each is His own
We can choose to live as victims or victors. It’s all in how we want the story to play out. Do we want our story or God’s story.
God knows what’s best for me even if I don’t want to acknowledge or admit it. We have so much stored up in our minds that we want to play out, whether right or wrong.
Unfortunately, it is not safe for us to access our memories without God’s help. We need Him in everything to see completeness, wholeness, love, peace, and joy in the darkness we didn’t know we were thumbing through. We have a vault of information that has to be sifted through with God so there are no misunderstandings and for absolute truth. Forgiveness is at the helm of it all. We, me, you can harbor resentment that unleashes bitterness and unforgiveness. It not only traps the past and rewrites the past, but pollutes the future and intoxicates and perverts the future or the future that can be robbed from us when we refuse to be honest and release those locked in our story. What I have locked away, but now release in forgiveness and love is thoughts and acts of distrust of people due to past hurts. I lean on God because His truth prevails from past to present. And lives on forever more.
God has a plan for all of us and He is the only one who knows the full plan, not me or your teacher or your mother. I don’t know everything especially about anyone. But God does and He talks to everyone about their lives. God does not just talk to me, even though I would like to believe it. He talks and walks with all. Those who hear Him hear Him how they are supposed to, not my way or the way I believe the way they should. What is for them is for them just like it is for me.
God has a journey for each one of us. Not just me. God has much to teach us and grow us in, not just me. Even those close to me He is working on, which I am not privy to, just like they are not privy to God and my private sessions.
Although I may not have access to the makings of anyone’s success, I do my part of encouraging those around me to walk in their purpose. I do it with patience and understanding because I cannot help encourage anyone and get mad or upset that they are not doing what I or they know they should be doing. That is between God and them, my job is to help each person He allows in my life to reach and move towards their purpose, be excited and cheer for them, and allow God to do His surgery. I cannot even watch at the glass or go in for the surgery I just need to stay in my lane rejoice and continue to bring more His way so He can do it His way in their lives.
You see, I say again, we all have a story. For some of us, our story has been rocky because we have been setting the wrong plot and even casting the wrong people. Because of our doing, He needs to get in and correct the visual and all applied so we can see clearly and walk out our life in love for Him, ourselves, and those He has us walk along side.
Renewing of our mind for a sound mind is important for the walking out of our future, our purpose.
God is for us as individuals and corporately. We have to first trust God to walk out what is before us.
Our guide is Him not our past. Our instructor is Holy Spirit, not our past.
When we are in question of the new things in front of us we should seek Holy Spirit to guide us through our past experience, so we respond correctly. With Holy Spirit we can refrain from looking at our past in judgment, being critical, unloving, or incorrect in thought about self and those who helped create the experience. Our action is to be a true reflection of what we truly know and understand and who we know, God.
We are to do better because we know better we know God and trust him above all else.
Selah.