For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.”
Romans 1:21 NIV
There are two things that will keep your thinking clear and your hearts filled with God’s divine love today giving God glory and giving God thanks.
You can know God and still get stuck in a mental tornado of worry and fear.
When you make gratitude and worship your daily bread and fortifying your spiritual life with His Word, He becomes the calm in the midst of the storm and the eye of the tornado.
He becomes the safe place you can run to and rest untouched by the winds of trial whipping around you.
Jesus defeated all sin and rose from the grave unleashing His power for you. His triumph secures your freedom from all fear.
It is the difference between enduring and embracing your life. In the middle of trials and stress, it is choosing to be present and aware of God’s goodness.
It is focusing on what you have instead of dwelling on what you are afraid of losing.
There are two things that will keep your thinking clear and your hearts filled with God’s divine love: giving God glory and giving God thanks.
“For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.”
Romans 1:21 NIV
You can know God and still get stuck in a mental habit of worry and fear.
Jesus died and rose again so that you can break the power of old mental habits and create new ones with His power.
When you make gratitude and worship your daily bread you are fortifying your spiritual life and strengthening your mental one.
It is the difference between enduring and embracing your life with Jesus in it.
God knows where you are and what your world looks like.
Replace your worry with worship and fear with gratitude.
Gratitude for what you have instead of dwelling on what you are afraid of losing.
There are two things that will keep your thinking clear and your hearts filled with God’s divine love: giving God glory and giving God thanks.
“For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.” Romans 1:21 NIV
When you make thanksgiving and worship a daily necessity you are fortifying your spiritual life and strengthening your mental one.
It is the difference between enduring and embracing your life.
Jesus died and rose again so that you could have life and have it to the full. John 10:10 NIV
As we head into Thanksgiving Week and then Christmas right after, I want to remind you that the holidays can be wonderful and terrible at the same time.
As much as they create opportunities for new memories, they also bring reminders of old ones. Moments of joy and thanksgiving are often mixed with sadness and loss.
Jesus allowed himself to feel emotions, all of them. He mourned. He loved. He was thankful. He knew that there was time for all of them and that they often overlap.
Jesus knew that there is:
“a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,”
Ecclesiastes 3:4 NIV
This year, give yourself permission to feel all the emotions this time brings. Walk with Jesus through them, acknowledge them, embrace them. Grieve if you need to.
When you take time to mourn, you make room in your heart. Ungrieved losses of the past must be processed so that you can fully experience the moments of joy in the present.
Being a Christian doesn’t mean that you are always happy or only feel “good” emotions. It means that you choose to walk with Jesus through all the emotions that this time in your life brings.
Walking with Jesus during this time means you are more fully present in it than you have ever been before.
May you fully embrace and be fully embraced by Jesus as you experience this holiday season with Him by your side.
“Return to your rest, my soul, for the Lord has been good to you.”
Psalm 116:7 NIV
Don’t let a bad attitude rob you of a good opportunity to be used by God today.
The very best way to to change your attitude is reminding yourself who God is and who you are in Christ.
When the world crowds you and makes you feel claustrophobic with all the “things needed ASAP”, it is good to take a moment to chill and remember that God is good and has been good to you.
It resets your perspective and returns your internal state from “fret” to “rest”.
Unwind your worry.
Reset your soul to rest.
God has called you to be a change maker where you are.
He will give you everything you need to do it including reminding you to get out of the way.
Let go of all the things you can’t control today and reset the one thing you can- your attitude.
What does re-setting your soul to rest in Jesus look like for you today?
There are two things that will keep your thinking clear and your hearts filled with God’s divine light: giving God glory and giving God thanks.
“For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.” Romans 1:21 NIV
When you make thanksgiving and worship a daily necessity you are fortifying your spiritual life and strengthening your mental one.
It is the difference between enduring and embracing your life.
Cindy Grasso 