“Now
all glory to God, who is able ,through His mighty power at work within us, to
accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.”- Ephesians 3:20
Hi friends,
Hope you are
doing fine. It’s been a while now since I’ve penned something. Today I want to
share 2 keys to overcoming any trial in your life successfully. This post is based
on something I learnt recently from a great man of God who has been through one
of the biggest trials of his life and has come out stronger!
We all go
through different types of trials in our lives. For some it may be some
financial issue, for another it may be death of a loved one or a sickness in
the body or mind or some kind of family/ personal relationship issue.
Sometimes however, we may go through trials that may seem so unfair that we may
be tempted to ask Lord why has this happened or worse…may even cause us to wallow
in self-pity asking the question, “ why Me Lord?”…Those are instances in life
when we suffer despite doing the right thing. We suffer for standing up for the
right cause. In such cases, we must remember the Biblical examples of Stephen
the Martyr, John the Baptist and of course our Lord Jesus Christ- all of whom
suffered pain, misunderstanding, rejection, loneliness and ultimately death despite
living righteous lives and causing no harm to anyone. Yes, there are such times
in our lives when we need to remember that we are followers of Christ and that
means we need to embrace the Cross and follow Him daily. Jesus says in Mathew
16:24 that “If anyone wants to be my Disciple, he must deny himself, take up
his cross and follow Me.”
We are all born in the image of God and therefore each one of us has a great purpose in this life that only we can accomplish. It may be visible to others, or it may not be visible to others, but we must continue faithfully whatever task the Lord has given us and shine as bright as we can in our respective places that the Lord has placed us. Amidst this, there may be instances for us to get disappointed or discouraged due to the trials in our life. As mentioned in John 16:33 we are only human and so it is only natural that by default; as being part of this fallen world, that we go through different kinds of problems, trials, and testing but the real question is how can we rise above them successfully? Here are 2 main keys for this : 1) Do Not Allow Offense to Sabotage your Greatness.
2) Do Not Allow Intimidation to Sabotage your Greatness.
The 2nd point
is Do not allow Intimidation or Fear to Sabotage your Greatness-
Often in life, we know the right thing to do, but somehow we bow down to fear.
Often its fear of what other people will say or think or will I be
misunderstood or may be even will I be understood??? And that keeps us from doing
the good we know we should and being the best that we can be so let’s just roll
up our sleeves and look fear in the face and say not today fear “ For God
has not given me a Spirit of Fear but of Power, Love & a Sound Mind!” – 2 Timothy
1:7 & add to that Philippians 4:13 “I can do all
things through Christ who strengthens me.”
Let me end
with this quote from Nike: “Greatness…… it’s just something we made up.
Somehow, we’ve come to believe that ‘greatness’ is a gift reserved for a Chosen
few- for Prodigies, for Superstars & the rest of us can only stand by ….
watching! You can forget that ‘greatness’ is not some rare DNA Strand, it’s not
some precious thing, ‘greatness’ is no more unique to us than breathing! We’re
all capable of it, all of us! Find your Greatness!”
https://youtu.be/nQWMLWoGEOw?si=YZicpQOmSk3UBcju
https://youtu.be/KBD18rsVJHk?si=kdBGO_1eUdzpVnUr
Have a
blessed week!
Sparkylaurie
