Lemon Laws Part 3

Well, this is the final part on Lemon Laws. We will pick up with the lat few characteristics of the lemon, hope you have enjoyed them. I appreciate your feedback. I will post some other things later on that has helped me and things I discovered once I arrived on the "other side of misery". I hope these principles can and have helped and feel free to pass them along.

Mike

(from the book in progress "The Other Side Of Misery")

Lemon act as blood purifier and improves the body’s ability to get rid of toxins.
Wow this one should be self-explanatory. Those lemons in life have a unique way, if allowed, to open your eyes to the toxic things in your life. You go through a self-examination through prayer and seeking God and you soon discover the very elements that are not good for you, not pleasing to God and perhaps the wrong decisions you’ve made. But what about things out of your control, like cancer and disease? Did God cause this to show me these things? No. God does however use these times that the enemy meant for ill and can make them for His Glory in your life. Ask anyone who has overcome these obstacles or has walked with a friend or family member through it…they can make you a better person.

Lemon fruit is excellent in fighting disease that's related to infection.
It seems like, at least in my life, that as soon as you victor over one area or situation and received what was good from it and you feel like the sailing will continue to be smooth, there is always another lemon waiting to be processed. Sometimes they are major life changers and sometimes they are the ones that let you know of some unresolved issues. Like when the citric acid finds the tiniest cut, yeah, you begin the process then to pinpoint it and take care of it. God knows what He is doing and how much you can handle. Some things He allows is unexplainable, we just have to trust.


Buy lemon to get rid of certain insects. It’s Mother Nature’s version of insecticides and will help to repel mosquitoes and flies.
I once read in an encyclopedia when I was a kid that the fly was an “envoy of the devil”. Now I hate flies with a passion. I understand their purpose, but I still hate them. I can be sitting in my house and the only fly that it is in the house will fly clear across the room to pester me. It has the entire house to fly in, plenty of room and could probably find plenty and easier bacteria to munch on other than me. I will swat and swat to no avail, the fly doesn’t get it, it just wont leave we alone until I either kill it or find something to repel it.
Isn’t this so in life? There are things that will hinder, pester and flat out anger us until we do something about it or allow God to engage on the scene. The fruits of bad decisions will always be like that fly or mosquito. We will have to deal with it constantly until we learn to make good decisions. Decisions to engage in dangerous habits like smoking, drunkenness (notice I didn’t say drinking), lust, pornography, lying and on and on. When you take the lemons in life and hand them over to God and allow him to teach you and you actually apply the lessons and change, it will be like a repellant to the enemy’s attacks. It is like a force field or a wall that cannot be penetrated. That wall has to be maintained, so expect more lemons but now you know what to do with them.

Some people love antiseptics and would apply it to their skin whenever they have the smallest cut. The good news is you can use lemon on cuts too since it's nature's antiseptics. Not only that, because of its styptics property, it is said that lemon could be applied on cuts to stop bleeding.
Come on now, do I really need to elaborate here? God uses these not only to teach, repel the enemy, help you discover things within you but also it is a healer. My story of Dallas, TX was painful, very painful, but it changed me. It taught me a lot about who I was and who I wasn’t. Once I allowed God to do absolutely what He wanted in this situation I got myself in, the attacks of the enemy became fewer and His peace and assurance began to grow inside me. But mostly, He healed me from bitterness, addictions, resentment, poor perspectives and a sense of failure among many other things. In a sense, it was the best-worst experience I have ever been through and I am painfully thankful for it.

Drinking lemon juice is useful for people with heart problems - because of its high potassium content.
Overall, people who have been damaged, hurt and broken because of a life’s blows can see this as their doom or as a stimulant to see things as God would see them. Discover who you are and what you are, as well as deepening your relationship and your communion with the Mighty Creator. If you have had lemons in life, give them to God right now, ask him to turn it to something healthy. Trust God and rise up your faith and know that He knows what is best, even when it doesn’t seem like it. Find the calm within the chaos and surrender it to God. You know deep inside that is what you are to do but doing it requires you to change, requires you to do something that you are not so comfortable with. It is here at this point where you have to stand on not only His Word, but also yours. You say you love, believe and trust God…do you? I pray you do.

One last thought, when you do finally decide to let go and allow God to take the wheel of your situation and circumstance, make a pack with yourself to be very disciplined in leaving the wheel in His hands and resist the temptation that WILL come to reach over and take over. I will close this out with a short analogy my friend, Neil, shared with me. Neil was telling me about how he was struggling with the whole trusting God completely thing and how he came to resolve it. One day he was sharing this concern with a church member and that person looked at him and began to explain this to him. He said, “Neil, would you ever write a letter like this:”
Dear God,
I am really concerned in the direction we are going, nothing is familiar and quite frankly I am very uncomfortable. I cannot see clearly and that is causing me great anxiety. I feel like since I let you drive we have been out of control and uncertainty is all around. So I am just letting you know that I am going to take over from here to get us back on track because it has became obvious to me you do not know what you are doing.
“I would never write such a letter”, Neil responded. Then he explained to Neil that is exactly what we do when we quit trusting God. Things will look like they are not getting better and the enemy will come to convince you that they are not and that is where most people give up, but victory is for those who hang on and trust that the horizon, the other side of misery, is sure and near. He wants you to stay aboard so he can teach you and grow you through the whole process. Trust God to take you to the other side of misery.