What am I focusing on? That is directing how I am feeling...
Someone once said, "Do not judge your life by one day." Oh, how true this is. Think of judging all of life by Jesus hanging on the cross... we've all felt that, all of our hopes dashed against the rocks of circumstances. In the Bible there is a description of this, "hope deferred makes the heart sick". But what about when He was then risen? Over 500 people saw Him risen. Can you believe it was that many? I was surprised by they number. We live in a fallen world and we suffer the effects of evil, but that never is the final story of our lives if we are saved, thanks to Jesus. I look so often at how things look today, judging people's behaviors, finances, measuring whether we are 'succeeding'. Who gets to say what 'succeeding' is anyway? How the world views success? Did you know that God never gave us the right to judge? That was a fall out from the fall, or the great gasp as one pastor describes it, like a fish out of water. Before t...