Thoughts that have come from various quotes taken from the book, "Victor - Breaking Free From a Victim Based Society" by John H. Hovis. Click here to link directly to the audio file.
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"When I stop the frenetic activities my soul gets me into and choose to move directed by my spirit connected to God, I have to believe that the results are in God’s hands."
As quoted from the book "Victor - Breaking Free From a Victim-Based Society" by John H. Hovis Page 115.
Frenetic is an interesting sounding world. I like how the word rolls off the tongue. I had to look up what this word actually means. Frenetic means fast and energetic as in a rather fast and uncontrolled way. If that weren't enough to make me want frenetic to not be a part of my life, just consider the origins of this word. It comes from an Old English term that basically means "insane."
Frenetic happens when I get overly concerned with how things will turn out. It is in those tasks that I have labeled as being important to my well being through identity that the insane nature of frenetic really takes over in my soul. When I tie who I am to anything that I put my hands to, frenetic is what I feel and insane is how I might act as victim thinking takes hold in my life.
The victor was never meant to live a life of insanity. Frenetic isn't something the victor needs to consider when tasks are the concern. Sure there is a lot to do. Many of the things we will put our hands to are important. But are they so important that our very mental health should come into question? From God's perspective, nothing is that important - not even the work He puts before us.
What Father would task His child with activities that would put their very soul at risk? Only the most evil of evil would do that to their own children. Yet that's how we view God from time to time when our doing doesn't rise to the level of what we need in order to feel that we are all God wants us to be in this world. It is when our frenetic activities of life fail to produce the results that we think we need to be all the victor God wants us to be that victim thinking can really take hold.
Much of the frenetic activities that threatens to destroy the peace in our souls comes from a quote that is credited to the Bible. How many of you have heard the following?
"God helps those who help themselves!"
Did you know that that quote isn't found anywhere in the Bible? Attributing to God what God never said is a time tested way of being mislead into life altering ways. Adam and Eve are prime examples of twisting what God said in ways that made life something it was never suppose to be.
God doesn't help those who help themselves. God is with those that call upon His name. His help is always there for the asking. It is when we turn our activities to getting exclusively what we think we need, deserve and/or require in this life from God's hand that frenetic activity can lead to the kinds of insanity that victim thinking so easily exhibits.
I said earlier that it is when I get the frenetic activity out of my life that there is a peace in my soul that allows me to be OK with leaving the results of my actions in God's hands. Why does peace some when I turn my life over to God's ways? Take a look at today's Bible reading for the answer to that questions.
My hands made the earth's foundations
and spread the heavens out.
When I summon earth and sky,
they come at once and present themselves. Isaiah 48:13 (GNT)
God has some pretty competent hands. Today's reading is saying that it was the Hand of God that made everything in existence today. At His call, everything in our universe comes running to attention before the creator. If God's hands are that skilled, I think that I can place my plans under His guidance. There, and only there, can the frenetic be weeded out of my life.
Maybe it is time to recognize the difference between a busy life and a life filled with frenetic activity. Victors, like victim thinkers will be busy from time to time. Busyness isn't an issue that is as damaging to a relationship with God as frenetic activity can be. It is when we are trapped in the insanity of using the results of what we do to be proof of who we are that frenetic actions rob us of the peace in our souls we so need in this life.
Search your soul today. Can you say that there is a level of peace there right now? If not, take a look at your actions. How much frenetic activity do you have in your life? As you let God lead the way, I believe peace will be the byproduct of all you do. Let the peace of God be what makes your victor status be what others see and be attracted to as you let the creator of the universe place His hand on your life today.
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