I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go, I will guide you with My eye. -Psalm 32:8 NKJV
At times, our lives can feel like they are “careening out of control, so much so that you feel like a firefighter running from here to there, extinguishing fires breaking out in your life or the lives of those around you.” (Nortker, 3-Minute Devotionals For Women) Everywhere we look their are new issues threatening to burst into flames. And then, there are those explosions that take us by surprise. How can we find peace with all that is happening around us? But, we can’t let outer circumstances control our lives. What we see, hear, and feel around us tends tamper with our emotions. But, we can’t let our emotions control us, or else they will become like fuel thrown into the fires in our lives. As you can understand, uncontrolled emotions only exacerbate the problems in our lives.
We have to stop, drop, and roll.
1. Stop immediately reacting to our emotions
2. Drop to our knees and pray
3. Roll into listening mode
1. Stop immediately reacting to our emotions
“My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.” – James 1:19 NIV
2. Drop to our knees and pray
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”-Philippians 4:6-7NIV
“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.”-John 5:14NIV
3. Roll into listening mode
“But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth…” -John 16:13
For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”-Luke 12:12 ESV
As Christians, we need to let the Holy Spirit lead us instead of our emotions.
“When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.”- Psalm 91:15 ESV
That way, we allow God to rescue us from the fires in our lives. Amen.
Reference:
Brigitta Nortker, comp. 3-Minute Devotionals For Women. Uhrichsville: Barbour, Ohio. Print.
