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In life we all go through stuff, good stuff and bad stuff. Some like to compare it to “hills and valleys”: some times you are on the top and some times you are on the bottom. Others compare it to a “train track”: you will alway have good and bad in you life it is just haw you manage it. Whatever you chose to subscribe to is your prerogative, I want to talk about something that is for anyone and everyone, your perspective when you are facing discouraging circumstances, bad stuff, and feel like the world is out to get you.
So many times in life when we go through times we get focus on ourself. We do not think about anything else other than ourselves and what we are feeling and experiencing. In some ways we become self-cernter neglecting others, simply because we are so focused on ourselves. We get caught up in the questions, “Why is this happing to me?”, “What did I do?”, or “Am I such a bad person?” All of these things are centered on ourselves, but what it was not about you.
What if it was about someone else?
Through out history we see examples of individuals going through tremendous difficulties for others.
- Job (Old Testament Biblical Character): This guy went through the ringer. At first He only losses every possession that he has, which was a lot cause he was doing pretty good for himself. But then the guy gets boils all over his body, loses his family, and is brought to the brink of death. He did nothing to deserve this, the Bible says that Job was favored of the Lord. See God allowed him to go through these things to teach Job and others that love is not conditional. Also I can not tell you how many times that I have look at or heard a message taught on Job’s life. The things that Job went through, have helped believers face things for THOUSANDS of years.
- Joan of Arch: As a young girl she had a vision in a field that she would lead a victory in the Hundred Year War. She was an iconic figure that lead a nation but was not canonized until 1920, several hundred years after she was burned at the stake. She gave her life for her country, which shape her country. She lived and died for others.
- Abraham Lincoln: Live His life for his country, and gave his life for that of others. Not so that one day there would be a monument erected in memory of his life, rather that people different could fully live their lives.
- Jesus Christ: Gave His live a ransom for many (Matthew 20:28). Jesus lowed Himself to our level so that He might glorify the Father and to reconnect us to Him. Jesus in God, yet he chose to lower himself so that He might lift us up. His life was that of True Love, not concerned with what He can attain from the person being loved, rather just to love the person being loved, despite what they can or can not offer.
That being said maybe our questions could be different? What if they were not be solely focused on what we are going through and what the impact is having on us? What if we also asked what impact they were having on others?
Life isn’t just about what is happening to me or you, and everything we go through isn’t always about us. Sometime it’s about others and how we can help them as we are going through it, or we’ve went through it.
Love.
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