Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Back on the shelf
Have you ever gone shopping, find an article of clothing you absolutely fall in love with and then put it back on because you didn't have shoes that went with it or maybe an occassion to wear it to? A couple weeks later you find yourself regretting the decision because you have nothing to wear and you say “I wish I would have bought it".
Many times we are like this with the ones we find to be in a relationship with. We have a list of a thousand qualities that we wish to find, and when God brings someone who has everything we ask for we decide that maybe they need to be "put on the shelf" due to "a lose button, a string thats out of place", or because its not something we are "used to wearing". We get so caught up in the what-ifs that we don't realize how God has answered our prayers. We have been blinded by society's fantasy scenarios in where the girl/boy of our dreams walks in the room, eyes lock, hearts connect, and its love at first sight. Some of the best relationships went through the worst of the worst before being who they are now. Some had the privilege of being best friends. Others had the difficulty of being enemies. Whatever the case is, all successful relationships have one thing in common: they made a decision to love without regrets.
Stop to think if God has answered your prayers...maybe its not in the form you thought it would be, but its still an answered prayer. Don't look for things that God has brought to you already. It's like winning the lottery and never turning in the ticket and you keep on buying tickets...stupid right?
Why do people search for things that they already had/have...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Out with the old
Sometimes, you have to love those "what was I thinking?" moments. If you don't learn to love them, they end up regrets, and quite frankly, life is too short to live with regrets. I can't say that it isn't hard or tempting to want to blame situations, people, or experiences; but what I am saying is you got to pick yourself up, move on, and let go.
OUT WITH THE OLD. IN WITH THE NEW.
How simply said. Yet, hard to accomplish. As human beings, it is in our nature to want to hold grudges, because it is easier to be mad than to really look in the mirror and see the part we played to get into the situations we find ourselves in. As human beings, it is easier to blame someone than to admit we were in the wrong, simply because the idea that we had poor judgement is actually quite scary.
OUT WITH THE OLD. IN WITH THE NEW.
My heart felt...a relief when I saw this quote. I've heard it many times before but it never really hit me like it did today. Sometimes I forget what God has planned for my life and that He doesn't care about what others say or think about me. He only cares that I am willing and able. I forget that he isn't a tyrant. He IS my father. As many times as I fall, all he wants me to do is to tell him "Abba, I need your help" so that he can come to my rescue. OF COURSE, He will discipline me. He doesn't want me to become a spoiled brat and abuse his love and grace. He does, however, want to show me that although I may get a little scratch here, a little bruise there, that those wounds heal. He doesn't want me to contemplate on the fall, or be scared or getting up again. My God teaches me that its okay to brush off those wounds, and keep walking.
OUT WITH THE OLD. IN WITH THE NEW.
This week I've learned that life doesn't always go as you planned. People come and go. Circumstances don't always stay the same. Things fade away. It's okay to let things, and people, go. Even memories. God has a greater plan for our lives. If we could just grab hold of that promise in Jeremiah 1:5, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.", our lives might just seriously not seem so...hopeless.
OUT WITH THE OLD. IN WITH THE NEW.
Let God give you a clean slate. He's got greater things in store for you.
OUT WITH THE OLD. IN WITH THE NEW.
How simply said. Yet, hard to accomplish. As human beings, it is in our nature to want to hold grudges, because it is easier to be mad than to really look in the mirror and see the part we played to get into the situations we find ourselves in. As human beings, it is easier to blame someone than to admit we were in the wrong, simply because the idea that we had poor judgement is actually quite scary.
OUT WITH THE OLD. IN WITH THE NEW.
My heart felt...a relief when I saw this quote. I've heard it many times before but it never really hit me like it did today. Sometimes I forget what God has planned for my life and that He doesn't care about what others say or think about me. He only cares that I am willing and able. I forget that he isn't a tyrant. He IS my father. As many times as I fall, all he wants me to do is to tell him "Abba, I need your help" so that he can come to my rescue. OF COURSE, He will discipline me. He doesn't want me to become a spoiled brat and abuse his love and grace. He does, however, want to show me that although I may get a little scratch here, a little bruise there, that those wounds heal. He doesn't want me to contemplate on the fall, or be scared or getting up again. My God teaches me that its okay to brush off those wounds, and keep walking.
OUT WITH THE OLD. IN WITH THE NEW.
This week I've learned that life doesn't always go as you planned. People come and go. Circumstances don't always stay the same. Things fade away. It's okay to let things, and people, go. Even memories. God has a greater plan for our lives. If we could just grab hold of that promise in Jeremiah 1:5, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.", our lives might just seriously not seem so...hopeless.
OUT WITH THE OLD. IN WITH THE NEW.
Let God give you a clean slate. He's got greater things in store for you.
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