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Over and over and over again.
No matter how many times you’ve picked it back up and tried to control it, knowing it was never yours to control.
No matter how the circumstance looks or how loudly the particulars try to persuade you that if you just DO ENOUGH or FIGURE IT OUT or OBSESS over it, it’ll get better.
May I ask: When you survey your past circumstances, particularly hardships, when has hyper-fixating on something ever proved to be a better, safer, or more effective strategy than surrendering it to Jesus?
…it’s rhetorical.
Our fleshly, desperate attempts—though highly well-intended and given with great effort—always leave us at the end of ourselves.
“Take up your cross daily…”
“Renew your mind…”
“Take every thought captive…”
Continually. Over and over again.
When things aren’t trending in the way you EXPECT them to, or in the way you prefer, it is natural to want to pick it back up.
But then—then it is most necessary to truly lay it down.
What little piece of something have you picked back up today, thinking it won’t affect you that much? Or that maybe this time will be different?
What’s warring on your soul, stealing your energy, or directing your tired mind?
STAND GUARD.
The enemy is roaring around LIKE a lion. He’s not the real force but man, he will try. And his avenue? Your mind.
It doesn’t matter if you sound crazy. Say it out loud, “it’s Yours, Jesus. It’s Yours, Jesus.
YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT I WANT.
But help me yearn for what I need.
This thing…it’s Yours again.”
Refreshment will come. That’s who He is.
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