Mark Divine is a retired Navy Seals Commander. What you may not know is that he left Wall Street (where he received his MBA and CPA credentials) at age 25 to try out for the Seals. STOP! Let that piece of awesomeness sink into your spirit – that took courage! He started in BUDS class #170 with 185 “studs”. Nineteen finished! Commander Divine distinguished himself as a leader among leaders in that group of nineteen.
In his recent book Staring Down The Wolf, Divine writes, ““You may know that the analogy of the fear wolf comes from a Native American tale of a negative wolf that resides in the minds of humans. This wolf operates from fear, is hungry for drama, catastrophizes, and has incessant negative self-talk….But there is also a second, positive wolf residing in the heart. This one has an appetite for love and connection, is not addicted to drama, and is optimistic and focused on others.
In the context of being a former Wall Street MBA, CPA, Navy Seal Commander, Mark Divine uses Native America folklore to illustrate the importance of feeding your life with activity that points you in the direction of your fullest potential. You are stronger than you realize. You have the ability to go further than you imagined. Long before Native American folklore, there was another man that walked the earth and declared, ….for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.” — 1 John 4:4 ESV. John’s contemporary, Paul would write from prison, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” Philippians 4:13 NKJV.
Covid-19 is our modern “Fear-Wolf”. However (Romans 8:31-39 NIV), states; 31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[a]
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[b]neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Starve the FEAR Wolf – Feed the POSITVE Wolf!
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