Here is the Part Two to the awesome Part One yesterday. I sure hope that all of you christians are listening. If you arent a christian then you need to move on. This is not for you, you wouldnt understand. Only a christian, with the love of Jesus in their heart, can heed this lesson. I have been growing towards heeding this lesson for 20+ years, but starting this year, 2014, I actually learned to change my cants to wonts, thus learning that by changing the wonts to musts, I have!!! Oh, I wish I could share it all with you but we dont have all day now do we? I will tell you that tomorrow will be 2 full weeks on the Better Health Gods Ways changes Ive made, (I still have changes to make, but Im going slow so that I will be more apt to make it.) and I am here to tell you, I am feeling better and better. My brain/thinking is improving, Im a little more alert, etc. I am so looking forward to each week looking back to see how much better I am! This is not through my power but through the one who lives in me. It is He that gives me strength! Thank you Jesus. Insight for Today: Cant . . . or Wont? Part Two Cant . . . or Wont? Part Two Posted: 14 Jul 2014 10:00 PM PDT Ephesians 3:14, 16 If you havent read yesterdays reading, Id like to ask you to do that. Its crucial that you understand that God has given Christians an extra inner reservoir of power that is more than a match for the stuff life throws at us. In the verses we studied yesterday (Philippians 4:13; 2 Corinthians 12:9; Ephesians 3:14, 16; 2 Peter 1:4; 1 Corinthians 10:13), its called several things: strength, power, divine nature, ability. So, if we have this miraculous ability, why do we struggle so? Lets get specific. It often boils down to the choice of two common words in our vocabulary. Little words, but, oh, so different! Cant and wont. Christians need to be very careful which one they choose. It seems that we prefer to use cant. I just cant get along with my wife. My husband and I cant communicate. I cant discipline the kids like I should. I just cant give up the affair Im having. I cant stop overeating. I cant find the time to pray. I cant quit gossiping. No, any Christian who takes seriously those five passages we looked at (there are dozens more) will have to confess the word really should be wont. Why? Because we have been given the power, the ability to overcome. Literally! And therein lies hope in hoisting anchors that would otherwise hold us in the muck and mire of blame and self-pity. One of the best books Ive encountered on overcoming depression is a splendid work by two physicians, Minirth and Meier. The volume is appropriately entitled Happiness Is a Choice. These men agree that: As psychiatrists we cringe whenever [Christian] patients use the word cant. . . . Any good psychiatrist knows that I cant and Ive tried are merely lame excuses. We insist that our patients be honest with themselves and use language that expresses the reality of the situation. So we have our patients change their cants to wonts. . . . If an individual changes all his cants to wonts, he stops avoiding the truth, quits deceiving himself, and starts living in reality. . . . I just wont get along with my wife. My husband and I wont communicate. I wont discipline the kids like I should. I just wont give up the affair Im having. I wont stop overeating. I wont find the time to pray I wont quit gossiping. Non-Christians have every right and reason to use cant, because they really cant! They are victims, trapped and bound like slaves in a fierce and endless struggle. Without Christ and His power, they lack what it takes to change permanently. They dont because they cant! It is a fact . . . a valid excuse. But people like us? Hey, lets face it; we dont because we wont . . . we disobey because we want to, not because we have to . . . because we choose to, not because were forced to. The sooner we are willing to own up realistically to our responsibility and stop playing the blame game at pity parties for ourselves, the more well learn and change and the less well burn and blame. I wish I could find a less offensive way to communicate all this, but I just cant. Oops! If theres a wont in your life that youve been calling a cant, talk it over now with God. Excerpted from Come Before Winter and Share My Hope, Copyright © 1985, 1988, 1994 by Charles R. Swindoll, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide. Used by permission.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:48:23 +0000
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