Tuesday... No matter what, they couldn't keep me down.

Tuesday... No matter what, they couldn't keep me down. Can that be said of you? Would you like that to be said of you?

Disappointments and discouragements come into our lives, don't they? They are a part of life, they really are. But the writer of Psalm 129 says in verses 1 & 2 (MSG), " 'Tkey've kicked me around ever since I was young' - this is how Israel tells it - 'They've kicked me around ever since I was young, but they never could keep me down.' "

How do you handle disappointments? It is so easy to play the victim, isn't it? It is usually our first response but you don't have to stay there. You can say, "but they never could keep me down."

Here's the key. "But God wouldn't put up with it, he sticks with us." You are not alone. God is always with you but if you don't have a relationship with Him, if you don't believe that He is there, if you give into a victim response then He can't do anything with your situation. He wants to but our victim response holds Him back from lifting us up out of our despair and giving us what we need to not let the situation get us down. In other words to let God handle the situation and to bring good out of it.

The NLT puts it this way, verses 2-4, "From my earliest youth my enemies have persecuted me, but they have never defeated me. My back is covered with cuts, as if a farmer had plowed long furrows. But the Lord is good; he has cut me free from the ropes of the ungodly." That's what He wants to do in your life.

And then remember, verse 8b (NIV) says, "The blessing of the Lord be on you; we bless you in the name of the Lord." No matter what your situation, no matter your disappointment, your discouragement, may "The blessing of the Lord be on you." Now that is what God wants to do, what He can do if we reach out to Him and let Him do what He can do. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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Friday... Yes, we need them. We really do

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Wednesday... It didn't just happen.

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Tuesday... Each one of us see and describe what we are going through differently but...

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