Sweatin' it up

James 4:7 “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

Life likes to hand all of us trash.  Of course, it’s not life in general it’s Satan in general.  He enjoys finding things that will tear us down, overwhelm us, and make us feel like giving up.  Have you ever gotten to the point where you feel numb because so many things seem to be happening, one after another?  Ah, yes, I’ve been there.  You’re numb but new things keep rolling in only now the new things don’t affect you because your emotions have disappeared.  During the time I felt like this my mom told me, “You shouldn’t worry about what you can’t change.”  We want so bad to be able to change what is hurting us but we can’t and so it becomes our daily focus of agony.  Us focusing on the random trash we get handed turns any gift we have for a new day into garbage too.  I can’t sit here and say the junk we get in life won’t affect us because it can and will.  But, are you going to let Satan have those changes so he can run you through the mud every waking hour or are you going to let God have the changes so He can turn them into something constructive in your life?  Yeah, life sucks, tell me about it, we all know but don’t sweat the small stuff, it ain’t worth it ese.  

Colossians 3:2 “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.”