Consider those undesirable circumstances you’re dealing with. Very often, life will cause us to be consumed with those things that we’d much rather not have to deal with. The Holy Spirit will work to point us inward, when we’re trying to use all of our energy to focus on the outward to make things better. We consume ourselves with the situations surrounding us. But the Holy Spirit reveals clarity by directing us away from what’s consuming us on the outside, to what’s (Who’s) sustaining us on the inside. It’s not about the situation you’re in. It’s about the you that’s in your situation. God uses life’s circumstances to divinely and strategically expose us to what is or what is not on the inside of us. God won’t manipulate the situation you’re in to your liking. But He will manage it to your making. He is the potter. We are the clay. As we struggle trying to manipulate our lives, God wants us to position ourselves so that He can master our lives. God uses what we deal with on the outside to shape us on the inside. He turns pain into purpose; test into testimonies; and misery into ministries. When what’s on the outside tries to get on the inside, what’s been developed on the inside will come out. If we want to be vessels for God’s glory, we must be filled with what glorifies God. Our input will determine our output.
*Tressa Jo
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