If you ever getting feeling down and depressed, it’s a sure sign that you are believing evil has the preponderance of power and influence in your life. And a solution is to think up—get thought back up to the omnipresence and omnipotence of God, good!
We experience what we believe.
If our experience is not good, our beliefs can be improved so our experience improves, and its spiritual truth that cause the improvement.
Thirty years ago when I was farming and didn’t like it, my experience was not good at times. I would get depressed and despondent about my future. What to do? Where to go? Was I stuck forever in a job I didn’t like?
After mighty spiritual wrestling, and five years, I eventually figured out that my experience was my choice. I could stay or leave. I could continue to suffer at my choice, or find a path to freedom and walk down it.
I saw that God had a good life for me to live, but I needed to choose it and accept it. That was my role to play!
I choose the better life.
I found a new path to walk down. And I’m walking in it today. I am a very happy man.
But I had to make some critical choices along the way. I had to stop consenting to perpetual unhappiness. I had to choose Life, choose the good. I did. And I found it.
You can too.
Awesome! Thanks for the great LIFT UP!
Thanks for the reminder, Evan. I have done that several times. Gotten down in the pit and didn’t like it down there. So I raised myself up by “looking up” and saying Arise, arise, and shine” (from the hymnal). I also knew that my joy and happiness comes from God and I didn’t need to wallow in self-pity.
Being retired, I am not confronted with that needed choice, but I do need daily direction to what I need to be doing and not caught up in material awkwardness. As a result of this, I find I am in more connection with God’s thoughts.
Thank you, Evan. It’s just what I needed today. Now, I need to look up and listen for God’s direction.
Evan hits it every time. I just got news that New York State is cutting my Nurse Aide help from 38 hours per week to 100 hours per month which comes out to 4 hours per day, staring this week. You can imagine what can go through a thought without knowledge of C/S prayer. Thank God for my childhood friend Sandy for incorreging my mother and I to take up the study of this wonderful religion, C/S or else I wouldn’t how to trust God to adjust this.
Every once in awhile I’ll have a pity party but usually it flies away rapidly. I know that my thought instantly needs to change. Knowing that God is the source of all good in our lives makes me look to the truth. Standing porter at our door of thought makes all the difference. What you think about you bring about. Keep God center front.