Food for thought

This is a spur of the moment so I'm going to keep going till I run out of thoughts. For the last couple of weeks I have been in a world of my own and just thinking about life and just reflecting and here's a few thoughts I want to share. The last couple of months have been a rollacoaster emotionally, relationally, spiritually and mentally. Life for me in the last 12 months have gone from like "This is awesome"  to "I can't take no more of this". One thing I have noticed throughout all of this is my emotional,spiritually and mentally well being are very interlinked. For example when ever something happened that hurt me I would then react to what I thought was right for me. I think I was reading a book or having a conversation with someone but this statement made sense to me "Hold your thoughts and emotions captive in hard times in difficult times because they will hold you". That only started to make sense as I've been reflecting and it actually makes sense when you think about it. As a Christian I've been thinking about life and stuff and just problems and situations that life will throw at us but you know the saying "Lets nip is while its still a bud" well from just my reflections I think that's exactly  what we are called to do regardless of the situation or over time the situation will just spiral out of control and will get naturally fueled over being unresolved. I was thinking about an analogy just to make sense and pretty much help you picture what I mean and here's what I got. Unresolved issues are like being stuck in Quick sand the more you try to run or struggle the deeper you go. What you need to do is one pray for guidance, two seek counsel from wiser people and three ask for help so you can get out before the situations begins to affect you in major ways.

In Ephesians 2:14-17 it reads

For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.  And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.

Reconciliation means “the procurement of peace between two warring parties.” God is never reconciled to man, but man is always reconciled to God. The war was over when Jesus, through the cross, brought man back to God. Man left God in the garden and God has sought a means through the centuries of bringing man back to Him. He succeeded through the cross. This is the ministry and message of reconciliation. The message is the war is over it's time for peace.