Live courageously from your heart!
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Have you ever felt the blunt force trauma of life? Have you ever been in this place, where you never thought you would be able to hope again, breath again, believe again or recover? Do you want to stop just existing and live fully alive?
We ask God to fix this (our circumstance) and God says I’m trying to fix you…so I can use you to reach out touch the world.
*Interview starts about 30 mins into the broadcast.
Stop, the corporate ladder climbing! Stop, putting all of your time and energy into your stuff! Stop spending your weekends in front of the TV watching sports! Stop [fill in the blank] and engage with your children. Its worth it!
Here is a poem I wrote about my kids during my divorce…
I see it every day and I say it’s only living
Like life is only pain, believe me; my heart was given.
Anguish, heartbreak and a hurt I can’t erase
A light, a warmth I wish will shine upon your face.
In the Gospel of John, we read that Jesus comes across a paralytic man who has been in this place of affliction for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, He asks this man the most important question of his life, “Do you want to get well?” The paralytic replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” The biblical account of the Pool of Bethesda tells us that an angel would go down at a certain time into the pool and stir up the water and whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease they had.
What is wrong with us? For some reason we choose to journey through life on our own, without the Lord, and bounce from one sin or train wreck to another looking for that escape from the turbulence of life. Maybe this turbulence involves a relationship, a divorce, an affair, loss of a child, pride, lust, nonforgiveness or even religion; maybe its alcoholism, a drug addiction, depression, an eating disorder, or a chronic illness where a cure seems hopeless. Whatever is at the center of your turbulence, be assured you are not alone. We must come to an understanding that no matter how desperate our circumstances are we can find our answers and our hope in Jesus. Jesus healed the paralytic despite his obvious doubt and despite the fact that he didn’t even know who Jesus was. I don’t know what you are going through or why. I don’t know the plans God has for you, but reach out to Him.
