The times are turbulent and unpredictable. Today you may be up tomorrow you may be down. The local environment in which we live, work, and play in seems to have changed drastically from what we knew it to be just a year ago. It was a time of abudance, and it seems now we have entered into a period of lack.
What do you do when all about you is in turmoil and there appears to be no sign of relief. With deadlines approaching, creditors calling, family situations going in disarray we are often left with nothing but our foritude to survive and our faith. It would be easy to forget who and who's we are when in crisis. However, it is the loving kindness-God's grace that continues to sustain us.
Grace like mercy is a gift given freely. What if God decided to withhold His grace from us because we behaved negatively or treated people as lesser than we are ourselves. This same grace we must exude and show to others regardless of how they treat us. When in the face of tough situations - show grace; when ridiculed for being who you are - show grace.
Surviving with grace requires that we shift our thinking and position. We can not allow our circumstances make us victums and become nor resemble the environment that we are trying to survive.
Remember to survive with grace:
There is an old cliche that this life is for the survival of the fittest. If we are to survive, do so with grace and if we are to be fit let us be fit in Christ - mind, body, and soul.
Donnie McClurkin - Great is Your Mercy
What do you do when all about you is in turmoil and there appears to be no sign of relief. With deadlines approaching, creditors calling, family situations going in disarray we are often left with nothing but our foritude to survive and our faith. It would be easy to forget who and who's we are when in crisis. However, it is the loving kindness-God's grace that continues to sustain us.
Grace like mercy is a gift given freely. What if God decided to withhold His grace from us because we behaved negatively or treated people as lesser than we are ourselves. This same grace we must exude and show to others regardless of how they treat us. When in the face of tough situations - show grace; when ridiculed for being who you are - show grace.
Surviving with grace requires that we shift our thinking and position. We can not allow our circumstances make us victums and become nor resemble the environment that we are trying to survive.
Remember to survive with grace:
- requires a shift in ideology & reposition
- requires a clear understanding of who you are and whos you are
- requires you to be faithful and steadfast
- does not mean you have to be bitter and unhappy. Take inventory of what you do have and remember who provides for you - where your help comes from.
- requires you to show grace as well as accept the grace that God has given unto you
- requires you to alwas remain vigilent and wear the whole armour of God; for our fight is not against other people.
There is an old cliche that this life is for the survival of the fittest. If we are to survive, do so with grace and if we are to be fit let us be fit in Christ - mind, body, and soul.
Donnie McClurkin - Great is Your Mercy
