Are you A Great Pretender or Do you rely on The Great Defender?

What is the difference between being positive about a situation and showing faith within the mist of the situation?

I consider myself a pretty positive person, but one day a few years ago, I received the revelation that my positivity and my faith in God weren’t one in the same! As a Counselor I’ve had to teach myself how to be careful when it comes to this type of thinking, because one can lead you into trying to psych yourself up about a situation and one can lead to the actual dissipation of the situation!

As a Counselor I learn strategies and techniques to use to teach my clients how to think positively about life and how to change their thinking, via modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral therapy and it’s like; well being a Christian counselor I’ve found myself faced with the question of when one thinks in a positive manner are they psyching themselves into believing the event or circumstance didn’t or isn’t happening or are they placing their faith in the fact that it may have happened, but I have a God who will not let it over take me! Basically where is their faith being placed, in their own thinking or in their God?

Via my own walk through trials and tribulations, I have learned that the only true way to help someone overcome their fears, anxieties, obsessive compulsive disorders, phobias, etc. is to not necessary get them to change how they see a situation but it is to get them to change who they see in control of the situation! It’s one thing to pretend something isn’t happening when in reality it is, and it’s another thing to know that it is happening but there is someone bigger than you who is taking care of it!

Jesus is not asking for us to pretend that life doesn’t happen or that the devil isn’t real, but He is asking us to believe in the fact that He is our defender, Psalms 3:3, tells us, “…Lord you are a shield around me…!” He is our fortress, He is our refuge and according to Isaiah 59:19, …”when the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against them!” It doesn’t say to pretend the flood didn’t come, but it says, THE LORD WILL LIFT UP A STANDARD AGAINST THEM!

So consider this, “Are you A Great Pretender, or do you rely on The Great Defender?” Are you trying to psych your life into a positive light, or are you believing that in spite of everything that is going on around you, God is in control, and that His Love, Grace and Mercy is provided to you every day, and all you have to do is have faith in Him to handle every situation that comes your way! The Bible tells us to ask and we shall receive, to pray and not to worry and to KNOW AND TO BELIEVE THAT CHRIST LOVES US in spite of our sins!

Allow the Grace of God to change your way of thinking, allow Him to be just what He desires to be in your life, YOUR GREAT FORTRESS, YOUR GREAT COUNSELOR and YOUR GREAT DEFENDER!

Forever In His Grace,

Toinette Neube