Establish Your Mindset!

Anita Delene Manthe
Jun 17, 2017
2 min read

Did you think life would be easy, plain sailing, without struggles, inconveniences and opposition when the Lord saved you? I did! Looking back I now know it was my naiveté that caused a lack in preparation for many of life’s little and big concerns. Knowing my reality – who and what I was prior to my salvation I don’t know how life would have ended up had the Lord not intervened and extended merciful grace to me. What about you? Where would you be?

He saves the weak, and makes them strong – He did this for me, and I am sure He did it for you too. Then He prepares, teaches and strengthens us. Usually this is accomplished through struggles and trials – He chooses them.

I was not prepared for His teaching tools – and did not expect the Christian life to be filled with so many difficulties, misunderstandings, and hurts. At times it seems like they either came all at once or in quick succession. Has this been your experience? When it is, I have learned, we have a choice in how to respond. We can be totally overwhelmed with what is occurring, or we can look forward. We can look ahead. Looking toward our destiny, our future and depending on the Lord for moment by moment strength to endure we will be victorious.

Where do you find your strength to endure? Is your heart set on your destiny, your future? Or, are you distracted by the fiery trials you may be experiencing? What are they? Do your trials threaten to become pits of destruction because you’ve lost the vision of your destiny – the end goal? Have you neglected his Word, prayer, and mediation on Truth to keep you anchored in the faith?

The Lord promises us we will be blessed when we find our strength in Him, when we set our hearts on the end goal – the prize – future glory!

Are you able to look to the future with an established and settled mindset? One that looks to the Lord – the author and perfecter of your faith?

Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God (Hebrews 12:1-2).
Blessed are those whose strength is in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage (Psalm 84:5).
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you (Philippians 4:9).
The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him. The LORD is the strength of his people (Psalm 28:7-8).
Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O LORD, God of hosts (Jeremiah 15:16).
Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart (Psalm 119:11).