Although I have read this chapter yesterday and missed to write something about it, I decided to still reflect and post it here. This chapter/day 5 is another realization for me.

A lot of things happen to us each day and I never thought these are part of God's tests. I don't reflect on my actions and just burst my emotions out. As simple as situations like someone bumped me while rushing or someone stepped on my feet during my ride on a bus, I suddenly say "Aray!" even though it's not painful and I expect an apology from them. And if I didn't get one, I feel anger. It's as if my pride is thickening my heart. But when I read this chapter, I realized even small things can be a test. God searches my heart in every situation happening in my life. And of course the big situations are always there and can't be ignored. I am trying each day to not let anger or pain take over me. Yeah at first but I managed to overcome it with God's help. With my friends' encouragements. I understand their situations, carefully thinking what they are going through. Yeah what they did to me were like unforgiving but sometimes people had a blurry sight on what they are doing because of their current situations in life. I don't want to throw more pain or difficulties in their lives so I chose to understand and let them realize on their own what happened.

God trusted me a lot of things in this earth. The animals, the environment and even our belongings. But the most valuable among them are the people I meet and I grew up with. God has a reason why I encounter these people. It's a two-way reason: to mold me and to mold them. And God gave me freedom on how I can be mold and mold them. I may see them as people only wanting to hurt me or see them as the ones who are helping me to build what I am truly made of. I may consider myself to make these people down or help them get the best out of them. Relationships are built not to be broken but to complete who we are. Each person we have right now, our family, friends or even strangers we encounter in the streets are our responsibility. It was said in Genesis when God created man that He had entrusted all of His creations to them. And man is God's creation.

So as I live my life today, I will always remember that every situation on earth is a test and that He had entrusted me to take responsibility of His creations.