Hope-filled Sunday!
Happy Sunday! Here’s some encouragement for your week.
John 8:36 talks about freedom. Yet many people today are prisoners, and they don’t even realize it. That prison is often not in the most literal sense. Instead, they’re held captive by their own thoughts. And when you live with chronic pain and illness, swirling thoughts of doubt, anxiety, fear, frustration, and discouragement build and create a snowball effect that may be hard to escape. The noise from those emotions can be so loud that it’s hard to hear anything else … even the voice of God.
Today’s verse is a reminder that He doesn’t want us to live in bondage, especially not to our minds. Then enemy knows how powerful our thoughts are, and he is determined to do all he can to fight for control of them, as well as our minds. Don’t let him win!!
God can set us free. Share on XAs Christians, we don’t have to be held captive by those thoughts (that aren’t even from the Lord, by the way!). We can choose to release those fears and anxieties to Him. We can cry out to the Lord. We can trust Him to handle everything and offer us comfort and peace. We can look forward to the future, secure in the knowledge that the Lord has plans for us. We can live in the freedom He offers us, knowing that neither the Enemy nor chronic pain and illness will change the Lord’s perfect plans. Rest in that freedom He offers us.
Lord, thank You for the freedom you’ve given us through the life, death, and resurrection of Your precious Son, Jesus. Â Amen.
Have a blessed day. Gentle hugs to all of you. ?
Yes and Amen, my friend. Galatians 5:1, “For freedom, set free…” has been often on my mind these last weeks. May it be so for each of us!
Yes! That’s a great verse, as well!
Yes! Freedom! It’s so easy to get caught up in what the world thinks, but we have freedom to rise above that with Jesus.
So true! It’s sometimes hard to remember that we’re not of this world.
A daily reminder that we need to set down the baggage that we’ve been carrying and find rest with Jesus!
I definitely need that reminder daily (and sometimes multiple times a day)!
Such a good reminder that the negative thoughts that threaten to choke us aren’t from the Lord. It’s easy to get things muddled, but He is not the Author of Confusion. Thank you for sharing!
You’re welcome, Jennifer.
Yes, it’s a reminder I need regularly.