Eat!

In a divine moment of clarity, I created the cover that states

YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD

1. know your worth

2. control your emotions

3. never settle

And for the last few days He has been pinging me on it and the need for self control. I should have known this would be coming as I just started a lifestyle of fasting. Yes, I like it.

But at first I thought it was as the “red car syndrome” as the new year entered in with the usual ads that “self control will fix all your problems.”

And it does, to an extent. We as mere mortals, albeit intelligent, aware, with opposable thumbs, who prefer to take credit when credit is good, or relegate blame, offenses, and mistakes upon others when the credit due puts us in a harsher light. For us as Gods children we need to keep moving up the path, humble in the good stuff and accepting correction (owning) of our lesser behaviors.

The Holy Counselor has been using this time of resolution to ask us to look not just at the scales but at our interactions with others recognizing that “they” are a lesson or a blessing for us.

Yes, when we encounter a problem, the problem is most likely part of a conviction upon you in the works.

Today we read James 2: 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.”

🎵 They will know we are Christians by our love sings the song and as we interact together they should see Jesus. Or will they will walk away never to go through His door with a distaste for “religion?”

We don’t have to settle for having a bad day. The angel told Elijah who also was known for having a n occasional bad day to lie down, take a nap, then eat something.

Denise Dahlheimer

From the group Tell Me a Story About Jesus.