Dear Dad,
Often times you take us back to a familiar place so we can gain something different from the experience. Regardless if that familiar place was one of danger, sadness, confusion, happiness, total bliss, or excitement, taking us back provides an opportunity for us to see things differently. Careful not to confuse our desire to go back with Your prompting, grants us the insight needed to identify our purpose there. It may be to apologize to someone, it maybe to encourage someone, going back to a familiar place maybe the very move we need to realize that we never want to go back there again, however help us to take advantage of the wisdom pruned from that familiar place. The same with familiar people, especially the people who we know we have no business around, or that have no business in our space, help us to understand that point of which we can easily recognize that familiarity and make the decision to sever the association. Pop ups of familiar people and familiar places provide us an opportunity to prove growth and strength, not to verify a stunted mentality unveiling our weakness. Help us to yearn for growth daily, to the point where we hate even the thought of a possible decline!
Thank You for showing me that familiar place/person!
Often times you take us back to a familiar place so we can gain something different from the experience. Regardless if that familiar place was one of danger, sadness, confusion, happiness, total bliss, or excitement, taking us back provides an opportunity for us to see things differently. Careful not to confuse our desire to go back with Your prompting, grants us the insight needed to identify our purpose there. It may be to apologize to someone, it maybe to encourage someone, going back to a familiar place maybe the very move we need to realize that we never want to go back there again, however help us to take advantage of the wisdom pruned from that familiar place. The same with familiar people, especially the people who we know we have no business around, or that have no business in our space, help us to understand that point of which we can easily recognize that familiarity and make the decision to sever the association. Pop ups of familiar people and familiar places provide us an opportunity to prove growth and strength, not to verify a stunted mentality unveiling our weakness. Help us to yearn for growth daily, to the point where we hate even the thought of a possible decline!
Thank You for showing me that familiar place/person!
Kristen
Word on The Go: Daniel 12:10 James 1:5-8;13
10 Many will be purified, cleansed, and refined by these trials. But the wicked will continue in their wickedness, and none of them will understand. Only those who are wise will know what it means.
James 1
5 If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. 6 But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. 7 Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8 Their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they do. And remember, when you are being tempted, do not say, “God is tempting me.” God is never tempted to do wrong,[c] and he never tempts anyone else. 14 Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away.
5 If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. 6 But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. 7 Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8 Their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they do. And remember, when you are being tempted, do not say, “God is tempting me.” God is never tempted to do wrong,[c] and he never tempts anyone else. 14 Temptation comes from our own desires, which entice us and drag us away.
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