DESIGN OF LIFE

In an ‘after office talk’ a good friend of mine sharing about a seminar she was about to go. The topic of that seminar excited me so much. She told me about redesigning our life.  

Hmm… a design of life, a plan of a human’s life which meant to be a beautiful and successful life and now has to be rectified here and there since things went wrong somewhere somehow. It might be caused by our careless regimen or wrong reaction or decision or taking the unjust point of views, so that we could not gain even more and better. Its about fixing (what so called) a broken life, adjusting unjust point of views, renew way of thinking, making a new beginning and gain a successful ending, yeah ….., something like that. It is expected that all participants would retrieve an insight and refreshment so that they could start a new beginning, live a better life and successfully win.

There’s a saying that life is 10% what happens and the other 90% is how we react to it. I think of how often I reacted wrong and made stupid mistakes in my daily life. How many nights of regret since I fail to be good that day, fail to control my emotion, fail to be kind, fail to finish my work perfectly, fail to accomplish my promise, fail to be patient, fail to be committed to my diet, even fail to be on time, et cetera. I always hope of being given a second chance, that tomorrow will come and I would do all things better, no mistakes and the day would end perfectly.

But, that perfect day has never come. I still make mistakes here and there. If our life today is the result of our attitudes and choices in the past and our life tomorrow will be the result of our attitudes and the choices we make today, there would be an unbreakable chain of consequences as the result of yesterdays’ failure I have to face. WOW, it’s not a desired life. But to err is human and I am only a human, a creature.

Thus, how many times does my life have to be redesigned? What does my life design look like? The best way to discover the plan and purpose of a creature is to go to the creator. Who created me? The LORD did.

Jeremiah 29:11 - 'For I know the plan I have for you,' declares the LORD, plan to prosper you and not to harm you, plan to give you hope and a future.'

That is HIS design / plan for me. No matter how many times I failed but HIS design remains. HIS forgiveness enables me to forgive myself and move on. When I slip up and make mistakes, God is fully aware that I need HIS mercy daily. How awesome to know that HE loves me enough to give me HIS gift of mercy every morning to start the day.

Lamentations 3 :22-23 – “Because of The Lord’s great love we are  not consumed, for His compassion never fail. They are new every morning, great is Your faithfulness”

HIS plan doesn’t have to be re planned. HIS design doesn’t have to be redesigned. No matter how many times I failed but HIS design remains