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“Choose for yourselves today whom you will serve…but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” – Joshua 24:15 (AMP)
Noise, desperation, chaos, and conflict have become the heaping portions of our poisoning diets. Daily desperation from all sides can seemingly shrink our minds of possibilities to problem solve or unify efforts. Whether it’s a virus, isolation, political agendas, or food shortages; nothing will cover shepherdless sheep. Most media outlets marinate us in our inability to solve confusion, calm fears, or target positive and productive energies. Fear can distort holy confrontations with compromise and tolerance, thus kidnapping truth. Be reminded this isn’t new. Ask Nehemiah. He sheds light on how to faithfully navigate unwarranted criticism, extreme discouragement, difficult agendas, and strong personalities. Simply put…it isn’t who you follow! Charles Swindoll states in Hand Me Another Brick, “What the walls were to Jerusalem, our lives are before God.” Have you evaluated your walls lately? Are your personal walls crumbling due to a neglected and insulated heart? If left unattended, those crumbling walls will expose a life aimlessly running on personal fumes with earthly value. Do you find yourself “reacting” or “responding” lately? “Loud” cannot cover the emptiness and confusion around us, and let’s face it…LOUD is everywhere!
Who or what are you “following” these days on social media, podcasts, and screen time? Are the ingredients you are choosing to add toyour recipe of life a combination that will feed your soul? It’s too easy to default to mindless “viewing” when solitude can provide a refreshing replenishment from the Holy Spirit. Discouragement is a taker. It robs you of confidence, peace, strength, and next right steps and can trade you uncertainty. God has created you distinctively different. It should show. In these days of LOUDNESS, may we choose the insight that the Holy Spirit places in us. If you dare, ask yourself (honestly), “Can others see my Father’s resemblance in me?” Choose and declare your convictions and follow the Shepherd. You will be in high demand and your value will exceed the noise that surrounds you.
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