“Fools are famous for repeating their errors, like dogs are known to return to their vomit.”
Proverbs 26:11 TPT
Finding Freedom..
Have you ever been in a place where you have been delivered by Christ and there found freedom by his Amazing Grace and mercy thinking to yourself “YEEES, IM FREE”. This could be the case for many of us who have had an encounter with the true God of the world, what a feeling right having finally found that sense of belonging again that love you never felt before, that compassion that only comes from God. The deliverance that comes only by the forgiveness through the blood of his Son Jesus, who on a cross died for each one of us, when actually when we think about our lives and the things we’ve done it’s truly what we deserve, Right? But only Jesus.
Digging a Hole, Scoop by Scoop..
Proverb 26 verse 11 tells us that when we continually keep going back to the old life and them destructive ways, the ways that are corruptive of our souls, we are being very very foolish. If we think hard and imagine in our minds a dog when it’s just been sick, imagine that dog going back so easily to that sick and eating it up with no quarrels at all! How disgusting is that thought, well that’s what God says we are like when we go back the way instead of following in his ways the plans he has for our lives. It’s like standing in the same spot with a shovel and digging, getting deeper and darker with every scoop, the light is becoming less bright and your finding yourself struggling to breath and get out of there. Instead of climbing we keep on digging, we now find ourselves separated from God all over again.
Feeling the Separation..
When we get to this place of despair and hopelessness it is a very dark place! We feel as though we are separated from God we feel unloved all over again saying to ourselves, how can God love me? How can he forgive me again?especially for this stuff I’ve being doing, the stuff I thought I found freedom from! Doesn’t the bible tell us that we should not go on sinning once we become saved and accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior?? We can so easily feel separated from God in these times but let me tell you this brothers and sisters it’s in these times that God is there more than ever, Jesus is there reaching out his hand, we only have to be willing to take hold of it again, learn, then move on thanking him that his Word and his promises are true for those he loves and for those who really love him too.
Nothing’s To Dark For The Light..
Just when we think there’s no way back, there’s always a way back! Can I encourage those who feel this today that if we transform our minds in a different direction we can do it! Instead of thinking about what we are doing and what we have done, think about what Jesus has done on the cross by taking away and dealing with everything you have done and ever will do, think about where he’s taking you to and what he’s forgiven you from. Don’t be sin conscious, be thankful, remember his Great Love for you it doesn’t ever change with our actions, he knows your struggle, he knows your trying! Turn away from these things and grab a hold of his hand he has pulled you from the pit before he’s not going to settle with you being there again and neither should you!
Prayer: Oh Father in heaven I come to you as a broken vessel that only you can heal with your tremendous Love and Compassion, Lord God hear my heart I long for you, heal my heart Father I pray, restore me back to you again, let these evil desires and thoughts be cast out into the pits of hell and wash me clean in your Grace, cleanse me by your blood by the power of your blood that sets us free! Father I know what it’s like to be that fool you talk of, that dog! I’m sorry and I thank you that you have already forgiven me, I’m so grateful to have a loving God with open arms and not a condemning God who turns his back on his children.
I love you Father, I truly do please help me to know bettter help me to recognise what you want for me that will keep me walking in your ways, help me build good relationships that will help me be strong having a good support around me. Remind me of what’s good in my life. Father I pray for my hurting heart to be completely healed, I pray for my brothers and sisters from every nation who may be going through something similar that they also will be healed in the name of Jesus! Thank you Father that your love never let’s go and your always there waiting for us to return to you. Help us see that we need you in our lives every day, every single moment of the day! I pray all these things in the name of your wonderful, glorious son and our Savior Jesus. Amen!
Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
enjoying one moment at a time;
accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
that I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
forever in the next.
Amen.
“reinhold niebuhr (1892-1971)”
Promises imprinted in the heart 