Only One Negative

There is only one negative that can destroy us and that is a negative thought; and not that we don’t all have them because we do but the one’s that overcome don’t choose to focus on the negative but rather on God.  When Job was at his lowest, the enemy kept one person around who was closest to him and I am pretty sure he valued his wife of many years and who bore him 10 children opinion.  She told him to “Curse God and die”.  No one knows for sure why she said something so foolish, but it was up to Job to make up his own mind and come to a decision to trust God regardless.  Oftentimes we are our own worst enemy because the enemy can do no more than God allows.  He cannot make the choice for us to stay in faith.  If we could see how the process would bring us to our expected end, we would believe, but that is not how faith works.  Faith believes in impossibility; so there is no planning or preparation.  You can either take up your bed and walk or keep lying in the same paralyzed position.  Faith asks you, “Do you believe that Jesus can do it for you?”  “Do you believe that there is power in the name of Jesus?” Sometimes it takes going in the dark rooms of life in order for what God is trying to show you and bring you into to be developed.