How things get better

We all long for certain things in our lives that we don't currently have.  We have a clear vision - usually one of our own making - of how things should be what would make life "complete" or "perfect" or any other adjective you can imagine.

When we do that we reject the Lord's vision in favor of our own we become self focused rather than Christ focused.

We almost assuredly will try to act to bring about that vision, manipulating circumstances or people longing for what we think we want to come about. The hope of our way happening brings about tremendous elation and pride if we see progress, and if we don't see progress then certainly depression and self pity.  Real depression- not just down in the dumps.

Success in the endeavour yields a pride that we don't need the Lord, it is an elevating of ourselves to His place. We make ourselves out to be God.

If we don't get what we envision then we go into depression maybe a pity party at first but then a longing to die, not to be in the world to reject the Lord's world as not good enough and therefore reject Him.

So how does the situation we're all in get better?  We all have a situation. How does the thing in life that really drags us down that we allow to do so because its not what we choose or want change?  We all have one for sure and probably many areas.

We have to focus on Christ's ways through a deep desire to know Him personally better and better, Rather than using our own judgements or opinion/determination of good and evil gained in the garden of the Lord prior to the fall, we must submit to Him, what He calls good is good and what He calls evil is evil, and we can spend our entire lives learning His ways.

We have to give up the only thing that is truly ours -our life in order to let Him live through us.  Not natural since our nature is to resist, but the only way things get better.  Easy in that its not a set of rules but rather a growing deepening knowledge of Him.

Cling to Him rather than trying the same old things and expecting a different result.