Any teaching, any frame of mind or thought which teaches people that they have to feel a certain way in order to be at peace - that very teaching will bring people into bondage.
We do not need to feel better.
We need to be set from the bondage of ourselves.
More specifically, though, we need to be set free from the bondage of our flesh and our old man, which we inherited from Adam.
Life and that more abundantly - this is the double-fold, untold gift which we receive from Jesus, the Author and Finisher of Faith!
God is greater than our minds, greater than our circumstances, and greater than anyone or anything that man or woman would try to put in His way.
The journey for me has required me to see that He is really all in all, and that we cannot put him to the side in any way, shape, or form.
We cannot be set free from frustration and fears in our lives if we continue to believe that a life of struggle and strife is the only way to accomplish anything.
We are not living this life in our strength. We live because He lives.
When we struggle in some way, we are struggling because we are viewing life from our limited, flawed perspective, instead of seeking to see things from His.
From His perspective, then, we stop seeing things about ourselves, or in ourselves.
That's life!
So, the one thing that we have to do, then, is to let not our hearts be troubled.
Our hearts are not troubled when we see Him, when we believe on Him (John 6: 29).
Yet if you are convinced that this life is not about knowing Him, but trying to do more, then we will find ourselves going in circles, never getting anywhere or anything, for we have forgotten that we can do nothing, not one thing, apart from Him (John 15: 5)
Let not your heart be troubled, because He has given you a new heart, and a new spirit (Hebrews 8: 10-12), and now His spirit and His grace leads you.
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