This morning of Sunday, July 3, 2011, I did not want to get out of bed to go to Sunday morning service. When I got to church it was about 9:30 a.m.. The service message was about getting back on track with God's calling for your life and mine according to his purpose.
I am glad I went. I came out of there refreshed, reinvogorated, reinspired, and recharged more than I'd ever felt before.
On some occasions, I have been told to get my act together when I had trouble getting starting on something. However, many times in life, I've found myself overwhelmed when I've been held accountable for circumstances that I could not control. It seems so unfair. You feel that you're at the mercy of some situation that you absolutely know you have no control over.
Feels rotten, doesn't it? It does to me, big time. Yet it happens. Why?
We live in an individualistic culture. The American Dream is about subduing your circumstances, subduing the earth on your own strength, and in the natural. Yet, as we live our lives out, we realize that we are woefully inadequate to subdue the circumstances in our lives. And too often, it involves money scarcity. We lack the very capital resources required to get our acts together or perish at the hands of this desperately demanding world.
On many occasions, I've been very tempted to just forsake all my dreams, all my aspirations, and decide to sit out the rest of my life. Forget success. Had I asked to be put in the world? Did I ask if I wanted to be born? Hell, no! None of us did. And yet we're all here and demands are being put on us 24/7. So it feels like a raw deal. I'd even considered writing a book for unhappy people to focus on reducing the misery in their lives and never mind the search for happiness or fulfillment because only 20% of people get to actualize their dreams anyway.
After this morning's sermon I realized how wrong I was.
The pastor stated that God puts calls on us even before we're born. And we're faced with a choice, "Heed the call, obey the voice of God for your life according to the plan He has for us and wind up and be blessed. Otherwise, we can turn away, abandon God's plan, and be cursed. If we make the wrong decision, turn away, the devil will be waiting for us with curses. And God will allow the devil to curse us.
If we decide to do the right thing, if we heed the call and march back to Him, with the intent to obey God and live up to His plan, we will straighten our lives out, will make the crooked places straight. Yes, there will be trials. Let each us be perplexed but not distressed. When the going gets tough, let us state as my Pastor, David Stocker, Sr. said: "My Life is in the Hand of the Lord." It is not up to us to make our lives work for Jesus himself said that "Apart from Him you can do nothing." We must disregard the idea that it is up to each of us to "get our act together" on our own strength.
No ! No ! And again, No !
Instead, "My Life is in the Hand of the Lord."
Need hope?
The pastor ended the service with the right set of words to frame our thoughts on.
"God will work for me if I obey His Voice."
So, whenever the going gets tough, whenever you feel like throwing off your belief that life is for you, think: "My Life is in the Hand of the Lord. God will work for me if I obey His voice." Every day, frame your thoughts on those statements. Let your mind be frame on that mentality. Your crooked ways will be made straight.
God will indeed heal your broken, injured life. After all, He is God Almighty.
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