Don’t continue to hold onto past mistakes. Instead, see those past choices as opportunities to now go in a different direction with your life. This doesn’t define who you want to be.
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Why are we sometimes so resistant to change?
Changes that happen in our lives can be difficult to deal with. To help us get through it, we need to trust that God will get us to a better place because of it.
Would any of us have been able to carry the cost of the cross, like Jesus did?
God sent His Son to save us from our sins and to give us the chance for eternal life with Him in heaven. Don’t waste the chance that He has given us.
When hatred assails, God prevails
God is more powerful than hate. He gives us the strength to stand up and speak out against hate. Changing the world starts with us.
How do we determine if something should be of value in our lives?
You get out of life what you put into it. When you value life, then you learn to find joy in laughing at yourself and see all of your own mistakes as learning curves in life.
Staying positive, when it is SO easy to be negative
Handling what life hands out in a positive manner, doesn’t keep you from having to face bad things, it just helps you to get through them easier!
Why is it SO difficult to have faith, when we are faced with SO many things to fear?
When you take something on faith, then you have to trust that God has a purpose in the path that he wants you to take even when you are afraid. Fear can keep us from following the path that God wants us to follow.
How do we know that the morality that we are looking at, may actually, instead, be a mirage?
Be careful of the people who “appear” to have good morals when they show by their actions that say otherwise. They are corrupt and not worthy of your praise.
Why does greed keep us from God?
When we constantly want what others have, then we have let greed overcome our need for God.
How is having pride different from being proud?
Having pride is more about our own glory and not about the glory of God. We need to glorify God in all that we do and pride stands in the way of that.
A Joyful Mission 