Lesson 40: Change Your Mind

Whenever I am on the treadmill I think about my goals for that workout and relate it to my walk with God, my goal to glorify Him. I do that so it can help me stay on the treadmill and meet my physical goal. I struggle on the treadmill, I struggle getting to the gym. Sometimes, I give up and shorten my workouts, and to try to convince myself to stay on and keep pushing, I often say to myself, I gotta keep going...I pretend it's a reflection of my walk with God so I can't give up. Well...what if I've been thinking about this all wrong.

The other day I changed my mind. The treadmill is not my walk with God. It's the walk of life. A very tiring, constantly changing life of highs and lows. Here is where God comes in - I can't do the treadmill without hitting the pause button every now and then. I press pause, take a quick break, then jump right back on and keep going no matter how much I want to stop. To me, God is my "pause" button in life. In this ever so changing life of ours, we need to press the pause button when we get too tired, too consumed and caught up in life, and let God refresh us, let God work in our lives so we can continue our journey here on earth.

I can't imagine going through life without knowing that God is here for us, to help us through this life in order to one day be with Him.

Changing your mind - can make all the difference.