No Way Out

You’ve tried it all! Anything and everything you can think of you’ve done to bring a change to the difficulty you find yourself in. Now, your circumstances have grown to be intolerable.

Enough is enough. You want out!

This is a sad reality for many of us. We don’t like the situations we find ourselves in.

Over time, we may have tried many things to force change. A different hairstyle, a new

wardrobe, a fun time with friends, a vacation. When we’ve exhausted the attempts to change

within ourselves, we may consider making life altering moves, but find our circumstances keep us captured where we are. When we continue to be frustrated and exasperated by people around us, believing they are the reason for the struggles and difficulties we may resort to manipulating

them. We will do so with anyone to get our way, to bring the changes we want in our lives. We

want changes now, and we want them our way, we want to be in control.

If we are in control, life will work.

We believe this is the solution.

Is it? Have you tried it?

It may work for a while. However, soon those manipulated tire of being a puppet and tire of

being controlled. Then, it’s back to the beginning and everything seems worse. We have placed

all our hope for change in outer circumstances, in people, places and things.

Years of living this way can only leave us tired. The reality of our need to control life to bring

joy and happiness has brought the opposite effect. We’ve created a situation where there is

no way out.

Is this all there is to life? Will changes ever come?

When we start to ask these questions, life feels like it is doomed. We are trapped in a life we do

not want.

Do you find yourself in situations that bring you no joy, satisfaction, or expectation for any good

to come? When this has become our reality, our emotions and resultant feelings are determining

our days. Not only do our emotional responses determine our days, but they determine the very

moments throughout the day (Luke 6:45; James 3:6).

Perhaps the changes we need to make are to our thought process, and not outer appearances, or

the need to manipulate another (Romans 12:2). Maybe we need to learn to reconsider our reality. What is real

and true about the circumstances we find ourselves in? Are they as bad as we think they are, or

have we allowed them to control our thoughts, rather than correct thinking, right, honest, fair and

just thinking to undergird the situations and people that are possibly difficult for us to deal with (Philippians 4:8)?

When we’re locked into a difficult situation often the change that needs to be made, the one that

will give us the strength and courage to continue, remains within us. How we think about our

circumstances holds the key. Changed thoughts are the way out; they give us the endurance, the

disciplined determination to live differently. To live victoriously(Psalm 43:5).

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