The words in Job 1:21 said that, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.” Also, in Matthew 5:3 it said that, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
It is painful and helpless to know the fact that you’ve lost something or someone you value a lot; you don’t want to say goodbye forever. Well, when it really happens, the clock still runs minute by minute; the sun still rises from the east, sets in the west. Everything seems unchangeable but the heart to be stronger to know God is the giver and taker. God is seeking the poor and needy who are grieving, repenting, and longing to be transformed in His merciful grace. In the poor’s eyes, salvation is the greater gift than the nonsense of prideful religion.
Augustine of Hippo who wrote Confession and The City of God, is an elect who plays the role of “truth-seeker” and “sinful secular” at the meanwhile. He neglected to give up his sinful habits even though he knows that there is a huge trap ahead, until one day, he encountered with God in the garden, the words in the scripture enlightening his heart to see his toxic life with fatal blindness. The unbalanced life with both good and evil makes him have a deep soul-sickness. Much stronger than the stretching of the evils, the power of love pulls him out of the sinful well permanently; he restarts his new life by yielding himself to God as a poor, and the confession becomes his first momentous conversation with Lord.
Do you have a healthy life? Is your daily life filled with sunshine or bitterness? Are you struggling with anything in your life? Maybe it is a bad habit, a negative thinking attitude, or an unending complaint? Are you dealing with laziness, greed, selfishness, or insincerity? Each of these unhealthy issues might become a huge crack between the relationships with both people and God; the only way is not to avoid but to fix it through the grace of God. I believe every day is a piece of the unfailing journey to be more like Jesus. Anytime when we turn to Him, the second we will get the chains off. Again, just as the Bible said in 2 Corinthians 12:10 that, "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.”
