January 16, 2012

  • God celebrates my Birthday with me

    Today, I remember further the faithfulness of God and His grace and love for me.  After many years of birthdays not celebrated, three years after the Allegory of the Gospel of grace, my Father decides to celebrate my birthday with me.  At the church that He wanted me to be at during that time, many of the new friends celebrated the day that I surrendered to Christ.  I love to celebrate that day because it was the day that I gave my life to the Lord.  My real birthday reminded me of pain and disappointment (in contrast to my spiritual birthday), not because it was intention, but because there were cultural differences with regards to what birthdays mean and how to celebrate them.

    During that time, God spoke through three different events to heal me of the pain and scars that I experience every year when my real birthday comes around.  First, he spoke through a person who told me that he understood that I did not celebrate my birthday, but God picked this day for me to be born and God cares about that day.  Second, God spoke through my workplace.  It was the first year that we had Martin Luther King off as a day off, which fell right on my birthday - God gave me my birthday off!  Thirdly, He spoke through the celebration of a one-year old birthday party, in which He spoke to me personally and said (and I paraphrase), "I was there with you every birthday and celebrated with you."  Lastly, last Sunday was sanctity of life Sunday, which celebrates birth!  Through these events, I came to realize that God celebrated my birthday even when others forgot, did not celebrate it at all, or tried to celebrate it without knowing first how painful it could have been for me.

    What was once a very dreadful and pain day became a really powerful testimony of the faithfulness of God and His power of deliverance from the forces of darkness.  This comes to tell me that He knows me best and knows what I needed to heal.

    Copyright 2012 by Christenstein

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