A reminder
for today
Take
control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips. (Psalm 141:3)
When we have fallen, do we accept our mistakes or do we
go into blame mode? You see a lot of us fall by our own mistakes but we are too
proud to see our own faults and then we start to blame. We shift the blame out
of our own insecurities so that we can feel better about ourselves and maybe
even free from the reason for our fall. We become blinded by our own
inabilities as we seek to place the blame on other. We become cold and
irritated and we start to say things that we shouldn’t. Our words become our
weapon of destruction as we begin to hurt people for our own mistakes.
When we rise from the place where we have fallen we
should rise a better person with gained knowledge and a better foundation. When
we stand up we should stand on Jesus as the foundation from where we start. We should
not seek vengeance and destroy other for our own mistakes. When we allow Jesus
to become our starting block let us also ask Him to control what we say and
guard our lips.
Why do we need to break down when in Jesus we can
rebuild. It does not matter in the end who made the mistake and who made you
fall. It is how we stand up again and how we rebuild on the correct foundation.
We are more with Jesus and we are stronger by His forgiveness and the very
forgiveness we give and accept. We cannot carry on if we do not forgive
ourselves. You cannot keep on blaming yourself when Jesus has already taken you
burden for you. If you continue in that way you are a hypocrite and you go
against the very core of our religion. Jesus is all love and all forgiveness.
Live and rebuild by it.
Have an awesome day dear friend of Jesus
Cheers
We need to fall and fail to be humbled so that Jesus can rebuild us according to His will. It reminds us on our dependence on Him and that our will needs to be aligned with His. We have to hold on to Him through every struggle in life no matter how hard or painful it is. He will renew our strength and we will receive endurance through faith.
ReplyDeleteHebrews 12 verse 4-13 describes it so well. We are children of God and that does not mean that we will have an easy life.
Verse 7 and 11: 7 Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
Our faith will be tested over and over again; Jesus will not bring anything on our journey without giving us the strength to get through it.