Condition to Position

Today while my husband and I were walking into Wal Mart I ran into an old friend of mine. Someone I hadn't seen in a long long time. She was one of those people that I would come across in my days of retail and remain happy the rest of my day. I always get the same response with her when I ask her how she is doing.

She always says, "Very Positive." She is from another country and just gained her citizinship in the USA in July. She sat and talked with me for about 15 minutes and I was almost in tears. She was asking about how things were going for me and I told her about my church plant. She has been very busy since her husband has been dealing with a lot of medical issues.

Her new outlook on life is it isn't about Condition, it's about Position. I was telling her about some things that I had been enduring. She stopped me. It's not about your condition, it's about your position. Basically what she was saying that I was looking at things from the wrong perspective. Yes, we are currently in a huge trying time in our marriage/life. BUT I have been looking at things wrong.

I have been complaining about my conditions. Everything going wrong. Instead of looking at my position. The things that God could do to change everything. I'm amazed at how my perspective adjusted because of that. My husband has been telling me this all along but of course I can't sit here and honestly say I listen to him. Not because I don't respect him, but I can be honest with him and say it's to hard.

She told me that the devil can't do anything in our lives without God's permission. He isn't on the same level as God and he has NO authority over us. She said stop looking at things and thinking about how they could get worse. Think about the things that God can do. "Bring it on" kinda attitude. Let me see what God can do kinda deal. She also told me that she can't feel sympathy for me because she knows what God can do through this. She said never lose your joy.

When we allow Satan to steal our joy away, he wins. It's not about the things in life that he can do to us. But when our joy is taken, we're done. I was listening to 'Evidence' from Elevations most recent album. Pastor Steven Furtick talks about how we can't stay on the mountain when we are there. There comes moments in our lives that we have to walk through tough stuff. One thing he talked about was moving from here to there. From Sorrow to Joy. From Death to Life. The one thing he said that kicked me all the way home last night was from Dread to Expectation.

Dread to Expectation

Condition to Position.