Chances are you have heard of tons of new life events from the people surrounding you! Engagements...weddings...baby announcements.. new relationships .. the list goes on and on! Tis the season for life changes!
In the midst of all of the exciting news you might find yourself just... there. or at least that is what you feel like.
I can relate.
It is really hard to sit and watch everyone's lives changing around you. I have a FEW quick tips to help you with all of the new changes going on around you....
1.) If you see all of your loved ones making major life changes BE HAPPY FOR THEM! and TRULY HAPPY. A true friend rejoices with their friends in EVERY season! You have to step outside of yourself and be excited with them for this time in their lives... because when your time comes you would want the same respect! Don't get bitter or jealous!
You shall not set your desire on your neighbor's house or land, his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. (Deuteronomy 5:21)
Don't sit and observe what everyone around you has! When God is ready to give you what He promised you.. He WILL... stop hating! put your little selfish pride to the side and find true joy and peace.
2.) Get content in Christ. So what everyone seems to have your "dream life." focus on Christ and what He is asking you to do! Don't ask for a husband if you KNOW you can't even be a good friend. that is simply nuts! spend your time with God.. in your word! let Him mold you and shape you and make you into the person He needs for you to be! God has a plan for you! He has your every step strategically planned out!
11 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)
God has PLANS for YOU! He made them before you even had a mind to conjure up any of your own little plans! Sit your tail down and get good in God! Know that He has you. Spend your time consumed in Him and His presence and forget the rest!
3.) Your ways are not God's ways. You can't keep comparing and contrasting your life to everyone elses. He has specific steps for YOU. specific goals for YOU. stop looking at what people around you have and start focusing on you! You think their grass looks greener than yours.. but that is simply because they have put in the work to make that grass green! Stop expecting your crops to grow and you haven't even planted ONE seed! tend to your crops so you can get YOUR harvest!
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.( Isaiah 55:8-9)
The way your mind thinks is not even CLOSE to the way God thinks. You will NEVER understand why He has your life mapped out the way He does.. but you will appreciate it in the long run. See, there is a bigger picture that only God sees. We get the small pieces of the picture at a time. God places those pieces together one by one.. but only He knows what the picture turns out looking like. So rest. God has you. He won't leave you looking stuck!
4.) God wants you to be happy! God wants nothing more than for you to be happy.. but happiness doesn't always come in the form we think it should. It all goes back to the scripture above.. Isaiah 55:8-9. We simply are not on God's level when it comes to the plans for our lives. His plans will always out do our plans. It is like we want to go get McDonalds to eat..and God says " No! I have a steak..lobster...Shrimp... Chicken...any type of food you ever wanted to eat buffet ready for you." WHYYYYY do we KEEP trying to pick up McDonalds when God told you He has GOT YOU! Sit DOWNNNN Please! Get comfortable in God's arms and don't worry. He will make your desires MATCH His desires and that is when you will find true happiness.
This holiday season... don't focus on what you FEEL you don't have. Focus on the very breath God gave you every day. Focus on the family you have surrounding you. Focus on the amazing AWESOME savior God sent to this earth to die for YOU.The next time you feel discontent with your life. Sit down and write a list of TEN things you are Super grateful for. God keeps blessing you! You just keep missing YOUR blessing because you are too focused on someone else's blessing! STOP THAT!
I pray everyone has an AMAZING CHristmas !
You are LOVED!
Nicole L.
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