Momentum. Well, I have to say, the Enemy sure thinks he’s got some. Tonight it would be easier to let him have his way, too. Not just for me, but also for my friend “H” who is my partner in the “70 in 7” Project. She just lost her job quite unexpectedly and had to clean out her desk today. Ahuh.
And I sit here having completely lost my voice, suffering with a painful sinus infection, cough and sciatica, so happy that my two little sickly daughters are asleep, and now learn more news, another temporary circumstance that immediately affects our situation and causes me even more stress and anxiety (which I will disclose at a later time).
So, if we were letting the Enemy have his way, H and I would both be lost in despair. BUT!
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. (2 Corinthians 4:7-9)
AND, did I mention that both H and I have just finished the Bible study called, “Jonah: Navigating a Life Interrupted” (by Priscilla Shirer)?
Yep. We’ve both been interrupted. Me, again with sickness and my “other circumstance” mentioned above. H, by a loss of employment. And yes, we may be hard pressed, perplexed and even struck down, but we are NOT destroyed. As H put it this evening, “Tomorrow is a new month and a new start.”
Onward, we go. The great thing about these “interruptions,” is that we start to recognize we are not as confined by our circumstances as we so often think. We have more freedom to choose how we spend our days and nights than we realize. Too often we allow the Enemy’s “momentum” to take over, take control, determine our perspective, alter our course of action, decide our fate. Allowing his negative whispers to coerce our thoughts into darkness, pushing us to dig the pit of self-pity deeper and deeper, that is where his power lies. It is the quick sand that swallows our minutes, our hours, our days—until they have been wiped away for good, along with our potential, our dreams, our purpose.
Jesus said, “A thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy. I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of” (John 10:10 MSG).
Real life. No more self-pity. No more plunder for that Thief. Maybe he did try to steal my dreams from me, and H’s dreams from her.
But that only allows us…to Dream Bigger.
The Art of Choosing True Life 