Low-Toxicity Levels

Life and relationships are interesting dynamic... as if I needed another personal reminder of this truth. It goes without saying, that life is a series of stages and people come and go; some with the purpose of goodness and other with the intent of ruin.

You'll have friends who will stand by to the point, you consider them more family than actual blood relatives.
At other times, you'll have family who will be standing by you while you wonder in the back of your mind, what happened to the friends who weren't were they said they would be when the time came?

As the strong of a nation lies in the security of it's borders, so to the strength of one's life relies on the healthiness of it's own boundaries, especially with regards to relationships.

The people who tell you that they value you, perhaps don't to the degree you think they should.
People say one thing to your face and later talk to someone else about your face.

Toxicity brings to ruin everything it comes in contact with, whether the effects be immediate or gradual. So too, can people bring us to a similar, disastrous existence both in quick, swift fashion and in the delayed wearing down of one's soul.

While we are you we are, more importantly, we need to be who God has called us to be and declared over our lives.

I read recently, that if you committed to making a 1% improvement in any area of your life and did so daily, by the end of the year, it would a 365%.

Thus, whatever your place in life and whatever your existence is within the "community", there's no reason tomorrow can't and shouldn't be an improvement and a year from now, nearly unbelievable.

Today's prison should not delay tomorrow's freedom.

On this #communitySaturday, pray that God would start with us; that as people of faith, we would not bring toxicity into the lives of others. Pray that God would help us manage, balance or even purge where necessary, the toxic relationships that exist within our own lives. Pray that we would be people who live according to God's ways and Word, rather than people's expectations, beliefs and opinions. May there be a grace about our lives, that overcomes the stress and tension that often disrupts the truth about life and reality. Pray that God would use us to point a lost and dying world to Him; that our own stress in life would not be stumble for others. May our lives bring glory to God, rather than disgrace and may God give us wisdom and discernment to know when we should persevere in prayer or to part ways in peace.

For a healthier community
Because we are healthy and strong in Christ alone.
For the glory of God, we pray.

- PNC