these are the words that i found in the beginning of 2009 that i felt really really hit me. really really give me a revelation for this year. this one, i heard it about a couple of weeks ago and i think this applies to me in so many ways. for training, for races, for work, and for everyday life in general.
faith is trust in Christ sufficient to provoke obedience to Christ and to receive benefits
what does having faith do?
faith battles temptation
for about a month, i had been in fasting mode. somehow this year, almost everybody that i met started the year with fasting; which i think it's great. knowing that the people surrounding also doing something somewhat similar to what u'r doing. during this fasting period, those words up there really really struck me. it gives me a new perspective about faith. for the longest time, i thought some certain things that i had been doing is rite. well.....not entirely. those things that i did might be not wrong, but it gave me a different meaning and perspective about the things that i'm doing.
this fasting period really really give me a new meaning of fasting. a new meaning of needing to have more faith in HIM. does it mean i lack faith? maybe; maybe not.
in the beginning of this year, as i said in my blog previously, somehow, i felt GOD wants me to have more faith in HIM. to trust HIM even more. to have belief more in HIM that what i think i can do.
well, guess what? i think i'm learning that rite now. and, somehow, i felt that there are people surrounding me that pray for me about this specifically. from the closest one, to the casual ones, to even the ones that i just knew.
the fasting period taught me to trust in HIM more and more everyday, that i actually felt provoke to be obedience to GOD. and each day, at the end of the fasting days, i actually felt that i'm receiving benefits. one of them surprisingly, i felt my training have become more effective. at the same time, i felt that i can battle temptation better than ever. so.....out of all that....thank u, GOD....
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