{"id":676,"date":"2008-12-18T16:02:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T08:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=676"},"modified":"2008-12-18T16:02:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T08:02:41","slug":"the-nos-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/the-nos-in-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;NO&#8217;s in life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just thought to write this after few incidents and thoughts for these last few days. It&#8217;s quite easy for anyone to say it, however we all know that it&#8217;s not easy for those who&#8217;s going through it. Sometimes i need to be more bold and assertive in voicing out that indeed i had experienced those times, and i said what i&#8217;ve tasted&#8230;not merely an empty knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Having been experiencing some &#8216;No&#8217;s in life&#8230;sometimes i can look back and give thanks to God. However another times, i cannot think of any good reason for the &#8216;NO&#8217;s. Yet i still trust that in right time, it will be clear to me, indeed it&#8217;s alright. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.tabulas.com\/ik\/smilies\/yellow\/smile.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As one thing keep lingering in my mind&#8230;.did mum really believe she will get well again? Or is she only putting a bold front? And what if her condition will remain like this? Again as i ponder upon the possibility if God should answer with &#8216;NO&#8217;. Once i trusted it to the Lord, that he opened another possibility. For there&#8217;s so much things to be learned in the process. There indeed so much valuable lesson we could pick up, if we&#8217;re not so consumed with our own desire to get things done. And i know there&#8217;re areas of life, where God is working to form her and also me and the entire family.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of complying to simply answering us with a &#8216;YES&#8217;&#8230;often we marvel at his later works done in us. And this i know it well&#8230;how he tested and purified my own heart. For inside it&#8217;s a deceptive heart with all its hideous ways and motives. Only Him can reveal to us our true condition and inner self. And in that process, often involves many &#8216;NO&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>The answer then, it&#8217;s not getting what we ask. But more on being fixed. That our hearts is right is far more important and of eternal value. So i long still, for the revealing of ourselves before Him. So we could really be transformed. Areas of life needed to be surrendered. And to let God be God.<\/p>\n<p>I still believe He can be trusted. He will provide. His timing and ways are perfect. And He loves me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just thought to write this after few incidents and thoughts for these last few days. It&#8217;s quite easy for anyone to say it, however we all know that it&#8217;s not easy for those who&#8217;s going through it. 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