Thoughts of A Chosen Generation

Hello Chosen! For the past few weeks I realize that I have been feeling a bit stressed with the totality of all that goes on in my life. At present, the main themes in my life are my Christianity and church, my job, personal development activities and a few volunteer activities. Important, but not too time consuming are family based activities and social activities. Even though I haven’t listed the specific tasks, I’m not sure if that seems a lot to you or just a little, but for me it’s enough to keep me on my toes. So it does feel a bit overwhelming at times. And although I’m writing this to share with you, it’s very much for me also to air out my thoughts and remind myself of the strategy I know that works for me and perhaps can work for you too. (Courtesy of: psychologytoday.com) Before we get into the approach, let me just say we firstly need to know who we are and whose we are. Jesus was fully man here on earth so he went through the same things we go through, but ...

Did you know you are chosen? "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:" 1 Peter 2:9  http://bit.ly/2UQqR28 . Therefore I will call you Chosen . Chosen, at some point in our lives we have all felt in some way or another that there is something more to our lives than we are experiencing now. You may even feel as though you are merely existing and not truly living and may be, right now, intensely searching for something beyond yourself- something bigger, something greater, searching for a greater meaning to life. I can relate, as I have also walked the road of trying to find my own purpose in this life, attempting to fill the gut-wrenching emptiness with all sorts of things. But one glorious day, my life changed, I had a powerful and transformational encounter with the true and living God – Jesus Christ who has brought...