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DAY 9
Embrace
“to take captive every thought, to make it obedient to Christ.”
2 CORINTHIANS 10:5
Expecting God to do something amazing, like you were challenged to
do yesterday, is a huge step in experiencing what God has in store for
you. However, it’s not the end. Once you walk with an expectation that
God has a plan for you, and wants to work it out in your life, you have to
EMBRACE each and every opportunity that comes your way. You have
to see everything that goes on throughout your day as an opportunity
for God to work. If you are running late to work, don’t get frustrated
– embrace the fact that God might be protecting you from something
or guiding you towards something else. If you had an argument with a
friend or spouse, don’t ignore the feelings and emotions that led to the
pain, embrace them and allow God to use them to draw you closer to
Him – then embrace the opportunity to see God restore relationships.
Whatever you are dealing with today is not beyond the ability of God
to use it for our good and His glory – we simply need to embrace them.
Around the beginning of the 20th century, the Southern part of the United
States suffered deeply with boll weevil. It destroyed most of the cotton
crops at the time. George Washington Carver saw this as an opportunity
to embrace hardship and introduce change. So, he suggested that the
farmers rotate their crops, and instead of planting cotton, which was being
destroyed (and depleting the soil of its nutrients), plant peanuts, that will
help restore the ground. The idea worked perfectly – actually too perfect.
Peanut farming was so productive that tons of peanuts were simply laying
in warehouses rotting away. Most of us would have looked at the situation