Is Your Focus The Problem Or The Promise?

We have the choice either to let doubt beat us up or to let God's truth build us up.

When people do not accept divine guidance, they run wild. But whoever obeys the law is joyful. Proverbs 29:18 (NLT)

Everything in our lives has its own appointed season. Whether good or bad, our circumstances have a specific beginning and a defined end. Situations are temporary, but many times in the middle of a storm we speak in terms of the eternal, failing to recognize that our troubles are temporary.

God speaks directly to us through His word. The answer for every problem is contained in His book, but sometimes we mishandle situations because we don’t know what He has said about them. We speak contrary to His word because we don’t know what it says. We have forgotten His promises and have focused on the temporary rather than His eternal, unfailing word.

What we do during a time of storm will determine its length and our state when it is over. If we focus on the difficult, the I-don’t-know-how-it-will-ever-work-out moments, the times we want to give up, we will stumble. But, if we focus on His words and promises, His hope and love, we can rest in His assurance that although it is hard, He is with us and this, too, shall pass.

We have full access to God's power and His promises to live with a confident heart. Yet it won't just happen because it's possible. We have to take action.

A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.

We cannot control the wind but we can direct the sail.

He is strength in our weakness. He is light in darkness. He is the waymaker. He alone makes survival of the worst possible.

Blessings,
Dalinda