How Are You REALLY Doing?
Not, how are you supposed to be doing.
Nor, what are you supposed to be doing, but HOW ARE YOU REALLY DOING?
Every now and then, it is wise and worth it to take a little time and check in with your soul.
The stuff of life can weigh us down. We have stuff, our people have stuff, and the world in general is full of stuff. Stuff demands our attention. It puzzles our minds. It weighs on our spirits.
Stuff can be overwhelming. It can litter the stream of life that scripture says flows out of us.
In John 4:14 Jesus promises, "..whoever drinks the water I give will never be thirsty. The water I give will become a spring of water gushing up inside that person, giving eternal life.”
But the stream gets clogged sometimes, doesn't it?
God wants to meet us wherever we are at. He longs for our honesty and provides a way for us to connect with Him.
If you could use a boost, we want to help.
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The Best Lies Series - What The World Says
The "best" lies are the ones that work. I like to say they are kind of like good poison, they are enticing and taste good, but that little bit of toxin will kill ya. The best lies put a colored lens over your life so you see things in a skewed way. You miss the good God has for you because you believe something the world wants you to focus on.
For instance, I share openly in our training about a lie I believed for years that said, "I'm not attractive." Some facts certainly need to be acknowledged. I am no longer in my twenties, the wrinkles on my face and the grey in my hair show it, the scale agrees - so there is some validity to those thoughts. I knew something was off in my thinking, though, and when I brought my concerns to God, He revealed something so lovely to me,
"I am as attractive as I choose to be."
That could have meant that I need to diet and exercise more, but in my heart I knew it was WAY different than that. He helped me see that the definition of attractive was th...
"Who Told You That?!" (plus what makes up the 'best' lies)
I have a coach who regularly asks me this question when he hears something not quite right in my thinking. He helps me see when my view of something in my life is not God's perspective. I hear him in my head sometimes saying, "Who told you that?"
Sometimes it is a literal person who said something to me, but more often it is a skewed version of what actually happened.
Eve had the same problem. God told her and Adam not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And they were doing good for who knows how long until the devil came and twisted what God said. He morphed it into a question of God's character, "Did God really say you couldn't eat of any tree in the garden?"
Then Eve has her go at skewing the truth. She says, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden. But God told us, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not even touch it, or you will die.’"
Where did the "you must not even touch it" part come from?
The old ...