Looking Inside

Right now, I'm looking inside for a deep, pervading inner strength. As I rest in the Father in this intense, personally difficult season of my life, I am choosing to look deep within. I am pushing away from, turning a cold shoulder and a deaf ear to pulling strength from outside voices; outside opinions. The only outside voice or opinion that I need to be fed from right now is from my eternal relationship with the Holy Spirit and from my incredible husband. I know that the key to victory is to live my life from the inside out, not the outside in.

"I look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. I look at this Son and see God's original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body.

He was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he's there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross."

THAT person lives inside me! I am asking myself why I would allow myself be influenced, swayed, or frustrated by outside sources when my inner source is supreme over all the universe! I can find that amazing person, Jesus Christ, my source of hope, empowerment, and strength by looking inside me, where he makes his dwelling.