I find it difficult to express this point. A Christian life and life in general can be done many different ways, but with adversity comes great reward. When things are easy, it seems that I have no motivation to grow deeper in God. But in the storms, I want to sink my routes into God. It is like climbing a mountain, there will be points in that mountain that I slip backward, that forward movement is a slow go, but God is faithful. If I was to conquer the mountain with no struggles, was it much of a mountain?
3 steps forward and 2 backwards is still moving forward. God didn't say that being a Christian will be easy. In fact He talks about all the adversity that we will hit while growing in Him. He is faithful to have His way in us and He will show us the right way we need to move when we allow Him. It is the hard choices to move the way He wants us too, but I believe when we allow our river to flow the way He defines it, then it will be easier. Yes we will hit rapids, but in those rapids it is just to show us that we are not the captain, He is.
I slide backward, I lose focus on the prize and I sink to the ways I once was, but God is faithful, He has given us much grace. I need to be as Jesus is and give much grace to those I am with. I need to be a mirror of Him and not of me. I am reminded that I am to do to others as I would have them do unto me, that means I must love no matter what. That I must extend the grace, because others are learning just like I am.
Today is a new day, yesterday is gone, the mistakes of yesterday are even gone. Live to learn from the mistakes that were made and grow in the fact that you don't have to make them again. Learn from them, love regardless. Change is not how we change others, but how we allow God to teach us and we change ourselves to love no matter what, to let go of the wrong and cling to the way God wants us to be. Don't be a mirror to others actions, be a mirror to Jesus's actions. The world is falling away, but Jesus is the reason we are here. Let us love how He talks about it, let us live a life as He defines it. Let us let go of yesterday and hold onto what He is doing today, for He made today special and let us above all else give Him praise and thanksgiving for that.
Easy to say, much harder to do, but God is faithful and with Him all things are possible. We are the limitations. Don't limit what He can do, because I am to afraid to let go.
