Keys to Successful Winning Relationships TIP #7

TIP #7

REALITY - that which is truth, that which is real

My Father says, "...walk in the truth"
What is the key factor that keeps you from facing reality in your life? YOU! You are the primary force that shapes your life. True, you have challenging influences all around you, but you are the determining factor that makes the choices of how you live your life and facing truth in your life.

Because we are so wonderfully made and full of wonder, and because we are born with the weapons that we need to face life and live it to the fullest, there is the age-old question, "Why don't we?" Is it because over the years we have given over ownership of our lives, or perhaps relinquished our authority or ability to take control and walk out our lives to the fullest? Could it be that we have lost our mate or someone very dear to us that loneliness has overtaken us, and we cannot fully regain the consciousness to move on?

What is the giant in your life that laughs in your face daily, and you just can't seem to conquer it? Could it be that when people around you whisper quietly you think they are talking about you, so you immediately get offended, which causes you much internal problems? When in truth what they were discussing had absolutely nothing to do with you. Could it be that you thought more highly of yourself than you should by thinking that they were talking about you in the first place? Could it be that we are so uncomfortable with ourselves that we make everyone else around us uncomfortable as well? We become selfish and self-centered, always wanting things to go our way. We want to be in control or we won't play anymore. Sounds pretty childish when put on paper, doesn't it?

Maybe you are a sloppy housekeeper but your best friend is a glorious housekeeper. Keeps you on that inferior list, doesn't it? If you feel inferior about that, then you probably battle with inferiority in other areas of your life as well.

Maybe you battle with that green-eyed demon of jealousy. Now that one can really suck the life out of its owner. It is a very suffocating thing to be carrying around the weight of jealousy.

What about FEAR? Especially in the day in which we are living, people are living in fear of so many things which robs them of peace and rest. Today, many people are living under the weight of so much debt, and that one seems to be getting heavier. Maybe you are a grandparent who is having to shoulder the responsibility
of raising your grands simply because your son or daughter got into alcohol or drugs or some other vice, and you are now their guardian.

I haven't touched the surface of the problems many people are facing, but, whatever it is you are battling, don't you think it is time to take responsibility, FACE REALITY, do a 180 degree turn and start walking the other direction? When we face reality,
look defeat in the face and declare "enough!", ask for help from above, then our lives have a starting point to leave defeat behind and start walking in victory - one day at the time.

Keep walking forward..keep walking forward...face the challenge with a changed attitude, not a defeated one, and promise yourself that you will NEVER GIVE UP. Allow joy, peace and happiness to begin to overtake you and do not allow the enemy to defeat you again. You do this by making right choices, regardless of the challenge.

So you get knocked down. Get right back up and keep walking forward. Exercise your laughter, rise above the situation, and allow God's peace to carry you onward.

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