Re-establishing Spiritual Life

April 5th of the year 2015. Just came back from the youth summer conference of our church. Had an almost-5-day hiatus from the relentless demands of this world-- this brought about a revival. A desire to go back to the basics. A renewed respect for the albeit important, yet oftentimes belittled, fundamentals.

As you will very well notice, this blog hasn't been producing any posts in almost 3 years. To me, this was because it was hard to simply just pick up where we left off. 

Through the recent years in my life as a Christian trying to survive the inevitable trials and constant temptations, who is always struggling to keep the Spirit in me alive, it has been a cause for frustration that I have always failed. My spiritual life always going up and down then up and down again... It gets me so sad and disappointed in myself wherever I fail that the decline in my Spirit doesn't stop until I'm willing to let God save me :(

It is a blessed thing that the topic of our conference this year is Establishing Spiritual Life. I was reminded that Christians cannot get complacent even if they have been Christians a long time. It has gotten to the point where I think I already know what I'm doing so...... 

Before learning to create a whole paragraph, one must first learn the alphabet, to know how to form words and spell, how to construct a sentence, and how to put sentences together. Only after creating a paragraph are we able to write essays, thesis, and even books. The fundamentals cannot be neglected or else the end product will be filled with holes, mistakes, and it will be of questionable quality. I cannot expect to cook a great meal without learning about all of the recipes and learning how to cook each of the individual elements first. A child cannot expect to run before learning how to take the first step. In the same way, I cannot expect to live a victorious Christian life if I neglect to, forget to, refuse to learn the things needed to be victorious.                               

In the next few posts, I will be sharing the topics a little at a time, plus insights God has given me through them, and also how I go from here. I hope to continue to move forward. I hope to be able to monitor my true Spiritual condition by allowing God to constantly shine His light on me. And if I myself am still blinded, may these posts keep track of my true walk with the Lord.