Testimony 12/03/06: Believers

I close my bathroom door and cry. I argue again with my brother. And oh… I feel so bad about it! About not being a good testimony at home. I feel that I was so accustomed to live alone I should not live with anybody else.

And at work? I am replacing an export manager only after 3 months experience. I am leading a team without much knowledge at all. I have the pressure of doing everything without any mistakes, which I know I can’t. But I can feel the burden getting heavier on my shoulder.

Then I heard it… It is written: we have been saved by grace, not by works, that anyone should boast (Ephesians 2:9). Yes! By GRACE! Not by works! Not by deeds! Not by what we do or what we have! But by grace!

No body tells me to do everything perfectly. I put the pressure on myself. I think so much on what other people would think of me, or what I am doing and all. I act in a way what I think people are expecting of me. And how it steals my joy and peace!

If we are made to achieve, then we will be called as achievers, not believers, Joyce Meyer said. What a profound truth that needs to be reminded time and again.