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4th May 2024
SaturdayReflection
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'Testify God' offers a reflection on
Trust in the LORD With All Your Heart
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Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6
However, we often go in the wrong direction and rely on our own intelligence and ability.
In the process, things may eventually be done and problems may be solved, but our spiritual life didn't make any progress.
We missed the opportunity to know God and the experience to establish true faith in God.
God's words say,
"If you don't learn how to look to God and rely on God, you will never see the work God does on you, or the guidance and enlightenment He gives to you."
If you can't generate a true belief in God, then the question marks will forever be there with everything God does.
God said
"No matter how great or small their stature is or what their personal environment is like, something that they cannot be without is looking to God and relying on God in all things; this is the greatest wisdom."
God's 'almightiness' is everywhere, and is not influenced by any people, events, or things, or other objective factors.
Just as the Bible said,
"The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower"
(Psalm 18:2).
We'd like to share with you the testimony of a Christian who had an eclectic resume.
After several failures in applying for a job, eventually trusted in God to find a good job.
I came to Japan, a beautiful country which I had been longing for a long time.
Seeing the good environment and citizenship here, I was eager to find a job, so that I could reside here.
I constantly sent out my resume, but still didn't find a job, during which I lived in worries and pain.
After hearing the advice of a sister, I understood that what job I would do was predetermined by God.
In the past, I didn't know the sovereignty of God, so I wanted to rely on my own ability to obtain a good job, placing my hope on various certificates.
When I couldn't achieve my ideal, I was negative and complaining.
My suffering was actually the result of my disobedience to God's sovereignty.
After reading God's words, I thought that though I believe in God, I didn't have true understanding of God's sovereignty or true faith in Him.
In the matter of job hunting, I had never relied on or looked to God to experience His work but relied on my own ability, thinking that since I could speak both Chinese and Japanese and held so many certificates, it wouldn't be difficult for me to find a job.
However, in the end, I couldn't even get an interview.
Then I remembered these words of God,
The Lord Jesus also wanted people to know that they do not live alone in this world.
It's true. Outwardly, I attended the interview alone. In fact, God is always by my side
Before the interview, I prayed constantly to God, asking Him to lead me and guide me to walk the way ahead.
Thank God! During the interview, I didn't feel nervous and could communicate with the interviewer well.
Satisfied with my performance, the interviewer told me that I passed and made an appointment with me for the second interview.
Thank God! I not only found a good job, but also gained a little true knowledge of His sovereignty
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Testify God,
a nonprofit website, was set up in June 2018.
Our principle is testifying God's love and connecting you, he and me.
We are Christians from different countries.
In real life, we have experienced God's work and seen His love and salvation for mankind, so we have the responsibility and obligation to spread God's will for the salvation of mankind as best we can.
This is the mission God gives us.
The Lord Jesus once said, "Go you into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15).
Our website, Testify God, is built for this purpose.
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