Day 283- 'Got to' ➡️ 'Get To'
📖Daily Reading
2 Corinthians 4-5
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📝 Reflection
2 Corinthians 4:13
“But we continue to preach because we have the same kind of faith the psalmist had when he said, “I believed in God, so I spoke.””
2 Corinthians 6:2 NLT
“For God says, “At just the right time, I heard you. On the day of salvation, I helped you.” Indeed, the “right time” is now. Today is the day of salvation.”
Paul goes a bit deeper into what it practically means to receive comfort from God. What does that look like, how does that happen? He refers back to a few old testaments verses here; Psalm 116:10 and Isaiah 49:8 which is really interesting and it shows us not only how he receives comfort but how we have lots of examples to look to, like David and the prophets of old. I have the verses quoted above and you can see how beautiful they connect and speak to each other.
I believed so I spoke, ….you spoke and I heard you. This is how we receive comfort. Just simple speak to God, pour your heart out. Especially when you are in trouble, struggling, down trodden, depressed and suffering. He hears us and he helps us turn our thoughts around. We go from a ‘I’ve got to ….. endure, suffer, do this or that’ to “I get to… endure, suffer, do this or that because I know that I am loved, and that there is a greater story at work”.
It is a subtle shift of one letter (gOt to gEt) that is a huge shift in our perspective and can change our whole experience even in the midst of suffering, hard times, stress and discomfort. David goes on to say things like, ‘he bends down to list, I will pray as long as I have breath’, ‘he loves me with unfailing love, his love endures forever’, ‘the Lord is for me, so I will have no fear. What can mere people do to me if the Lord is for me?’ He prayed and God help him turn his thoughts from “I’ve got to… bear this burden to I get to…”
This is not only comforting but it is energizing. I can feel the shift in attitude even as I am writing it. I have really been practicing this mindset shift myself when I catch myself in ‘got to’ thinking and pause, breathe pray and remember that life is a gift, I am loved and ‘I get to…’. The practice of prayer is a practice of pausing and taking our ‘thoughts captive’ and giving it to God or a higher power. We give our mind, body and spirit a chance to slow down and get together in a communal act. We give ourselves a chance to be honest and acknowledge our feelings. David was a great example, he put it all out there for God, he did not hold back.
We don’t have to bring our best selves to God, we can go to him anytime, any where for any thing. It is offering our thoughts or if we need to even just groan if we are suffering so much that we can’t access thoughts or feelings and offering them up. This calms us down and comforts us even in the worst of times. Millions of people for thousands of years have testified to this.
This is how Paul is encouraging the folks of Corinth. He is recounting how he has been beat, chased, threatened, mocked etc but he can do it because he knows he is loved, he is fulfilling his calling and he is receiving encouragement from God through his prayers and his intimate and personal relationship with God. David and Isaiah also talked a lot about his. They felt connected by love and through spending time and abiding in him. This helps us face all of the trials of life with a ‘get to’ attitude of gratitude.
Have you ever spent time around someone with a ‘got to’ attitude and then compare it to someone with a ‘get to’ attitude. It is such a remarkable difference even if we understand and empathize with the ‘got to’s’ of life. We do have a choice in our attitude and perspective and it makes all the difference. People with this attitude shine a little brighter and brighten the mood around them. Our energy is contagious not only internally but externally as well too.
4: 7-10
We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God not ourselves.
We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get kneed down, but we are not destroyed. Through suffering, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be see in in our bodies.
✍🏼Daily Journal Prompt
Do you have any opportunities going on right now in your life where you can practice or experiment with shifting from 'got to' to 'get to'?
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