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How good we are compares to his plan

You may curious about the topic, and I have explanation for it. Lately, I've been noticing in a life of Jacob from the book of Genesis. His story is very interested about who he is and how God worked with him. Surprisingly, I don't think that he was good enough to be the father of the nation, Israel, but God gave him this name. His household was in sin and in many big trouble, but God helped him and his household in many time. Yet people cause the trouble, God still look after them because of his grace and his marvelous plan. What shall we fear then? How can we worry about our future while we've seen a thousand times that God is at hand all the time? It's our human being that try to put thing in control, and sometimes we're waving because it's hardly to trust God when we get into a challenge situation. I used to say to myself "nope, I'm not going to worry"., but when the time comes, I do worry, I do curious how God will fix thing in my hands. But in the end I learn to surrender and say 'it's up to God, because He is in charge of his plan, and I just need to follow and cooperate with him'. I'm trying not to be a person who expect God to do a big thing for me, but I rather wait to see what God want to do and be thankful for every thing, and it keep me exciting to see God moves in my circumstances in his own way. Since I'm a type of person who expecting a big thing to happen all the time or even the successfulness of everything that I've put my energy on, I always evaluated myself 'am I good enough, am I working hard enough, am I laying back so much or what?'. I rush through the process because I want to see the end, and then God teaches me through Jacob's story. It wasn't about man but God. He chooses whom he want to choose, he moves when he wants to move, and he have mercy on a person that he wants to, so my part is to accept God as the Sovereign God. It's not because I'm a good person or worth enough to cause God's attention, so that he will pick me to do the best thing for the world. I can't help myself every time, and it makes me to depend on God. This truth can be applied to the TG' Coffee & Arts Shop. I long to see customer who come to build relationship with us and get to know us. God has brought many artists come to know us, and I just realized that why we're unique from other Coffee Shop. Through our time at the shop, God can use our lives to be friend with these artists and bless them through our prayers, our serving, and our friendship. I'm so thankful that God can use us even we're on our business journey. It's not about how good we are to present to the world, it's about how God gonna make a move in us, so that the world will know. Please be prayerful for us as we're living in HuaHin and slowly adjust to this town. May God be glorify through our serving and who we are in Christ. Blessings, Gade

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