Let GOD.

God has gotten me through some extremely hard times in my life now. He has taken me on to several valleys where I have gained a deeper understanding of who I am without Him. I am beyond blessed to have known God and the price He has paid for me. God has given me an unbelievable zest for life and He’s given me the desire for everyone to experience that feeling. It’s an unfathomable amount of real joy and happiness.

He’s taught me my fair share of life’s greatest lessons through some tough situations.

These years can be the most challenging years of my life. But they can also be the best. While I may wonder and wander to and fro, juggle things on my still fragile hands, I need not to have it all figured out; because I know He holds my tomorrow.

When you’re on your twenties, God will make you reflect that “Your worth does not come from others’ opinions of you.” We naturally want to feel loved and accepted. We struggle for self-image, for people’s praises and when we fail, it becomes a tough pill to swallow. But when we choose to follow God, our desire to be a “people pleaser” slowly subsides until we learn to die for Him daily. Then, we start living according to who God wanted us to be, as opposed to whom this world wants us to be. But people will always be quick to judge without looking at themselves first. And while we cannot do anything with that, we can rest assured on His promise that God thinks the absolute world of us (after all, He sent His only begotten Son for you). Thus, He is the only one whom we ought to impress. While you may still struggle with caring about what others think, think about the lengths God has done for you. Then those insecurities will seem to pale in comparison.

1 Samuel 16:7 (KJV)

"But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart."

Being on twenties, you’ll realize that “you don’t always get what you want.”

And it’s okay. And certainly that’s not a bad thing.

Jeremiah 29:11 (KJV)

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."

God doesn’t promise a lifetime free of pain and suffering, but He does offer us not only His best plan for us as individuals, but eternal life. If you know God and His desires for you, you know they don’t always match up with the temporary desires you may have. Many times I would ask myself “Why did this happen?” or “Why didn’t this work out?” Then, I am reminded God has His very best in store for me. That’s what gives me hope to keep on keeping on.

Your twenties would mean “allowing more for God to break you immensely.”

Spurgeon is at his best in the following quote. He speaks about the way in which God likes to bring people to the very end of themselves before taking a hold of them and using them for his glory:

“Is it not a curious thing that whenever God means to make a man great, He always first breaks him in pieces? There was a man whom the Lord meant to make into a prince. How did He do it? Why, He met him one night and wrestled with him! You always hear about Jacob’s wrestling. Well, I dare say he did, but it was not Jacob who was the principal wrestler—“There wrestled a man with Him until the breaking of the day.” God touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh and put it out of joint before He called him “Israel,” that is, “a Prince of God.” The wrestling was to take all his strength out of him and when his strength was gone, and then God called him a prince. Now, David was to be king over all Israel. What was the way to Jerusalem for David? What was the way to the throne? Well, it was round by the cave of Adullam. He must go there and be an outlaw and an outcast, for that was the way by which he would be made king. Have none of you ever noticed, in your own lives, that whenever God is going to give you an enlargement and bring you out to a larger sphere of service, or a higher platform of spiritual life, you always get thrown down? That is His usual way of working! He makes you hungry before He feeds you! He strips you before He robes you! He makes nothing of you before He makes something of you! This was the way with David. He is to be king in Jerusalem, but He must go to the throne by the way of the cave.”

When you’re on your twenties, God is making a “man or woman” out of you now. God will break you. Immensely. He’ll dig us out- like an old ditch – you cannot hold any more – and God is digging us out to make room for more Grace. That spade will cut sharply and dig up sod after sod, and throw it to one side. The very thing you would like to keep shall be cast away and you shall be hollowed out, and dug out, that the word of Elisha may be fulfilled,

2 Kings 3: 16-17 (KJV)

“And he said, Thus saith the Lord, Make this valley full of ditches

17 For thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water…”

We are to be broken my dear twenties friends. But whenever God breaks our hearts, He’ll do the mending. After all, whatever God breaks, He multiplies.

So, how has God changed you? ☺

To my twenties friends, this is for the best people we will ever be through Him!

Your friend,

Karina

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