You’re not called to change for the sake of changing.  Nor are you called to change just because you’re undergoing some form of oppressive suffering.  While change is a reality of life, it’s not necessarily the guiding light to take you to a better place.  Sometimes when you’re broken into pieces, it’s better to wait before you react.  Sometimes it’s just as important to develop the skill of what it means to wait in order to realize the state of well-being.

Nonetheless, it seems like change is forced upon many of us, knocking us down to the canvas of life.  Do you feel it?  Are you part of the growing brokenness of this world? Are your dreams completely annihilated?  Or your marriage irreparably damaged?  Perhaps your health has fallen prey to chronic pain or terminal illness?  Or you’re addicted to drugs, pornography and spending?  Or you’ve simply given up, as you’ve become part of the American epidemic, eating yourself into oblivion and becoming unrecognizable about your true self?

You’re not alone.  Injustice, conflict and suffering can be found throughout several individual life stories.  In fact, as the relational tragedies continue to grow so do the complexity of problems, many for which we do not have immediate solutions.  Even though we assimilate additional knowledge through emerging technologies, I still wonder if we’re missing another aspect about being severely wounded.  Perhaps it’s just as prudent to embrace the full meaning with what has happened to us, as this common link about our brokenness, I firmly believe, will actually lead us on the true path of self-discovery.

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Do you really believe in fair trade of the heart?  When there seems to be an imbalance between who you are and the degree of overwhelming difficulties you continually face?  As I see it, if your beliefs waver back and forth, then this reoccurring imbalance will gradually lead to having a hardened heart instead of possessing an optimistic attitude.

It’s hard to imagine feeling happy when it seems like the world is traumatically falling apart around us.  But the truth is you’ve been given the choice to choose.  Regardless of the crises of injustice, conflict and suffering, though you don’t have a monopoly about your future, God certainly does.

In essence, God doesn’t place any hope in the future like we have to do.  Rather, He already holds the keys to the eternal richness about future events and what lies ahead.

I believe fair trade of the heart actually means to give your heart fully unto God.  Isn’t this really the best plausible choice for your life?

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I must admit.  From time to time I also struggle with embracing what it means to totally surrender to God.  Isn’t it somewhat natural to wonder, to speculate and to ask questions about its meaning during our journey of faith?  I think so.

To surrender does not mean that you’re to become less intellectual or to voluntarily squander your talents or to give away all your hard earned money or to do anything impulsive of trying to become nothing, such as what I’ve just mentioned.  As much, surrendering is not the process of waving the white flag to signify your resignation about living.

Sure it’s difficult to surrender when you’re vulnerable, weak, disheartened and quite frankly, there’s nothing left in the tank for you to even think about trusting anyone or anything else.  Nonetheless, you’re not required to trust in yourself or others before fully surrendering to God.

Take Jesus for instance, the sole basis of faith.  In order to discover the entirety of His own true self, He completely surrendered to God through perhaps the most human act ever, dying gruesomely by crucifixion. This acceptance of surrender allowed Jesus to experience the fullness of human life, even in the midst of unspeakable suffering.

The human truth is that we complicate what it means to surrender to God.  We’re not called to become perfect before giving our lives to Him.  Instead, the opposite occurs.  We’re called by God to give Him all of our brokenness and sin.  This is the beauty about surrender.  As a result, the process of surrendering cleanses and transforms us from being complacently useless to becoming actively recoverable.

You’re not left doing nothing with your life just because you’ve surrendered.  In fact, you’re given more responsibility to do what God’s authorized you to do by His Spirit.

Inevitably, the purpose of surrendering to God empowers you to discover the totality of who you are, as well as finding out the essential truth about the rewarding mysteries of life.

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Faith radically contrasts the worldly lifestyle. This is one sobering reason why it’s so difficult to remain consistent when undergoing healthy change.

As you’re trying to overcome painful wounds or morbid obesity, the battle over your well-being is simultaneously occurring.

The voice of the world boldly gives sensible advice, such as what to do medically, psychologically or alternatively, regarding how to address the obvious problems. The idea of which is to heal, to restore and to bring you back to some form of normalcy. The merits of which are extremely beneficial.

Yet, faith plays an even larger role about transformation. In fact, its integrative qualities provide total healing and optimized health for your entire being.

Faith doesn’t arbitrarily reject sound logic nor does it compete against higher intellect. It simply contends against any thinking or behaviors which oppose God.

In your quest for wholeness, you basically have two options to consider. First, you can simply rely on the entirety of what this world has to offer for the fulfillment of your life.

Or second, you can place your hope in the truth of Jesus Christ, who will open the eyes of your soul to “see” and to “experience” the completeness of life beyond death.

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One of the hardest things to do is to fully trust God. When it boils down to life and death, I think most of us are willing to surrender to the idea that it’s better to trust God about matters of the afterlife as opposed to the alternative. Yet, when it involves trusting God daily for everything else we need to live, then why do we get so easily side-tracked into our own sense of self-sufficiency?

For most of us, it’s easier to relate to what self-sufficiency means in terms of identity, security and purpose. And when we fully participate at our highest levels of performance, then we also see the value behind self-sufficiency through the lens of our own human effort, especially in comparison to others and the world around us.

On the other hand, faith is less tangible to our senses. It’s not fueled by self-empowerment nor is it inspired by human accomplishment nor does it subject itself to worldly acceptance. Simply stated, self-sufficiency opposes the power of faith. No wonder one of the hardest things to do is to fully trust God. It requires everything against our human compulsions for self-approval. In summary, taking our eyes off ourselves and looking onto God fully empowers faith to become real as our way for living.

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