Yet God is such a redemptive God. He takes the biggest messes and can breathe new life into them. Do not hold yourself to an image of what you were yesterday, because the good news is, in God, you are always able to change each day.
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I am glad I am not the same person I was yesterday. Sometimes I met people who knew me from when I was younger. They try to address me according to my old or immature ways. Because of God’s grace, I don’t even recognize who they are talking to, because I am not that same person. In God, you never have to stay the same, no matter what your past holds.
God never holds you prisoner to your current condition. He always has an invitation for growth. From glory to glory, He desires to change us.
3. You are never without options. In today’s climate, many are struggling with hopelessness. The temptation to quit or bail out is enormous. Yet through it all, God is calling for the heart of the overcomers, those who refuse to quit and stay the course no matter what.
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When we develop hopelessness in our hearts, we become victims to life and things become stagnant. A victim is convinced that there are no options available. But I have learned in life that there are options always available to me. Here are those options:
1. I can choose my attitude. My attitude is always my choice.
2. I can choose the foundation I will stand on and what I will rely upon.
3. I can choose to be open to an idea I may not have thought of yet.
4. I can choose to try again.
5. I can choose not to quit.
Overcomers know how to hang in there. We are never left alone. We never have to stay the same and we are never without options.
Everything God does has hope in it. So if you are living in a way of thinking that has no hope, then God’s not in it.
4. You are never done. “I am done with this!” “I cannot take it anymore.”
We make these declarative statements all the time in relationships and life. We also beat ourselves up because of the flaws, sins and weaknesses many of us are working through. But we seem to forget something very simple: We are not finished.
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