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| Be A Self-Editor -- #10 Christians Need Motivation Too |
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Quotation: “The only way to eliminate stress and pain is to stop doing the things that create it. It is easy to see what others do to us while we forget the drama we create for ourselves.” –Iyanla Vanzant
Comments on the Motivation Quotation: The good news: the stress and pain in our life can be eliminated! The not so good news: we will have to change our behavior and our thinking to ease our pain (and it won’t be easy).
We often are not able change what others do to us. If we focus on them and their behaviors toward us, we will become even more hurt and frustrated.
Our hope to ease our pain must be centered on what we can control; and that is our own behaviors and our own thinking. So, today, instead of blaming the behavior of others, why not take aim at your own behavior and work on self-improvement? Why not work extra hard to stop doing and to stop thinking the things that create and/or add to your stress and pain?
Ask yourself these questions: How am I adding to my stress and pain? How am I complicating my life? What are my self-destructive behaviors and self-destructive thoughts? How can I eliminate them from my life?
Then rewrite your life. Be a self-editor. Take the stressful drama scenes out of your life. Write in more joy and inspiration, mission and purpose.  |
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| January 28, 2009 |
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Steve, we cannot change any of what others do to us but we can change how we react to them. The only thing that comes close to getting someone else to behave a different way is through manipulatin and who wants to do that.
As you wrote, the focus needs to be on ourselves, the only thing we can control. Sometimes we may even find that we are somehow contributing to the situation that is causing us pain. |
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| January 28, 2009 |
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I LOVE THIS.........
Ask yourself these questions: How am I adding to my stress and pain? How am I complicating my life? What are my self-destructive behaviors and self-destructive thoughts? How can I eliminate them from my life?
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| January 28, 2009 |
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| I am thankful to the only One who can truly edit out all the stupid mistakes of my life, Jesus. |
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| January 28, 2009 |
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| Thanks for the comments and stars! |
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| January 28, 2009 |
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"we will have to change our behavior and our thinking to ease our pain (and it won’t be easy)."
It will be absolutely impossible without being open to the grace of God and the action of the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son to be the helper of our flawed human nature for ever. Jesus says , " I am the vine, you are the branches. He who lives in me and I in him, will produce abundantly, for apart from me you can do nothing." Jn 15:5. We are all works in progress at various faltering stages on the journey. So long as we expect full and constant happiness through human relationships we condemn ourselves to certain disappointment. 1 Pet 1:3-12. In God alone can we trust. To the extent that we, or any with whom we have to deal, refuse to acknowledge God and his word and resist the Holy Spirit who would counsel us, we will continue to create discord. Proverbs 6:16-19 tells us that God's inner being detests such behaviour. It is a rejection of reconciliation. It is a rejection of the Son without whom we can do nothing. It is a rejection of grace. If there is a sin that leads to death, this would have to be it. We are well advised to repent seven times seventy times and believe the Good News and try again do it.Mk 1:15 and 1 Jn 5:14-21.
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| January 28, 2009 |
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| amen |
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| January 29, 2009 |
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| Part of it is to learn to reject the temptation to feel sorry for yourself or get angry or whatever , someone told a group of us to ask Jesus to be our shiled against the arrows of the enemy when we felt them coming, and it does work. Another important thing is to learn forgiveness. I've often found it helpts to think of Jesus, he loved Judas to thebiter end and tried to win him, though he knew what he was going to do. Our own grievances are ususally very small in comparison. |
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| January 29, 2009 |
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| Self-editing is a fruit of the Spirit from Galatians chapter 5 called self-control. |
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| January 29, 2009 |
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Great blog Steve, as I was reading, my thoughts went back to, am I going to allow
negative or positive to influence me. It does come down to how we react.
We are constantly faced with a decision to make. Man, self control is a good fruit!
Long-suffering, need I go on?!
Love these thought provoking blogs.
And without the presence of the Lord to guide us where would we be?
Blessings of Peace Brother. |
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| January 29, 2009 |
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| Thank you so much, Sis Cece. |
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| January 29, 2009 |
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| welcome pain as a friend. Pain tells us something is wrong, something need to be change, corrected or stop. Pain openly rebuke us, exposes us but never kiss us .Isn't that a biblical discription of a freind? What stresses us is that we treat pain as an enemy, something which we do not like to have. Try treating pain as a friend, stress will no longer be there. |
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