Today’s Devotional Written By A Young Woman of Devotion: Tracy Koweh
Let Go of Your Elephant Syndrome…
Micah 7:18-19 (New Living Translation)
18 Where is another God like you, who pardons the guilt of the remnant, overlooking the sins of his special people? You will not stay angry with your people forever, because you delight in showing unfailing love. 19 Once again you will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean!
Today’s message in the music comes from Keyshia Cole’s song “I Remember”. The song is mostly about her remembering one of the greatest heartbreaks of her life. Listening to just the music of the song, you’d think it was a beautiful love song, but the words tell a different story.
Like Keyshia Cole, I use to sit up and replay all the bad things that happened in my life, to protect myself from letting it happen again. What I’ve learned now, is that by not letting my past go, I was only hindering my future and stunting my present. You would think that we as Christian would be able to focus on all the good that God has blessed us with, and all of the storms He has brought us from. But most times we only speak of the hardships and trails from our past.
Last night my cousin came to me and apologized for something that happened over 15 years ago. We were little kids who really had no clue of the impact of our choices back then. He told me about 8 times how bad he felt and that through his wife, God had begun to deal with him about the physical and emotional scars he had left on people. There were tears shed, but the part that bothered me………was that he kept holding his head down. So many times God will deal with us about something, deliver/heal us from it, then forgive us and move on, but the problem is that we don’t. We try to give it to God with one hand, while keeping our grip on it with other.
Today as we begin the last Monday of this year. Let us not carry the burdens of our past into another year. Let us leave the failures, disappointments, missed opportunities, mistakes and bad choices behind us. Let us remember that God is, has been and always will be an awesome God. If God has placed it into the sea of forgetfulness, why don’t you follow His lead. As Aaliyah said ……………Dust Yourself off and Try Again.
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