The following was found on my little sister's facebook page. She's wise beyond her years, this kid. Makes me really proud of her. :) She's currently teaching English to preschoolers in Mexico for a year. We miss her like crazy, but know that she feels like she's where God has called her to be ...and who could really wish anything better for their loved one?!
This is Hannah in Mexico a few weeks ago. They were handing out food at a hospital there to loved ones waiting on ill/sick family members.
Buy the truth and do not sell it. proverbs 23:23
What is truth.
Today, while sitting in church the question was weighing heavily on my mind ...( okay, so its sometimes easy to zone out when the entire sermon is in Spanish haha) and then i realized... that our entire life is spent in a struggle to grasp the truth. To find it. To know reality from illusion. To know what really matters, or what really doesn't. I mean, who wants to look back and see that they missed what life was truly about.
But as i sat there thinking, it hit me. That in this world, there is nothing true aside from God.
This world, and the things in it are fading. All of it. One day it wont matter what degree i had, the number of facebook friends i obtained, the parties i attended, or the shape my car was in. It wont matter if my husband was the best looking man in the world ( which he will be.) or how much money I gave in the church offering.
When my life is over, the only thing that will matter is if i bought into the truth, and chose not to sell it.
It is the lack of truth in our lives that allows us to believe the lies that are presented in front of us. Lies like...some people are meant to stay unhappy. or Chubby girls are some how less valuable than those who are size 0. Lies that say we are alone in our problems, and that if we just get skinnier, richer, prettier, more successful or popular then all of the problems will be solved. Lies like we need a college degree to succeed or that living by faith is too risky. It sounds cliché, but if it is cliché, then how come there are still people who buy into it. people who cant see past the illusion of this life. People that cant find the truth.
My heart is heavy tonight. not because i have problems, or know people with problems. everybody has problems. but because there are people tonight, that wont see past their problems, to know that God is truth. That God is reality. That God is bigger than this world, and the problems in it.There are people who will get to the end of their lives, and realize that they bought into a lie.
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