WELCOME TO GRACE!
Greetings!
What kind of thoughts run through your mind when you go through times of stress or hardship? It is not unusual for people to replay over and over again how awful, scary, hopeless and unsolvable their situation is. Those kinds of thoughts leave people feeling like victims who have no hope and no way out.
Are those kinds of thoughts the only choice people have in hard times?
Jeremiah was a prophet who endured more than his share of bad news and hardships. He wrote a whole Old Testament book while crying tears of grief and loss. But in the middle of that book, he wrote a breakthrough verse about new thoughts he began to focus on in his sadness. Take a look.
I say to myself, “The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him!”
Lamentations 3:24 NLT
He would no longer allow himself to become the victim of his despairing thoughts. Instead, he made a commitment to change where he put his focus. From then on, he would view the Lord as his inheritance. Rather than thinking about all he had lost, he would remind himself that his God was his most important possession in this life and the next.
Further, even during times of extended pain with clouds of hopelessness gathering, he would be determined to wait with anticipation and hope for God’s grace and goodness.
Jeremiah’s life was changed when he looked away from his earthly troubles and focused on all he had in God and how worthy God was of his trust. Jeremiah’s breakthrough could change our lives too.
Blessings!
Delaine
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