I had an interesting conversation with one of my children yesterday. I was explaining a certain problem in math to her. Every time that I said, “you can do this”, she said….”but” and added some reason that she couldn’t. I was trying to get her to speak what she wanted to have. (Mk 11) I said, “Say this is easy for me!”. She would repeat after me and then say “but”…
I think that when we say the word “but”…you can pretty much forget whatever we just said. Ex. I would like to go to the park, “but”… (meaning: I won’t be going to the park) We say things like, “I know that God can heal “but” …
We are getting this principle turned around. What we should be saying is, “I feel bad “but” Jesus… or “my bank account isn’t what I wanted “but” God…
I want to make sure that I don’t negate the things that I really want from God by saying I know that God can do anything “but”… When I find myself in this situation again, I will teach my daughter to say, “this math problem seems hard to me, “but” God is helping me learn it anyway.”
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