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\u201cFor we are God\u2019s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.\u201d -Ephesians 2:10<\/em><\/p>\n Have you ever felt tension in your life? There are negative tensions, like anxiety or worry, and positive tensions, like weight-training. According to Webster\u2019s online dictionary, the type of tension we\u2019re talking about means \u201ceither of two balancing forces causing or tending to cause extension\u201d.<\/p>\n In every life, there is a tension that exists between who we are now and who God is calling us to be. Switchfoot says it best in their song Dare to Move: \u201cThe tension is here, The tension is here; Between who you are and who you could be, Between how it is and how it should be.\u201d As Webster\u2019s indicates, tension produces our \u201cextension\u201d.<\/p>\n If we aren\u2019t experiencing some sort of tension in our lives, the likelihood is that we\u2019ve not yet come to the place of accepting Christ\u2019s calling to serve Him, in whatever fashion He has purposed for us in the here and now.<\/p>\n Tension isn\u2019t a bad thing; rather, it\u2019s a propelling force helping us to be better, and strengthening our faith as we progress. Just as the tension system in a weight machine helps us build muscle, God will put situations and people in our path to create tension to prepare us for the ultimate purpose He has for our lives. God doesn\u2019t want us to stay where we are; therefore He uses these people and situations to help us become more like Him. In tension our faith gets stronger.<\/p>\n If we are pursuing God\u2019s calling on our lives, tension will always exist. Why? We will always have a flesh part of us that will want to sabotage our potential in Him, (Galatians 5:17) but God\u2019s redemption of our spirits and souls will always be creating the desire in us to do the good works God intends for us to do. Ultimately, we know we are being shaped for something. Our eyes look upward as we accept God\u2019s process for shaping us for His ultimate purpose for our lives.<\/p>\n Have you embraced the tension in your life?<\/p>\n Subscribe Now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Embracing the Tension \u201cFor we are God\u2019s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.\u201d -Ephesians 2:10 Have you ever felt tension in your life? There are negative tensions, like anxiety or worry, and positive tensions, like weight-training. According to Webster\u2019s online dictionary, the type<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[4113,182,2105,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-14035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-devotionals","8":"tag-embracing","9":"tag-god","10":"tag-tension","11":"tag-today"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}