Did anybody else wake up this morning already carrying burdens that feel like an elephant on your chest? I did.
As I was getting ready this morning, my mind was traveling days, weeks and months down the road picking up burdens as it went. You know how a snowball rolling down a hill gets bigger and bigger and comes faster and faster as it goes? That’s what was going on in my mind.
Here is what it sounded like:
“Oh look, there is another problem. What if…? Oh, don’t forget about that project!
Hannah, what about this? You have this to worry about too! You’re never going to be able
to handle it all. Etc. etc...”
Ahhhhhhh! STOP. IT.
I have no doubt that Satan thinks he’s being pretty sneaky when he comes at us with thoughts like these, because if we dwell on these thoughts our minds turn away from Jesus. It’s as if we’re standing at the bottom of a mountain, watching a snowball rushing toward us, gaining size and momentum as it goes.
And I hear God saying, “What are you doing down there? Come up here with me. Come to the top of this mountain. Hold my hand, and watch what I can and will do.”
Picture the snowball again, but this time from standing at the top of the mountain. What happens?
From the top of the mountain, the snowball gets smaller as it goes. Regardless of the actual size of the snowballs or the actual magnitude of the problems in our lives, they look smaller as we stand firm on the top of mountain with Jesus.
I have been reminded over and over again in the last few weeks that God gives us strength for each day and only for one day at a time so that we remember that our strength comes from Him alone. But we have to choose to walk in that strength and accept the grace given to us!
We have to decide where we are going to stand. God gives us strength for each day, but we can’t stay at the bottom of the mountain where our focus is on the trials coming at us.
You’re not going to see the new strength being given to you today if your eyes are on the mountain rather than on God.
Where are you going to stand today? I’m choosing to grab God’s hand and stand on top of the mountain, knowing that there will be strength for each moment as it comes.
As I was getting ready this morning, my mind was traveling days, weeks and months down the road picking up burdens as it went. You know how a snowball rolling down a hill gets bigger and bigger and comes faster and faster as it goes? That’s what was going on in my mind.
Here is what it sounded like:
“Oh look, there is another problem. What if…? Oh, don’t forget about that project!
Hannah, what about this? You have this to worry about too! You’re never going to be able
to handle it all. Etc. etc...”
Ahhhhhhh! STOP. IT.
I have no doubt that Satan thinks he’s being pretty sneaky when he comes at us with thoughts like these, because if we dwell on these thoughts our minds turn away from Jesus. It’s as if we’re standing at the bottom of a mountain, watching a snowball rushing toward us, gaining size and momentum as it goes.
And I hear God saying, “What are you doing down there? Come up here with me. Come to the top of this mountain. Hold my hand, and watch what I can and will do.”
Picture the snowball again, but this time from standing at the top of the mountain. What happens?
From the top of the mountain, the snowball gets smaller as it goes. Regardless of the actual size of the snowballs or the actual magnitude of the problems in our lives, they look smaller as we stand firm on the top of mountain with Jesus.
I have been reminded over and over again in the last few weeks that God gives us strength for each day and only for one day at a time so that we remember that our strength comes from Him alone. But we have to choose to walk in that strength and accept the grace given to us!
We have to decide where we are going to stand. God gives us strength for each day, but we can’t stay at the bottom of the mountain where our focus is on the trials coming at us.
You’re not going to see the new strength being given to you today if your eyes are on the mountain rather than on God.
Where are you going to stand today? I’m choosing to grab God’s hand and stand on top of the mountain, knowing that there will be strength for each moment as it comes.