This week, I kept feel all sorts of crazy conviction for the smallest things! For example, I may or may not have ran a light earlier this week on my way to work (LOL). Although I basically didn’t run it & went through it as the light was changing to red, I literally felt awful about it the entire rest of my drive to work! Not just semi bad, like I felt really, really awful. This weird type of conviction has been happening to myself all week for things that I normally wouldn’t even think twice about.
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Even though I know this is really not me overthinking and just my mind being crazy, it’s so easy to fall into traps and put ourselves down for even the simplest things. I have always read about or heard about people and how God has times where they might feel “extra conviction” for simple things just to prepare them for things in the future, but have never experienced that myself. Well, that is for sure not the case anymore, I have recently been feeling convicted about everything. Not in a bad way- I just have been thinking extra hard about some decisions that I make. This, again, is not a negative (depending on how you look at it), but can be a bit of an uncomfortable situation to be in.
When this happens (and it will), I always have to remind myself that God is simply trying to mold us for all of the great things that are to come in the future! The famous saying “trust the process” always sticks out to me during times like this as well, due to it also being so fitting. A season of feeling convicted about certain things is simply a reminder of the love God has for us and how he wants us to be the best we can possibly be, even if that means doing a double take at our self reflection sometimes, making sure we are exemplifying the best versions of ourselves on a daily basis! In this sense, conviction can be a beautiful and amazing things, as it is a result of growth in its purest form. Conviction and feeling convicted means that you becoming more aware of not only others around you, but also of your own actions as well. Conviction, if I say, is sometimes not a bad thing at all.
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Until Next Time!
-B
