one thing that will work when you can’t change something…

now there’s only one thing that will work when you can’t change something and that is this – acceptance.  i must accept GOD’s will in my life.  YOUr kingdom come, YOUr will be done.

now understand that not everything that happens in you life is GOD’s will.  i’m not saying that.  but you say,  “GOD, i want YOUr will in my life when there’s things out of my control and i can’t change them.”

now the apostle paul understood this.  in philippians 4.11 (ncv) he says this, i’ve learned to be satisfied with the things that i have and with everything that happens. 

how many of you can say, i’ve learned to be satisfied with everything that happens?  i couldn’t raise my hand on that one.  paul is saying, “i have learned to be content, to be satisfied with the things i have and everything that happens.”

verses 12 & 13 (ncv), i know how to live when i am poor and i know how to live when i have plenty.  i have learned the secret of being happy at any time in everything that happens… i can do all things through CHRIST because HE gives me strength.

notice the amazing thing about this verse, paul wrote it when he was in prison.  he’s in rome, chained to a guard in a dungeon and he’s saying, i’ve learned how to be happy no matter what’s going on in my life.  he couldn’t change his circumstance but he said i’ve learned to be content. 

just a thought from the front porch…