Does it seem like you're surrounded by bad news? Man, it does around here. There is so much sadness and downright evil brewing in the world today. I'm not one to dwell on that stuff much (see previous post) but I know people who do and they post it a lot on the social networks, putting it out there to draw everyone else in. So what do you do when it feels like the world is in your face? I go back to the basics.
God is good. satan is bad. I won't even capitalize his name. he is that small.
But GOD...now that's a different story. God embodies all things good - love, joy, peace, gentleness, kindness, words of life, arms of comfort, eyes of adoration, honor, acceptance, loyalty, excellence, trustworthiness, hugs, health, devotion, value, forgiveness, strength, security, delight. I could go on and on but suffice it to say, if it's good, it's God.
Now satan comes to steal, kill and destroy everything good about you. he comes to destroy the good God stuff in you. So if something's going on in your life that wreaks of evil and meanness and makes you feel bad about yourself or someone else, you can count on it being the voice of his very smallness. The only power he has over us is the power we give him through our choices, our words, our actions that choose bad over good.
So you can control that stuff. You can choose to believe the lies in your head or those being spoken by someone at you or you can choose NOT to believe them. Just say it. "I don't received that." You can even ask yourself who is telling you that - I assure you if it's negative it is not God. You can saturate yourself in the bad awful news going on in the world around you or you can simply say, I have no control over that but YOU do God so please work Your good in that situation. And here's the cool thing. God can take absolutely anything satan meant for evil and turn it to good. Sometimes He uses us to do it. It's so cool to partner with God.
I needed to hear all this again today so maybe someone else did too. Thought I'd share.
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