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In my new life, though i’ve been convinced that doing God’s Will is the way to go, assuming you know what that it in the first place,  it is usually not the most fun way to get through life. It might involve giving up some things, changing a habit/lifestyle, going against populist sentiment etc basically as we all know, change is painful.

So for the longest time i’ve been thinking i must be the most unhappy Christian on earth because the more you know about this straight and narrow path you must walk, the more painful it is. I always even wonder why i need to know anything in the first place? Wouldn’t it be easier to live a carefree and materialistic life and not know that its all wrong. Sometimes i’d much rather do that.

But recently it has been revealed to me through a visiting lecturer’s words that God’s Will should be treated as God’s dream for us. When i first heard that, something clicked in my brain! An “aha” moment if you may..  All this while i’ve been thinking God dictates an obstacle course for us in life and we painfully go around dodging things. But if you take the positive spin on it, He actually hopes we would live it as it will be beneficial to us, and its up to us to walk it. And of course he doesn’t cast down fire and brimstone on us when we deviate from the path. Suffering is part of everyone’s life and sometimes when you leave the path, things just get that much harder.

But that is where prayer comes in and we can ask anything of Him, especially Mercy.