"i live in bondage because that was how i did it for my whole life.bondage to food, to laziness, to a sedentary lifestyle.and most of the time, i still imagine myself locked up there.but i look different. i am different.i felt God telling me that it's the same with my spiritual walk.i may imagine myself in chains but my big God has set me free and i'm someone else. i'm not stuck." Beth (lastname unknown) my blogging friend check it in my list on the right Passionate by default.
The fight of life is unavoidable. in fact that is all this life is, Struggle and fight. we begin in a struggle to live and breathe, and we end the same way. The rest of the time we have to fight for success, relationships, freedom, and our beliefs. But most of us would rather float, we go with the flow of life accepting the"hand life delt us." Any dead fish can float down stream, but that is what most of us do, float. And during that float most of us end up doing pretty good, with the 2.5 kids, house payment, Car payment, and all the other toys and bills that come with life. but i don't like that, i don't like pretty Good. as best selling author Orrin Woodward puts it, "If better is available, good just isn't enough." Well with a relaitonship with christ, better is always available. and i am not talking health and wealth theology here, but i do without a shadow of a doubt believe that God will bless those who don't float. God will reward you for your struggle, and the more you struggle to change and make yourself better. The quote above hit me very hard, i have believed so long that this is who i am and there is no changing that, even if i knew the principles i have shared all along, i never believed my self to be that way.. belief is an important thing, how we view ourselves, or how we think shapes who we are. I am in no way trying to sound like a self help guru, because this is what i truly believe. so here is to improvement, and to the better that is available.
You lift my battered soul you mend my broken bones together, you lift my battered soul you mend my broken bones together, YOU LIFT MY BATTERED SOUL YOU MEND MY BROKEN BONES TOGETHER.
a spine is such a terrible thing to waste. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. (patrick henry) Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! (patrick Henry) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.(longfellow) The heights by great men reached and keptWere not attained by sudden flight,But they, while their companions slept,Were toiling upward in the night. (Longfellow)
it's kinda like that scene in finding nemo.. when the waters in front of them were dark and they weren't able to see in front of them, and the one fish kept singing "just keep swimming Just keep swimming" we have to do that or we will be floating with the other dead fish, so we just keep swimming upstream against the current and struggle our way to victory
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