my problem: I keep asking people. Friends and families, about my solo performance at a mall this Sunday. I keep asking them if it’ll be bad to sing alone and play guitar as the only instrument while my other friend sing along with band. Not just that, i really really really don’t have any confidence to sing there. Why? because the other singer are far better than me. I think that i might be a failure between those performances. I’m afraid there will be no hands clapping for me while the other get them. Or maybe when i sing everyone leave but when the other singer sing it started to be crowded.
I ask God why He gave me a chance but i’m not ready yet. I mean, i feel worst. Then He said “When you didn’t have the chance to perform, you ask Me to give you a chance to show you that you can. Now when I give you the chance why you question me back? If I gave you a chance to perform then I know that you can. I would never let you handle things you’re not capable of.”
I know that’s an answer towards my questions. But.. It’s just, i can’t convince my self to stop worrying this thing.
Today, again, God speaks through Joyce’s daily devotional:
“Blessed is the man who believes in, trust in, and relies on the Lord, and whose hope and confidence the Lord is.”-—Jeremiah 17:7
One attitude that welcomes the presence of God into our lives is the attitude that honours Him above everyone and everything else. Our attitude need to say, “God, no matter what anyone else tells me, no matter what i think myself, no matter what my own plan is, if i clearly hear You say something and i know it’s You, i will honour You and honour what You say above everything else.”
Sometimes we give more consideration to what people tell us that to what God says. If we pray diligently and hear from God, and then start asking people around us what they think, we honour their human opinions above God’s. Such an attitude will prevent our being able to consistently hear God’s voice. If we are ever going to develop an ability to hear from God and be led by His Spirit as a way of life, we have to stop listening to so many opinions from so many people and begin trusting the wisdom God deposits in our hearts. There is a time to receive good counsel, but needing the approval of people will keep us out of the will of God.
The devil wants us to think we are not capable of hearing from God, but God’s word says that is not true. The Holy Spirit dwells inside of us because God wants us to be led by the Spirit in a personal way and to hear His voice for ourselves as He leads and guides us.
In the verse for today, God says we will be blessed when we look to Him. According to Jeremiah 17:5-6, severe consequences come to those who trust in the frailty of mere men and women, but blessed are those who trust in and honour the Lord. Good things happen if we listen to God. He wants to be our strength and we must honour His Word above all else.
Hear what others have to say, but listen to God.
God remind me about my purpose. What is my real purpose? Is it to seek popularity? It’s not good to have hidden ambition. “You sing for Me, so why you should bother what other would react? Put your confidence in Me, and you shall worry nothing.”
Well, thanks God! Everyday has it own lesson to be learned.
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