Do you feel it? The expectations, financial choices, work decisions, health, education, parenting, marriage, friendships.......God?!!! Pressure is a part of life. It is even worse when we allow the outside influences to be louder than Truth.
Pilate knew Jesus was innocent and let the pressure get to him.
John 19:12 From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jews kept shouting, "If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar."
How do we do it? When the pressure is on and the crowd is taunting us, how do we make our decisions?
Romans 12:1-2 (msg) So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
There is always a better plan and a better way....God's way. We are a work in progress, development takes time. I love knowing that He is working through me. I love knowing I can embrace Him and He changes me. The pressure I feel doesn't come from not living up to God's expectation, it comes from the things around me that fight and pull and tear at the things I know to be right. I want to be transformed into the woman God sees me as. I want to align my priorities with His.
Take some of the pressure off and stop trying to be the thing everyone else wants you to be and be the person God already knows you are.
Please pray for Verla K
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