Boundaries

 It's not easy receiving discipline, nor is it much fun giving it.  It's really only necessary when we reach a known boundary and pass it, knowing full well that there may be consequences.  Sometimes we may be naive enough to believe that it doesn't apply to us, but we realize it does after the fact.  Every stumble in an addictive life is us falling, jumping, crawling, walking, or running over a certain boundary that we keep repeating.  The discipline never changes and for some reason, neither does our thought patterns.  Why can't we just respect that boundary and live a happy life??  If we can't do it for us, then how about helping someone else out instead?  Because we will be held accountable for our actions when we get to Heaven.

Proverbs 10:17 "Whoever heeds discipline shows the way to life, but whoever ignores correction leads others astray."

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Control

Most of us have been told to control ourself, in some shape or fashion, and that's usually out of concern for us looking like fools because our our actions.  Others because they act out in unacceptable fashion in innocent or criminal ways and have never been taught that growing up.

Some of us have never heard the word control because we were in a crowd of individuals who vehemently oppose control of every fashion.  It's funny but those people who oppose control are usually the biggest control freaks!!  Everything has to be their way or everyone is going to suffer.  Even if they did hear it, they would ignore it, but God way bigger plans than anything on earth as He said in Isaiah 65:1,
“I was found by those who did not seek me;
I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me.”

Maybe we just need to control our enthusiasm now?  

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Enduring Hardship

Finding peace in ongoing hardship is something that we cannot do on our own.  We may think we have the power to do that, but in reality we achieve that peace by simply releasing control, which happens to be a gift from God.  We are told that in every hardship God will provide an out for us if we surrender our power to God.  An unusual silence come over us when these hardship continue, they just don't seem that important any longer.  You start viewing the perpetrator as an uncontrolled child, and the situation as a kindergarten movie.

You start to feel sorry for someone like that and wish that you could instruct them on the proper way to deal with their stress, but you can't.  They have to learn that on their own.  God will help them experience it, don't you worry about that.

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Behaviour #1

No one can explain why we are on this planet.  Science can surmise how we got here but it has no theory as to our own individual existence, our mind with it's processing power and how it differs from animals.  They believe we were just luckier than the animals.

The Bible states how all this happened, but sometimes because of our past hurts, we avoid the possibility of a father figure, refusing the authority of someone in charge of us all.  In reality, we just want to be in control.  We didn't have any control when we were hurt in the past, but now we have that option.  A shield that will protect us from that ever happening again.  We are only locking God and His healing power out by trying to do it all on our own.  Recipe #1 for addictive behaviour.

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Patiently Waiting

We know that when we are standing in front of God that our entire life will flash before us, we will be held accountable for everything we have said and done, be they good or bad.  Everyone on earth will be standing there whether they believe in God or not.  Wouldn't it be nice if all we saw was the good things we had said and done?  The words "well done good and faithful servant".

There is a way for that to happen and it is to confess our sins right now, here on earth.  Sharing our troublesome and sorrowful tales with someone you trust and admitting our wrongs to God.  If we take the time to do this now then God won't have to force us to do it while standing in front of Him.

The time of patiently waiting is over, now is the time to confess our sins and accept Jesus Christ, because Jesus will tell God what a good job we have done on earth....or NOT.

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Simple Words

Words are seeds.  Once said, they cannot be removed, but they can be trimmed.  One harsh word can permanently harm you.  It can do the following: make you feel incompetent, make you angry and act out, turn you into a bully, shut down your creativity, darken your spirit, remove your smile, make you indifferent, make you lose interest, and encourage you to quit.  But the greatest of these is to drive you into a belief that you are less than you are.  A recipe for an addiction.

It takes 10 words of positive reinforcement and encouragement to replace the damage of one harsh word.  Once a persons innocence is taken away through harsh words, the recipient feels it as in the 10 listed above.  People can apologize but unless we find it in us to forgive them, then those words are stuck with us as long as we want to hang onto them.  Jesus said that forgiving them is the only answer.

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Passion

What does the military and the passion of Jesus have in common?  The military has a standing rule to not leave anyone behind, to collect the wounded and bring them to safety. To stand as a united force.

Jesus sacrifice on the cross has the same principals, to not leave anyone behind, to collect the wounded and bring them to the safety of God.

The injuries may be different but the principal remains the same as the military fights visible forces and the gospel fights the unseen forces of demons and principalities.

We all have our own visible and unseen battles that test us to the limit.  Darkness may rule for a short time but our passion to believe in an ever loving God helps us win in the end.

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