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.