Hope For Hump Days: Greater Is He
March 19th, 2008 at 07:48am Manchild
“You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.”
1 John 4:4
Quick question. Who or what is still keeping you from steppin’ out of the darkness of the hopeless that Despair creates and crossing the troubled, white-water rapids of Jordan’s River? Think about it.
“Greater is He” who dwells within me than ______________.
End this sentence by “filling in the blank” with the name of your biggest antagonist, your biggest obstacle, your greatest weakness, your worst bad habit, your biggest fear, or whatsoever is exacerbating your efforts to beat the odds with God’s help. As you already know, “impossible ain’t nothing but a word” to Greater Is He.
May completing the aforementioned sentence inspire you to face your biggest and deepest fears so you can begin to honestly believe that you can achieve great things and do what you’ve never done before. Overcoming your crisis of faith will challenge you to believe that you can achieve what you previously thought was an impossibility.”
But be forewarned! Steppin’ outside the imaginary box of your comfort zone will severely test your faith in God and challenge your ability to trust God when the invisible fist of Adversity strikes. I double-dog dare you to see if you posses the inner core strength to stand in the menacing face of whatsoever can make you faint each time you try to take the first step across Jordan’s River.
As many of you who’ve been reading this blog already know, “personal leadership” is an “act of faith.” Leadership is a personal choice that will always be yours alone to make until a defining moment in your life occurs and challenges you to “live, love, and lead like Jesus Christ did — by example.”
As evidenced by the Prologue to my book, Steppin’ Out Of The Darkness, “When Good People Become Great,” always expect the unexpected to happen when least expected.
Copyright 2008 by Roderick O. Solomon. All Rights Reserved.
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1. regina | March 21st, 2008 at 9:05 pm
I think my biggest obstacle in life is myself! It is often one’s self who blocks one’s own blessings, which is something I work on regularly.
2. sandra | May 26th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Definitely an ah-ha moment… Greater is He who dwells within me than ___________….
I never thought of putting a word in there that applied to my own fears… I just always quoted the verse as it was written. Yet, “he that is in the world” is definitely fragmented into all those little torturous feelings of doubt and fear that make up a whole reason for not being who we are meant to be.
Thanks! I will use this every day! God bless!
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