I came to a point where I knew I was close but wanted to turn my head down and give up. Imagine being so close to the promise that you can almost touch it, and put your hand back in. The enemy preys on you when getting to the weak point of caving in because he knows that this is the best place to keep you down. I felt like caving today, I knew everything would be okay soon, yet it did not feel that way. After pushing through a long day, I saw my mental declining and gearing towards discouragement, anxiousness, and sorrow. It was not that I wanted to feel that way, but in the spur of the moment, those feelings occurred. The Lord never wanted our thoughts to overpower us, but rather we control our thoughts. In Romans, Paul reminds us that although we live in the world, and feel the weight of the world, it does not have to affect us: “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” Romans 12:2. We must renew our mind constantly, with the things of God because it can be so easy to let your mind sink into the oppression of the world. Each day is enough on its own, but if our mind is constantly on the things of the world, we will slip into its captivity. The world, your job, your spouse, your finances, your clothes will never offer us peace, true peace comes from the Prince himself, Jesus. What happened was, that I associated my long hard exhausting day with the entire rest of my days, which made it harder for my mind to differentiate between the two. I fixated my mind so much on how work went, and not enough on Jesus. This is where the renewing of mind came in, I put my favorite worship song on repeat and fed my mind the meal it needed. I could not feel the transformation of joy, but I felt content with being able to give praise even in the midst of my mess. Renewing yourself is not always an immediate transformation, but in the midst, you realize the Lord is still there to pick up every piece not together. He reminds us always of the good that we can experience, even when the good is not always presently available. Reach further on beyond the sorrow, and hold Jesus’ hand, because He is there.