Showing posts with label Self-motivation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Self-motivation. Show all posts

October 23, 2013

Stop Taking Jeremiah 29:11 Out of Context

It's one of our favorite verses—but we've gotten it all wrong. It’s written on graduation cards, quoted to encourage a person who can’t seem to find God’s well and doled out like a doctor explaining a prescription: Take Jeremiah 29:11 a few times, with a full glass of water, and call me in the morning. I think you’ll feel better. “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future’” Jeremiah 29:11 tells us—possibly one of our most beloved, yet most misunderstood, verses in the entire Bible. Sure, it...

September 20, 2013

Are You Too Hard on Yourself???

I have a feeling that I am not the only person who has a list of things I wish I should not have done, or said, or thought in my life. Sometimes my mind will suddenly remind me of something I did back in middle school and I start beating myself up mentally for it yelling silently “why did I do that”, “what was I thinking” then insecurity and lack of confidence sets in. Or mistakes in later life, in general doing what I thought was right, and not what is in a plan for a happy life. God can deliver you from being too hard on yourself, and he desperately wants to remind...