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Moods Leave when I Kick them Out!

On April 20, 2017 by Dteb With 0 Comments - down to earth believer

I was in a bad mood.  The reasons (can I even call them reasons??) are not important.  Moods rarely, if ever have reasons.  They do, however, have consequences.  My mood compromised my ability to fully appreciate worship, my wife, the lovely weather, and everything else in the universe.

One of the things that helped me greatly was a quote from Oswald Chambers (I believe, from his book, My Utmost for His Highest).  I have italicized (thus, emphasis mine) the section that especially spoke to me.

“In your patience possess ye your souls. — Luke 21:19

When a man is born again, there is not the same robustness in his thinking or reasoning for a time as formerly. We have to make an expression of the new life, to form the mind of Christ. “Acquire your soul with patience” (rv). Many of us prefer to stay at the threshold of the Christian life instead of going on to construct a soul in accordance with the new life God has put within. We fail because we are ignorant of the way we are made, we put things down to the devil instead of our own undisciplined natures. Think what we can be when we are roused!

There are certain things we must not pray about — moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking. A mood nearly always has its seat in the physical condition, not in the moral. It is a continual effort not to listen to the moods which arise from a physical condition; never submit to them for a second. We have to take ourselves by the scruff of the neck and shake ourselves, and we will find that we can do what we said we could not. The curse with most of us is that we won’t. The Christian life is one of incarnate spiritual pluck.”

Are you like me?  Do you need to do some mood-kicking?

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