There's No Exact Formula

In our journey with God, there's no such thing as perfect nor exact formula.

This lesson I learned recently... and a conversation with a fellow brother at lunch today has brought back my memory. Even though I got this point after a phase of an ended relationship, but I think it works the same for other areas in life.

My past experience has been an evidence to me that even though I had made sure that everything was going on under the right "procedure", everything was going so well (at least when it started), plus I got no "red lights" at all (before I started and at least at the beginning). Everything seemed so under control, so nice, and so right.

But at the end, after few months of recovery process, I realized that in a journey of life, there's no perfect formula or 100% guaranteed procedure to success. Because if there are such things, then we wouldn't need God anymore, we wouldn't need to be connected with Him.

God is never change, He is the same God who created the earth, the same God who guide the Israelites out of the land of slavery with awesome miracles, the same God who lead us today. But His strategies and His ways are not the same for each of us and for each situation.

In the Old Testaments, He had different strategies to won each battle. At one time He told His people to attack (the type of attacks were also differ from one another), another times He told His people to just stand up, to circle around and sang praises to Him, to stepped back... There are so many examples in the bible showed us that He is a Super Creative God.

And to win our battles in life now, it works the same. We must connected to Him in order to succeed. The right formulas, procedures, or even healthy boundaries are made to guard us and encourage us to be careful in our steps, choices, and decissions, but they are not a 100% success guaranteed apart from His spesific guide.

Another lesson... no matter how hard we try to do the right things, no matter how hard we do the best, sometimes it just doesn't work the way we expect... It makes me realize that unity is a very important thing to be success. Sometimes the factor that contributes to the failure is not because of what we have done, but because of others, or because of the wrong timing, or because of the hard situation, or maybe it's simply because God thinks it's not good for us (or a combination of them). This is not an excuse to blame everything else except us, but I wrote this to make all of us to think about the other factors that are completely out of our control. This is just the way it goes...

So... don't let your heart gets bitter and don't let your mind keeps spin around thinking about the things that out of your control. Learn through your experience and get connected with Him in all areas of your life. Keep the peace of your heart.. and be strong, be courageous, cause He is with you...