After you have Lost

You have heard that "no state is permanent" that everything changes
and before you know it things are different.Now that statement is very
true and good to hear or believe when things are tight,like they say
"when you are found between a rock and hard place,at a time when your
options are very limited.But how about when everything is going on
just fine? when everything is just as you had planned it or even much
better than you had imagined? wold you wish for things to change? I
bet not.
probably you have heard someone say "Change is a fact of life" you
can't resist it,some people say we should always cause the change we
want,and partly I believe that though I think there is a debate on
that,but you see,even if you don't cause change,change will come by
its self.They say in life there is nothing constant except Change.You
won't be thinking like that forever ,you won't be young forever
,chances are you won't be doing that Job all your life.
In life there are things we always want to see changed,but then
some,we want them to remain forever or at least for some time,it could
be a Job,a friend,a spouse,an academic course et cetera .But certain
things we can't control because they are not into our hands,so many a
times we see people all over the world facing painful changes in their
lives,Time and again we are forced out of school,out of
competitions,out of relationships,out of business ,out of a job at a
time when we least expect it,so almost everybody feels they are out of
something.So the question is not whether you you will ever loose
something ,it is what you do when you have lost something .after a
loss,some people are filled with anger,fear,bitterness,

hopelessness
etc
I read somewhere that a certain old man was asked "In your own
life,what did you do every time you encountered hardships ?"

He said " I always choose to look at what God was doing,other than
what I wanted,on God's purpose other than my desires"

 you see in this life ,sometimes  we don't know exactly what we were
meant to be,so we just guess and try our luck in anything,or we just
copy someone Else's life and paste in our own,because John is
successful  by being a church pastor you also become one and yes you could also
appear to be 'successful' but in a wrong context out of what God
created you for. And so God always uses problems,set backs whatever
name you could name them to guide us back to his purposes,it is
because of this that the ancient Job,when he had lost his all,did not
curse God but instead praised him and said

The Lord gave and he has taken away,blessed be the name of the Lord.job 1:21

Normally,we hurt so much after we have lost something because we have
a deadly sense of individualism,where by we put ourselves at the
center of everything ,my car,my money,my this my that,we put a me tag
on everything .We want to try things on our own to satisfy our ego so
at the end we can say " I did it" .We tend to think that everyone
should be thinking about us,that is why after we have lost we are
afraid that people will laugh at us.If you didn't know,sometimes
people are not thinking about you,they are busy minding their
business,so after a loss or set back,just take that as an opportunity
to begin over afresh after you have learnt your previous mistakes.
Look it is not about you nor about them,it is about God,
Jeremiah 17:7-8

⁷ Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
⁸ For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

That person who puts God at the center of everything is always in the
right position to handle any unexpected crisis.Such a person should
not use God to solve his problems but should let God use problems in
their life to fulfill his purpose.

The loosing time is not the time to run away from God,it is the best
time to run to God because he is able to handle anything however big
it appears to us.

The psalmist sang and said

Psalm 121:1-2..."I look to the hills from where does my help come from...My help comes from the Lord maker of heaven and earth"

Our God is bigger and greater than anything you will ever think of.His
name is a strong and might tower,the righteous run to it and they are
safe.
Pastor Rick warren in his book says
"A journey is always better when shared"
Will you allow God into your walk to Day?