My word for July 19th is Reason
When anyone has ever been knocked backwards at something
someone did or said, I always say, “There is a reason.” Almost everyone does something in his or
her life that shocks someone. Everyone
in the world sins and everyone in the world has problems. Some sins are worse than others and
some problems are worse than others.
At times people will hide their problems, sometimes people will share
their problems. If someone is
outwardly rude to you, usually the problem doesn’t have anything to do with you. There is usually a reason and the
reason isn’t you. You just happen to be the person in the line of fire when the
spark ignites. To understand a
person and “the reason” behind what they do, you would have to know everything
about that person. You would have
to know everything that had happened in that person’s life from birth until the
present. Many things affect a
person, home life, stress level, diet, health, and genetics. Everyone has a story and all of the pages are bound together
to form the book. It is hard to
rip out a page and complete the story or understand it.
God wants you to take “the reason” that has changed you and
use it for the good. When dealing
with adversity we have the choice to be unhappy and negative or use the lesson
in a positive way and learn from it.
God also wants us to help others, encourage others, and have empathy for
others. We may not know “the
reason” others are dealing with.
It may be issues that are similar to our’s. The “reason”
can be like a raging sea in our minds that rip away parts of our hearts. It may be a reason from the past. When the ghosts of the past resurface we all have a decision
to make. We can choose to let “the
reason” defeat and destroy us or we can let “the reason” stimulate us spiritually
and help us grow. You may have had
a thorn in your flesh from Satan, but don’t let it puncture you forever. When we ask God to walk with us helping
us to not let “the reason” destroy us, the Lord will help us bear the hurt and
pain. Through the faithfulness of
God we will continue to travel through life letting God lead the way.
Life is a choice.
You may have a reason to be unhappy or negative, but change the negative
to a positive and be happy. Even
if you have suffered you still have the choice to have a life walking with
God. Don’t let your reasons of
your past destroy your future.
Don’t let “the reason” keep you in bondage. Choose by faith to be joyful, let the Lord set you
free.
2 Corinthians 12:7-10(NIV)
7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in
order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a
messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to
take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for
you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. ” Therefore I will boast all the
more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for
Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in
persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Dear Lord help us to press forward
past “the reason” for our bondage. We know it is our choice to remove the
handcuffs and be free. All
situations in our lives work together for a reason, even the adversity. We know that “the reasons” are what
makes us stronger and help us grow.
During 2012 guide us to press on past “the reason” and enjoy the future
without looking in the rearview mirror.
Great article:
http://www.workingmom.com/sermons/adversity.htm
Making Adversity Work for You, Richard Pfell
http://www.upstreamca.org/adversity.html,
ADVERISTY, How to handle it from http://intouch.org
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