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"Magpaubos"




"1Abram was ninety-nine years old when the LORD appeared to him again and said, "I am God All-Powerful. If you obey me and always do right, 2I will keep my solemn promise to you and give you more descendants than can be counted." 3Abram bowed with his face to the ground, and God said: 4-5I promise that you will be the father of many nations. That's why I now change your name from Abram to Abraham.[a] 6I will give you a lot of descendants, and in the future they will become great nations. Some of them will even be kings.7I will always keep the promise I have made to you and your descendants, because I am your God and their God." Genesis 17:1-7

"Magpaubos" or be humbled down. My constant message to me last Sunday and Monday. As I was reading my Devotional, I saw how Abraham responded to God's Promise by kneeling and bowing face down. It's an illustration that when we come to God in prayer, we should come with humility or humbled down. I remembered MamaWeng's illustration when we receive blessings and even promises and coming before God- Like a waterfall:

God's blessings is like a waterfall; constantly pouring. What should I be? I should be at the bottom of it, receiving like a river all the out pour. It will be strong and forceful but flowing. Magpaubos...Magpaubos..In His Grace...

"1If you are a wife, you must put your husband first. Even if he opposes our message, you will win him over by what you do. No one else will have to say anything to him, 2because he will see how you honor God and live a pure life." 1 Peter 3:1-2

Last Sunday was another PEPSOL class in Kabacan. I am currently the PEPSOL Director (Kuno!jajaja) in Kabacan and as part of my work when I am finally sent out (back). I had a wonderful one on one conversation with Tita Nonie (The Bio Mother of My Spiritual Mother and the Daughter of my Bio Mother). When I asked her how was she after the Encounter- she's become stronger, not easily discouraged and when I asked her about Tito and their relationship, she learned to be more humble and "magpaubos", someday she will also win him for God through her submission. Wow!!! What a testimony! I keep on asking her if she received anything when I shared the Word and the lessons for the PEPSOL. Secretly, I also received something from her.

 Submission. Humility. "Magpaubos". I learned that when coming before God, I must be humbled down. When I am with my leaders, elders and even to my "Honey" (wherever you are I hope you could read this)- Submission, not the "Bitter", forced submission but the "Sweet" and humbled down, willing submission. That a marriage will flourish and grow when in the first place it is already revealed to the Woman that she has and will submit to his husband. It will become a sweet submission. Rather than what we see today in the world that submission only dawns on the woman on the day of their wedding- it all ends with resentment and bitterness because of Pride.

Even now, I'm still on that process. There are times when it's still difficult to submit. But God is pruning me. I am humbled down always.. I should be. Being a leader you should and I should be humble enough to be led by the Lord in everything that I will do. Being in "Sweet" submission to God. One of my Devotionals that I received in my email said:

"God loves the humble, not matter how they acquire that mantle. Something takes place that can only be seen in retrospect. In times of difficulty, there is a mystical bonding with Jesus Christ, a fellowship of Christ’s suffering that Paul talked about in Philippians 3. It is in the difficult time, the dark hour of the soul that you begin to sense His presence in ways that you never encounter when you are bouncing from one victory to another. When you are skidding from one low to one even lower, you are made aware of the reality of God’s presence and the touch of Jesus Christ in ways that bond you in oneness of spirit with others you previously wouldn’t have considered worthy of your time and attention." From Today Counts by Harold Sala.

I am grateful to God that in my many (12 mons to be exact) months in Davao I have experienced my own versions of "difficulty" and "suffering". It taught me to be more humble and rely on God solely. Even in times of Victory, I don't want to loose sight on God and that encounter with God I always experience only when I am at my lowest. That humbling experience that only I long and desire to be when I am in the Presence of my Almighty.

"None of us willingly chooses the battering and crushing of our hopes and dreams, yet for those who have been there and have tasted the dregs to the bottom of the cup, there is a richness of soul that is unlike anything the world has to offer."


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