Despite all your efforts, you just can’t seem to make the
breakthrough. Your circumstances are mounting and you pray for some sunshine
and God seems to only send your life, clouds full of incredible downpours of
problems, one right after another. Your financial situation has gone from bad
to worse. The news from your doctor is worse than you expected. The quarreling
at home has become so constant that you or your mate are looking for a way out.
It is at those moments when all the odds are against you and you think there is
no way out. May I encourage you today my friend that, it is your very
“thinking”, that has you captured by an emotional world wind and from your own
thinking, you feel trapped with no escape in site! But the good news is, you
can escape it. There is a way out. But first you must realize that your
thinking at that moment is your worst enemy, especially when you’re thinking is
not based on a trusting faith like that of King David, “Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive
me; You will stretch out Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and Your
right hand will save me. The Lord will perfect that which concerns me …” Psalm
138:7. His word teaches that Lord is concerned about everything that touches
your life. You just have to get a new perspective and know that He is behind
the scenes working things out even if you momentarily cannot see it.
You
see, God has not yet conquered something in you that may need to be conquered.
There is a reason for what you are going through. It may be self-inflicted;
brought on by personal wrong choices. God will work on your behalf, if you are
striving to learn from your trial. If your pain is coming in the form of a
teachable moment, then learn it quick and move through your situation. If your
pain is coming because of the many wrong choices that you are making, then stop
and turn around and start doing things God’s way. If your pain is brought on
because of a righteous faithfulness for doing something you know is right, then
bear it dear friend and remember that though He slay you, you must continue to
serve Him. God is either calling you to Himself to be saved or He is using
life’s trials and tribulations to teach you and draw you into a closer
relationship with Him.
Your job is simple. You must determine which it is. Are
you walking with God today, do you know Him personally or do you simply know
about God. Guess what satan knows about God. Satan knows all about Jesus, yet
he despises the Son of God. You must decide what you will do with the Son of
God personally and once you decide, you must make every effort to allow Him to
clean you up and rid your life of things that can and will lead you away from
Him. His word tells us in Hebrews 12:6 and Proverbs 3:12 that if He has to use
force and take you to the woodshed and dish out to you the disciplines of
obedience, then He will, and if that discipline is in the form of or through
daily problems remember this; it is for your good that He is trying to work out
in you what the devil is trying to use, to make you angry at the One who loves
you the most! The righteous cry out, and the Lord
hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. Psalm 34:17. Will you be
conquered today?
Loving on you today,
Bren
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