choices during chaos

What do you do when everything seems to be in chaos? Or maybe it is not chaos and just the struggle that comes with life.

We all face challenges. Some are big. Some are small. Some are irritations while others are fiercely difficult with huge results that you have to deal with for some time. No matter the size, no matter the challenge, God is still with us.

Here are some thoughts for this Friday of how to deal with the challenges that come our way.

Be still.

Psalm 46:10 NLT

“Be still, and know that I am God! I will be honored by every nation. I will be honored throughout the world.”

Choose peace.

John 14:27 NASB

Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.

Think right.

2 Corinthians 10:5 NASB

We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,

Be strengthened by God.

Ephesians 3:16 NASB

that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man,

The choice is yours. The choice is mine. I can dwell in the chaos and live in fear and struggle. Or I can live above it.

A great quote from the recent movie “My Brother’s Crossing” stands out to me, and I leave you with this… “The high road might be harder, but the view is always better.”

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