Not an Option!

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7 - 3 –19 Wednesday

 

Have you ever been at home with friends, totally engrossed in a major blockbuster movie… it’s oscar worthy… and when it’s over you realize most of the people left the room and you didn’t even realize it… you were that focused… and you think to yourself…how could anyone just walk out of the movie Tommy Boy?

 

 

 

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Ever feel like giving up, throwing in the towel, just going back to the old life of living for yourself. Maybe you feel sometimes it is just not worth it… You look at others in social media and get lost in fantasy land of wanting their life…

 

Hold on… what do you do?

 

2 Cor. 4:16 That is why we never give up. (we never lose courage) Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. (For a new spiritual existence into which we have been ushered in salvation, and constantly being conformed to the image of the Lord Jesus)  17 For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! 18 So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.

 

 

This verse says if life seems full of problems… we don’t give up because we are being renewed daily in the spirit.

 

It suggests that if our spirit man is fed and on fire then our natural man can take on anything. 

 

How do we make this practical and real life?

The verse is pretty clear… here are a few steps the Apostle Paul recommends.

 

  -1  Giving up is not an option. So take it off the table. 

You can pout, whine, cry, bleed, yell, scream, moan, laugh, mock, hurt, anguish, question and so on… but quitting is not an option.

Once you realize that- it takes off the pressure. Because it is no longer a choice. 

NOW you say… but it is an option, I know plenty of people who have given up…. only because they kept it as an option. Faith says- it’s a no go on the quit! MAKE THAT YOUR MINDSET!

 

  -2  Living victoriously according to this verse depends on your spiritual life and not your circumstances. So take time to put life back in balance.

I won’t lie… yesterday was a tough day for me. So right in the middle of the day I stopped and took some extra time to read and pray. Guess what- it helped tremendously. If I feed my outer man it may help a little, but if I feed my inner man it helps all of me- body soul and spirit.

Yes you need to take care of your whole being… but make taking care of your spiritual man the priority. 

 

  -3 Paul Goes on to say you have to keep your vision focused. You know what he is saying… you gotta keep your mind in check and on God.

Don’t focus on the negative, the problems and the doubts… those are all temporary. 

 

There are many recorded factual stories about how the mind can control our health. Many patients go in and see a doctor and he tells them the bad news and the good news. You have a disease, but we caught it in time and you will be fine… but they die anyway because they could only focus on the fact that they had a disease.

 

Paul puts a twist on this…he says focus on the good that will come out of it.

 

so you feel like giving up - well that’s not an option, so feed the spiritual man and focus on how getting through this will make you more like Christ.

 

you got this!