Friday, November 6, 2015

Resilience

Bu definition when we think of resilience we think of something that bounces back. I think of the old TV add, “takes a licking and keeps on ticking” for example. It is the ability to comeback after impact, after some negative event. Here is what that means in the faith, or at least what it means to me. No matter what, I will always turn to my Father, trustin Him to get me through somehow.

Job 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

There are many interpretations about Job. Setting that aside, I take this statement to show his commitment to follow the Father in the face of very bad times. And how can we do this? In part at least, we have to have a correct mindset.

Philippians 4:11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

We have to learn to be content, but still striving to move on. Here we see Paul was content, knowing that he could do all through the Messiah. Part of that all could be a comeback from the difficult to the less difficult. Another part of this is to have our speech line up with scripture, and not with the latest negative thing we have heard somewhere.

Let’s be resilient for God!

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You are King. We love You and Your kingdom. Praise the name Yahuah! Send us today Your overwhelming blessing. Forgive us our sins. Heal us up inside, that we might heal outside. Deliver us from those that have and are stealing from us. Rise up, and come with a strong hand and outstretched arm to destroy the work of those that are taking from your people. We ask these things in the name of our Messiah Yeshuah (Jesus). Amen.