Do you believe what the Bible says? Do you believe it is important to obey what the Bible says? Ok, now let me ask you this….Do you STILL believe what the Bible says when YOU’RE “under pressure”….Do you STILL believe it is important to obey what the Bible says when YOU’RE under pressure. It’s important that we don’t allow pressure (trials and challenges of this world) to break our focus when we’re following Jesus. Today’s blog entry deals with remembering God’s Word.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. 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: 7-8
If you’ve ever played or closely followed athletics you’re probably familiar with the term “Clutch” or “Crunch time”. Crunch time is the time towards the end of the game when running the plays correctly/carrying out the game plan is especially important because an error could impact the outcome of the game or shift the momentum for one team. A player that performs well in the clutch is someone who doesn’t allow the pressure to overcome them, but remains calm, overcomes the pressure, and doesn’t back down from the challenge. There are some players who may do great in practice, or even in games where the score isn’t all that close, but once the score gets close they may start to second guess themselves or start doing things contrary to the game plan the coach set.
In our Christian walk it’s important that we follow God’s plan for our lives. Knowing and understanding the Word is essential, but it doesn’t stop there….We also need to obey the Word (even if things get very tough in our lives). As Christians, we should be more in tune to what God says than we are to other things going on in the world. We need to learn how to block out the things that the enemy says to try to distract us. For example, say there’s a basketball team playing an away game, and the team is just coming out of a timeout. There’s very little time left in the game. The coach draws up a play that gets the star player the ball for the final shot. The ball is thrown inbounds to the star player just as the play was drawn up, and as the player gets the ball someone from the opposing team’s crowd yells out “You’re no good, you’ll never make the shot”. After hearing this the player doesn’t even attempt the shot, he sits the ball down and walks off the court with his head down.
If most of us were watching a game and that happened, we would probably be thinking what in the world is going on. Yet if we as Christians allow the enemy/other people to cause us to deviate from the course that God has us on by telling us what we can’t do (when God’s word as already told us what we can do), we are essentially sitting the ball down and walking off the court. We need to learn how to tune out the enemy and listen to God.
“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” - Isaiah 55:11
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. 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: 7-8
If you’ve ever played or closely followed athletics you’re probably familiar with the term “Clutch” or “Crunch time”. Crunch time is the time towards the end of the game when running the plays correctly/carrying out the game plan is especially important because an error could impact the outcome of the game or shift the momentum for one team. A player that performs well in the clutch is someone who doesn’t allow the pressure to overcome them, but remains calm, overcomes the pressure, and doesn’t back down from the challenge. There are some players who may do great in practice, or even in games where the score isn’t all that close, but once the score gets close they may start to second guess themselves or start doing things contrary to the game plan the coach set.
In our Christian walk it’s important that we follow God’s plan for our lives. Knowing and understanding the Word is essential, but it doesn’t stop there….We also need to obey the Word (even if things get very tough in our lives). As Christians, we should be more in tune to what God says than we are to other things going on in the world. We need to learn how to block out the things that the enemy says to try to distract us. For example, say there’s a basketball team playing an away game, and the team is just coming out of a timeout. There’s very little time left in the game. The coach draws up a play that gets the star player the ball for the final shot. The ball is thrown inbounds to the star player just as the play was drawn up, and as the player gets the ball someone from the opposing team’s crowd yells out “You’re no good, you’ll never make the shot”. After hearing this the player doesn’t even attempt the shot, he sits the ball down and walks off the court with his head down.
If most of us were watching a game and that happened, we would probably be thinking what in the world is going on. Yet if we as Christians allow the enemy/other people to cause us to deviate from the course that God has us on by telling us what we can’t do (when God’s word as already told us what we can do), we are essentially sitting the ball down and walking off the court. We need to learn how to tune out the enemy and listen to God.
“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” - Isaiah 55:11