I have gained my greatest strength in the struggles that I have faced. I have learned to be strong, and build myself up constantly, for the struggle that lay ahead of me. But for the longest time, I truly felt that struggles were not only a hindrance to what I was trying to accomplish, or to become; but, that they were also curses, and meant to constantly throw me off course. As a result of this thinking, I constantly stalled my own progression in life, and in many areas. I did this because I responded to my struggles in the wrong way. The way I responded revealed that I was not ready or prepared for what God had for me. I hadn't learned yet, the very importance of going through struggles graciously. I was so busy being bitter and angry with the results that I was getting, that I did not leave room for God to complete the work that He was trying to complete, within me.
But the older I have gotten and the closer I have gotten in God, I have learned that I was going about struggling all wrong. I have learned that in my griping and complaining, and even unforgiveness, I was still not reaching where God was trying to get me to go. But, in my own mind, I felt that if I could throw a fit and be upset, then I would get what I wanted. However, God showed me time and time again, that that was not the way to deal with struggles. He showed me total humility, and total surrender! As a result, He has shown me that struggles are simply what I make of them. He has shown me struggles ultimately come to grant me strength! Without struggles, how do you gain strength? It was a life-changing truth for me! My whole mindset changed! There was a shift occurring truly in me! But, before I grabbed a hold of this truth, I was completely in the dark. And one of the enemy's tricks was to keep me ignorant. One of his tricks is to keep all of God's children ignorant! He does this because in our ignorance, we never get to where God has purposed for us to go! And as long as we have not yet reached that finish line, we never cross "into the land of milk and honey" ! We never reach our destiny! And as long as we have not reached our destiny, we cannot become the unstoppable force God intended for us to be!
So I encourage anybody who is struggling right now, with anything, to try changing your mindset. I encourage anybody to realize that struggles come simply to make you strong. They do not come to keep you from what God has promised you. And the minute you trade in bitterness and anger for humility and surrender, God can and will do a new thing in you. This new thing will bring you closer to your destiny, and closer to your purpose. But, it is up to you to decide how you will arrive "into the land of milk and honey". "O Israel, you should listen and be careful to do it, that it may be well with you and that you may multiply greatly, just as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey". (Deuteronomy 6:3) https://youtu.be/KseeN9-u8GE
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