Something that made me even think more about things was someone sharing that if he looks around his uni mates they look fine and living a happy life just as if they even don't need God.
The more I think over this word from tuesday night the more it kind of reminds me of myself. We might look as we have it all together and we are happy but the truth is, these people are feeling an emptiness and maybe they're life isn't as it looks on the outside, they can be broken inside.
I was there, I was this person. I was in university, everything looked good on the outside, everyone thought I was good in uni and that I would like it. At that point I've already changed university once, moved backed home and quit university once. I showed everyone that i am alright and that my life is happy, even tho I was already broken once. Durning the following semester my life changed and I've been broken more. No one saw it not the outside I went out with fellow students and just lived my life, showing I would be happy.
I had a boyfriend at that time that I loved and just been happy with on the outside. On the inside our relationship was a struggle for the beginning, we had to met in secret and fought a lot. At the end I pulled the emergency brake and end that relationship that already lay in shards. I was broken on the inside again. I pretended everything is alright and that I was fine, no one of my friends saw a thing.
One of my former classmates questioned my lifestyle, and I started to open up a bit. After a while I told her all about my brokenness and she shared about Jesus and prayed for me that night my emptiness came to an end. I started searching, and somehow started to find an answer for my inner search / emptiness. I didn't accepted Jesus in my life that night but soon after, my hunger to know more about him started in that night. My former classmate saw in my inside not my outside where I pretended to be happy and everything is alright.
I am thankful that God showed my best friend my inside and that she acted on what God told her.
To come back to the beginning I just wanna tell you, be encourage and take a step if God tells you to, take a step in faith. People might seem happy and as if they don't need Jesus but the inside might look completely different, ask God to reveal himself to you and open your eyes for the people around you and they're inside.
I don't say with Jesus everything is easy and you will life a happy life, there will be even more struggle cause the enemy is attacking you. Your inner search and emptiness will come to an end with him and you don't need to face life alone cause Christ will always w be with you.
May prayers is for all who read this that God will open your eyes to see the unseen in a person. That God will speak to you about the people around you, and that he will fill you with courage to go and take that step in faith to ask people and bring Christ to them. Be open to be used by God to the people around you. I pray that he will use you in every way and that people around you will see Jesus in you.
On the way I also wanna give you a bible verse that speaks to this situation
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
1. Samuel 16:7 (NLV)
Have a wonderful and blessed weekend