Tuesday, 17 December 2019

Have Joy in the Journey



This week has been a really good week. I've been much happier and I can feel the approval of my Heavenly Father as I just try my hardest and do what is in my control. Again I just want to stress that God doesn't care about numbers, he just cares about our offering to him, and I have felt this during the week. It's been hard, there's still been tough days, days where no one listens, days where I feel like I'm not good enough, but at the end of the day I always feel comfort and love from my Heavenly Father because I'm doing what I can to serve him. 

Although people have turned me down constantly this week, I've been so happy! it's strange really, but acting in faith will always help us to have joy, because we're doing what's right. And I really do have a testimony that 'all things work out for good, for those who love God.'

I wish I had more stories about meeting people and teaching people but at the moment I don't sorry, but I'm really trying hard, I know that there is someone out there who is being prepared by the Lord. So far the one who has been coming closer the Saviour is me, and honestly I've never felt closer to the Saviour in my life. Although it can be hard some days, I really am grateful for every experience, especially the difficult ones. Without those moments we wouldn't grow, we wouldn't have to experiment on the words of the Lord, and it's in the difficult moments of our lives that we grow closer to the Saviour, because our understanding of His atonement grows, and so too our grasp of His love. 

 One thing that has brought me great comfort is that not only did the Saviour atone for our sins but he took upon himself our pains and our sorrows and our heartaches too. He can empathise with us because he has felt all that we will ever feel, and he did this 'that his bowels may be filled with mercy... that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their infirmities.' I can take great comfort from knowing that the Saviour, the only perfect missionary, the very Son of God, was rejected and spat upon and cast out also. When I stand seemingly alone I stand with Christ himself, and he lifts me up, he matches my tears with his own and he gives me the strength to carry on.

One of the most precious things in our lives is our testimony of the Saviour and so I would ask this week that you do what you can to strengthen your own testimony of Him.

Speak to you all soon. 

Starszy Ashworth x 

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