Our Daily Journey

Every day (almost anyway) starting this week, I been visiting this really good website called YMIblogging.
There is a section called Daily Devotion whereby daily post are published.
So it is like your daily quiet time with God to just get soaked in His words and His presence whereby you get to spend your time to learn the word of God.

So from now onwards, if all goes well, I will try my best to blog daily on what I learnt from the daily devotion. Because at the end of the daily devotion post, there is a question posed to the readers. So I will attempt to answer it here.

Today's question is:
Where have you encountered suffering? How have you experienced God’s presence in that place? 


I am sure that everyone in our life encounter suffering along the way, whether it is of large magnitude or small magnitude. And how this event affect us vary between individuals. And how we response to suffering also varies. So God works in different ways in each one of us.


For me, I encounter more of an emotional suffering. When I was in my primary till early secondary years, I used to get teased due to my overweight body. So I really have low self esteem at that point in time. During that time, I always felt misunderstood by my parents. And often I will cry silently in my room, just wondering if I am all alone in this world and no one understands how am I feeling right now.


I knew God from an early stage but I never truly accepted Christ into my life until this year. But I felt that God helped me through my difficult times through the people that He has let me know and now I just cherish and love them. I joined the librarian team and the quarter master team and from there, God makes His plans. He introduced me to Erik, Chong Yong, Basil, Hui Yen, Shu Ning, Justin that made my later part of secondary school life oh the more memorable. Those moments make me feel I do belong and I have such awesome friends I can count on. And we are still close today even through we all have ventured into our field of interest. 


One of the biggest suffering, or should I rephrase it to obstacles or hurdles, I have to endure is coming to Australia. I was nervous, anxious that I will not be able to cope, as I am going out of my comfort zone. But yet God guided and helped me through. And I could never thank God enough for all the blessing He has poured into my life. For that I am just eternally grateful. God just keep wanting me to grow from the inside out. To be more Christ-like. And I came to know so many awesome people of God such as Caleb, Chris Teo, Caroline, Jing Wei, Jo, Valerie, Fabian, Shio Yen, Pastor Phill, Micheal, Colin, Harvey. The list could go on forever. Through their testimonies and their experience with God, it really uplifts your spirit in that God is working in everyone's life. Testing us to make us stronger in our faith in Him. I can sense God more and more each day.


Romans 8:28 says that "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who loves Him, who have been called according to His purpose. Such a strong yet true statement. So I pray that whatever circumstances you may be in your life, you will get through it through the strength of God. Just trust in the Lord, have faith and be still.