God and twenty twenty six.

One thing about me is; I’m aways ready for a #message. Messages come in different ways and through different mediums. It could be a direct message, a word, a gut feeling or a moment that lands and refuses to leave, but I love me a good #message. 

Recently, the messages about God have been relentless. Load and constant. God is all around me, faith is all around me and the feeling recently hasn’t been coincidental, it’s felt intentional. 

I recently watched a two part Sermon by Pastor Mike Jr from Rock City Church that was brilliant!!! It is called ‘Too Blessed To Be Bitter’. I initially watched it because I saw a repost and I found the clip intriguing. It stayed on my mind and then I found myself watching the full thing video over and over again. 

It got me thinking. But ‘thinking’ without ‘action’ is just ‘potential without movement’. So I thought, ‘Sian, how can you ensure the lessons you’ve learned from this show up in your every day’ and the answer was horrible, horrible stuff. The honest answer meant I had to stop making excuses. 

I make excuses for everything. I excuse other peoples bad behaviour, I excuse my own, I make excuses for why I am not doing the things I know I am meant too, and why I am doing the things I know I’m not meant too. 

It is blocking my blessings. God keeps sending me the same message over and over but through different mediums, and I. KEEP. IGNORING. IT. Not only that, but I keep making excuses for ignoring it. 

It’s difficult... seeing things for what they blatantly are, but the reality is, if a business is not working - let it go. If a friend is being an enemy - let it go, if a relationship is not working - let it go. My ability to be like ‘Ah if I just do XYZ it will help the business/ if I just give grace to this friend then she will be better/ if I just give him some time he will find his feet’. No, Sian - LET IT GO. 

The problem with the sermon (and why I think I kept watching it) is it didn’t give me an answer. It uncovered a problem and didn’t give me a solution looool I am BRIGHT I know. I get given the tings dem and I still want more kmt looool. That’s lazy work, I had to figure the answer out for myself but here’s whats happened.

Here’s what the internet did. 

The internet convinced us that walking away is a moral failure and that silence is cruelty. The internet blurred the line between kindness and obligation. It’s full of reels fuelled by performative empathy. Think pieces and quick-witty-posts telling us the right way to handle conflict is to essentially stay and tolerate disrespect. 

‘Adults communicate’, ‘Ghosting is toxic’, ‘If you cared you’d stay and explain’. And in the work space there’s this underlying vibe of ‘If you want the job hard enough you should do absolutely everything to get it and keep it, even if it’s physically and mentally killing you’. And if you give up, on people and on things - you’re weak, you’re a bad person and you don’t deserve to walk on Gods green earth loooool (exxag but you get it). 

Meanwhile, the Bible is clear. Time is a gift from God. It’s precious and limited and something you cannot get back. 

Ephesians 5:15-16 - Be careful how you live… making the most of every opportunity because the days are evil

Proverbs 13-20 - Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm

Distancing yourself from what wastes your time, energy or focus isn’t weakness. It’s wisdom. 

Matthew 7:6 - Do not give what is holy to dogs… or pearls to pigs. 

You don’t give your crown jewels to anything (or anyone) that doesn’t value it. And I’m speaking on business and personal relationships. You are a pearl, and you can’t just feed that pearl into any and everything that doesn’t deserve it.

Jesus himself walked away - OFTEN. ‘Shake the dust off your feet when a place does not receive you’. 

Translation: NUH BOTHER LET ANY ONE OR ANYTHING TEK YUH FI EEDIOT. 

I know what you’re thinking.. ‘Sian I NEVER hear you in your Bible, and you’re right, I keep my faith to myself. That’s intentional. But faith doesn’t require performance to be real. 

I fear God, because I have seen what He can do and what He does.  Pastor Mike Jr preached about Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan and the grandson of King Saul. A cripple. And the timing of that was crazy. 

I am blessed and highly favoured. You have SEEN what God has done for me. You have seen Him move mountains for me. You constantly ask yourself ‘How has she done that?’… Blessed and highly favoured I tell ya. But also a disciple. I am committed to learning, following and accepting teachings. 

So it’s not just about watching and reposting. ‘Thinking without action is just potential without movement’. It’s not about making mistakes and covering them with ‘Gods got me regardless’, and leaning on Gods #message of forgiveness to constantly cover up your sins. How about you try not to sin in the first place… eh?

So yes, I received a #message, and it’s about to show up in my twenty twenty six IF I create change, IF I stop making excuses, IF I stop taking in think pieces on the bloody internet that make me feel like I’m a bad person if I let bad things go. I am not. You are not. 

WE GOOD MY G. 

I’m saying ‘IF’ because only lord knows if I am strong enough to see it through, but this is my affirmation for 2026 - so I am speaking it 

Bless <3