To Catch a Thief! Conclusion

To Catch a Thief! Conclusion
Brad Reiches
Aug 17 2006 12:42PM

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Thursday, August 17, 2006
GodThoughtsWired!

"To Catch a Thief!"

 Conclusion

"The thief comes only to steal, kill and destroy..."

John 10:10

Feeling sorry for yourself...is a "thief."  I call it "victimology" (see the book, GodThoughts, Volume 2, pp. 61-64).  Victimology is "the belief system that removes all personal responsibility from the human condition."  Followers of "victimology" refuse to take responsibility for ANYTHING!  Nothing is their fault.  Sin is called disease.  Victimologists say things like, "It isn't my fault," and "The devil made me do it," and "I was born that way," and "God hasn't delivered me from that yet."

The harsh reality however, is that for every individual that uses their "handicap" as an excuse to give up, countless others with the same disability have refused excuses and found a way to overcome.  In truth, there are myriads of accounts of those who have turned their "tragedy" into a phenomenal triumph.  Proclaiming as Joseph did, "As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result..." (Genesis 50:20).

Regardless of your current condition, who you will become from this point forward is YOUR RESPOSIBILITY!  Your future will yield the fruit of the seeds that YOU are planting today.  What your husband or wife, father or mother, grampa or gramma did to you may be cruel, or sad, or truly ugly and tragic, nonetheless, what you choose to do today and how you choose to live from this day on will be the sum total of YOUR CHOICES alone.

Victim?  Or victory?  Overcome?  Or overcomer?  "Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve" (Joshua 24:15).

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