The Herald (Zimbabwe)

You will overcome

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HAVE you ever found yourself in the exact same mess that you told yourself you would never be in again? Those circumstan­ces and issues that you said, “LORD if you just get me out of this, I will never do it again, please help me overcome.”

Then with the passage of time you find yourself caught up in the same issue again, it may involve different characters or be in a different time zone, but it will be the same problem. Sometimes we behave like pigs.

Soon after they have been cleaned up they will go back to the mud, just for the sake of it. We all make mistakes, if anything they are the hallmark of being human. However, like all good students, we are meant to graduate not regress.

Our fallibilit­y and sense of sin somehow prevents us from achieving perfection within our character yet the same character allows for you to excel in other discipline­s if you put your mind to it. We have the ability to overcome our character and our circumstan­ces through God’s will and grace and the dutiful exercise of training our minds to allow for something greater than the ordinary. Have you just come out of a problem caused by your character and you are about to have yet another problem as a result of the same character trait?

Make a conscious effort to say, “LORD help me to become a better person, give me the wisdom to make the right decisions at the right time.”

Through regular training, desire and determinat­ion, coupled with His guidance as written in the holy book, you can overcome your character and never go back to that place you said you would never go back to. May the LORD guide you to do the right things and may the lessons of yesterday guide you towards the right path.

Be blessed.

 ??  ?? Hebrews 4 vs 15; “For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathise with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.”
Hebrews 4 vs 15; “For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathise with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.”

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