The scars of faith. . .
The battle of staying afloat in the trvails of life is one that never ends.. the beauty isn’t in the winning but in our ability to stay calm even when everything seems out of hand. Most of us believe strongly in the celebration of the outcome known as testimony but I believe in the determination plus perseverance, the only real reasons we eventually have testimonies.
Today, I shared my thoughts with one of my beautiful sisters about the struggles of life and how it can be overwhelming sometimes, especially when one’s health is the challenge. Life isn’t a bed of roses as it is popularly said, which is absolutely true . . . We agreed that it is a difficult position for our test of faith, when everything and most especially your health seems to be against you yet you resolve to be unshaken, unrattled by the uncertainty of those times.
Faith is one frail intangible tread that holds us together when our whole world seems to be falling apart. Faith gives the heart the enablement, call it courage if you like, to push ahead with life even when there seems to be no vision of a way out. Many people get broken to the point that they become suicidal in their thoughts because at some point, they gave up on faith or would I rather say that their faith failed them? Whatever the situation may be, may we always remember that there can be no testimonies without battles, neither can there be any victory over the battles without faith. Faith was the only reason David came against Goliath. Many situations before some of us today are just as giant as was the man called goliath before David. . . If David had given up on faith because of the size of the mountainous problem before him called goliath, there’s no way his story would have become a reference point today in my thoughts.
There is a grace given only to those who irrespective of their life challenges can make an extra effort to keep or see others happy by being happy themselves and this they do by just smiling through with their problems and by so doing, they give hope to others even when all around them is screaming hopelessness. Faith is one major everyday secret ingredient that everyone must try to have in their corner as far as surviving life and all the battles it might bring our way is concerned.
In the battles of life, survivors are never without scars, those scars my sister called the SCARS OF FAITH. It means that for you not to have given up in the face of whatever it was, for you not to have lost your essence, your humanity, dignity or sense of purpose, for you not to have compromised in your self values, morals or character, beliefs and so on, you must have paid a very heavy price mentally, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, physically and othewise and the truth is that, that kind of price is definitely never without a scar. This scar reminds us each time of our faith in hopeless situations just like the one a lot of us are going through right now because of hardships, insecurities, unemployment, family issues, childless marriages, relationship problems, bereavement, the list is seamless but the beauty will always be in our ability to stay calm, hopeful and faithful to our faith, knowing that no situation or problem lasts forever. Remember who we are will never be determined by our problems but by how we managed ourselves in the face of our problems.
