Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

Isn’t it funny how quickly we forget certain things and how things that have irked us remain with us for many years? It is almost as if we never wake up from our dreams.  R T Kendall says “there are three things you probably already know about sleep;

1. we don’t know we are asleep until we wake up;
2. we do things in our dreams we would not do wide awake; and
3. we hate the sound of an alarm.”

Trying to erase the pain of the past from our psyche is a difficult task. Essentially it is not necessary to erase the pain but the psychological scars from the pain must be dealt with. It is the ‘dealing with’ aspect that is difficult.  If it is not dealt with then it becomes easy to flop back into the old mindset and return, in your thought life and dreams, to bondage.  The dream then becomes the nightmare. Like the Israelites travelling through the wilderness, the temptation was to look back to life in Egypt, particularly when times got tough and the food ran out.  It took them only two months after they had escaped from the tyrannical rule of Pharaoh to start the moaning process.  We should have stayed in Egypt at least we had food! We are going to die in this wilderness, how long will it take to get out of here? And so on….Moses told them that their complaining and grumbling was not against him but against God. Today, rather than complain about your situation, thank God that you are alive and praise him for the opportunities he will provide for you. Wake up and smell the coffee. See Exodus 16 and Acts 13:16-41.