Revert to Invert

“When you revert to old ways revert to new truths”

Loren Thornburg

Ever feel like you’re back where you started, like you’ve reverted? Revert is to return to a previous state, condition or practice. You worked so hard to become a better you, only to find you are back in the same struggle, with the same feelings, and now the disappointment too of being back there again when you thought you were moving forward. However, although the feeling may be the same you are not the same. All that you learned and all the ways that you grew that helped you move out of the old place are still there. So you are not in fact right back where you started, even when it looks and feels the same. Instead when you revert you can revert to all you have learned and all that you know is true so that you can invert which is to put in the opposite position. You can turn backwards into forwards as you go back to what is true.

“Now I am deeply discouraged but I will remember your kindness…”
Psalm 42:5 NLT

Discouragement is something we are all familiar with. It comes in all shapes and sizes and the enemy does not hesitate to use it and play off of it. One way he does that is in getting you to feel like all the work that you have done was for nothing and even less than nothing but you wasted your time because now you are back where you started. The enemy would love for you to think that, to become discouraged in feeling like you will never get through it, and to stay in that place even longer. Instead when you feel that you’ve gone back, go back to the Lord, go back to who He is, and go back to the truths He has shown you. For when we go back there we find the hope we need for our discouragement to be inverted into encouragement. Remember the kindness of our Lord!! You are not back where you started!