The more you focus on the difficulties or your hardship or even your pains, the more u focus, the bigger it gets.
I am going through this, am going through that and if your friends listen to this, “oh boy, sorry for you, so hard, isnt it?”. The more sympathy they give, the more it grows and the more you doubt God.
So what we need to do is focus. What we need in our life is the simple trait of Daniel. The bible says Daniel slept with the lion. If he has been focusing on lion, am sure he would not be sleeping with them. It brings it back to the days when God did something very personal during one of the difficult times of my life.
During my first day chemotherapy under the supervision of Prof. Mark Rosenthal at Royal Melbourne Hospital, I met this gentleman Ben who was also diagnosed with Testicular cancer with same prototype – non seminoma teratoma and started the treatment one week ahead of me. So I was also put under the same schedule of three months of daily chemo as Ben, just one week behind though. Every Monday I meet Ben at the consultation room. We used to share our previous week experience and we used to laugh it out. As we progressed with the treatment, weeks later laughs became groans. I soon realized that I was having the same symptoms and experiences which Ben had the previous week. Week pass-by and I know what days are going to be ahead of me with all those excruciating pains of spasm. I was focusing on the pain which Ben faced and I invited those into my life. If Daniel was focusing on the lion, he would not be sleeping with the lion. It’s a simple truth. Daniel doesn’t have his eyes on the lions, but on God.
That was one of the biggest revelations I received during my chemo days and got a nice hug from my God. I was separated from my family during the period and had no access to my son. Living away from my three year old was more painful than the terminal illness. God said, "Son,but Daniel didn’t focus on the lion". From that moment on, all my fears disappeared, all of my uncertainties, all of my anxieties disappeared as He got my focus right.
When you focus on the trouble, burden, the pain , it grows bigger and we feel less confident, less significant and overwhelmed. Daniel looked at the God who created the lion. God will acts on those who wait for Him. Trust in God, do what he ask us to do and leave the consequences to God. Then we will have peace, sense of joy, confidence and assurance.
Understand this, only thing that will happen in your life is what God allows. If we are the child of God, what He allows, He allows for a reason. Trust in him and focus on God. Eventhough I don’t like the way the event keeps hammering my life, I want His way no matter what.
Stay focus.
