Good morning to everyone. Grace and peace be with you.
With the instant change in the seasons … like it was 80 gazillion degrees and now it is 50 … my body has decided it would like to try a cold on for size. I can feel it creeping in with the start of the early morning sore throat. The last two days I have woke up with this wonderful phenomenon. Fortunately, my coffee in the morning has kept it a bay, however, now we want to increase the bet to adding a runny nose and stupid cough. Mind you, I cough a lot anyway because I cannot find the off switch, but this cough fun just has to be different and more persistent. One would think I just had to be difficult or something.
I seem to be out of stamps, except for the lower-priced ones, so my letter people will be receiving decoratively stamped letters for a couple of days. Wondering what I was going to talk about today, this stamp situation and my cold, attempting to intrude on my day, gave me a perfect scenario.
Looking at these envelopes, the address is properly placed in the center of the business envelope, and the stamps are carefully placed neatly around the address. I placed the stamps orderly, but each letter has a slightly different design if it were, on how they are on there. One letter has a twelve-stamp bar with four neatly placed underneath. Another has a sixteen-stamp bar across the top. The third has a solo bar of stamps across the top of the envelope, with the residual stamps that are needed somewhat neatly under the first bar. All stamps, on all the letters, were stamped right to left of the envelopes.
As I look at these envelopes, it reminds me just how different our individual walks are. Some walks feel like the world is pressing down around us. Other walks feel like a slight encroachment, while others seem to have a hovering of ‘what’s next’. All three are valid. All three have their own level of difficulty. All three can become overwhelming. All three can maintain stability and distance … if prayer is allowed to lead. Sometimes, all three can feel like they are approaching at the same time … but … placing perspective on them helps in the overwhelming urge to flee.
The enemy has gotten us to believe that the world needs to revolve around us. That we are the most important item. Therefore, if we do not get what we need, or want, then it is a catastrophe. Where we need to be mindful of our mental health and safety, the world does not revolve around us, individually…at least it should not. It revolves around Him. The enemy would have you place yourself in front of God. When you do that, you are taking Him out of the equation, and he cannot defend or lead you because you have decided that you know better than He. I cannot count how many times I have done this. Sometimes on purpose, sometimes out of instinct, because I listened to the logic of the enemy.
Nowhere does it say that we will have a smooth sailing life. Nowhere does it record that we will not have to navigate difficult times or that the enemy won't try to persuade us in a different direction. What it does say is that we will suffer because He suffered first, and because we believe in Him, the world will hate us and try to take us down. It is up to us to place Him in front of us and trust that He will lead us through the minefields and traps set by the enemy.
It is not easy. Some days it is downright hard. However, the peace at the end of each path is so much nicer and easier on the mental health. I can say this from experience. I tend to be a bit stubborn and do things my way … only to lose my peace … but then am open to the godly ways to see that I wasted so much energy.
Whatever the situation you are in, whether it is the encroachment of the world, the hovering of the world, or the fanatic drop on your head like bucket of water, place Him first. Stop where you are, go to him in prayer, pour out your heart, and open up to his leading. Trust me when I say that is so much the better way for maintaining your peace.
Be blessed today my friends.
***Now then, my sons, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways. – Proverbs 8:32
With the instant change in the seasons … like it was 80 gazillion degrees and now it is 50 … my body has decided it would like to try a cold on for size. I can feel it creeping in with the start of the early morning sore throat. The last two days I have woke up with this wonderful phenomenon. Fortunately, my coffee in the morning has kept it a bay, however, now we want to increase the bet to adding a runny nose and stupid cough. Mind you, I cough a lot anyway because I cannot find the off switch, but this cough fun just has to be different and more persistent. One would think I just had to be difficult or something.
I seem to be out of stamps, except for the lower-priced ones, so my letter people will be receiving decoratively stamped letters for a couple of days. Wondering what I was going to talk about today, this stamp situation and my cold, attempting to intrude on my day, gave me a perfect scenario.
Looking at these envelopes, the address is properly placed in the center of the business envelope, and the stamps are carefully placed neatly around the address. I placed the stamps orderly, but each letter has a slightly different design if it were, on how they are on there. One letter has a twelve-stamp bar with four neatly placed underneath. Another has a sixteen-stamp bar across the top. The third has a solo bar of stamps across the top of the envelope, with the residual stamps that are needed somewhat neatly under the first bar. All stamps, on all the letters, were stamped right to left of the envelopes.
As I look at these envelopes, it reminds me just how different our individual walks are. Some walks feel like the world is pressing down around us. Other walks feel like a slight encroachment, while others seem to have a hovering of ‘what’s next’. All three are valid. All three have their own level of difficulty. All three can become overwhelming. All three can maintain stability and distance … if prayer is allowed to lead. Sometimes, all three can feel like they are approaching at the same time … but … placing perspective on them helps in the overwhelming urge to flee.
