Day 11~Don't Make Mountains out of Molehills~ "Choosing your battles"
If this is your first day reading along, I am currently studying through Joyce Meyer's book 100 ways to simplify your life.
11) Don't Make Mountains out of Molehills~ "Choosing your battles"
"Better never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you. For you're sure to make your trouble double double trouble when you do." ~ David Keppel
Our scripture reading is found in John 14:27 that reads, " Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.]
Mountains or Molehills~ "Choosing your battles"
Umm! yeah I paused for a moment! ...........................Don't make mountains out of molehills...............Sometimes I fall into a trap with this one. Satan is the master mind behind getting us all irritated and annoyed. He knows what pushes our buttons. Once he has us going we start to loose our peace and then he robs us our joy. Then we start to OVERREACT!!! According to Webster's Dictionary, overreact means to respond more emotionally or forcibly than is justified. I guarantee many of us have completely overreacted to a situation that was made bigger than it was. In 6th grade, we could join the marching band after we had completed both flute books. Another requirement was to be able to keep time with tapping our foot. One of our practices, I was feeling humiliated when I was left standing and was told I wouldn't be able to be in the marching band. That feeling of never going to be nothing and feeling stupid overwhelmed me. I was so upset, that when I came home and said to my Dad, " Take back this flute you bought me, I need new feet in order to be in band." Everybody laughed but I was crying. I felt defeated because I loved music. I had one more practice until the final cut off for marching band. That whole weekend before I practiced tapping my foot over and over again. I was even tapping my foot to my favorite songs on the radio until I found rhythm. I walked into my next practice to play my required piece and when I was finished, my music teacher was silent. Then said, " See you next band practice." I had this happen again when I was in another church and I was singing my own songs for the first time. I was told that I sounded awful and I was not called to sing. I was told that people weren't being moved by my songs that I was wasting my time. I wasn't singing to move people, I was singing to God! Was I upset? Yes! I didn't say anything back! I just smiled and said," Jesus, it's for you!"
Final Thought~
According to Mark 11:23, " I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain,'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him." If we believe our doubts and fears subside! They have no power over us. What looks like a mountain is simply a molehill in how one perceives it to be. So choose your battles wisely and have faith that God will work it out.
Reference:
Meyer, J. (2007). 100 ways to simplify your life. New York, NY : FaithWords.
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