Greater is He

I was getting read to pass out last night and I had something placed on my heart. Sometimes God picks the most inconvenient moments of my day to place something on my heart. I had someone email me that was explaining some things that was going on in their life. They had been caught in some illegal activities and was facing a court date. 

I instantly trotted over to my social vomit account (Facebook) and posted this.

Everyone is dealt a different hand in life. But the only thing keeping you from greatness, is yourself. Don't allow your situation to define your outcome. You are more than you give yourself credit for! - Deb

This person, or anyone for that matter, has potential to be more than what they settle for. I can't say anything because I tend to not listen either. I was thinking about the life of this person. How they had a good foundation of knowing right from wrong. God got to me and repeated Greater is He that is in you than he who is in this world. It replayed over and over and over in my head for like an hour. 

I'm constantly being faced with a decision or a choice. I don't know about you, but usually my decisions have a positive or a negative effect. I just picked a movie. I wanted to watch 'Sing.' Now all of the kids are yelling because they don't want to watch it. Funny story is, I don't care because they don't watch the movies anyway. Sometimes, it's bigger than a movie. Like the decision to bring my laptop today and actually work on some church stuff. And here I sit, writing a blog, listening to a movie. 

Let me explain something to you. When you accept Jesus into your heart, the Holy Spirit is deposited into your life. It's like direct deposit. There is no "pending" deposit here. So from the moment of salvation on there is something in you that is greater than what is in the world. Now we live in a fallen world that is run by a manipulative butthead. It's the way it is. BUT GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU THAN HE WHO IS IN THIS WORLD! 

Those hard decisions that we face sometimes aren't as hard as we make them. When we look back in 15 years we will see those decisions being tiny. I'm not saying that all decisions are like that. I completely understand being in a position where things are completely difficult. Like choosing to stay in the church you are in and moving to a new one. To go back to school or not go back to school. There are some choices that aren't clear. But the more we are in God's word, the easier some decisions are.

For example, I was in a situation where I had to decide to be truthful with someone or spare their feelings. I decided to tell them the truth about the situation and risk losing them as a friend. That person wasn't needed in my life at the time and they walked away. Did it hurt, partly. But evidently people who are supposed to be in your life will be there when they need to be. At the time it was a hard decision but looking back now, it wasn't. 

Remember as you face a decision today that 

GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU THAN HE THAT IS IN THIS WORLD!