I was thinking about the name of my blog, it is called "Life Choices are yours". To often I have seen it first hand that people do not realize that the choices they make are their own to make. They blame it on other people instead of seeing the blame lies right in the reflection of the mirror.
When I get mad at someone, that is a choice I make to allow them to control my reaction, it is my choice to retaliate, it is my choice to react. Just as they made a choice to do something that I was offended by, I did something that blamed it on them. It is a never ending circle, because I am basing my reactions on others. I can't say he made me do it, I have to take the responsibility on myself and say I reacted because I felt hurt, it was my choice. Each acknowledgement of that will change the way we view our reactions and start changing us, but it takes work.
When I get up in the morning with a choice and I am sure you have heard people say it is going to be a bad day or many other things. If I change how I get up in the morning and give thanks for a brand new day, I thank God for allowing me another day to wake up and serve Him. I thank Him for the lessons I am learning, instead of looking at the bad, I start off worshiping the best thing in my life, I thank God for my wife, for my marriage for everything that He has given me. I change the bad to what God has done. He is in each day, it says He never leaves us or forsakes us, so even in the bad, it is my choice to see Him or see the bad of everything.
Today is a brand new day, today is what God has given me. The Lord has given me a new day to live. Instead of reacting to the bad things that surround you, think about how you can just praise God in every situation, thank Him for challenging you to see the other side of the coin. Thank Him for changing you. In Job it talks about how God gives us hard spots, not to destroy us, but to move the head knowledge to heart knowledge. The road from the head to the heart is the longest road, it is full of doubt and worry, but God never leaves us. He is right there with us through it all.
Today when hardships come and they will, praise Him for them. Praise Him for teaching you about our choices, praise Him for giving you freedom of choice, because we are not what other people say we are, but we are what God says we are, it is our choice to walk in it, or to reject it. I chose to believe I am the son of the most High God, I was bought with a price, I am special to Him and He has a purpose for my life. I am walking in that, I will make mistakes, I will sin, but Jesus has set me free to be forgiven of those things and today I walk in Him and He in me.
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Faithfulness
God is so faithful.
Have you ever thought about how God works? Nothing is by chance, things just don't fall into place, they are what they are because God is faithful to will and do His good pleasure. Stop doubting where you are and start standing firm in the place He has you. Start each moment with praise and thanksgiving. God I thank you for my wife, my husband, I thank you for the storm, it says praise Him in everything, not just the good, but the bad. In marriage we take a vow for better or worse, we are in it no matter what, praise Him for the hard times, because He is changing us from glory to glory. When we change our perspective from the bad to God, what a change it makes.
Yes, there are things that we don't understand and I can't and won't try to explain them, but Jesus is right there walking with us through them, I just think it is so easy to miss Him, because I focus on how I am feeling, my rights, my thoughts, me, me, me. But when we take me out of it what is left?
God brings people, things and situations into our life to teach us, to change us, but it is very hard to deal with some of those things, because I don't want to change, but God will continue to turn up the heat in my life in order to change me. He wants me to let go and trust Him completely, but man that is the hardest thing to do, I want to hold on. I have done this before and I know what pitfalls to miss, but God says that He can see it all and the only way for me to change is to let go, those are the hardest lessons, they hurt, the sting, but God is faithful through it all. He says He will never leave me or forsake me, He will guide me through the storm, I just have to allow Him to lead.
Do other people have trouble with allowing Him to be in control? Is that just a me problem?
You have heard me admit this before, I fail, I continue to get insecure and pick up the rope, grab the steering wheel and He corrects me every time. When times are easy it is easy to let go, but when the heat is on, I want to grab hold and He says do you trust ME???? I want to be the man He calls me to be, but man it is hard. No one said being a Christian would be easy, but GOD IS FAITHFUL!!!
Have you ever thought about how God works? Nothing is by chance, things just don't fall into place, they are what they are because God is faithful to will and do His good pleasure. Stop doubting where you are and start standing firm in the place He has you. Start each moment with praise and thanksgiving. God I thank you for my wife, my husband, I thank you for the storm, it says praise Him in everything, not just the good, but the bad. In marriage we take a vow for better or worse, we are in it no matter what, praise Him for the hard times, because He is changing us from glory to glory. When we change our perspective from the bad to God, what a change it makes.
Yes, there are things that we don't understand and I can't and won't try to explain them, but Jesus is right there walking with us through them, I just think it is so easy to miss Him, because I focus on how I am feeling, my rights, my thoughts, me, me, me. But when we take me out of it what is left?
God brings people, things and situations into our life to teach us, to change us, but it is very hard to deal with some of those things, because I don't want to change, but God will continue to turn up the heat in my life in order to change me. He wants me to let go and trust Him completely, but man that is the hardest thing to do, I want to hold on. I have done this before and I know what pitfalls to miss, but God says that He can see it all and the only way for me to change is to let go, those are the hardest lessons, they hurt, the sting, but God is faithful through it all. He says He will never leave me or forsake me, He will guide me through the storm, I just have to allow Him to lead.
Do other people have trouble with allowing Him to be in control? Is that just a me problem?
You have heard me admit this before, I fail, I continue to get insecure and pick up the rope, grab the steering wheel and He corrects me every time. When times are easy it is easy to let go, but when the heat is on, I want to grab hold and He says do you trust ME???? I want to be the man He calls me to be, but man it is hard. No one said being a Christian would be easy, but GOD IS FAITHFUL!!!
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