Good Morning! It's been some time since I have posted anything but I have a dear friend, Valencia Anderson, who wrote something I wanted to share with you all. So, here it is...
DIVINE INSIGHT
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."~ Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor
Never forget this truth: "The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
Have you ever looked at an image; yet was unable to accurately process what you saw? You looked, yet nothing registered. NOTHING. And while your physical eye was taking in an image, your brain somehow was unable to interpret what it was that you actually saw? Maybe the image was gruesome and so your brain --completely unprepared to digest that picture--refused to compute it?
I don't know what you're looking at right now. An empty pocketbook? A negative bank account? A betrayal or broken dreams? But I will tell you this: it's not what happens to us that shapes us but how we choose to respond to what happens to us that makes the difference. As Pastor Joel Osteen is quoted for saying,"Be a victor not a victim." You get to decide. Do you esteem your pain and disappointments over and above your forward progress? The word "esteem" means to to highly regard, to regard highly or favorably. What you focus on will expand. Thus, if within your mind's eye you have conditioned yourself to see only defeat, misery and additional disappointments, then no matter how glaringly obvious opportunity and favor are, you WILL NOT SEE IT! However, if you intentionally begin a reconditioning program in which you dutifully begin to "wash your mind" with new thoughts--I highly recommend the Bible--you will begin to experience transformation. Romans 12:2 says, "Be transformed by the renewing of your mind..." The word transform means: "to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose." Furthermore, it means: "to change in condition, nature, or character; convert."
Even if the change is slow at first. It's still change. It might be slow, but it will be sure and rock solid if you'll stick with it!
Like Marcus Aurelius said--and I am paraphrasing for emphasis--you have the power to revoke or take back your divine perspective at any moment. The choice is yours and mine. And when you take it back, it is amazing--even miraculous--how much you can "see"...opportunities that were right within your sphere all along waiting for you to seize them!
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