“What I feared has
come upon me;
what I dreaded has happened to me.”
Job 3:25
“Keep this Book of
the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be
careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and
successful.”
Joshua 1:8
Picture a boxing
ring.
The announcer calls
the corners –
“Ladies and Gentlemen
– in this corner, the heavyweight champion
of fear and dread –
Job 3:25!”
He then goes on to
announce the contender -
“And in this corner,
the heavyweight champion of meditation on the Word of God - Joshua 1:8!”
Sometimes that is how
I picture my thought life.
Like a battle raging
between what I should be thinking about in one corner and what I shouldn’t be
thinking about in the other corner.
No wonder life seems
to deliver so many knock out punches to us.
No wonder we seem to
be down on the mat for the ten count.
Our thinking too
often focused at the ‘end of the glove’ of fear and dread.
Perhaps without
realizing it Job was declaring the law of concentration
which says:
“Whatever you focus
on you increase.”
God directs Joshua (and
you and me) to the champion in the other corner:
meditation on His
Word.
So whose corner do
you want to be in today?
For that matter –
whose corner do you want to stay in?
If you had to coach
one of these champions how would you do it?
May I suggest you
coach the one who makes you more Christ like.
May I also suggest
your coaching go something like this –
“We’re turning off
the TV, we’re shutting down those websites, we are going to eliminate those
distractions out of your life and we are going to examine Christ’s life, His
response to the enemy, His ‘fight strategy’.
We are making Him our
focus above all else.
His Word will become
our 24/7 companion.
We will not entertain
fear, worry or dread.”
As we do that, as we
make that our practice we will see more and more the opponent on the mat for
the ten count while we continue to stand in God’s grace, protection and
provision!
Are you ready for
Round 1?
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