"Do we not continually pass by blessings innumerable without notice, and instead fix our eyes on what we feel to be our trials and our losses, and think and talk about these until our whole horizon is filled with them, and we almost begin to think we have no blessings at all?"
~Hannah Withall Smith
Sometimes I think that, by reflecting constantly on what goes on in our lives and why it is going on (God's purpose in it), we hobble ourselves spiritually.
When we get wrapped up in what God's doing in us through struggles or relationships or situation, we can easily forget that our purpose isn't to sit around figuring out what we're supposed to be learning and then looking at it once we've found it - we're to take what we have learned already and apply it while working everything towards Him.
After all, God's right beside us in this race. Sort of like... a trainer, or a coach. When He's calling out instructions, He doesn't expect you to sit down, take notes, and carefully analyze them. He expects you to comprehend, and ACT on them right away.
There's nothing wrong with thought. Just be sure the thought doesn't hamper your action.
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