“I’m over it!”
This was one of my most recent conversations with the Lord this past week
After 10 days of traveling, being refilled, encouraged and refreshed I came back to a series of unfortunate events
My driver-side door handle broke off
My cellular data mysteriously stopped working so I haven’t had a phone for 2 weeks
The medical insurance I signed up for supposably doesn’t cover the lab work I got done
The flight I couldn‘t book last month because of credit card issues has now doubled in price
And SURPRISE the car insurance bill just arrived and it’s 75% of this month’s pay check
I was over it
I was over living back in america
I was over being back in the “real world”
I was over feeling like life was happening to me
”Life is happening to me!”
This is the ULTIMATE victim circle mentality
There are 2 circles in life
Victim and freedom
Where the victim circle says “woe is me”, “everyone and everything is against me”, “why is this happening to me”, etc.
The freedom circle says, “I can’t control the situations around me or the circumstance that I am in, but I can choose my attitude, my actions and my reactions.”
Where the victim circle blame shifts and makes excuses, the freedom circle accepts responsibility for their own actions and acts on what can be controlled
Where the victim circle chooses to have a bad attitude because “they have a right to act this way because __________ happened”, the freedom circle acknowledges what has happened and through the Holy Spirit chooses joy and peace
Where someone in the victim circle allows life to influence/happen to them, someone in the freedom circle chooses to influence/happen to life
I had popped up my tent in the victim circle and allowed life to happen to me and I was exhausted
On Thursday evening the Lord met me
He met me in the midst of my victim circle, where I was burning marshmallows and crying kumbaya
He met me and He reminded me of the truth
He said, “I know you feel like you’ve been drug around and beaten, because you are under attack. The enemy is attacking you and trying to distract you because He is scared of what is coming. I am doing BIG things and He is terrified. He is trying to discourage you and distract you from doing my will. Hang in there. Just hold on a little longer because this wont last forever.”
Y’all
Life is seriously so rough sometimes
Life happens
Bad things happen
This world is broken and fallen and imperfect
Life gets hard, there’s no doubt about it
Its not “if hard times happen,” it’s “when hard times happen”
And WHEN hard times happen, GOD IS STILL GOOD
HE IS STILL SOVEREIGN
HE IS STILL IN CONTROL
HE IS STILL WORKING
In reality, life gets hard BECAUSE He is working and the enemy is scared
So if you are currently going through a hard time, or WHEN you go through a hard time remember that GOD IS STILL GOOD. Circumstances don‘t change the character of God. He is not surprised by what is happening. He knew it would happen before you were even created. And choose the FREEDOM circle, choosing joy within every hardship because you know that your God is working and moving and the battle has already been won!
BE FREE!
GO HAPPEN TO LIFE!
