Sunflower Faith

It really is no secret that I have my good days and I have my bad days.

 Truth is, what the not so hidden secret is that I’m an imperfect human being.
Okay, shocker I know, so it really surprises me of people who tend to think that I am perfect, have it all together, or should have it together without taking in the fact that I don’t hide the fact that, hey, “I’m a broken vessel that only in and through our Heavenly Father, that I rest my hope and prayer in.”

From the MHC (Matthew Henry Commentary) it is shared about 1 Corinthians 11:30-33:

Daring Escapades (11:30-33)

…… Consistent with his determination to play the fool, Paul chooses an incident that demonstrates weakness rather than strength. If I must boast, he states, I will boast of the things that show my weakness (v. 30).

 The form of the conditional denotes fact: “since I must boast” (ei + indicative).

 Paul has been forced to become a braggart by the exigencies of the Corinthian situation. The church is being led down the garden path by some smooth-talking con artists. Paul will do whatever it takes to help the church to see this–even to the extent of boasting as his rivals do.

When asked to provide a vita, we tend to pick things that make us look good in the eyes of others. Paul turns instead to what makes him look bad.

 He also chooses an episode that caused him no little personal humiliation–a quick exit from the city of Damascus under cover of darkness. His account is prefaced with an oath. The veracity of what he is about to say is at stake: The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever, knows that I am not lying (v. 31). Oates are used toice earlier in this chapter (11:10, 11; also see 1:18).

 In fact, Paul tends to use them whenever he suspects that the truthfulness of his claims might be questioned (as in “I assure you before God,” Gal 1:20; “God is our witness,” 1 Thess 2:5). Paul’s oath in 2 Corinthians 11:31 is made even more weighty by the additions the God and Father of the Lord Jesus and who is to be praised forever. The former phrase occurs elsewhere only in 2 Corinthians 1:3 (see the commentary) and Ephesians 1:3. The latter phrase is a Jewish expression of reverence and adoration (Bratcher 1983:128).

Truth is, I am nothing without our Heavenly Father and I am nothing if it isn’t for and about Him. I can speak all the most eloquent or not so eloquent words in the word and it all falls to dust, if my life, does not straightforward reflects Him and that includes the fact that life is not always going to be perfect-there will be trials and tribulations and there will be well, just boring days, but what all matters is that it is all about giving it to Him and trusting our Father through it all.

Sometimes this is done easily-Other times it’s not.

From “Eyes for the Unknown” by Ron Rose, the writer shares what I think eloquently speaks how we have to embrace our weaknesses as well as our strengths,

Life after the fall is filled with roadblocks, they will continue till Jesus comes. If someone tries to sell you some misguided teaching that Christianity gets rid of the roadblocks, politely disconnect.

 If you breathe you will experience Roadblocks.

God uses them to direct life, to change things, to move us to the next chapter in our story. Sometimes he moves them, but most of the time HE transforms them into road signs; road signs that point us in a new direction.

My imperfections, my weaknesses, defines me more than I feel my strengths do, because it is in my weaknesses that our Heavenly Father shines through more and it is through my weaknesses that my faith in Him is strengthen, sometimes easily and sometimes after much difficulty, but in the end, I have no one, not even myself to give praise to, except our Heavenly Father.

It is because of that, that I am slowly learning, the truth of our growth and spiritual maturity can be easily hid behind a false smile but the reality that our spiritual growth and who our characters are, are refined and definied by the weaknesses that teaches us both strength, humility and completely reliance in our Heavenly Father.

If I give praise to our Heavenly Father only when life is going great, I feel I give a false impression of Him, because He is there for when we are down as much as when we are up in the world and that’s what the world needs to know too.

He is ALWAYS there.

He is not a fair weathered friend or whose only there for the ‘good times’. He is there for the storms, the rocky days adn sometimes just the boring average day and it doesn’t mean you and I are not insignificant but rather we are significant.

So life is everyday?

So life is stormy?

So life is rocky?

Thank You Heavenly Father for everyday because You are there no matter what.

As for me. Back to my boring life. LOL

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Sunflower Faith is a quiet, sometimes silly, sometimes sarcastic, sometimes serious, follower of Christ sharing words of devotion, encouragement and hope that is always about our Father in Heaven. So grab a cup of coffee and join Sunflower Faith in words of growth, hope and more all in the spirit of 2 Peter 1:5-8.

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