Hebrews 10:23-24

“Let us hold resolutely to the hope we confess, for He who promised is faithful.  And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds….” Hebrews 10:23-24

The launch pad of our decisions makes a great impact in our life and those around us.  

What I mean when I say “launch pad” I mean the “fuel” of a thought.  

We have a lot of thoughts… some negative and some positive... some we question "Where did that come from?" and some that seemingly have no purpose whatsoever…

Who do we allow to fuel our thoughts- who influences, sensors and transforms our thoughts? Do we ourselves fuel our thoughts? Of course!  Do we allow the opinions of others? On occasion.  Do we allow the world,  like television and social media? Quite possible.  Do we allow God?  

"Let us hold resolutely to the hope we confess"… What hope are you confessing in when you speak and act? 

What is being manifested?  What is regurgitated junk? What is living and breathing and needed and new?  God doesn't give us words that are dead for our soul but he breaths life into them and makes them new and deeper. 

I don’t know about you but this human condition had influenced my soul for a long time but did it prosper my soul?  Before the revelation of Jesus,  my hope was more often then not in things here today and gone tomorrow?  Were they in God? For the most part...  No.   Those temporary things the world offered never prospered my soul.  They were fleeting- and who can sit on anything that is fleeting.

What happens when we hold fast, turn to, submit, draw close to God?  When we sincerely look to God, WHO is faithful, He manifests His perfect will in our lives- which is something we just can’t produce on our own. 
 

In HIM... We live in who we are supposed to be and created to be.  We live in His love.  We live in the knowing we are children of God.

"For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’" Acts 17:28

(I am going to take a slight jump here in thought.)

1 Corinthians 13:13 says: “There are three things that will endure- faith, hope, and love- and the greatest of these is love.”

God is the foundation of our FAITH.  He is our HOPE.  And His LOVE influences our life.  These things are to override/supersede, and prevail over everything else.  It is what makes us endure all things.

In His love we are set free from ourselves and the things that so easily trip us up like our own insecurities.

But we fail to live in this when look inward instead of outward towards God.  I wonder if we stopped looking inward at ourselves and being filled with the junk of this world  -what we might accomplish inside and outside of ourselves in God- hence being an influencing light in a dark world.

This is quite possible what Paul meant when he wrote:

"And now, dear brothers and sisters, let me say one more thing as I close this letter.  Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right.  Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable.  Think about things that excellent and worthy of praise.  Keep putting into practice all you learned from me and heard from me and saw me doing, and the God of peace will be with you.” Philippians 4:8-9

So deliberately look to God in all things... And watch the God of peace prosper your soul in Himself and enable you to supernaturally, to spur others on in love and good things.   All things...