more thoughts.

1 Thess 5:16-18 (New International Version)

16) Be joyful always;
17) pray continually;
18) give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

Just reading this verse again. And re-reading it once more. Let me tell you the story of why this verse impacts me so much. Last year, my ex-girlfriend and I broke up. I won’t bring up who’s fault. All I’ll say that it’s for the best. Mine and her’s. Well… I was very upset. Who wouldn’t? Been with her for more than 2years. She was so much apart of my life that I couldn’t fathom how to live again without her. Where’s God in my life huh? Yep.

Anyway, back to the verse. My birthday’s later this year. a few months from now. Maybe 2months and 10days away. According to a good friend who made me my birthday card, she got the inspiration to write that verse down for me but she wasn’t able to pass me the card till WAY WAY after. Like a few months later I think? Well… Anyway, my ex-girlfriend’s birthday is about a month after mine. So anyway, last year, I tried to call her to wish her happy birthday. I discovered she has changed her number. The very next day, I found out she was attached. I shall not elaborate how I knew.

I was crushed and hurt. I felt like I was betrayed. Less than a year after we broke up, yet she is able to find another guy? Yet till now I’m still unattached. heh. Anyway, yeah. It was in this period of my life, where I was down and hurt when this friend of mine passed me the card. The words hit me. “Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”

Don’t tell me that I’m lifting things out of context. Sometimes, we tend to view with skeptism at ‘verse-lifting’. Like how every verse that comes out people assume that we are taking things out of context. Well… 1 question. How is the bible supposed to comfort, edify and teach if we keep thinking about context? I’m not saying that any verses can be hapzardly lifted. Rather, I believe that when verses comes up, it is only relevant at certain times.

Anyway, so yeah. That verse is in my heart ever since. When I’m down, I think of it and I give thanks. When I’m happy, I give thanks to God. And yea, even though sometimes I do still feel down and when I wonder if anything good will come out of my day, I remember this:

Genesis 1:1 (New International Version)

1) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

God. Is. In. Control.

‘Nuff said.