Does every "event" in our lives have to be eventful?

The gurney was comfortable, the blankets were warm and the nurses were nice. As my IV line fed me drugs to slow my heart rate, one of the nurses joked about not wanting an Event that day. The last thing she wanted was a heart to flat-line in a routine test! It made me laugh, and then made me think.

Prior to going to the hospital yesterday morning, I wrote the blog on: Living Like We are Well. As, I laid there vulnerable to the IV in my arm giving me drugs that I knew nothing about, by people who I knew nothing about, I didn’t feel like I was living like a well person. Most well people I know aren’t hooked up to an IV drip to lower their heartbeat to prepare for a heart scan.

But, as I caught myself at peace and even realized I giggled about not causing an Event for them by flat-lining….( it was hospital humor, really)

I realized in that moment that though I was in my own Event of sorts, I was living like I was well, and it wasn’t eventful for me, it was peaceful. This is growth, and that was my gift and thrill of the day! Living Like I was Well!

We have been speaking of the things we go through, good or bad, as our “event”. We have discovered that it’s not the event itself, but what we think about that event, that creates the problems for us. In other words it’s what we believe about each and every event is what counts.

When we believe lies, negative messages, are too tired to think, or are emotionally and spiritual empty ourselves….we just might have a flat-line event of our spiritual condition!

In that place almost all our events, encounters, situations, trials, and daily struggles become EVENTFUL.

• Event…good or bad
• Belief…what we think about the event that happened
• Feelings…what we emotionally feel based on what we think and believe
• Actions…how we walk out our beliefs based on what we feel and think is true.

Event+Lies +Wrong Beliefs+Drama in our Emotional Self=Eventful Stressful Situations.

Today’s Truth: 2 Peter 1:3-5

“His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge, and to knowledge, self-control, and to self-control, perseverance…”

We don’t have to live in Eventful Dramatic Lives. We can, in Christ, live in the peace that passes understanding.  We can participate in the divine nature by his very great and precious promises becoming our belief system, and our line of defense when events present themselves. We can live by a new equation.

Event+Biblical Truth+ Growing practice in truth+ Faith in God= Peaceful Situation.

This is how we live like we are well. Again, I am not just speaking of the physical, but the emotional and spiritual as well.

Oswald Chambers said, ” Let us live with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel goes before us. Our yesterdays hold broken and irreversible things for us. It is true that we have lost opportunities that will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety, into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past rest, but let it rest in the embrace of Christ. Step out into the invincible future with Him.”

Today’s Prayer

Lord, teach me to live in your divine and precious promises. Show me how to intentionally hold on to them, getting them from head to heart.  I want to live by a peaceful equation so that life is less dramatic so that my daily events, people and things I have no control over, become less eventful. I realize it all goes back to what I believe, how I view things, and what I think Renew my mind in your truth. I love you and long to reflect you in a life that is living like she is well, every day, no matter what.