Strength, Hope and Thoughts

Strong, steadfast, preserve, endure, and on and on it goes. Those are all word we have heard at some point in life, weather it us running a race and the coach says keep going you got it, or when life gets rough there is always that one person who say you can find the strength to see beyond this situation. But what about what Jesus is saying? I know every day He is telling us that we have the strength to rise above and live up to his standard. Lately he has been telling me to rely upon his strength and only what he thinks. Because really it does only matter what he thinks and if we actually listened to what He says we wouldn't find ourselves in sin. We would actually love that person that just cut us off in traffic, we would look in the mirror and boldly say I am beautiful because God created me and He makes no flaws in his creations. And depression and sadness won't over take us because if God says we will find strength to rise upon the wings of eagles He means that. Over ANY SITUATION to find his strength and rise above it. Now that is way easier said than done. But to rely on God and say YOU are my strength and in you I find peace and hope. I was reading through psalms tonight and many verse go along the line of " God under your wings I find refuge, in you I find my strength" It is in Him we will find our strength not part of Him, not once a week but In His presence every day, every hour we will find our strength through his amazing power and love. I want to have a heart like David (in psalms) to rise above my situations my pain and say God you are bigger than this, you are my portion my life and my hope. To realize that He won't ever leave us or abandon us but fully support us through everything. Every failure and every success. I know I don't want to have my strength on something that in the end might fail me, Jesus will never fail me it says that in the bible so why not just let Him be my strength in the times of trouble. Because we cannot and will never be able to do anything in our "own" strength, and if we look at it that way that is the spirit of pride hate to break it to you but we all have pride issues. It is only through Jesus and His STRENGTH that we will be able to overcome and make the right choice when temptation is sitting right in front of us. Strength that is what I long for and our God is so good he says asks and you shall receive. So I don't know about you but I am so ready to rely upon God's strength for the situations that look troubling to my physical eyes but hope rising for my faith eyes.

God Bless