When going through any circumstance in life, whether great or seemingly insignificant, and you get overwhelmed and lose sight of eternity - take a step back! Examine how you have handled the experience. Talk to Christ about your feelings, actions, responses to people "attacking" you, and listen for His still small voice of comfort - or in some cases conviction. We all expect to hear comfort from God in life's circumstances, when we more than likely should be listening for the convicting whispers because we haven't taken a step back and evaluated our sin and confessed it to God.
We get too caught up in our circumstances when we should look at this existence as God intended it - a chance to bring Him glory by making Him and His salvation known to the world. How well can we make Christ known when we are blinded by our own life's circumstances? Not well at all! Get some godly perspective! That's what I learned through the battery incident.
Some of you have heard the case of the missing battery.
For those of you who have not, here it goes. Someone took one battery out of the remote control for the T.V. Why? No one knows! No one also knows who... for sure. The guards did three separate shake-downs, two inmate pat-downs, and many serious ultimatums from the jail's captain, himself! It's just a battery! But it's the principle of the thing. The jailers need control. A missing battery (or anything for that matter) does not equal control; it equals chaos. All the inmates began speculating about the threats about losing good-time or work release/ S.T.S. (sentence-to-serve) privileges if the culprit didn't fess up. There were very heated discussions about who took it and accusations, name-calling, and chances for the culprit to confess. We didn't all want punishment for one person's stupidity! I, too, got caught up in the atmosphere of chaos. I didn't want to lose work release privileges! I didn't take a step back and view it from God's perspective of eternity.
He would still protect no matter what could have happened! Ultimately, the two "main suspects" that the guards had on camera were booted out of the cell and lost privileges. There wasn't enough valid proof to accuse. The rest of us had no T.V. for two weeks as corporal punishment (Praise God for that!), and I learned a valuable lesson!
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