The world is in ongoing trauma. Everybody is uncomfortable! We are in transition and we have to get okay with that. We are in a labor and delivery room, so to speak, until the day we die. Let me explain, when women are in labor they are uncomfortable because of the pain. But they have to experience the pain to get through the transition to give birth...to bring new life. Same with our lives here. We are in labor daily and experience discomfort, but we must take up our cross (sacrifice) and follow Jesus in order to transition to new life....Our eternal life in Heaven.
True contentment is having an identity outside of the moment...I'm stable regardless of the circumstances...I'm connected to something outside of the circumstances. People think if circumstances change, it will fix the heart - the contentment they are longing for. But true contentment comes only from God. - Matt Williams, Grace Church (See Phil 4:10) Saturate yourself in the Word today. It's comforting to know that God's Truth rises above our troubling circumstances and calls us to see life from a perspective outside of our screaming realities. - Lysa TerKurst
All that you are designed to be finds its fulfillment in the world to come. We will be transformed so that we will fit there. And in Heaven, we will be set free. If you have that kind of hope then it frees you to be powerful now.
God's perfect plan is to bring each of us into fellowship and communion with Him, and so he allows circumstances and incidences which bring our wrong attitudes to our attention.
Jesus didn't promise to change the circumstances around us, but He did promise great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.
Because of Jesus, I am God's child. That's my identity. That's the reality of who I am. I am accepted in the Beloved. When I live in this reality, the affirmation of others, or even myself, is not necessary.
I'm finding my balance, slowly but surely. In the beginning I was just holding on for dear life.
Jesus is all about choices. I've heard people say they could never believe in a God who let's bad things happen to good people. What they're really saying is that they can't believe in a God who would allow people freedom to live their lives according to their own choices. These people want a God who legislates love.
The real God is above that. The real God allows His creatures to make evil choices, and He will not negate the results of these choices. But He died to give us freedom to repent of those choices if we choose, and He will redeem the evil as it affects our lives if we let Him. Often, however, we are too busy screaming and protecting our wounds to let Him.
The future disciplines the present. This is a moment of preparation for something else. It's not about our comfort. There is a part of you that is noticeably collapsing (your earthly body) and their is a part of you that is getting stronger (your soul- spiritually) So be encouraged, our present struggles are only for a short time....Praise the Lord!
Physical death is coming like a train. It is a curse and a blessing. Death is a product of sin. Death is unnatural. It was not an original part of life. But it creates transition to be relieved from this sinful world....to new life....a life of true freedom....in Heaven - all because of Jesus Christ.
We are all in transition. Some of us are content in our circumstances because we have an identity outside of the circumstances.
My identity is in Jesus Christ. I am a Child of God because of His sacrifice, and because I chose to accept Him as my personal Lord and Savior. As believers, we need to be pursuing those who are searching for their identity. We need to be verbal about our faith. Your faith is personal, but it's not private. I want my light for Jesus to shine so brightly that you'll need a dimmer switch!
Blessings,
Dalinda
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