Woke up this morning feeling tired. I was diagnosed with mitral valve prolapse last year and the doctor put me on some medication. The medication causes your heart to slow down there for causing you to feel tired. It doesn't happen all the time but every now and then, I feel fatigue. This has been one of those weeks. But when this happens I have to tell myself to keep going, keep pushing and don't let anything stop you from doing what you have to. That's why as soon as I finishing making this post I am going to get on my new 'Perfect Sit-up' and just work it out.
This is just the way life is some times. You are going to have some mishaps and you are going to have some set backs but you can't look at them you have to look at how you're going to bounce back from it. What good is it going to do you by sitting there and focusing on the problem if you're not trying to find a solution. This is not math. There is no equality of sides. When some thing happens assess the situation and then do something about it. Spend the majority of your time fixing what is wrong and not talking about what happen to you. STOP moving your lips and start moving your feet. A guy once told me a story about a man and his son. The guy would always walk around town telling everyone how less fortunate he and his son where. He would tell him there story of how the mother left them and how he had lost his job because he had to choose between taking care of his son or working. He didn't have the money to pay for daycare. This went on for several months. The guy would tell his story, then pray to God and ask God to order his steps. All while this was going on, the man's son was listening. Finally one day after he had done his routine of telling his story and praying his prayer to God to order his steps, his son got down on his knees for the first time to pray with his father. The father was kind of shocked because his son was only eight and he didn't think he really understood anything about praying. When the boy got down on his knees to pray this is what he said, "dear God, instead of ordering my father steps, I think you should move his feet. And also help him to tell a story of happiness instead of telling that same sad story about us. Remind him of how much time we spend together everyday talking and laughing and praying to you. He is sad God and I don't want my father to be sad, but I am happy because we get to be together and do things that we didn't do before my mother left. So God, move his feet and don't order his steps because it's not getting us anywhere. Amen." The father was stunned. He couldn't believe what his son was saying and further more he couldn't believe what he had been doing all this time. He finally realized that he was hindering himself. He realized that he was asking God to order his steps but he wasn't moving his feet.
Are you asking God to order your steps but you're not moving your feet? There is no way that you can move forward if you are doing this. We ask God to go above and beyond for us but the question I pose to you is are you going above and beyond for yourself? Are you really giving it 100% everyday after you pray? There is only so much God can do and will do. He gave us life and choice and the ability to think. With this alone, we can get a lot accomplished. Yes, there are some things that occur that only he can handle, so let him handle those things and you should handle everything else. God didn't give us his love and the ability to pray to him for it to be a crutch. He gave it to us for it to be a blessing and a wonderful thing to add to all of the other wonderful things he has given us-hint: LIFE! So the nest time you ask God to order your steps, ask yourself, "am I moving my feet after I ask him to order my steps?"
"Why ask for something when you have the ability to create it?"-K.J Swint
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