Welcome to Breakthroughs in Life!
Dear Friends in the blogosphere,
I got some practical menu you might want to review and ponder on before taking in, if you may! But first, allow me to ask just three (3) questions:
Q-1: Are you pursuing a “Unique Course” in life fit for your particular case, situation, mission-inspired vocation, and worthwhile avocation?
Q-2: Or, are you simply riding on and high in the “comfort zone” of your immediate milieu, circumstance, and status in the current of life?
Q-3: If none of the above, then are you the undecided wanderer who is still not sure of yourself as to which way to go, what to do, and where to from hereon?
Whichever stance you are in, here below are some helpful practical life’s postures for your consideration:
As much as possible, make peace with by giving justice to your restive past, so that it won’t mess your present;
“What other people perceive about you is not much of your concern. Don’t be bothered by the unfriendly ones;
“Avoid comparing your own life with others’…you have no exact idea what their predicaments are;
“Refrain from relying too much & solely in your own logic and finite reasoning. It’s all right not to have all the answers you want at the moment...They’ll surprise you in time when you remain faithful & hopeful for the best to come;
“Practically, almost every painful experience in this life heals in time. Allow time its normal course and natural healing process!
“Rejoice!, you aren’t obligated to carry all the load of problems in the world. Trust in The Good Lord Who is Bigger than everything there is in the world;
“No one beneath Heaven is in-charge of your destiny except YOU. So, conquer your baser self and master your own life!”.
Grace and Peace be with you!
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Reclaiming the LOST IMAGE & GLORY!
Welcome to Breakthroughs in Life!
A New Creation!...A Fresh Beginning!... Indeed, for me and for you who can believe THIS, Here It Is and TODAY IS!
How grateful I really am and how I love this precious Gift of Life as an All-Time Present Unmerited.
In hindsight, I could not have discerned and appreciated at its finest the Profundity, Beauty, & Blessedness of this Fresh Beginning, had I not experienced once upon a time and then understood what it meant to be enslaved, battered, and rendered helpless physically and emotionally by that nightmarish and ugly past.
To me, what turned out unfortunate and humiliating all throughout my odd and bloody journey until Reawakening and Refreshing is, my dilly-dallying in heeding what have been said over and over again concerning the Will & Testament of The Savior & Lord Christ Jesus. Only a little later did I come to know that the Savior & Lord would always be there all along watching and calling on me. My taking it for granted would cost me one misfortune after another before the stubborn “old self” within succumbed to helplessness, only to surrender in the end. Only then would the eye-opening adversities bring home new meaning as disguised blessings along with self-induced punishment.
Unfathomable, indeed, are the ways of the Merciful & Gracious Lord. Really, His promises of abundant blessings & rewards remain restrained until the old self is totally stripped of its every vestige of pride and lust.
Well then, the remarkable “Breakthrough in my life” came in an unspeakable manner & mode. What turned out obvious though is my eventual waking up to finding new meaning to life, seasoned with renewed vigor, enthusiasm, and willingness to restart anew in a decisive come-back for good. And, TODAY, my immediate circle of friends in the neighborhood and associates, along with my nuclear family are witnessing this New Life and New Day that I’m testifying.
Now, I can also testify that somehow the adversities in the PAST, no matter how unpleasant, need not be dismissed as hostile in the ironic sense that it signaled as a “wake up call” and a challenge to rise up as a man of age reared to reclaim the lost Image and Glory which every man was meant to bear as revealed even from the very beginning, and that is, MAN (Character-wise) is made in the Eternal Creator’s LIKENESS & IMAGE.
To The Good Lord be The Glory, and to every living soul bearing, nourishing, and caring in his person the moral character of his Maker Righteousness, Peace, Joy, Love, & Goodwill here and now onward to eternity.
A New Creation!...A Fresh Beginning!... Indeed, for me and for you who can believe THIS, Here It Is and TODAY IS!
