The Challenge Revelation.
Plentiful and undeservant. Lately, I have been caught up with the many school works I had, as well as my finals, and assignments. Now that it's over, I felt relieved, happy, but also confused. I can now look back at the things I have managed to go through, finishing my last months of college life, and along the way, learn many lessons, I am pleased to encounter. Now you may ask why most of my post has the word "revelation" in it. Its simply because, everything we do, no matter how bad things seems, or how good it looks like for a while, God will give us the revelation we deserve. The ending to a beautiful story. The victorious finish to a bad start. That's all His revelation working in us.
So today I speak of a challenge that I took, and the revelation I received. I guess I am a person who likes to pick challenges, I love them, but that does not necessarily means I am not afraid of them. The thing about challenges is that, you're in the middle, and you are stuck in a mindset where you are to believe whether the challenge you took will benefit you, or it'll cost you everything. The Bible says that: "I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world." (John 16:33 NIV). Jesus told His deciples to take the challenge. To spread the gospel to all parts of the world is not an easy task. God warned them about being steadfast, about going the miles, rescuing people, spreading the good news, but Jesus promised a firm protector, the Holy Spirit.
Same goes to us. I have took the challenge to do something that mankind wouldn't normally do. People will say all things about challenge takers, things that wouldn't necessarily bring our hopes up. The deciples, Paul, in particular, didn't go out of Jerusalem just to "be safe", or to ran away from condemnation. They spread out because they have a duty, because when we start following Jesus, we take the "challenge".
My challenge revelation is more than what I expect it will be. God multiplies. His grace is extravagant, plentiful, out of reach, that its hard to keep up. King David didn't start off as a big and muscular young men who is stepping into the battlefield armed. David took the challenge that brought him to another level. His challenge is not Goliath. His challenge is actually the "catapult" that he brought to the field. He took the challenge by being un-armed with weapons. But God make use of David taking the challenge, and made him victorious.
God looks at the heart. Not the way things appear. God knows what we need more than we want. He wants more of us than we want for ourselves. Its hard to believe that we want a lot, but God has our best interest at heart. Doubting your abilities won't work. Take David as an example. He thought he would be mending sheeps for another decade, but God has other plans for him. And so for us. Our approach to God shouldn't be with hidden agendas, or with embarrassment. No!. God knows what we truly wants, He just wants us to say it. For what its worth, the challenges look small when we seek a Greater God.
The most important thing about the challenge revelation is that, after receiving it, we should acknowledge God as the center of success and victory. It is only because of Him, and Him alone that we are able to do the things we dare not do. His strength behind every single thing we receive.
The thing about taking challenges is that let faith be the weapon against the challenge. Let our faith as small as a mustard seed, as small as David's catapult, fight against the challenge that is big. It is not something that will always cost us, but if it does, remember that it is never the end with our God which have no limit. Who has no beginning and no end because He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
