'...A man of two minds [is]...unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything...' James 1:8 AMP
I needed to read that last paragraph like it is no one's business at the moment.
It has been 1000 days today since i changed my life and walked away from the pit of despair and shame that it had become. Time has gone fast. It sure doesn't seem like a thousand days ago - but at the same time it seems like a different lifetime ago. Time is weird like that.
I am glad that i wrote about it, and blogged things back then - even if i have now reverted most of those crazy first posts to draft - they are still there for me to read.
They have helped over the last couple of days as i have approached this milestone. It has not been the best few days that i have had over the past nearly 3 years but they have been a heck of a lot better than back then.
I guess sometimes we need reminders of what a bad day feels like in order to appreciate the good ones.
If all else fails - i have Lisa Lewis comparing herself to Bill Gates, Einstein, Winston Churchill, and Walt Disney - and her reality script to their inventions - to keep me smiling.
Life is mostly cool 1000 days on.
Back to my assignment i go.
Do you have a compulsive need to find a solution to every problem, and to control everything? Do you always have a back-up plan in case things don't go the way you think they should? Have you noticed that the more you try to 'fix' things, the more anxiety you experience?
The Bible says, 'The mind of the flesh [sense and reason] is death...But the mind of the...Spirit is life...' (Romans 8:6 AMP). 'Fixing' is the opposite of 'trusting.' Now God doesn't want you to be mindless or helpless, He just wants you to live by faith, not head knowledge. When you learn to trust God and operate in 'the mind of the Spirit,' you experience peace even when you're surrounded by tough circumstances. One of the pitfalls of human reasoning is that it causes you to become double-minded and stuck: 'A man of two minds [is] unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything.'
What frame of mind do you live in? Instead of always trying to figure everything out, learn to be comfortable not knowing and trust the One who does. Decide that each time you feel anxious you'll stop and pray: 'Lord, I'm not going to try to figure this out myself, I'm bringing it to You, trusting You for the answer.' When you stop struggling with the whens, wheres, whys and hows, you start experiencing God's peace in a way you never have before. You also put yourself in a position where God can intervene on your behalf. So stop trying to control everything.
I needed to read that last paragraph like it is no one's business at the moment.
It has been 1000 days today since i changed my life and walked away from the pit of despair and shame that it had become. Time has gone fast. It sure doesn't seem like a thousand days ago - but at the same time it seems like a different lifetime ago. Time is weird like that.
I am glad that i wrote about it, and blogged things back then - even if i have now reverted most of those crazy first posts to draft - they are still there for me to read.
They have helped over the last couple of days as i have approached this milestone. It has not been the best few days that i have had over the past nearly 3 years but they have been a heck of a lot better than back then.
I guess sometimes we need reminders of what a bad day feels like in order to appreciate the good ones.
If all else fails - i have Lisa Lewis comparing herself to Bill Gates, Einstein, Winston Churchill, and Walt Disney - and her reality script to their inventions - to keep me smiling.
Life is mostly cool 1000 days on.
Back to my assignment i go.
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