Walking under ladders, black cats crossing your path, breaking of a mirror, opening an umbrella inside, throwing a pinch of salt over your shoulder, crossing your fingers, knocking on wood, picking up a pin so all day long you'll have good luck... well today is Friday the 13th; So how superstitious are you?
Will today bring you misfortune per superstitions or will today be blessed and prosperous? The choice is not from old wives tales or vain superstitions; the choice is clearly yours and how you perceive God's intentions! So now you get to choose; Will you follow man's superstitions or follow after God?
I find it amazing how we will quickly avoid walking under a ladder, get all anxious and fearful at breaking a mirror, dread Friday the 13th, and God forbid if a black cat crosses our paths. How quickly we attempt to counteract these freaky occurrences....Really? Are we as Christians really going to allow vain superstitions to guide our thinking and bring on misfortune instead of trusting God to watch over us, His Children, as we go about our day? Have we forgotten Whose we are?
God is God 24 hrs a day seven days a week, regardless of any given calendar day or any given superstition and He changes not! What we make of each day is clearly up to what and who we choose to follow and what we allow to cloud our minds. Jesus warns us in John 10:10, " The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly." So why would we allow satan to rob us of one single moment of peace when we belong to God through Christ Jesus!
Paul reminds us in 2 Timothy 1:7, "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind" and again in Philippians 4:7,"and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus" and Proverbs 4:23 encourages us to "Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life."
So dear friends, let's lay aside those vain superstitions and adhere to the Word of God that surpasses all our thinking and let's look forward to each moment God has given in peace and harmony as we guard our hearts with all diligence, knowing whose we are in Christ Jesus! Let's live each moment God has given in peace, and let's enjoy life to the fullest in Christ Jesus and all He supplies!
May each of you enjoy this wonderfully blessed day because God loves you and so do I~~
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