Insightfulness

Today I woke up feeling like I need to step out of the robotic cycle of repetition in my mind, wanting to address the closets within myself that get cluttered and forgotten about. Being creatures of habit, we form life cycles in our mind that dictate our world to us; get up, look at the weather, make coffee, grab something to eat, read a devotional and catch some news, and run into our life as the day commands. My life lately has been consumed by health issues, so much so that they literally control me. I’m sick of it!, and I want more out of life than mapping out hospital routes and searching for better doctors to heal me. It’s amazing how our minds work, believing we are in control of things that we ultimately have no control over, and really we are just a passenger on a ride in this life that we can truly only tighten the seat belt on, and train our minds to handle what is being thrown at us with the defensive stance that God tells us to have. Some of us can’t catch a break while others are just cruising through life effortlessly, with the comfortable fortunate souls telling the electrified ones to calm down, or in Christian lingo; you need more faith!. As an electrified soul with no luck and endless physical suffering, I ask myself; what did I do to deserve all this suffering? Then I turn my attention to God, and ask; Lord, make all of this sensible to me! Open my understanding beyond the torment of my humanity, and help me to see the purpose in all of this pain! The default reaction to pain, suffering, trials, and tribulations, is to vehemently hate it all! But having the mind of Christ opens our understanding to see the purpose in our adversities. In Psalm 42, written by the sons of a guy name Korah, who led a revolt against Moses and found himself swallowed whole by the earth by God’s doing in Numbers 16, left a stigma of suffering for his children after him, and those sons said this… 3 My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, “Where is your God? 9 I will say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” 10 As with a breaking of my bones, My enemies reproach me, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, the help of my countenance and my God. ¿Wrapping our minds around our conditions and seeing outside of them while being in the middle of them, is the power of God that makes the impossible possible. Whatever state your life is in today, look beyond it to get God’s perspective of life, and tap into His strength that delivers our souls from hopelessness and bitterness. Father, thank You! In Christ’s name, Amen