Hit: Regroup

The difference between hitting the refresh button and coming to the place where you realize that you need to regroup...

Time.

As I reflect on certain circumstances of my younger days and even those in recent years, I know this. Life fights in the heavyweight class. And it does not fight fair. I say this, understanding full well that there's a ton that can't be explained, and furthermore that I can't explain. I don't even try. I'm also a firm believer in the sovereignty of God and the promise that He does work everything for the good. What was meant to destroy us does not have to define us

Our identity is not found in the trauma and the tragedy of life; but what Christ accomplished through His life.

Having said that; however, when life knocks in, knocks hard and knocks done, you don't necessarily need to be refreshed. It takes a process of regrouping and getting your bearings. Not an easy skill to pick up and often learned on the front-lines of life; it is a process of  strategy and developing a game plan.

To answer the all-too important question: What are you going to do?

I know, that's a daily decision question. But in the wake of major life events and states of transition and change, the question is critical. Without a game-plan, without a strategic approach and without a proper perspective and understanding of what's going on, it's a question that if it doesn't haunt you, will at the very least keep you up at night.

Like so many other life lessons, I wish I had learned this earlier.

On this #youthPastorWednesday, pray for those pastors who have been knocked down. Pray that God strengthen them. Pray they would find wisdom and strategy as the regroup, get perspective and rise again. Pray for the lessons that will be learned and the decisions that will be made in the days to come. May they take the opportunities to intentionally build up and speak into the lives of the youth; that while life does play hard and often unfair, God is with them. Never leaving. Never forsaking. Pray they would know and rest, that while they may not yet have a plan, God does.

Plans to for a hope and a future,
To prosper and not harm.
For the glory of God.

- PNC