Circumstances Don’t Make Or Break A Man

“Circumstances don’t make or break a man… They simply reveal him.”

CIRCUMSTANCES: Are you surmounting yours or allowing them to get the best of you?

According to Psalm 84:5-7 the OVERCOMERS OF CIRCUMSTANCES have four characteristics:

1. They draw their strength from God:

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. (Verse 5)

When you purchase a new automobile there are two ways to get it off the lot. Push it or drive it. Many Christians push their way through life, never tapping into the energy source that is rightfully theirs: Jesus.

2. Their heart is 100% given over to God:

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. (Verse 5)

Here is a person with a single purpose: The highway to Zion. The highway to heaven. This is the pilgrim with blinders on, headed in one direction: Zion, his eternal home.

3. They overcome and even change their difficult circumstances:

Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. (Verse 6)

Baca is a place of weeping, sorrow, sterility and possibly death. In this barren environment these “OVERCOMERS OF CIRCUMSTANCES” “make it a spring” of water, a source of refreshment, a place of hope and beauty. Rather than being overwhelmed by their circumstances, they change them for good!

4. They become stronger and stronger until they cross the finish line.

They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. (Verse 7)

These OVERCOMERS OF CIRCUMSTANCES “gain new strength; But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31)

And they all make it: They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. (Verse 7)

So, we have a choice: To live “under” the circumstances or rise above them.

What are your circumstances revealing about you? Are they making you or breaking you?

Pastor Woody