How grateful I really am and how I love this precious Gift of Life as an All-Time Present Unmerited.
In hindsight, I could not have discerned and appreciated at its finest the Profundity, Beauty, & Blessedness of this Fresh Beginning, had I not experienced once upon a time and then understood what it meant to be enslaved, battered, and rendered helpless physically and emotionally by that nightmarish and ugly past.
To me, what turned out unfortunate and humiliating all throughout my odd and bloody journey until Reawakening and Refreshing is, my dilly-dallying in heeding what have been said over and over again concerning the Will & Testament of The Savior & Lord Christ Jesus. Only a little later did I come to know that the Savior & Lord would always be there all along watching and calling on me. My taking it for granted would cost me one misfortune after another before the stubborn “old self” within succumbed to helplessness, only to surrender in the end. Only then would the eye-opening adversities bring home new meaning as disguised blessings along with self-induced punishment.
Unfathomable, indeed, are the ways of the Merciful & Gracious Lord. Really, His promises of abundant blessings & rewards remain restrained until the old self is totally stripped of its every vestige of pride and lust.
Well then, the remarkable “Breakthrough in my life” came in an unspeakable manner & mode. What turned out obvious though is my eventual waking up to finding new meaning to life, seasoned with renewed vigor, enthusiasm, and willingness to restart anew in a decisive come-back for good. And, TODAY, my immediate circle of friends in the neighborhood and associates, along with my nuclear family are witnessing this New Life and New Day that I’m testifying.
Now, I can also testify that somehow the adversities in the PAST, no matter how unpleasant, need not be dismissed as hostile in the ironic sense that it signaled as a “wake up call” and a challenge to rise up as a man of age reared to reclaim the lost Image and Glory which every man was meant to bear as revealed even from the very beginning, and that is, MAN (Character-wise) is made in the Eternal Creator’s LIKENESS & IMAGE.
To The Good Lord be The Glory, and to every living soul bearing, nourishing, and caring in his person the moral character of his Maker Righteousness, Peace, Joy, Love, & Goodwill here and now onward to eternity.
Monday, July 13, 2009
From REVIVAL to REFRESHING!
Welcome to Breakthroughs in Life!
Haven't you experienced yet getting hard-pressed due to degrading insults, destructive criticism, or persecution of some sort? I have had my share of such sort of experience as a neophyte amidst the ravenous wolves in a polarized secular world.
Didn't you feel so overwhelmed by said degrading encounter, because of which you felt as though you're down and out? I stumbled and fell down on that "ground zero" feeling, too.
How did you cope with such sorry situation? Humanly, I was so wretched and helpless as if nothing is left within me to help me cope with it.
I couldn't figure out how exactly the Surprise Of My Life came though. It just occurred to me from out of thin air!.......and then, "Hey!, what am I doing with my being alive still and existing for real?". Then, as I look around, my senses came back making me realize there's so much more and bigger than my impaired "emotional self" that needs rediscovering for healing and restoration of my whole being. Then, I realize that my personal life needs holistic revival and rebuilding. That was when the "Turning Point" in my journey-through-life ushered into a great, meaningful, and exciting course of pursuing and pressing on for The Values that really matter in life.
Call it Divine Providence...I really believe so! The thing is, It is an Unmerited Gift from Heaven Above in spite of the wretchedness and helplessness of human beings born of flesh. Folks, TURN AROUND & BELIEVE! And, be REVIVED to experience living a holistic life in SPACE, MATTER and TIME, being REFRESHED!
Good cheers!
Haven't you experienced yet getting hard-pressed due to degrading insults, destructive criticism, or persecution of some sort? I have had my share of such sort of experience as a neophyte amidst the ravenous wolves in a polarized secular world.
Didn't you feel so overwhelmed by said degrading encounter, because of which you felt as though you're down and out? I stumbled and fell down on that "ground zero" feeling, too.
