This week's devotion we will entertain (keep in mind-take consideration) the biblically supported principle of "Relentlessly but Healthfully go for it" (going for your God willed desires.)
Everyone has self-desires and personal interest in protecting their personal desires (i.e. self-preservation.) Respectfully yet challenging some beliefs, your self preservation is a beautiful thing. Your self preservation maintains it's beauty through proper stewardship and healthiness. It's (your self-preservation) inherent-intrinsic presence can be in the will of God. In performing the will of God for your life (you living for someone else's desires - God's desires), you can exercise your personal desires with the intent to protect your personal desires through God's power and might and not by self-will. Doing so (pursuing and protecting your God willed desires) without disrespecting others, without hurting others, and without going against rules (divine and secular rules) still getting what you desire. A path of respecting others, not hurting others, not going against the rules (divine or secular rules) and ushering in corporate (worldwide) peace while individually tapping into the reservoir of abilities given to you by God as the means to still achieve and protect your desires (even in the midst of wicked, cruel, and ingeniously difficult conditions - diabolic conditions.)
Jacob (a man not faultless) relentlessly but healthfully pursued and protected his God will desire in the midst of diabolic conditions dealing with Laban and his jealous sons. Jacob exemplified great stewardship and healthiness dealing with Leban and his jealous sons as he (Jacob) relentlessly pursued and protected his freedom for him and his family. He challenged but didn't disrespect Laban and his sons, he didn't go against the rules (divine or secular agreement with Laban or Laban's sons, and he didn't intentionally hurt Laban or Laban's sons while going for what he wanted (freedom.) Jacob simply depended on God and acknowledged, grew, and tapped into the ability that God gifted him with as the means to get what he wanted (again, even in the midst dealing with the wickedness, cruelty, and ingenious difficult conditions placed by Laban.) So, I leave you with this: You can get it (your God willed desires), however, keep healthiness (salutary) mixed in with your relentlessness as you are going for it.
I encourage you (and share with others) to meditate on the below scriptures dealing with the primary text of Jacob, Laban, and Laban's jealous sons combined with other supporting texts presenting compatible principles purposed to greater extract your message of "Relentlessly but Healthfully go for it" primarily presented though real-life circumstances of Jacob, Laban, and Laban's jealous sons. Each below scripture is inspired by God for your applicable justification, encouragement, and strength to go for it (your God willed desires) relentlessly and healthfully. You and your families have a wonderful week!
SCRIPTURES FOR YOUR MEDITATION:
And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle and ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: FOR I HAVE SEEN ALL THAT LABAN DOETH UNTO THEE. I am the God of Bethel, where thou annointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst unto me: now rise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred. Genesis 31:12-13
And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, WHAT IS MY TRANSPASS? WHAT IS MY SIN, THAT THOU HAST HOTLY PURSUED AFTER ME. Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both. Genesis 31:36-37
DELIGHT THYSELF also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. COMMIT THY WAYS UNTO THE LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. Psalms 37:4-5
A MAN'S GIFT MAKETH ROOM FOR HIM; and bringeth him before great men. Proverbs 18:16
Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER, BUT BY MY SPIRIT, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS. Zechariah 4:6
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but YIELD YOURSELVES UNTO GOD, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. Romans 6:13
Know ye not, THAT TO WHOM YE YIELD YOURSELVES SERVANTS TO OBEY: whether sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? Romans 6:16
There hath no temptation taken unto you but such as is common to man: BUT GOD IS FAITHFULL, WHO WILL NOT SUFFER YOU TO BE TEMPTED ABOVE THAT YE ARE ABLE; BUT WILL WITH TEMPTATION ALSO MAKE A WAY TO ESCAPE, THAT YE MAY BE ABLE TO BEAR IT. 1 Corinthians 10:13
For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it was for a season. Now I rejoice, NOT THAT YE WERE MADE SORRY, BUT THAT YE SORROWED TO REPENTANCE: FOR YE WERE MADE SORRY AFTER A GODLY MANNER, THAT YE MAY RECEIVE DAMAGE BY US IN NOTHING. FOR GODLY SORROW WORKETH REPENTANCE TO SALVATION NOT TO BE REPENTED OF: BUT THE SORROW OF THE WORLD WORKETH DEATH. 2 Corinthians 7:8-10
For it is GOD WHICH WORKETH IN YOU BOTH TO WILL AND TO DO HIS GOOD PLEASURE. Philippians 2:13
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations. THAT THE TRIAL OF YOUR FAITH, BEING MUCH MORE PRECIOUS THAN OF GOLD THAT PERISHETH, THOUGH IT BE TRIED WITH FIRE, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Christ. 1 Peter 1:6-7
WHILE THEY PROMISE THEM LIBERTY, THEY THEMSELVES ARE THE SERVANTS OF CORRUPTION: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 2 Peter 2:19
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