DAY TO DAY LIVING - COMMANDMENT NO. 6

COMMANDMENT 6 - DO YOU CHOOSE DEFEAT?

Psalm 3:1 "LORD, how many are my foes! How many rise up against me! Many are saying of me, “God will not deliver him”. Selah." Not quite what you'd expect to hear are they? Trouble trouble trouble.... and not only that, they say that God can't help. NOT TRUE! God is our shield! He will lift up our heads when they are bowed down! He is our strength when we have none. He is our peace when we have none. He is our source of all that we need. We don't have to feel alone. We don't have to feel hopeless. Psalm 3:3 "But you are a shield around me, O Lord, you bestow glory on me and lift up my head."

If we want to feel crushed and beaten then we can. If we want to feel hopeless then we can. If we want to look at the circumstances surrounding us and decide that we can't take any more then that is a choice we are allowed to make. What will you choose? Will you choose to let God shield you from your circumstances and lift up your head? It is your choice. There are lots of times when we find we are choosing to feel defeated. Sometimes we felt unloved and betrayed. We were choosing to focus on the bad things. We were deliberately choosing not to let God lift up our heads. We were a victim of other people's choices and we needed to wallow in that feeling so we could feel sorry for ourselves. After all, if we didn't focus on it, who would? We didn't have to stay there. God had better things for us to be thinking about and doing. If we choose to let God take control, our circumstances are still not different than before we chose God's control. But our attitudes toward it will be. It is our choice to let God be our strength and shield. We should to look at Him instead of what our eyes of flesh see. The view is much nicer =)