Have you ever been in a place, that makes you think, and act in a way, that is compromising?
Each and every single day we're up against all sorts of things, things that shape our character, things that are good for us like good company, compassion, good things.
What about the things that you know that are in the back of your head, and you're wondering what to do about it?
I recently went to a career advisor, to see what I should be doing.
It was good. and perhaps your studying, perhaps your wanting to do something really big, or maybe God has told you to slow down a bit.
You don't have to go full force into things, trying to break the speed of sound.
I was lying in bed this morning, thinking about my day, thinking about my little sponcered boy, Antony, who is only 2 and wondering what sort of day he'll be having, praying that he will be playing safely at his home. I smile at how cute he really is, so smilely in the photograph so happy to be alive.
I was thinking about my work, and why people work them so hard, too hard sometimes, so that people don't get a day off.
I was thinking about attitudes and what mine is like, see if you have a good attidute you've won most of the war that is going inside.
People want to be near you, sure you don't have to put it on sure you're going to have down days, but put on a garment of praise, thank the Lord for what you have, than rather the things you don't have.
and pray for the things that you don't have, and look out and be active to have them come your way.
Back in biblical times, kings would ask subjects to go and "enquire of the Lord'' very readily, if was going into battle or staying home, if something cropped up, they would go into a room and stay there and just ask the Lord.
Sometimes we need to do that, somethings are hard to understand, to grasp, and yes sometimes love does hurt, and sometimes, you can't always fix the other person, and as much as it hurts you, you have to seek the lord and let it go.
And that is a progress, that is a working thing in life, it's one of those things that you breathe a sigh of relief, and think it's over, but no another form comes it's way to you.
GOd is making you couragous to stand up against the crowd and against the things of this world.
Where others may think you're weak, you know deep inside you've got grit and you've got what it takes to stand.
A lot of times, we just stay and we just keep doing the status quo, because that is what we've always done, and we think safely, if we do this plan, then that plan won't fail, and if we do plan B, then plan C won't fail.
Do you get it?
You and I are simply just going around in circles.
like muddy tires on a 4wd drive truck, stuck in rivets.
Life isn't suposed to be like a sunday afternoon drive, in a self driven Tesla.
Life isn't like a computer, or facebook, where you can live very safely, chatting to friends, because they are your friends, and you hardly go out, because well why bother because everything is on the net.
Joyce Meyer said once, if the horse has been dead for 10 years, why are we still riding it?
We all need change, change is good, like a landscaper gardener, who works in the winter to design a garden for spring/ summer, does he put down his tools when it gets tough, cold and dark and dirty and heads inside gives up?
No, he goes about his job, because someone is paying him/ her to make a garden.
We need to be mindful of the habbits we have got ourselves into, it could be sulkyness, it could be punishing the other person, it might even be the cold shoulder.
miss trust, for whatever reasons reasons I don't need to know, it could be that you're working in an extremly toxic enviroment, and when you have that, you think everyone is against you. it's not until you get out of it, that that was or wasn't the case.
You are not designed to fail, you are designed to thrive.
So make good changes, in your life, good things that will make you grow, it might be a gradual thing, it might just be building the structure, putting down the things, that are foundations for now, and let others come and help you build on that.
See a tree or shurb that is in wet clay stinky soil, can't do much. infact it will not produce, flowers or fruit.
Lift it up, transplant it, fertilize it, it will never look back.
Don't keep looking back over your shoulder, in fear, and miss trust, because you will miss the things to look forward to.
And there are many.
So my encouragment today, is go close yourself in a quiet place, put asside paper work, assignments and enquire of the lord.
do it daily and you will grow, and you will hear his voice, on what do, and once you have heard his voice, not just daily, not just when you feel like it, or when things get hard, tough, and you're in that 4wd drive truck stuck in rivets, not going anyway.
God is the jack, to lift you up, to come to your rescue and to be saved out of every situation.
Big, small, really tiny, or so big it takes all your mind up durring the day.
he will come, it's up to you if you trust him enough, to lift your " wheels'' and get you started out of that mess, and trust him.
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