The path of righteousness

This is what the Lord says— your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go.

Isaiah 48:17 NIV

Almost every night my best friend will call me after all of his works done to pray with me.  I praise God who gives him strength every time we will talk.  Now, for you to picture vividly of what he is doing every day I will discuss a portion of it. He has different hats to put everyday of his life.  At morning he wakes up around 5:30 to 6am to ask the Lord to lead him in everything he wants him to do.  At 7am he goes to the construction site to pray with the workers and play as their spiritual leader even if he is just the contractor of the houses that were given to the Yolanda (Haiyan) victims by a Christian organization.  And for the whole afternoon he is busy sharing the word of God, talking to people and conducting/training people to disciple as modeled by Jesus Christ in Matthew 28:19-20.  You see he is not from Samar where he is residing now for less than a year but God called him to reach out for this people.  At night when he lie down and call me, we discuss about things we did the whole day and how God unfolds his plan to the circumstances we faced.  It seems ordinary when we look at the stuff that was done but when we share it to one another the common day to day routine becomes reminder of who we were in the past compare to our now selves.

Last night we talked about our struggles with the previous conversations that we had.  God rebuked him on how he talk to me in private and I also to him, it didn’t give God honor and glory.  More than two weeks ago I was rebuke by God also and silently praying that He will lead Kuya Paul to a higher leadership and a man of God and do the same with me, woman of God.  And as a result we agreed to strengthen one another through prayers and rebuking one another with love.  Sabi nga nya “magpalakasan tayo kung saan tayo mahina”.  I praise God for keeping his promises to us and teaching us to direct our paths. 

Looking back to our past lives, we were not this close and obedient to God.  I was just an ordinary lady who pursues her dream to become the top executives of a leading company in our country and eventually creates her own.  I always look forward to absorb knowledge and ultimately use it to build stepping stone for my dreams.  And him, he was far from the Lord.  He acknowledged God and prayers but do exactly different from what pleases God.  His hunger for love drove him to search at different kinds of lustful desires, money/possession and power.  He constantly earns and invests in different businesses like canteen, gay bars and even illegal ones which generated a lot of money.  Yet his hunger for wrong love did not satisfy him, in fact instead of being happy he had a lot of loses one of those was the breakdown of his marriage.  It was just last 2012 when things crumbled when he was in Kuala Lumpur and planned to end his life that He gave up everything to God.  After this, his life was change and use by God to glorify him up to this day.  God is awesome and powerful to redeem us, direct our paths and teach what’s best for all of us. To God be the glory!