March 10. Rolling Stones Every Day.
Powerful perspectives from the past and present.
Sometimes the past can be a powerful tool. We might define the last ninety days as our immediate past. Those last ninety days can be very telling of your strengths. To focus on the strengths and successes can really help us shape the next seven days which is what I like to think as the present.
Viewing the next seven days as our present is a powerful concept because we know that we are going to run into challenges in the next seven days. It could be that a natural disaster might hit your business, or an employee might have to call in sick.
Things are going to change and if our brains will allow us to be the best we can be, we can make the most of the opportunities before us. Can we see the opportunities in the challenges before us in the present?
Can we ask ourselves what would you like the result to look like if we were on the other side of the challenge? Many times, our brain will want to merely survive a change as we fear loss during change.
But connecting with others who have a different perspective is one manner of changing perspective from fear to past and present comparison. Who might you help to do some time bending of past and present? Your will likely change by helping another.
We read the resurrection story in the Bible and see that the women prepared to go to the tomb after the Sabbath. It starts in Mark 16:1 NLT. They had witnessed the cross, the death and even went and acquired the spices needed for the tomb.
The old pattern of what happens for a funeral was just processing along. It says they thought, "How will we move the stone?" They show up and the stone does not need to be rolled away. That started a major change.
They see someone or something at the tomb and they are told to go tell the disciples what they saw! How about that for a change? As Christians, we need to be the best we can by being in the here and now. What opportunities or challenges are in front of you right now?
Remove the fear for a moment and think about your biggest challenge. Maybe that change is like a stone rolled away for you. If Jesus were to move the stone away from your biggest challenge, how would life change for you? Christ offers us the ability to bend towards his way of life.
How might we question ourselves about the changes we could make if we allow Jesus to be more present in the next seven days? Today is a great day to collaborate with Christ. What opportunity or challenge will you allow him to assist you with?
Let us pray, Heavenly Father, your birds are somewhere singing this morning. They sing their songs of joy and of warnings. May we recognize the joy and the challenges that this day presents us. Open our eyes that we might see the stones rolled away as an opportunity to see Christ in our lives.
Help us to be what you have called us to be. Make the fears that come upon us today be remolded into action that bring you glory. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen,
