Food for Thought
Dear All,
I thought I would copy paste Aarti's blog in this mail in case you dont read her FB message. I was thinking, isnt this what troubles us all the time.
The lack of confidence in one self, the second guessing.
Read it and perhaps it will give you cause for thought -- there is a message somewhere in that, for each of us.
I would just like to just talk about myself here.... as I am venturing into something new and my own, the doubts that keep coming in everyday keep destroying those small shards of confidence I have. And I guess there are two ways I look at situations ...
One, the practical human way..... look at it psychologically, like I normally do.. dissect the problem and try a solution. In this case, I first think, can I or can I not...... get tense , stress myself out and destroy all my logical thought processes which otherwise should permit me to just go forward, ensuring that hard work and confidence in myself will take me through. So I plod along and struggle.
Then I look at it in a more spiritual way...... I look at it as temptations and how the evil one is probably just trying to destroy the rays of hope and promise coming down from Heaven and giving me this opportunity to succeed in the opportunities that HE has provided me. So it is a battle... that I dont need to fight... So I actually tell the Lord, 'You fight for me..... I ll do what you want me to do.....!" Then there comes an element of peace which gives me the ability to think clearly and go back to a solution, which is in point one. But this time round, there is no fear and I know even if I fail this time, it will happen, even if I struggle, it is not impossible.. it will happen.. because, The Good Lord wanted it to happen in the first place.
I just thought I would just explain the above so perhaps if you have doubts about yourself or what you are doing........ it helps to just leave it to God , and just talk to him ..... the inner peace resolves everything.
So you dont have to get on bended knee all the time.... just have confidence in HIM and you will have confidence in yourself.
Hugs and much love.
Mummy Ruth
My Lenten promise this year is two-fold.
One: to write here everyday except Sunday.
Two: to think ONE kind thing about myself everyday.
I am in serious need of some “renewing the spirit of the mind” (Ephesians 4). I realised today that overall, my mind does not say kind things to me. It tends to say things like, “you don’t know how to do that” or “you suck at this” or “you’ll never figure it out” or the very worst, “you’re going to fail and ruin everything”.
Insidious isn’t it? Well, until you actually write it out and realise how silly those thoughts are, huh? You should try it if you haven’t: write out the things those unkind voices say to you. Somehow, writing them out takes all the power out of them! Or at least, a LOT of power out of them.
Anyway, this morning, as I was praying, I wondered aloud how Jesus battled those sorts of thoughts. I mean, talk about bold and confident; think of the things He walked around doing! Imagine ordering the lame man to walk, and then falling flat on your face if he didn’t! With all those people watching!
That takes some serious cojones, my friend.
When I asked Him where He got His confidence, it occurred to me that it wasn’t that He was so confident in His own abilities. It would seem much more like Christ to be confident in His Pappa, in how much He loved His little boy that He would always catch Him before He hit the ground hard (which is why the cross is such a heartbreaking concept to bear). Jesus worked out of that one moment in the river Jordan when God said “This is my Son in whom I am well pleased”.
From Lego Bible
If we’re honest with ourselves, haven’t we heard that in one form or another about ourselves even once?
I’m realising that it’s ok to embrace that, to be proud of that, to own it. God loves me. He’s proud of me. Even though I mess up all the time, He sees my heart and He’s cheering for me.
Because that’s the key.
I asked myself this morning, how would I act differently if I KNEW that God was going to catch me when I jumped?
KNEW.
That it didn’t matter what it looked like, whether there were snakes below me, or roaring rip-tides or just hundreds of feet of nothing… that God would catch me anyway? That if I have given my life over to Him, He has my back?
Woah.
I think I would act a little differently, don’t you?
So, that’s my little message today. For me, for you… renew your mind. And then… jump.
-x-
aarti
aarti
