HE WAS A TURNAROUND SPECIALIST
In almost every situation in which Jesus found himself, his job was to turn things around. In fact that was his specialty.
"The people have forgotten who i am. Turn this around.
"there is a little girl dying. Turn this around.
"people are dishonoring the temple. Turn this around."
If people were sitting in ashes, his job was to give them a garland of joy. The list goes on and on of the turnaround things he was sent to do. He did not have nor did he take the luxury of look at difficult situations and saying "well, politically it will be wise for me to just go with the flow here..." In fact, he said at a point, "I did not come to bring peace. I came to bring a sword.
In each instance his turnaround technique was different. He followed no set formula. If he had, the famous put-mud-in-your-eye-from-the-river cure for blindness would be marketed through direct mail today. He didn't come to give us formulas, he came to give us a new mind-set (renewed)- one that has a turnaround mentality. In fact, the word repent means to turn around.
We are all called to be turnaround specialists.
When we are faced with difficult situations, we should rejoice, because that's what we are here for!
Dr Norman Vincent Peale said in one of his motivational talks & i quote: when you see a problem coming down the road, holler to him "hello problem! where have you been? i've been training for you all my life!
Society is filled with turnaround specialists. A nurse at a hospice comforts a family, spending time answering their questions about death in detail, and slowly the anxiety they were feeling disappears..........A teacher takes a special interest in a child who is blind , and has been labeled "mentally retarded" only to have Helen Keller grow into a woman who inspires millions. A young couple adopts child from a foster program, and slowly the frightened boy gets a new, turned-around image of what real parental love should be.
Physicians reverse the progress of a disease. Artists take empty canvases and turn them into paintings that takes ones breath away. Nelson Mandela's refusal to give in to the then apartheid regime in south Africa earned him a 27year jail term which eventually turned around the situation in south Africa till today.
We all have within us the power to turn things around. In fact, if Jesus is our coach and Lord, then turning things around should be our specialty too.
when have you successfully turned something around in the past? how did you do it? please share with us!
