Do you ever feel like your brain is so full of information that you can't contain any more? And then one of your professors oh-so-gently reminds you that you have a 10 page paper due in 2 days?
What do you do? Do you flip out and dive right into the enormous mountain of work that is looming over you? Do you just curl up in bed and watch a movie to escape it all? Do you call your mom for sympathy and then just end up getting an attitude when she says that it's just part of life? Do you run to a friend and cry as if this is the worst thing that has ever happened to anyone in the entire world in all of human history?
Wrong responses.
God has you where you are right now for a reason. And that reason may not be the most obvious. He has you in those particular classes with those particular people in those particular groups because that is how He can get the most glory. Even when professors begin to sound more like Charlie Brown's teacher than any intelligible human beings, God is teaching us something. His ways are higher than our ways...Isaiah 55:8-9.
I get so tired of hearing people complain about this and that, only to realize that I complain just as much, even if it is only inside my own head. How backwards. We need to realize that every single person on this earth has been created by God, so we need to respect them like we would respect Our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ if He were standing right in front of us. (Personally, I would be face-down on the ground at my LORD's feet, but that's beside the point.) So...stop judging...stop gossipping...stop thinking you are better than everyone else around you...stop feeling sorry for yourself...stop going around thinking that everyone should thank you for allowing them to be a part of your life. And when the LORD points something out in you that needs to be changed...CHANGE IT! Stop sitting around waiting for God to swoop down and point His finger in your face to discipline you. He very well may do that, but He has given us the power to live godly lives through the sacrifice of His Son...so make war!
"By His divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know Him, the One who called us to Himself by means of His marvelous glory and excellence." --2 Peter 1:3.
"Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take." --Proverbs 3:5-6.
Pay attention to that last one. We see and hear it all the time, but we do not realize what it means. Read it over again until it starts to sink in...then go hard.
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