🙌It's the Friday Call to Worship!🙌

I've dealt with blood sugar imbalances my entire life. Doctors said I was destined for diabetes, obesity, and was unlikely to have children due to the hormonal imbalance at the root of it all. They were the experts, so I accepted my fate... until I couldn't anymore.

In my late 20's, I was alone in the South African bush. My world was closing in on me. I needed hope in something beyond what I could see and faith that my fate wasn't sealed by a broken endocrine system.

With last-ditch desperation, I started making micro-changes where I could. It started with ten push ups, ten squats and ten jumping jacks in the morning while my kettle boiled. It progressed to walking tiny circles around my tiny cottage for exercise. Eventually, I began to research my body's unique needs, study nutrition and make slow, gradual changes to claim some ground in this temple God had entrusted me with.

A change in body composition brought great relief to my emotional wellbeing. My life really changed, however, when I made a decision to be thankful FOR my circumstances rather than in spite of them. I decided to always thank God that my body requires extra disciplines to stay healthy. I would thank Him when I made sacrifices others didn't to honor His temple.

We can all flip the switch on Satan's tactics with our decisions. Our ailments may not be healed and relationships may not be mended, but what could happen in our hearts if we thanked God for every painful reminder of our need for Him? What would happen if devastating events became ammunition for worship because we thank God that every broken thing draws us closer to Him?

GIVE IT A TRY! Listen to Gratitude by Benjamin Williams Hastings.