Hang Ups Sting

Has anyone ever hung up on you?  Ouch!  Doesn't it hurt? Stings! Or make you so mad you want to hit something!  There are more ways to be hung up on than just with a phone.  Life can "hang up" on you very often.


That call from the doctor.


The spouse walking out.


The rebellious teenager.


The toddler that will not quit whining..


The empty bank account.


The mail box full of bills.


The parents who just do not understand life as a teenager now.


So many "hang ups" in life.  How we handle them is what the world is watching.  Does this mean we have to take these "hang ups" lying down like a door mat? No, absolutely not!  God calls us to action.


"What action is that?" you ask, oooh! Glad you asked!!


First of all we have to realize what He tells us in John 16:33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
We are not promised a life of bliss and abundance, He tells us there WILL be trouble...."hang ups"....but what is our action here?  Take heart! Trust Him! Rest in the knowledge that He has overcome this world!

1 Peter 5:6-7 “So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor.Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.” (NLT)

Our next action? Humble ourselves before Him and give Him all our worries.  Sometimes its really easy to take our worries to Him, cry out to Him, but way too often I tend to pick them right back up and continue to worry.  Taking action today...laying it down, leaving it there! at His feet!

Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all of your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek His will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.” (NIV)

Another difficult step at times, Trust!  Its often very hard to trust in what we are not sure of...remember being the child on the side of the pool with a parent in the deep end telling you to jump to them?  It was terrifying, you knew they loved you, but trust was still scary.  That first time or two was frightening, but it seemed the more you did it, the easier it got.  In fact, it became where you didn't even think about it, you just jumped!  You just trusted!

Thats how it is with God.  Trusting can be hard on different "hang ups" in life, because you just don't understand.  But trust, we must!  Jump into the arms of the Father and in doing so, you're comforted through those "hang ups" in life.

2 Corinthians 1:3-5 “All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us.” (NLT)

With these steps of action, we then learn to encourage others in the same way....as God comforts us, we can turn around and comfort others.  Maybe that "hang up" you're experiencing right now is the very thing God will use in the future to encourage and comfort someone else.  He knows what He is doing and nothing goes without His notice.

I'm choosing today, right now, God's way.  Satan may use many avenues in my life to throw a "hang up" at me, but I will not allow him to have a victory!  Because I'm believing the words of  1 John 4:4 "You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world."

So, let the world "hang up" on me anyway it chooses, I've got a direct line to the God of the universe and I'm trusting Him. He. Is. Faithful. He. Is. Enough!!