Reflecting on your history, framing your story, and moving forward
“Ponder the paths of your feet;
Then all your ways will be sure.” (Prov. 4:26 ESV)
You’ve got to exercise the power of reflection.
What’s the story you keep telling yourself? Are you a winner? A Loser? You don’t know? What is the storyline you rehearse in your heart and what do you end up replaying out in real life? You’ve got to make time to reflect. Think. Consider your ways. Consider your paths. Consider the path. Did you end up going the wrong way? Well, it’s no use at that point to exercise all due diligence if you’re just travelling down the wrong road. Just because you find difficulty along your path doesn’t automatically mean you’re on the right path. It’s not like the de facto credifying validating characteristic of the will of God is trouble. How do you know you’re just simply facing trouble because you’re doing something silly? Something that just isn’t tailor made for you? Something that God isn’t into at all for you? Or are you facing this friction and the road is rough because you’re going uphill at this point and you simply need to keep on keeping on and get yourself over this hill? Without reflection, without stopping, if needs be, to consider your path, without walking, running, trailing circumspectly, how will you make that course correction if needs be? How will you make that push to accelerate past a sticking point on the way and get over the hill and on to the greener pastures? Ignorance is bliss they say; but it surely isn’t blessed. What is blessed? It’s making use to roll your path before the Lord. Reflect before Him. If you’re not mirroring what the Holy Spirit is up to in your life . . . then you need to know. If you reflect and you reflect rightly, then wouldn’t you want to know that as well? Reflect. Consider. Reflect. Blessing is past the guessing.
You’ve got to exercise the power of reframing.
Your story with God is powerful. It’s the difference in how you tell the story. It’s the difference in how the story is told to you, how it’s told to you deep in your spirit. Resiliency is a funny thing. Like, ha, ha. You know it’s bouncy. It’s supposed to be that way. If your bounce is gone, you’ve lost that lightness in your step, even in the trials, then you need to go back to the story. Obviously, you get into the Gospel story. From there God is speaking to you, He’s telling you about your worth. He’s sharing with you about His love. He is assuring you of His guidance. After all, any God who goes through all that trouble of procuring for all mankind the opportunity of a lifetime and eternity isn’t going to be absent minded about any of His own—and you belong to Him! So, you’re covered! He’s watching over you! Now, are you watching for His hand of blessing? Are you mindful of His vantage? Of His view of you? Well, that’s where the power of reframing is released. Now, the sinners can exercise the principle of it all day long but still end up in hell, but that’s not your story now is it? What is your story is that you’re saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Spirit; so you can base your reframing on something—no, SOMEONE substantial. You go by how God sees it, how God tells your story, and then you can get into His Presence and come to understand and see what He’s seeing. There. From the place of communion with God, from that place of fellowship and Holy Spirit union, even from that place of camaraderie in the brotherhood of saints, from here you can review and reframe what the devil meant for evil and see God’s handiwork to use it all for GOOD! Reframe! Retrain your flinching mechanism to stop wincing whenever the devil comes around the corner with a big 2 x 4; God’s got your back and you see by the Holy Spirit that God’s put the gold in you. You’re seated in the Spirit. There’s no K.O. for you; because you always get back up. Why? Because the Gospel story is TRUE! So, you get back in the game, get back to the track of the beat of that story God’s got for you. Lose a battle? Lost a grip? Lost a tear crying your eyes? Yes. That may be so. But, through the power of reframing by God’s Holy Spirit, where only the despondent see aches and ashes, you will see the divine exchange, even the promise of His WORD—BEAUTY FOR ASHES! That’s right. There’s no shame in seeing the good and reading the good into every bad situation. Why? Because where other storylines who don’t have God end, you don’t’ grieve like the world grieves. You have the Holy Spirit and He’ll help you see past the grim in every corner and see the sun past all the rain. There’s no storm you can’t pull through when you see God’s hand pulling on you. Reframe. Blessing is in the His story.
Forward momentum can keep you moving forward.
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