To Pause & Consider...

Through a series of events in the past few weeks, I have had ample opportunity to pause and consider life's sweetest moments and the value of every breath we are given here on earth. Who we are as humans and why we do the things we do plays over and over in my mind...As I look around at people, I stop to consider where they come from and what series of events in thier history shaped them into who they have become today. I find more often then not, we live in a world of vulnerable people who have been shaped and formed by life's circumstances, living in survival mode never quite pressing on to "thrival" mode. It seems like the things we disliked so much about the generations before us we have somehow walked right into...someone once said, "the things you hate, if you don't face; you become"- this often being a result of harbored unforgiveness, whitch leads to pride, and pride will land you right into the victim pit. Being a victim will take you from being a "Son" of the most high God to a "Slave" to sin. So my challenge to you today is to stop and consider where you came from and evaluate how that could affect where you're going if you don't allow yourself to surrender completely to God in order to experience freedom and restoration. We aren't were we want to be, but Thank God where not where we used to be...-Selah