Daily writing prompt

What bores you?

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I want to feel good and to overflow with inner peace, love, and joy. However, daily life often hurts. It tries to break my heart and to make it as hard as stone. My self-focused life seeks to steal and destroy my peace and happiness by filling me with such things as anxiety, worry, guilt, and fear.

I want much more than to merely be temporarily distracted from the pain in my life only to have it come roaring back again and again. I want to be completely healed and delivered from it. Therefore, I don’t have time for things that don’t impact my heart with hope and healing. Those empty and temporary distractions bore me. However, the things that heal my hurting heart excite and restore me. I love to go beyond boredom to heart healing.

To experience heart-healing impact:
* Listen to and obey your conscience. It’s there to heal and protect you, not to condemn you.
* Embrace humility. Let it set you free from the heart-chains of pride, comparison, and self-focus.
* Whenever you mistreat anyone, apologize to them. Then ask for their forgiveness. If they say they forgive you, receive it. If they won’t, at least you did your part.
* Forgive everyone who has ever done you wrong. Pray for God to bless them. Refuse to accuse them anymore in your mind. Forgive and you will be forgiven with amazing heart-healing impact.
* Talk to Jesus and let Him talk to you. Let Him lead you by His Spirit and direct you day and night.
* Read the Book that Jesus inspired. Read it like a love letter, not like a textbook. Let it burn in your heart until you begin to consistently do what it says instead of obeying your own thoughts, feelings, and desires.
* Gather with other Christ-followers in a Spirit-led support group to open your heart to each other and obey the 50+ Bible one another commands.

Everybody is wanting something that or someone who can make a heart-healing impact on their life. That impact is available to all. Sell out to the risen Jesus. He can direct, manage, and lead your life better than you or anybody else or any government or organization can. Let Him!

Refuse to be distracted by things that only offer temporary relief. As ambassadors for Christ, Christians are called to focus on, obey, proclaim, and demonstrate God’s inner invisible government. True relief is spelled: J-E-S-U-S.

Be Cross-eyed. To be Cross-eyed is to be continually looking unto Jesus. (Hebrews 12:2) It is to behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. (John 1:29) It is to overcome your inner enemy by the blood of the Lamb, by boldly and consistently testifying about the reality of the risen Jesus, and by abandoning self-love even unto death. (Revelation 12:11) “The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy” (John 10:10) but Jesus wants to live inside of you (Colossians 1:27) and continually give you His heart-impacting and radically transforming presence and glory. (Luke 24:32)

Begin to deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Jesus (Luke 9:23) in His life, death, and resurrection power. (Philippians 3:20) Then you will be able to lay aside pride (1 Peter 5;6) and let God’s Spirit be your constant guide (Romans 8:14) — your King, Lord, and absolute Master. (1 Timothy 6:15)