By Sim Paul Quem Butlig
Hi! Thank you for reading this blog; I am confident you will learn and know more about Jesus after reading this. Enjoy!
Looking back in my life, I had many regrets. One of my biggest regrets is that I didn’t do better when I had the opportunity to do so. I had so many opportunities to learn, grow, and discover new things back in my high school days. My bad habits and lifestyle hold me back; I am more focused on online games, nonsense wanders, hanging out with friends, and many other typical high school guys who want “enjoyment” in life. One day I had this evaluation of what I have done in my life, and one thing that broke my heart was the fact that I can do better, that if I did this instead of this -- what could have been. Realizing all of these things, I want to go back! I want those opportunities. But you can’t turn around time; it was all things in the past.
We all have lessons to learn when we are on our own. The hard reality of being on your own is that life will hit you hard. They say that what you do today can determine what you can be in the future. I couldn’t agree more! Experience is the best teacher indeed. I thought I learned a lot in my life when I was in college, but no! Such arrogance didn’t last long. Slap in the face that I am not ready in the reality of life. All I thought was enjoyed and enjoy, but wow, life is not just about enjoyment. Life can be complicated and sad; you can’t be happy all your life; you will struggle and go through bad times. It’s just a matter of time. But, how can I deal with all of those if I am just this guy who knows and only cares about the wrong concept of enjoyment, who only knows how to play games, who only knows to hang out with friends.
In our family, we don’t have such extreme problems as the others. My parents are so good at managing family problems, so most of my issues are more personal. My past habits and lifestyle made me a mediocre guy. It is evident the way I perform in my former course, engineering; this causes many problems. Maybe it is not that extreme, but to me, it causes a lot of things to waste time, money, efforts, potentials, learning’s, opportunities, etc. Being mediocre doesn’t just reflect on the perspective of academics. Still, I learned that you could be average in many aspects of life like for example, in your decision-making. Because of my mediocrity, I realized that I wanted to quit school and ministry, blamed God for it. Such audacities to blame God when all you do in life is “enjoy” the things that won’t matter in the long run.
Life is a race, but it’s not a dash; it is a marathon. The bible tells us to run the race with endurance. I am thankful that I ran the race of life and didn’t quit, that I repented and decided to know Jesus on deeper levels. Because whom the Son sets free is free indeed. I am free from this mediocrity that wasted my potentials, talents, skills, and most especially my life itself. I can be someone today; I can be an alcoholic, a drug addict, a guy who doesn’t know life, a guy who doesn’t care about life, a guy without a dream, an immature guy. Knowing Him on deeper levels made me realize that I can do better in life, dream big, learn and discover new things, know there’s more in life! Indeed He is the way, the truth, and the life! There’s a big difference between knowledge of Jesus and knowing Jesus.
Knowing Him is experiencing Him since He is alive. He died yet resurrected. I am thankful to the group and families who helped me, the Life group, Team Lloyd, BCC Family, spiritual family, friends, the Speaking Hammers Family, and the Y2DN Family. I am forever grateful to the many lives that had a significant impact on me, but one thing is for sure, where would I be if it wasn’t for Jesus?
I didn’t know I was capable of things; doors were opening before me because of my experiences with Jesus. I performed better in school; I had so much fun not settling for less; I had these big dreams that I am chasing, I had an opportunity to speak in front of people about Jesus. I had this opportunity to lead a ministry; being a president of a ministry/organization is no joke. I took the leadership role, which I didn’t imagine I could do. I have honed my skills in editing and many other essential things. Leading life groups, today I am teaching two life groups, the LG Bois and the Little Life group. All of these are by the grace of God, and I am nothing without Him. The joy in me is raging! How joyful I am to know Jesus on deeper levels. All these, all because of Jesus Himself, knowing Him made me where I am today; it helped me do better in life and not settle for mediocrity.
I invite you; let’s go together on knowing Jesus. Have that desire of knowing Him on deeper levels. I encourage you to start today; the moment you have done reading this, take a step and pray this, “Jesus, here I am, and I want to know you more.”
As long as you are breathing, you still have a chance! Please don’t waste it. You are reading this because God wants you to know Him more. Take the opportunity and be splendid!
“Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these because I am going to the Father.” (John 14:12 NIV)
“The opportunity of a lifetime must be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.” –Leonard Ravenhill.
Thank you, and let’s go deeper into Knowing Jesus.
SIM PAUL QUEM.
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