Our
spirit is our dwelling place with God. When we live in the center of God's
Will, we dwell in the heavenly realm and everything that happens to us is in
the sphere of His purpose and control.
As
we view any circumstance from within our spirit, the physical and emotional and
mental aspects of the event are outside of our dwelling place and have no real effect
on who we really are in Christ.
We
know without a doubt that He has an eternal purpose for us in any experience
and that He will work out all of the details for our ultimate good (Romans 8:28).
Even
physical illness, loss, relational issues, financial disaster and every other
negative incident which may occur are in His control. We can rest in His
everlasting arms through it all.
If
we happen to slip out of our spirit and allow our self to feel the emotion or
physical pain of the experience, then it affects us negatively. But in the
spirit, it cannot touch us.
Jesus
experienced loss and grief a few times in His life. His good friend Lazarus
died and Jesus wept (John 1:35). He looked out over Jerusalem and grieved for
the coming destruction of His beloved city (Luke 19:41).
He
sweat drops of blood as He faced the cross and begged our Father to release Him
from the anguish of taking on the sin of the whole world and being rejected by
God (Luke 22:44).
Yet,
once He stepped back into His spirit in all of these situations, He accepted
God's will over His own desires and no longer suffered any negative
consequences from the trials of His body and soul (Hebrews 4:15).
This
happened in my life. After an auto accident, I was bruised, bleeding, had half
a face full of glass, broke my little finger and eleven ribs, and suffered a
concussion and a punctured lung.
I
totaled my car, but I was out of the hospital in one day, back to work as a
secretary in one week, and I never took one pain pill as I slowly healed over
the next three months.
That
was spirit over matter with a generous helping of God's grace (2 Corinthians
12:9).
Prayer:
Father
God, we know that nothing catches You by surprise and we can relax and look
forward to the miracle, which You place within every trial that we encounter.
You are in control regardless of what the circumstances look like or how much
suffering and turmoil we experience.
As
we view the experience from within our spirit, Your Spirit buffers any loss to
our body or soul. We know that the suffering is occurring, but it has no effect
on our attitude because we count it all joy (James 1:2-8).
Thought
of the Day:
A
Christian does not experience life through mind over matter, but through spirit
over matter; because though we suffer loss in this world, it does not affect
our eternal existence now or in the world to come.