How did you cope with such sorry situation? Humanly, I was so wretched and helpless as if nothing is left within me to help me cope with it.
I couldn't figure out how exactly the Surprise Of My Life came though. It just occurred to me from out of thin air!.......and then, "Hey!, what am I doing with my being alive still and existing for real?". Then, as I look around, my senses came back making me realize there's so much more and bigger than my impaired "emotional self" that needs rediscovering for healing and restoration of my whole being. Then, I realize that my personal life needs holistic revival and rebuilding. That was when the "Turning Point" in my journey-through-life ushered into a great, meaningful, and exciting course of pursuing and pressing on for The Values that really matter in life.
Call it Divine Providence...I really believe so! The thing is, It is an Unmerited Gift from Heaven Above in spite of the wretchedness and helplessness of human beings born of flesh. Folks, TURN AROUND & BELIEVE! And, be REVIVED to experience living a holistic life in SPACE, MATTER and TIME, being REFRESHED!
Good cheers!
Friday, May 1, 2009
Irrevocable Gifts & Calling!
Welcome to Breakthroughs in Life!
Friends, it pays to note that while acknowledgment and recognition of past performances and relative successes count to show and confirm who you've been and what you've become, IT IS YOUR CURRENT STANDING IN YOUR CALLING THAT COUNTS MUCH, AND YOUR BECOMING-TO-BE, MATTERS MOST.
Sustain what you've already attained. Enhance the gifts, talents & skills developed in your being.
Mark this: "...THE GIFTS AND CALLING OF GOD ARE IRREVOCABLE" (Romans 11:29, NASB, Text Edition, 1971)
Press on and excel in Good Faith & Grace!
Good cheers!
Friends, it pays to note that while acknowledgment and recognition of past performances and relative successes count to show and confirm who you've been and what you've become, IT IS YOUR CURRENT STANDING IN YOUR CALLING THAT COUNTS MUCH, AND YOUR BECOMING-TO-BE, MATTERS MOST.
Sustain what you've already attained. Enhance the gifts, talents & skills developed in your being.
Mark this: "...THE GIFTS AND CALLING OF GOD ARE IRREVOCABLE" (Romans 11:29, NASB, Text Edition, 1971)
Press on and excel in Good Faith & Grace!
Good cheers!
Thursday, April 9, 2009
REFLECTION!
Here's a piece of reflection for prayer and meditation by Believers during this season of Retreat, Personal Reflection & Soul-searching:
"WE NOW KNOW AND LOVE FATHER GOD BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US AND DREW US OUT OF DARKNESS INTO LIGHT!"
Thank You Father for giving us Your only begotten Son, CHRIST JESUS, as Savior and Lord of our life. By Your Mercy and Grace, we are now and then made able to move on and pursue in our growing in the Grace and Knowledge of You.
Praise and thank You Jesus for making good Your Promise by sending unto us our much needed Helper and Comforter at all times - The Spirit of Truth!
All Praise, Honor, and Glory be to the Father through Christ Jesus, our risen Lord & King forever and forever. Amen and Amen!
"WE NOW KNOW AND LOVE FATHER GOD BECAUSE HE FIRST LOVED US AND DREW US OUT OF DARKNESS INTO LIGHT!"
Thank You Father for giving us Your only begotten Son, CHRIST JESUS, as Savior and Lord of our life. By Your Mercy and Grace, we are now and then made able to move on and pursue in our growing in the Grace and Knowledge of You.
Praise and thank You Jesus for making good Your Promise by sending unto us our much needed Helper and Comforter at all times - The Spirit of Truth!
All Praise, Honor, and Glory be to the Father through Christ Jesus, our risen Lord & King forever and forever. Amen and Amen!
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
"Morsel of wisdom"!
Welcome to Breakthroughs in Life!
Hi, friends, in the blogosphere! How's your "Journey-through-life" going?
