I can do all the work, the challenges, and the pleasures of this very day as long as I glory in the truth that JESUS The CHRIST is my joy and my strength!
Philippians 4:(NASB)13 I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. source
You too!
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Have you ever worried over what another thinks of you? Me too!
I think I’ve heard it before, but I heard it again with freshness this morning!
“What another thinks of you is none of your business – but it is GOD’s – what they think and you think. So stop messing around in His business and mind your own mind with His.”
Philippians 4: (CSB) 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. source
1 Peter 1: (NASB) 13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. source
And You Version was messing with me too with this from Carol McLeod: “Every single one of us has spoken words “under the influence” of warped feelings and slurred thinking. And we soon wish we had the magical power to take those words back. It’s our thoughts and emotions that determine what words come out of our mouths.”
So at the prompting of the devotional, I have this mission: What Bible verse can I use to help me declutter my mind and keep it in sync with the mind of The Father?”
What verses do you go to when your mind rebels?
Well, Now!
A new word for me.
Eucatastrophe: A eucatastrophe is a sudden turn of events at the end of a story which ensures that the protagonist does not meet some terrible, impending, and very plausible and probable doom. The writer J. R. R. Tolkien coined the word by affixing the Greek prefix eu, meaning good, to catastrophe, the word traditionally used in classically inspired literary criticism to refer to the “unraveling” or conclusion of a drama’s plot. For Tolkien, the term appears to have had a thematic meaning that went beyond its literal etymological meaning in terms of form. In his definition as outlined in his 1947 essay “On Fairy-Stories”, eucatastrophe is a fundamental part of his conception of mythopoeia. Though Tolkien’s interest is in myth, it is also connected to the gospel; Tolkien calls the Incarnation of Christ the eucatastrophe of “human history” and the Resurrection the eucatastrophe of the Incarnation. source – Wikipedia
May our what we see as pending catastrophes be transformed into eucatastrophes by The Living Christ!
