Sometimes You have to Sit Down in Order to Stand Up

Eleven years ago today, the “mother of the freedom movement” in the United States, Rosa Parks, died. She is remembered for having refused to give up her seat at the back of the city bus for a white passenger. People thought that Mrs. Parks, who was on her way home from work that day of December 1, 1955, refused to obey the white bus driver because she was tired and needed to sit. But Mrs. Parks explained later that she was not tired physically, “‘No, the only tired I was, was giving in.’”
Sometimes that’s the point we have to reach in order to make a necessary change in our life.
Are you tired yet of giving in to the people, habits, or thoughts that are destroying your life?
Have you allowed yourself to be mastered by something—or someone—that is causing you to live beneath your privilege as a child of the only living God?

Today is the day for you to stand up by claiming your seat in Christ Jesus. “[B]ecause of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.  And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,  in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:4-7).

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