Fear to Freedom – Holy Triage

Here are a few meditative steps I use to deal with with adversity:

Step 1 – I let myself give up hope at least once per day. I give myself permission to feel then “I embrace my pain” by asking…. what am I feeling. Luke 22:44

Step 2 – “I remind myself that MOST of my concerns are illusions because they are baseless” and have not happened yet. We should only have faith in the present moment and not in an un-present future. Jesus said “tomorrow will worry about itself”. Matthew 6:34

Step 3 – I deal with those concerns that are not baseless. “I CREATE only a next step to deal with those concerns that are controllable”. We only have power in the moment and the moment only allows the space for the first step…. lest we become over-whelmed. Many times in the Bible God only gives people the next step to focus on….. like when He tells Abraham to go.

Step 4 – “To those concerns that are beyond my control I surrender” because I have no other choice. To try to control the uncontrollable leads to insanity. 1 Peter 5:7

Step 5 – Finally after all this “I laugh at myself” as a feeling peace encompasses me…. as I AM enlightened to the fact that things are never as they appear. Philippians 4:7

“Christ” lives within YOU and YOU find Him within…..

Romans 10:1-13

Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

Moses describes in this way the righteousness that is by the law: “The man who does these things will live by them.” But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, Who will ascend into heaven?” (that is, to bring Christ down) “or Who will descend into the deep?” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. As the Scripture says, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame.” For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”