Burned Bread

I do not really like the smell of burned bread. Do you? Well, I learned a lesson today! Never microwave bread! It can get burned! And then it can make the whole kitchen and house smell and then it sets off the fire alarm and you panic as you cannot turn it off... Yes I am talking from experience! It happened to me today! Oh well, I have learned my lesson. Never do it again!

From the burned bread experience I got inspired to write this blog, so maybe I was meant to burn the bread. It happens to me loads of times where I say to myself that no matter how awful that thing that happened was, it was still meant to happen. What does meant to happen mean? Do you believe in destiny? Well, what I believe is that it is all God's plan. He has a plan and he can control most things. There are things that happen that are beyond my understanding and I assume your understanding too. As a result, I believe there is higher power, there is God who sent his son to die for us on the cross and save us from our sins! He also has his holy spirit that works through us and for us on Earth. There are times when I feel his presence and great things happen and I say to myself 'Lord you are Good' . Then there are times when I feel like everything is going wrong and maybe God has abandoned me and I get really agree at Him feeling as if he is not looking after me. In retrospect, I realise that God is testing me, He is testing my faith and at most times hardship is good as I learn from it. It helps me mature in soul and spirit and in the end of it all makes me stronger and able to deal with even worse situations.

God does not really abandon us- He is there for us at most times, but we tend to get distracted in our everyday lives and shift away from his grace. It is something that we should not be allowing ourselves to be doing and I always pray that I will have time every day to worship and pray to God as that will give me inner peace and will allow me to keep on going! Dedicating time to God every single day in our busy lifestyles is crucial as

The LORD is near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.

Psalm 145:18 (NIV)

So we need to be true to him. We need to believe in him as 'we live by faith and not by sight'.
Today in church there was a pastor from the States that was meant to teach on Galatians 6 but in the end spent more time talking about his work in Zimbabwe and also Ephesians 6.

In Galatians 6 there are nice quotes such as that we should not be weary of doing good. Even if someone hurts us or does something bad to us, we should still keep praying for them and keep doing good for them. His teaching was big on LOVE! Only LOVE can change and transform people. Do everything you do in LOVE. A great quote is one which says that 'FEAR pushes away from our goals, but LOVE draws us into them'. It is something that I will greatly treasure. We are all afraid at various times and there are things that we do not dare do as we are afraid. We need to WAKE up and start doing everything in LOVE, as that will help us accomplish most things and will stir us in the right direction.

Do everything in LOVE and your life will be full of grace and peace!