Week #2: Spider-man 3 .
People was initially confused by the significance of our new teaching serie "heroes and villains" but once i made the correlation with good and bad it started to make sense. You see the true meaning of the heroes and villains is that real life consequences do not determine the type of person we become but how we react to those circumstances does. Once a person experiences a tragedy, we either feed the tragedy or find a reason for its occurrence. We feed the tragedy with insecurity, anger, bitterness, or revenge. Finding a purpose provides, destiny, dream or focus as a result of the tragedy.
Jesus tells us we will experience these tragedies in John 16:33 “I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.” And He tells us He will do something with the pain that to us doesn’t make any sense. Romans 8:28 states “And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.”
There are three keys to finding the purpose rather than feed the pain, they are:
1- RESIST the SKIN”S PULL toward life alone. All too often we withdraw from life and stop doing many of the life activities we did prior to the tragedy.
2- Don’t LISTEN to the WHISPER of negativism. Although we have many friends and acquaintences, not everyone is truly interested in our healing. They will gossip and talk negativisms. Don’t listen to them!
3- Embrace the possibility of HOPE (believe again). Hope gives us the opportunity to live life again. Believe that things will be better, that we will have a meaningful life again.
OK, with all that said, what will you do when, not if, a real life tragedy strikes???
Part 2 coming soon.
