Why do we love?

know when you are at a crossroad in your life? and after you've decided which path to take, something inside you is reluctant. you get confused all over again. and after you've taken that road, you hesitate as you walk and keep looking back to see and make sure it is the right path. once you turn back and go back, that's the end of you. that's what they all say. "there's no turning back" i think that's rubbish. like now, i'm at a crossroad in my life. i'm holding alot of things dear to me. they are so close that i will not be able to let go. friends, family, sports, music, relationships... it's never ending. but i know that God doesn't want me to stay this way. he wants me to put all these issues at the altar, and lay it at his feet. surrendering it all to him. like this--- dropping all of your belongings at the crossroad, and taking only one thing, that is the cross. For he said: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me." Jesus didn't say pick up his cross once, but daily. so everyday we must surrender to him, knowing that he's there guiding us and in control of everything.

for those of you who are in trouble or distress, and feel that God is not anywhere near you, take heart. For the Bible say in 2 corinthians 12:7-10 says ," To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." James 1:2-4

therefore i urge all of you to persevere to the prize God has set and prepared for you. " Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:12-14

so brothers and sisters, press on!