“Victorious living is not an instant arrival – It is the pursuit of one victorious day at a time until we begin forming victorious habits in the Lord!” – Beth Moore ‘Praying God’s Word’
Interruptions in life are things that happen to cause us to question where we are in life. If our lives were 100% balanced there would be no need for a Savior! God NEVER intended our lives to be ‘flatlined’ to a point that we can’t feel our heart beat! The ‘interruption’ of the heartbeat in our body is how we KNOW we are alive.
The same is true in the Believer’s walk! The interruptions of life are an assurance that we are ALIVE and in desperate need of a Savior to help us every day!
Anything that occurs in our lives that upsets the balanced calm of life is indeed an interruption. Some examples of interruptions are:
Children Money Issues Illness
Fast Paced Life Distractions Marriage
Work Issues Doubt that God is at work
God has a way of teaching us through the INTERRUPTIONS OF LIFE – lessons that we need to become the ‘Victorious Living Christian’ that He intends us to be. The truth is that we MUST choose Him over the interruptions!
So many Christians believe that God causes the problems of life and they turn away from Him. The opposite is what God’s Word teaches! God teaches that when we come up against the things that we don’t understand; the things that cause our calm life to be interrupted; that we will look past them to see Him and seek His help and guidance in this life! God gets the glory for that!
Some interruptions are large and others are small; but through them all our goal should be to stay focused on God and His ultimate plan for us! In Romans 8:28 the Bible says “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” This Bible truth is true in whatever ‘interruption’ you may be having right now! Our job is to believe the truth and see past it!
How do we overcome the interruptions of life? One victorious step at a time until we are living the ‘Victorious Life’ that we are intended to live! It does not happen overnight! It takes time and many interruptions for the believer to be able to have enough wisdom to see God on the other side of each interruption.
So many people let the interruptions of life take them down into defeat. The believer’s life should never end in defeat! God gives us EVERY opportunity to turn the interruption into a moment where we KNOW that God is working even though everything in the world says the opposite! This really is the key to living victoriously - Living the life that God intends!
We look at the interruption and find God in it. We don’t ‘try’ to find God; we don’t ‘figure out the circumstance’ and ‘think’ God is in it; We accept what has happened and FIND OUT THAT GOD is with us and let the interruption mold us for the Kingdom! God will ALWAYS use these interruptions to help others find Him!
Here are four ways to understand that God IS with us in the interruptions of life:
© Discipline in obedience ~ God desires that we learn from the interruptions of life! James 1:2-6
© Direction in victorious living ~ God WANTS us to understand that interruptions are vital in order to grow our perseverance in this world – to see the direction God is taking us! James 1:12
© Deciding to follow Jesus ~ We have to clean up our act and DECIDE to follow Jesus! God wants us to be obedient to Him and use our interruptions for more than just listening purposes. James 1:19-22
© Devotion leads to VICTORY! ~ Really living in victory in this life is a win-win situation for the believer! Not only do we get a crown of life in Heaven; but we will lead others to live in victory also! James 1:25
God’s intent for the believer’s life is that we will see EVERYTHING that happens to us or is in our lives as something that can mold us and make us into an active, motivated, VICTORIOUS believer in Christ!
There is nothing that can happen to us in this life that should keep us from believing in the ONE who gave His life for us. All these things that happen to us in life called ‘INTERRUPTIONS’ are only moments in time that we can use to capture the very essence of the Lord! We have to be able to look past the pain, past the inconvenience, past the problems of the moment and see the bigger picture.
We are so focused sometimes that we forget what the bigger picture really is! Spend some time this week looking at what is going on in your own life that God could be using as an ‘interruption’ so that you can see Him at work in you!
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