Facing The Challenge

In our lives, there are many challenges that we face; these challenges come to us in many different ways.
As these challenges come, we then are forced to respond which in turn will cause some kind of reaction; the reaction then requires a decision. Unfortunately many times people make a decision to respond in fear, panic, pain, causing us to react by giving up in life. Because of these decisions to give up and quit, people find it difficult to recover from anything. When responding to these things in this way, it places people in a place of denial, and if we are in denial, then we allow ourselves to be blinded to the fact that there is no use to carry on and that there is no hope of recovery. If we respond in a negative way with our minds reacting with thoughts of failure, our course of action will result in remaining in a place of stagnation to the truth and experiencing freedom. It then becomes a life of self-destruction without any recovery in sight. In my own personal life as with many individuals, I have been met with tough challenges. With these tough challenges coming my way, it caused me to either face them head-on or to quit in life. Life is full of decisions, and what decisions we make will determine either success or failure. A decision is the act of making up your mind about something. Too many times we give up on whatever it is that we are going through. God has put dreams within our hearts for his purpose as well as for our benefits, and yet, many have given up on these things. We have allowed the faces of circumstances to dictate to us that we can never reach the fulfillment of these dreams. So, we then take the low road that leads us to failure, and we never reach that place where God intended for us to be. Every individual must know and understand their self-worth and that you have the potential to do great exploits, “but the people that do know their God shall be strong and do great exploits” (Daniel 11:32, KJV). So, if we know God (knowing about God and knowing God are two different things), then we also understand how valuable each individual is to God. With knowing these things, we must continue to believe that it is still his desire to see these dreams come to pass in our lives. Merriam Dictionary defines dreams as a strongly desired goal or purpose. Let us begin to make a shift in our lives and begin to turn away from the negative faces that have been looking at us for years and begin to look at the face of God and let him show us what he has for us. We must look through the eyes of God and his Word because it is where we see the plans and purposes he has for us. “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations” (Jeremiah 1:5, KJV). Before we were ever thought of or conceived in our mother’s womb God had a plan for us. That plan was in eternity before we ever stepped into time. When we stepped into time after being born out of your mother’s womb is when the dreams and purposes of God have the potential for our dreams to be fulfilled. We must begin to believe what Jeremiah spoke when he penned these words, “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future’” (Jeremiah 29:11, NIV). It is a wonderful thing to discover that there truly is a plan and a purpose for all of our lives, and these plans and purposes are not to lead us to failure and hopelessness and destruction but to prosper and to a hope and future.