I try to remind myself every day to take a step back with God to look at what I’m thinking and why. If I don’t, it’s easy to let an offense, wound, or fear dominate my heart and mind.
If you’re consumed with a negative like bitterness, that’s the reality with which you’ll process your life, and it’s what you’ll project at everyone around you. You can put a religious, academic, or political mask on it, but it won’t hide the rotten fruit you’re growing.
However, if you’re focused on who God wants to be for you in your circumstances, you’ll deal with them in His unrelenting grace, overwhelming peace, brilliant wisdom, confident joy, and a perfect love that makes you whole and continually completes you.
You’re an emissary of the reality you give your attention to. So take the time to let God show you enough of His world to transform yours.
“God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in this world” (1 John 4:16b–17).
Equip Your Spirit 