I want to be more like You

Hey!
how are you guys doing ;-)?

I'm doing better than when I wrote my last blog. Something that comes to mind now to picture the contrast of my situation now in comparison to my situation a few months ago:

God really has been teaching me to put my focus on Him in every aspect of my life. That was something I had to get used to, but it wasn't a real fight or struggle or something, I just had to learn to focus on God every day anew during a time a was pretty satisfied with how things in my life were going and I could praise and thank God easily for that.

The thing now is, that at this moment I am not happy with the things that are happening in my life (in general), especially my study. And still God is saying (and of course I knew that already :P): "Focus on Me and not on your situation, even if it is something you want to run away from as fast as you can. You can't do it with your own power or strength, you have to trust Me in this situation too."

'Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD Almighty.

Zechariah 4:6

Yesterday in church it was the verse that came through very clear, along with people who received a word from the Lord about the fact that focussing on your situation has no use, because we cannot see things clear when we do that, and that or focus has to be on God, not the situation.

And on one hand I thought: "yeah, yeah, I know that!" But the fact was, that I wasn't living by that! I was giving my problems and everything to God when I prayed, but after that I was still looking at the things happening around me with the thought: "What am I gonna do?!!"

I want to surrender everything to God, not just a bit, but truly madly deeply!

You know, we can accomplish a lot in our lives by doing things by our own power and insight. But you have to question yourself: is this the right way to go? Can you say about yourself that you have enough wisdom to know what's best for you? I don't.

Only God knows what's best for us

and sometimes that is a totally different image

than what we had in mind.

God knows at what points we still have to grow and what's the place where we can learn that. So... are our problems solved, now we know this? No! But we do know how we can be in certain situations and that the solution to our problems doesn't lie in focussing on the problems and current situation, but in focussing on God. That doesn't mean God will change the situation.

He cán do that... but most of the time, God just wants to change us, because He loves us and want to teach us how to become more like Him.