The enemy has gotten us to believe that the world needs to revolve around us. That we are the most important item. Therefore, if we do not get what we need, or want, then it is a catastrophe. Where we need to be mindful of our mental health and safety, the world does not revolve around us, individually…at least it should not. It revolves around Him. The enemy would have you place yourself in front of God. When you do that, you are taking Him out of the equation, and he cannot defend or lead you because you have decided that you know better than He. I cannot count how many times I have done this. Sometimes on purpose, sometimes out of instinct, because I listened to the logic of the enemy.
Nowhere does it say that we will have a smooth sailing life. Nowhere does it record that we will not have to navigate difficult times or that the enemy won't try to persuade us in a different direction. What it does say is that we will suffer because He suffered first, and because we believe in Him, the world will hate us and try to take us down. It is up to us to place Him in front of us and trust that He will lead us through the minefields and traps set by the enemy.
It is not easy. Some days it is downright hard. However, the peace at the end of each path is so much nicer and easier on the mental health. I can say this from experience. I tend to be a bit stubborn and do things my way … only to lose my peace … but then am open to the godly ways to see that I wasted so much energy.
Whatever the situation you are in, whether it is the encroachment of the world, the hovering of the world, or the fanatic drop on your head like bucket of water, place Him first. Stop where you are, go to him in prayer, pour out your heart, and open up to his leading. Trust me when I say that is so much the better way for maintaining your peace.
Be blessed today my friends.
***Now then, my sons, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways. – Proverbs 8:32
Good morning to everyone. Grace and peace be with you.
With the instant change in the seasons … like it was 80 gazillion degrees and now it is 50 … my body has decided it would like to try a cold on for size. I can feel it creeping in with the start of the early morning sore throat. The last two days I have woke up with this wonderful phenomenon. Fortunately, my coffee in the morning has kept it a bay, however, now we want to increase the bet to adding a runny nose and stupid cough. Mind you, I cough a lot anyway because I cannot find the off switch, but this cough fun just has to be different and more persistent. One would think I just had to be difficult or something.
I seem to be out of stamps, except for the lower-priced ones, so my letter people will be receiving decoratively stamped letters for a couple of days. Wondering what I was going to talk about today, this stamp situation and my cold, attempting to intrude on my day, gave me a perfect scenario.
Looking at these envelopes, the address is properly placed in the center of the business envelope, and the stamps are carefully placed neatly around the address. I placed the stamps orderly, but each letter has a slightly different design if it were, on how they are on there. One letter has a twelve-stamp bar with four neatly placed underneath. Another has a sixteen-stamp bar across the top. The third has a solo bar of stamps across the top of the envelope, with the residual stamps that are needed somewhat neatly under the first bar. All stamps, on all the letters, were stamped right to left of the envelopes.
As I look at these envelopes, it reminds me just how different our individual walks are. Some walks feel like the world is pressing down around us. Other walks feel like a slight encroachment, while others seem to have a hovering of ‘what’s next’. All three are valid. All three have their own level of difficulty. All three can become overwhelming. All three can maintain stability and distance … if prayer is allowed to lead. Sometimes, all three can feel like they are approaching at the same time … but … placing perspective on them helps in the overwhelming urge to flee.
The enemy has gotten us to believe that the world needs to revolve around us. That we are the most important item. Therefore, if we do not get what we need, or want, then it is a catastrophe. Where we need to be mindful of our mental health and safety, the world does not revolve around us, individually…at least it should not. It revolves around Him. The enemy would have you place yourself in front of God. When you do that, you are taking Him out of the equation, and he cannot defend or lead you because you have decided that you know better than He. I cannot count how many times I have done this. Sometimes on purpose, sometimes out of instinct, because I listened to the logic of the enemy.
Nowhere does it say that we will have a smooth sailing life. Nowhere does it record that we will not have to navigate difficult times or that the enemy won't try to persuade us in a different direction. What it does say is that we will suffer because He suffered first, and because we believe in Him, the world will hate us and try to take us down. It is up to us to place Him in front of us and trust that He will lead us through the minefields and traps set by the enemy.
It is not easy. Some days it is downright hard. However, the peace at the end of each path is so much nicer and easier on the mental health. I can say this from experience. I tend to be a bit stubborn and do things my way … only to lose my peace … but then am open to the godly ways to see that I wasted so much energy.
Whatever the situation you are in, whether it is the encroachment of the world, the hovering of the world, or the fanatic drop on your head like bucket of water, place Him first. Stop where you are, go to him in prayer, pour out your heart, and open up to his leading. Trust me when I say that is so much the better way for maintaining your peace.
Be blessed today my friends.
***Now then, my sons, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways. – Proverbs 8:32
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