9/5/24- Divine Perseverance

Do we choose the people we allow ourselves to walk with in this life?

As humans, we are impacted with our surroundings. As a young child, we are mold-able and always gathering and processing information from our environment. The environment we grow up in is one we arrive into. God placed us with our Mother and Father to start our life.

Sometimes hardships we endure as a young child, require us as young adults to seek support from others. Sometimes that help we need is self-driven. Ultimately, we are called to rely on God Himself. All three of these components are required to make it through life in the best possible way.

Our childhood molds us and imprints on our personalities. Even if we have been blessed with a stable and loving environment from day one, God still wants us to work everyday on transforming into a better version of ourselves. Someone who loves other’s well, and yet someone who doesn’t try to carry other people’s loads. Life can get too heavy when we try to take on other's burdens.

Choice continues to play such a major role in each and every day that we walk through life. God created all of us to be independent and individuals, so that each one of us would be able to figure out how to survive. We all must face our own challenges in life, learn to rise up, and persevere. Choose wisely those you walk through life with, and remember that God is ultimately in control.

Interestingly enough, when looking up the word "control" in the concordance of my Bible, control was not listed. Yet, another reminder that God guides us through life with love. He is the authority over all creation, and yet He does not claim to control us.

Psalm 31: 23

"Oh, love the Lord, all you His saints!

For the Lord perseveres the faithful,

And fully repays the proud person."