The GOAT of Reframing | Monday
Week 2 | Reframe It
Listen instead of reading
Take a Moment
Ask God what He wants to show you before reading today
Read The Daily
I want you to know, my dear brothers and sisters, that everything that has happened to me here has helped to spread the Good News. For everyone here, including the whole palace guard, knows that I am in chains because of Christ. And because of my imprisonment, most of the believers here have gained confidence and boldly speak God’s message without fear. (Philippians 1:12–14)
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control how you frame it.
The GOAT (greatest of all time) of reframing was the apostle Paul. Paul had a strategic plan for advancing the gospel—go to Rome. If he could get to Rome and preach Jesus to the leaders there, the city could become a launchpad to spread the gospel all over the world. When Paul finally got to Rome, it was not to share Jesus with government officials. He went there as a prisoner. He was locked up under house arrest, chained to a rotating contingent of guards, awaiting a possible execution. Paul prayed for an opportunity, but it was not happening. Paul’s circumstances were out of his control. Circumstances are almost always out of our control. You’ve been where Paul was.
You thought, If I just get this degree, I will get that job. You got the degree, but you did not get the job. You planned on being married by now, but you have not found Mr. or Mrs. Right. Or you did find and marry the right person, but everything went wrong. This is not the way life was supposed to go. You’ve been praying for years for your prodigal child, but God has not answered that prayer. Paul was in that same situation—circumstances he did not want and could not control. He wrote to the church at Philippi about what was happening to him. What might he have said?
He could have written, “Now, I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that what has happened to me really stinks. I wanted to spread the good news through preaching to government officials, but that did not happen. As a result of this garbage I’ve been through, I have decided prayer doesn’t work, and I am leaving the church.” You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control how you frame it. That’s why the third tool to change your thinking is the Reframe Principle: Reframe your mind, restore your perspective.
Prayer for the Day
God what are you showing me? What am I going to do about it?
God help me to see one person that I can serve through a kind word, random act of kindness, or simple gift today?
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