Pastoral Counsel – Jen Miller
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PART 3
It’s very easy and natural to become caught up in life’s painful experiences…
The following commentary on our Proverbs 23:7 scripture: “As you think in your heart, so are you,” is so relevant to what I am purposed to share with you through this short series. It reads:
“We live in a society absorbed with its own feelings. Today, people are addicted to seeing themselves as victims and demanding special tolerance, favor, acceptance, or gifts. Yet a mind concerned with its own painful experiences, rejections, mistakes, or emotional hurts is one that refuses healing.”
Let’s hear that again: A mind (your thinking), concerned with, occupied, consumed with, its own painful experiences, rejections, mistakes, or emotional hurts is on that refuses healing. How? Because there is no allotment of room for thinking as God thinks, according to His Word, in the mind consumed with our earthly experiences.
“Our emotions comfort us like old bandages, and many of us – you perhaps – are afraid to see what is underneath. Pain should serve to teach and mature us, not box us into the darkness. Hebrews 2:10 says that Christ Himself learned by the things He suffered—His pain was His teacher. Likewise, our painful experiences can teach us the contrasts between this human life and the glorious life for which God is right now preparing us.”
If we’ll accept it; if we’ll choose to “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” It’s this transformation process that will ultimately lead us to the only true ‘happily ever after – eternity with Christ – happily ever after forever and ever and ever….
You have the freedom, the power, this day and every day hereafter to CHOOSE to learn and practice GOD’S ways in your thinking, His thinking that leads to becoming “transformed.”
If you’re a believer, how do you think about yourself? Do you think about yourself through the filter of all that you have endured through life, how you’ve suffered or sin? Does your past suffering and sins dictate your thinking today, your decision making and actions? Or does what GOD says about you dictate your thinking, decision making, and actions?
“God doesn’t make junk, mistakes, or spare parts. He made YOU for a purpose!” But it’s your choice to believe this truth about yourself – no matter how you’ve suffered or sinned. He wants you to be transformed through your thinking, to become ALL He created you to be, to fulfill the purposes for which He created you and gain – even in this earthly life – the true happily ever after that will ultimately segue into eternal happily ever after.
I encourage you to work to “be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” To “take captive every thought” and speak God’s truths to yourself, not the lies of the enemy purposed to destroy you through your wounding life experiences whether against you or by your own choices.
The first step is to honestly ask yourself this question: Do I really want to be free from the bondage of how you have suffered or sinned? It doesn’t matter to what degree you’ve suffered or sinned. Suffering is suffering; sin is sin.
In John 8:31-32, God promises, “If you hold to my teaching… THEN you will know the truth, and the truth will MAKE you free. And the SON makes you free, you will be free, indeed.”
“HE is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”
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If you haven’t read my life testimony, I hope you will consider getting it. Why? Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep: The Story of Sara proves that the promises of God are real and miracles do happen. It proves that despite how we have suffered or sin, we can be ‘transformed by the renewing of our mind’ toward becoming ALL He created us to be as unique individuals. It proves who GOD IS and can be intimately in our daily lives, purposed and empowered by His Spirit. Click here to read the beginning of Chapter 1.
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