In Yesterday…

I was writing in my “I’m Thankful This Morning For” journal, and I had a dawning moment…I’d love to share!

When we allow our minds to take us back to places in the past that still haunt us, we enable ourselves to relive and relive the scenarios we wanted so badly to escape. Why? Why do we do this? Why do we even want to?

I am notorious for just this behavior, and as I was thanking God this morning for some changes taking place within me. I was a little surprised by the growth that has been happening within me that I hadn’t even begun to notice. You see, an earlier epiphany of, to be forgiven of our sins and wrongs, we are to forgive those who have hurt or wronged us.

I needed to stop dragging around the ugly pictures photo album, to stop being so intent at looking and remembering the hurtful pictures of yesterday that I completely stopped taking and noticing the smiling pictures of today!

Ephesians 4:32 NIV “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.”

Matthew 6:14 NLT “If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you.”

I repeated and repeat these two scriptures every time an old hurt or memory would or does try and surface. They have been so influential in subduing my mind and freeing my attitude. They are creating the growth that God and I so desire.

Satan and the powers of the dark side love when we sit and look at the photo album full of tears; remember, he doesn’t want us to grow and be joyful and happy. Yet but another reminder to put the past back where it belongs. In Yesterday…

Thank you for being here with me today, and I pray it’s a most blessed one…🥰