How are you responding to the circumstances in your life? With praise or pouting? With defeat or determination? With surrender or a stubborn spirit? Although we can't control all the things that happen in our life, we can control how we respond to them. We can control whether an experience or situation will make us bitter or better. What matters in life is not so much what happens to us but what happens in us!
Did you know that the source of our circumstances makes NO difference to God? Yes, we often bring problems on ourselves by wrong decisions and choices, bad judgement and sin. At other times our problems are caused by other people. Sometimes the devil causes thing to happen to us as he did to Job. But God says the source of the circumstance is irrelevant! He will use every situtation in your life to fit into His plan and to make you more like His Son, Jesus Christ.
So.... there is no circumstance in your life from which you can't learn from, if you just have the right attitude. Let's truly claim Romans 8:28 as the presence of God's power working in your life to change you for the better - even through the good, bad and ugly of circumstances. "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."
What are you holding onto that God wants to help with? He wants you to stop trying and start trusting Him with your problems! We spend so much time and energy trying to solve everything ourselves, in our own power, but to no avail.
"God whispers to us in our pleasure but He shouts to us in our pain." C.S. Lewis.
Is God shouting to you today?
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