Your Future Is Right Below Your Nose!
Are you talking about your mountains, or talking to your mountains?
The answer to some of our problems is right "on the tip of our tongue!"
The remedy for some of the things that are causing stress, depression, sickness, sin, and fear is "right below our nose!"
Most of us live our whole lives like a news reporter -- and most of what we report is "bad news."
When our closest friends greet us in the morning, how do we answer? Isn't it the expected thing to respond with: "Oh, you know, it's another Monday." or, "terrible, how about you?"
We have been conditioned to give a doom-and-gloom report all of our life.
Have you ever considered the reality of the nursery ryhmes we were taught since birth? (Actually, the message is pretty depressing: Jack & Jill; Humpty Dumpty; Little Miss Muffet; etc.)
How did we become so conditioned to repeat these cliche' sayings?:
- "That just thrills me to death."
- "I'm just dying to go."
- "I'm sick and tired of this..."
- "Nothing good ever happens for me."
- "It's just my luck that whatever can go wrong, will go wrong."
I think it should mean something to us, as true believers, when Jesus has said: "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks," (Matthew 12:34-35)
And, "We will have what we say," (Mark 11:23).
It should be a "wake up call" to us when our Bible says that "death and life are in the power of the tongue," and that we are "snared by the words of our mouth," and that "the course of nature is set on fire by the tongue." (See Proverbs 18:21; Proverbs 6:2; James 3:6; Ephesians 4:29.)
If we going to talk like news reporters, we should consider the "forecasters." They are telling about events that have not happened yet. Actually, we do that too! Some of the time we are forecasting a dismal future and speaking about probable failure.
We need to turn that around, and talk like God's promises are real. Look forward to God's goodness. The Bible says that we should imitate the Lord and, "call those things which do not exist, as though they did." (Romans 4:17.)
