Some lessons that God has been teaching me over the past few months and days:

1. His Grace. Yes, I'm overwhelmed by His grace. At times when I should have done more but didn't, His grace saw me through. He gave me so much more than what my efforts deserve, over and over again.

2. His faithfulness. I may not find it easy to put my full trust in Him due to my own human weakness, but it starts with acknowledging His faithfulness, His eternal faithfulness, whether or not i am able to trust Him fully. God's faithfulness blows us away. He created the universe. He called Abram. He made a covenant with Abram to make him into a nation and bless all the nations of the earth through Abram. Hundreds and thousands of years later, even when the Israelites forgot their covenant with God, and time and time again, had forsaken Him, God remained faithful. 2000 years later, the promise came to full fulfilment in the person of Jesus Christ, who came to truly bless and redeem all the peoples of the earth. How should this impact the way we respond to His faithfulness?

3. In all things and in every situation, God be glorified. Nothing can ever change the fact that He has done His work in my life and is still doing so, and nobody can ever deny that except for God Himself. People can say what they want, think what they want, but they can never deny His work in my life and they can never steal His glory away from Him because it belongs to Him and Him alone.

4. Our joy lies in Him - in the eternal and unchanging truth that He is a just, merciful, loving and faithful God whose glory belongs to Him all the time. It lies not in situations, circumstances, our current state of being, our thoughts, etc. The Name of the LORD is a refuge. He is our refuge. Put your hope in His Name. Put your hope in the fact that He is the unchanging, eternal Almighty God who is faithful, merciful, just, gracious, loving Father, strong enough to carry you through anything, so faithful even when we are unfaithful. Put your hope not in your dreams of how you want circumstances to change, or yourself to change, or things to change, but in Him and Him alone. This hope can never be shaken except by God Himself.  Nothing can steal His glory away from Him, and nothing can shake the hope that He offers in His very nature of who He is.

Now, the challenge is: In light of His eternal and unchanging nature - He is eternally faithful, just, loving, Almighty, merciful, gracious, sovereign over everything, and to Him belongs all glory all the time, how should that impact the way we live our lives?

I leave you with that. Have a good day and a good week ahead. =)