You make, all things work together for my good.

Over the past few weeks in our house, which we share with 7 other Khmer girls we've been having slight cultural clashes which have affected both me and Aurore, but especially myself. In Cambodia it isn't at all offensive or rude to make comments about someone else's weight and therefore all the time we would get comments from the girls saying we were eating too much or we were fat and that's not beautiful. Yes it was that blunt. Obviously coming for Britain and never living in anything other than a English society, even though I'd been prepared for this type of thing by World Horizons before I came, it was such a massive shock to me, especially because of my past issues surrounding food, weight, eating etc etc which some of you may or may not be aware of. 

However during the time when I was suffering with eating problems and afterwards when God was rescuing me from it. I kept asking him "Why me?! Why did I let this to happen to me? It has done nothing but cause problems and pain from start to finish, and I hate this part of me!" He would reply by telling me that one day  he would make it so I could use thing horrible part of my life for the good of others.

I hadn't thought about this promise he'd said to me such a long time ago until this week when I finally shared with the girls about how much their comments had an affect on me and how they shouldn't look at others or themselves in that way. That even though that kind of talk is accepted in Cambodia it is not as children of God how we're called to act. We're called to love, and we are called to be better, to stand out from whatever culture we are in.

So after all these years, I'm starting to fully realise the truth of the verse "...we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." (Romans 8:28) Fact!

I decided to write this blog really just to say thank you to Him for how he's taken such an awful thing from my life and in his crazy brilliance managed to make it work out for the good of others. That now this part of me that I hated so much actually has purpose. 

So people pleaseeee continue to trust and believe, push in and press on, never give up on Him, for he will take places you can barely even imagine and your life in Him will be so much more than you'd ever dare hope. 

For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.

Amen