Should you feel like taking an intervening pause for a breather in your going through, I'm pleased to share with you some tidbits for keeps:
"The Journey-through-life may be better understood in hindsight, but the 'Gift of Life' lives on forward with insight & foresight in Faith, Hope, and Love from glory to glory!"
The best is here...there're more coming!
Happy going!
Hi, friends, in the blogosphere! How's your "Journey-through-life" going?
Should you feel like taking an intervening pause for a breather in your going through, I'm pleased to share with you some tidbits for keeps:
"The Journey-through-life may be better understood in hindsight, but the 'Gift of Life' lives on forward with insight & foresight in Faith, Hope, and Love from glory to glory!"
The best is here...there're more coming!
Happy going!
Monday, February 16, 2009
Going for PERFECTION!
Welcome to Breakthroughs in Life!
You must have heard someone saying, "To seek & find perfection in an imperfect world is a futile exercise". Of course, it's no big deal arguing on that.
I once had an opportunity & privilege to witness and later ministered by offering a prayer of peace & reconciliation for a dying old man and his pensively sad son at the bedside.
Toward the end of a father-son hearty exchange and sharing of memories, feelings, and sentiments, the old man smacks of resignation spoke, "The attending medical specialist didn't have it...the charlatan had none of it... the religionist couldn't deliver it". Retorting, the son uttered, "What all of them lack is just right there within you, father!". Then, quickly as though coming from out of the blue, the old man rejoined, "Son, how I wish you'd speak with an angelic tongue!"
What a brief but revealing real-life scene I witnessed first hand. Behind the scene, I discerned an all-encompassing message of encouragement about "Perfection-at-work" even at the lowest ebb of the darkest hour in the life of two lovers being reconciled just on time before the inevitable came.
Well then, where ought we to go to find perfection? If the imperfect world with all the glamour it can offer doesn't have it, where is it?
I still heard the wise counsel resounding, "Perfection consists not in the quantifiable assets a person possesses, large or little. Rather, it consists in his 'transforming and becoming' who he really is as he was made-to-be by his Eternal Maker"
Friends, let's keep going in our process of transforming-to-becoming who we really are in the light of Gospel Truth...GO FOR PERFECTION! (Matthew 5:48).
The Good Lord already did His part even as He still is. Ours is to do and keep doing our part given His abounding Mercy and Grace.
Be of GOOD COURAGE!
You must have heard someone saying, "To seek & find perfection in an imperfect world is a futile exercise". Of course, it's no big deal arguing on that.
I once had an opportunity & privilege to witness and later ministered by offering a prayer of peace & reconciliation for a dying old man and his pensively sad son at the bedside.
Toward the end of a father-son hearty exchange and sharing of memories, feelings, and sentiments, the old man smacks of resignation spoke, "The attending medical specialist didn't have it...the charlatan had none of it... the religionist couldn't deliver it". Retorting, the son uttered, "What all of them lack is just right there within you, father!". Then, quickly as though coming from out of the blue, the old man rejoined, "Son, how I wish you'd speak with an angelic tongue!"
What a brief but revealing real-life scene I witnessed first hand. Behind the scene, I discerned an all-encompassing message of encouragement about "Perfection-at-work" even at the lowest ebb of the darkest hour in the life of two lovers being reconciled just on time before the inevitable came.
Well then, where ought we to go to find perfection? If the imperfect world with all the glamour it can offer doesn't have it, where is it?
I still heard the wise counsel resounding, "Perfection consists not in the quantifiable assets a person possesses, large or little. Rather, it consists in his 'transforming and becoming' who he really is as he was made-to-be by his Eternal Maker"
Friends, let's keep going in our process of transforming-to-becoming who we really are in the light of Gospel Truth...GO FOR PERFECTION! (Matthew 5:48).
The Good Lord already did His part even as He still is. Ours is to do and keep doing our part given His abounding Mercy and Grace.
Be of GOOD COURAGE!
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