Returning to our point of reference

Was engaged in a chit-chat with a friend who was facing some challenges in his life. In our conversation, we discussed about how the passionate prayer life of an on-fire Christian, can (over time) become a religious routine. There and then, I believe it's the prompting of the Holy Spirit, I was reminded of what my fiancee shared with me about our point of reference. Each of us ought to have a point of reference in our life. We need to have a point of reference in our walk with God. After I shared that with him, not only was he encouraged, I got encouraged too by remembering that.



It's not whether challenges will happen, but a matter of time that they happen - times when we don't feel like praying, when we are discouraged because things we are working on are not happening in our life, when we don't feel the tangible presence of God. This is where our remembrance of our first love with God will be crucial. It is our point of reference. Remember how He has blessed our soul, changed us and filled our life with blessings. Same goes to the area of marriage - if we lost touch with the feeling of love with our spouse, then the remembrance of our first love during courtship, how we have been through the ups and downs together - that remembrance will be our point of reference.



It's time I return to that point of reference, how about you?





Believe the verses that I posted will encourage you, just as they did to me...

An Invitation to Abundant Life

“6 Seek the LORD while He may be found,

Call upon Him while He is near.

7 Let the wicked forsake his way,

And the unrighteous man his thoughts;

Let him return to the LORD,

And He will have mercy on him;

And to our God,

For He will abundantly pardon.”

~ Isaiah 55

“6 For there shall be a day

When the watchmen will cry on Mount Ephraim,

‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion,

To the LORD our God.’”

…‘O LORD, save Your people,

The remnant of Israel!’

…9 They shall come with weeping,

And with supplications I will lead them.

I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters,

In a straight way in which they shall not stumble;

…‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,

And keep him as a shepherd does his flock.’

…17 There is hope in your future, says the LORD,
That your children shall come back to their own border.

18 “I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself:

‘ You have chastised me, and I was chastised, Like an untrained bull;

Restore me, and I will return,

For You are the LORD my God.

~ Jer 31

For you were like sheep going astray,
but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
~ 1 Pet 2:25