“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” What an awesome insight. God designed the world, reality, to work a certain way. The reality He created is one where we have freedom of choice. His reality also states that those choices will have either positive or negative consequences attached to them. There is freedom in choice, but not in consequence.
You can say you don’t have a problem or that everyone else around you does. You can suck it up and hope for the best. You can even say that what you’re doing is okay, even though the Word clearly says it’s not, because, “Jesus wants me to be happy, right?”
You can close your eyes to what’s going inside you and fly blind. Or you can acknowledge that something is not right and work through it using your biblical tools and walk in freedom.
Jesus never said to deny your problems or challenges exist. He simply said to stop handling them your way and begin to work through them His way.
Use your freedom of choice to work through what’s going on behind the behavior/situation that’s robbing you of your peace and joy using your biblical tools. Use your freedom of choice to experience the good stuff Jesus offers to those who do.
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Do you trust Jesus? Be careful how you answer. You’ll discover the real answer in how you handle waiting for results. Remember the truth: it takes time to retrain your brain. Well, how then do you handle waiting on change?
Most of us have been taught that we should expect to see some kind of immediate results when we put in any kind of effort. This kind of thinking spills over into our walks with Jesus and opens the doors for our drugs of choice to walk right in to rescue us when we don’t see those results. We want our lives changed … yesterday! We want our drugs gone. We want to experience the good stuff.
This isn’t the life change process that God set out in Scripture. We are not to trust in what we see at the moment, but in Jesus and His Word. Psalm 20:7-8 states, “Some trust in chariots and some in horses (what they see), but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. They (those who trust in what they see) are brought to their knees and fall (aka suffer the consequences of their drugs of choice), but we rise up and stand firm.”
Will you keep practicing your biblical tools everyday everywhere regardless of what you see? If you can answer yes, you trust Him. If the answer is no, then it’s time to ask the Spirit to increase your faith in exercising the truths He’s given you even when it doesn’t seem like it’s working.
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Have you ever felt that your prayers were bouncing off the floor of heaven, like heaven was totally silent? You know that’s not true, right? As children of God, we have a Father who is always there for us. A Father who is ready to give us His undivided attention while He listens to us. We can talk with our Daddy, our Abba.
I want you to realize something though. When Jesus taught His disciples how to pray He never instructed them to say, “Amen!” He was telling them that they should have a continual conversation with their God (1 Thess. 5:17). Jesus gave us a tremendous gift, the gift of coming into the presence of and communicating with our Father every minute of every day. We can talk to our Abba while we’re driving on the freeway, doing dinner dishes, walking the dog, and so on. We don’t have to wait until life gets frantic to talk with Dad.
No, your conversation with your Dad doesn’t bounce off heaven’s floor. It goes straight to His heart. “For God so loved…” remember that verse? Your Father loves you and wants to hear from you, not just when things go bad; but all the time. He wants to share life with you, even your every day routine type of stuff.
Remember this truth, “You will become like what you focus on and what you focus on only gets bigger.” I know you know this, but it needs to be said again. Christianity is not a religion. It’s a relationship. How’s yours? Who are you focusing on today?
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Freedom in the hands of another is not freedom. Think about that for a second. How often have you handled a situation using your drug of choice because of what someone else said and did or didn’t say or do? I’ll guess the percentage is pretty high.
Therein lies the challenge. You’ve given your freedom to a human being! You might be saying, “Duh, who else is there?” Jesus. Human beings can and will fail to meet our needs for love, security and significance. Jesus never will.
The sooner you realize that when you place your freedom in the hands of anyone but Jesus, you’ve opened the door for your drug of choice to enter. True freedom comes by believing who and Whose you are while using your biblical tools everyday everywhere.
Freedom. Whose hands are you putting yours in?
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“Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life and offer the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.” This quote from Romans 6:13 is revolutionary in two ways.
First, before becoming God’s child, all you could do is go from one drug of choice to another, never truly experiencing life as God planned it. Yeah, you might look good on the outside, but you could never be free from the inside, true freedom.
Second, now you can. For the first time in your life, you can now choose your daily destiny – freedom or slavery, victor or victim. Because of what Jesus did for and in you, you can choose to live in freedom experiencing lasting love, security and significance.
Yeah, bad stuff may have happened to you in the past. Yes, you may be experiencing the consequences of your own bad decisions. But…today is today. With the Spirit’s power you can you choose correctly in every situation you encounter because you’re a child of God. The choice is now yours. Hopefully you will choose to use your biblical tools to stay in the presence of God and enjoy the good stuff only He can deliver.
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