June 29, 2020 www.PositiveChristianity.org presents Positive Daily Inspiration HOW TO GET RID OF DISCOMFORT June 29, 2020 www.PositiveChristianity.org now in our 21st year presents Positive Daily Inspiration How to Get Rid of Discomfort “God did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power and love and self-control.” 2 Timothy 1:7 Have you ever looked at a string of pearls? If you really looked at them you would be impressed with the exquisite beauty. You might look at the beauty without realizing what produced the pearls. A pearl is formed with an irritating particle that causes the oyster to cover it with a protective excretion which in time hardens. The oyster takes that irritating substance and changes it into a thing of beauty. There are many things in our human experience that seem foreign to what we feel we should be experiencing. Sometimes there are not only irritating situations regarding our body and our financial affairs but there are unpleasant circumstances in our human relations. Many of these irritations have resulted from misunderstanding, criticism, bias, quarrels, envy or jealousy. The oyster knows to get rid of the discomfort. The oyster does not go here and there trying to find a solution. The oyster covers the offending obstacle with a God-created comfort, so smooth, that foreign matter is no longer irritating. What about the irritating, confusing, unhappy situations that cause you discomfort? Unlike the oyster you have three choices in your free will. 1) You can complain about it. 2) You can remain in the unpleasant situation. 3) Or, you can turn to God's presence and do something positive about the undesirable problem. Charles Swindall said, "Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it." I agree. You can let God guide you to coat and transform the irritating situation into a thing of beauty. God will cover you with Divine protection. We do not create the substance that can bring about the transformation; this is a creation of God. We do not create the power and intelligence that enables us to bring about the change. God is the author of perfection, not the human being. It is only God intelligence, God-power and God-love that enables you to make positive changes in your life in order that unpleasant, irritating, and confusing experiences may become as a string of pearls. Apparently, the oyster never bothered to look around and blame some other oyster, or the oyster bed, or some outside circumstance. In went about its work producing comfort instead of living in discomfort. It produced ease instead of irritation and harmony instead of disharmony. If you have an understanding that God is with you, you can bring beauty, comfort and harmony in place of that which is causing you distress. We can only add to the distress by bemoaning, blaming, and criticizing. Once convinced that you can do something, you turn through prayer to God that has the know-how. In you, it goes far beyond the instinct of the animal kingdom into spiritual understanding, available to you in all areas and at all periods of your life. Perhaps each of us needs to ask ourselves: "Am I making a string of pearls out of the events of my daily living? Am I allowing rough obstacles to come between enjoyment in life for myself as well as those close to me? Surely the greatest of all pearls is our consciousness of the "pearl of great price" which has resulted from a revelation of truth about God, about yourself, about your fellow human beings, and about the world in which you live. Where previously you may have had a limited and even fearful approach to life, a whole new concept comes when you let God's intelligence unveil the truth that sets us free from limitation of any kind. Do not allow temporary irritations, to become permanent mistakes. Let us come together, even in our differences, through the power of God's all-comforting love. POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER: With God's help, minor irritations no longer control me. I know that I am not bound, and I'm free to do, and be, and become, that which I am capable of doing, and being, and becoming. I am free with the freedom of Spirit. God sets me free from the belief that I am in bondage to minor irritations. I affirm my freedom in Spirit so that God's comfort will find expression in me, more radiantly than ever before. Truly, I am not bound or limited, I am free with the freedom of Spirit. Truly I am one with God. In Jesus Christ's name… Amen POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: I live in heaven here and now. 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