This week has been an up and down so far. I rather claim that it has been a great week because the week is not done yet. Although I have faced some challenges, mood swings, and low points it has still been a good week. I am alive. I am healthy. I am working. I am about to start school. I am reading the word of God throughout my day.
I am good. I am great. God is good. God is great. Let us thank him for our food. Okay, let me stop.
But honestly, it's so easy for life to happen to me and make me feel like everything is not okay. Mood swings come and dictate my attitude which leaves me feeling even more down. Sometimes I feel as if I am making progress and then all too soon I am not. I feel like to progress just stops because life happens. Someone or something comes along and rubs me the wrong way. Gets a negative response or action out of me. Each day I am striving. Striving to become more like Christ despite of what my yesterday or today is showing me through the natural lens.
Today was one of those days.
Today, I fought to keep my mind, eyes, and heart fixed on the goodness and strength that is God. I fought not to let my mind or circumstance dictate to me what it was and what it ain't. I have been here before and I have failed those test in the past. But today, like I did 3 years ago, I choose to say "NO". No to negative thinking, mood swings, lies of the enemy. Psalms 121:1-2 states that my strength comes from the Lord who made the heavens and the earth. So what is my situation compared to my God? My God shall provide me with strength to get through this day. I am victorious today.
Sometimes, I feel as though we are waiting to feel a sudden surge of strength when we are in a valley. I do. However, the more I read and listen to other believers talk about taking a hold of the word, the more I understand. It is up to me to take a hold of the word of God, believe that I have been given strength, and walk it out all though I cannot see it physically. Act like it. I will become it. Faith, the substance of things I cannot see (naturally).
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