"Just as the Lord has forgiven you, you should forgive" (Colossians 3:13).
God doesn't look at appearances and deeds he looks at your heart. I have always loved this promise. When I am down on the way I look or how I feel about myself I remember God knows my heart and my intentions and is well pleased. Although there are sometimes my heart is like that dangerous, dark, neighborhood no one should drive in alone, I seek him and ask for him to remove the darkness and he provides me with his light. One thing I have struggled with in this life is unforgiveness. So much so that sometimes I don't even realize I have it in my heart until God slaps me over the head and reveals it to me. I saw two really good sayings recently..."if the past is quarreling with your present there can be no future" & "Unforgiveness is like eating off a dish we never wash. We keep choking on the thing that happened ages ago. Because we didn't deal with it rightly at the time. How powerful is that? If I'm holding on to unforgiveness of others or even myself from my past actions in today it WILL affect my future. Just like me eating off the dirty dish over and over again. I keep choking on what was left on the plate from before instead of washing it when I should have. I must let go of bitterness, unrest in my soul, sadness, anger, and fear. If God can forgive me, why can't I so easily forgive others…why can't I forgive myself? It is the only way I am able to move forward in God's plan and purpose. Why would he reveal his plans to me when my heart is unclean? Today I surrender all of my resentments, my bitterness towards others, and my deepest and darkest fears to God who will be infinitely more understanding with me than I will ever be with myself. What are you holding on to that needs to be let go? Give it to God and don't take it back. Let's leave the past in the past, take back our present and look forward to a blessed future that only God can give us.
God doesn't look at appearances and deeds he looks at your heart. I have always loved this promise. When I am down on the way I look or how I feel about myself I remember God knows my heart and my intentions and is well pleased. Although there are sometimes my heart is like that dangerous, dark, neighborhood no one should drive in alone, I seek him and ask for him to remove the darkness and he provides me with his light. One thing I have struggled with in this life is unforgiveness. So much so that sometimes I don't even realize I have it in my heart until God slaps me over the head and reveals it to me. I saw two really good sayings recently..."if the past is quarreling with your present there can be no future" & "Unforgiveness is like eating off a dish we never wash. We keep choking on the thing that happened ages ago. Because we didn't deal with it rightly at the time. How powerful is that? If I'm holding on to unforgiveness of others or even myself from my past actions in today it WILL affect my future. Just like me eating off the dirty dish over and over again. I keep choking on what was left on the plate from before instead of washing it when I should have. I must let go of bitterness, unrest in my soul, sadness, anger, and fear. If God can forgive me, why can't I so easily forgive others…why can't I forgive myself? It is the only way I am able to move forward in God's plan and purpose. Why would he reveal his plans to me when my heart is unclean? Today I surrender all of my resentments, my bitterness towards others, and my deepest and darkest fears to God who will be infinitely more understanding with me than I will ever be with myself. What are you holding on to that needs to be let go? Give it to God and don't take it back. Let's leave the past in the past, take back our present and look forward to a blessed future that only God can give us.
Keep on trucking.
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