“I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.” (II John 2:12).
I have regrets plenty. Red faced, embarrassed, I am tempted to look back and dwell on them. Or, sometimes I’m just sad, wishing I’d done differently. But I have decided to quit that! I will look ahead because I’ve been given permission; "...forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before..." Philippians 3:13.
If the failures, hurts and indignities laid on you by others or brought on yourself, loom like a gathering storm, look forward. God is there. “A new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines.” (I John 2:8). God will be in your future if you ask Him…as soon as you repent, turn around and believe.
When a certain familiar fear threatens you again, very purposefully quote this verse: “Submit yourself therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” (James 4:7, 8). Peace will come.
The Word of God is “alive and active” in you. (Hebrews 4:12) Use this powerful technique at the same moment a storm brews in your soul.
Heb 4:12 "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Hebrews 4:12.
So, the Word of God is alive. Quick: is to live (literally or figuratively). Be ready for the next time that old familiar downward spiral begins. Stop it. Memorize the “quick and powerful” verse. With this you are ready day or night. A positive mind is being planted in you.
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