another situation that concerned my dad which (thank God) was settled immediately but it left a pecuniary damage to us.

Looking at the events that had transpired lately aside from that one, my mind still looks for justification.

But my dad and I can't help but to shake our heads and smile about it and say to ourselves, "There's a great blessing that's coming on our way, good things that are coming as well. The enemy may have given his best blow, but he cannot make us surrender."

I take those incidents as if there's someone behind it and has made it intentional. The attacks that he (the adversary) made was so desperate that he may distract me and make my eyes focused on those immediate circumstances that had been inflicted towards us, be clouded on the good things that are coming on my way.

God is good, all the time. And all the time, He is good. He can never be bad. Nothing bad comes from Him. And we're just standing on that simple yet irrevocable truth. Which makes us still composed and still, smiling.

The circumstances that we have faced lately are really serious as others can think, but it only gives us an implication that those are just attacks from the enemy. These situations have quite struck us and it really challenged us, and I myself personally.

We can live without worry, fear, and anxiety, knowing that we have someone in whom we can entrust our lives that holds everything and will give us a security that never fades.

Yet when unprecedented situations surprises you, circumstances will just arise and strike you hard, and it will be different than what you've encountered before, shake you like you've never felt before, and making you feel helpless.

I just want to encourage you that when you are experiencing hard times in life (gleaning from my recent personal experience), and you suffered because you've done right, even if you are right, or you suffered because someone has taken advantage of you and you've lost something, if all unexpected situations have sprouted against you and now you're in the brink of surrendering, don't give up. No, please. For your goodness sake and for the benefit of mankind!

Never loose sight of the good things that is in you and let that dire circumstance steal the hope on what you expect to manifest in your life. Never drift your focus to our God who's always for our good and sees the desires of our hearts.

For what and in whom we believe in our lives is greater than what we see with our eyes.

For what we are seeing and expecting on what's coming ahead is really far more better than what we're presently seeing now.

We are reminded by His Spirit that these hard times are just temporal and can be used as well to refine us, and it will produce good things out of us. And the abstract things that God has placed in our hearts and lives will remain in us forever.

Which the enemy and the circumstances may try to remove it from us but its just that it can never be rooted out, how desperate they may seem to do it, because it has been rooted deeply in us through the years.

I will not prolong this further. And let this point bring an encouragement to everyone who's also experiencing a hard time out there yet still chooses to continue to walk uprightly even if their circumstances have made their world upside down. It only just signifies that you are in the closest spot to your good things that God has prepared for you. It's already there. Still expect for the best. Just keep standing.

Get ready.

While I was meditating a particular chapter in Romans, a certain verse caught my attention which I took the time as well to look for its other version from NKJV. And this, really popped the bad bubble in my head.

And here it is. It says,

"That's why I don't think there's any comparison between the present hard times and the coming good times. The created world itself can hardly wait for what's coming next. Everything in creation is more or less held back. God reins it in until both creation and all creatures are ready and can be released at the same moment in to the glorious times ahead. Meanwhile, joyful anticipation happens."*

Now, it's up to you how you'll gonna interpret it. Let the Spirit of God blow your mind as he reveals to you the insight behind it and stir hope in your life.





Now I understand the reason why.

That removes the frustration.

That completes the explanation.
That defines the expectation.

And that, in my mind, makes the boxing finished.


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*Romans 8:18-21 (The Message Version).

[Taking this on a personal note, the things that we suffered at this present time are nothing compared to the good things that are coming to us. And this is not prophesying about myself. Actually, it's there already. Time will be my friend to make this things become unfolded at the right time and let God be glorified in me. When I grow old, this will serve as a reminder for me that at this particular point of time where we experience this crucial moment in our lives, God has demonstrated His power in us, He moved in our lives, and thus, we overcome.]