Living in this day in time is very hard to say the least. You mess up people hold it against you. If you are not completely like them they reject you. If they know about your past they recap it for you. Not knowing the harm, it causes, or not caring.
In my life I have done many things that I am not proud of. Even today I have done a few things that I wish I could take back…but sadly in life there is no take backs. I am sure we could all look back and are ashamed of some of the things we have said or done. And I am completely sure that some of them are being held against you today. The world today don’t focus on the good you have done, or how you have changed, they focus a lot on your mistakes and your failures. Been there and have felt that hurt. Sadly they don’t know that we beat ourselves up more than they can imagine we need no help in this area.
That is why the story in John 4 about the woman at Jacobs well speaks to me on a personal level. In my past like I have said I have done things that I am completely ashamed of. Thought things that I would never speak. Just like her went through great lengths to hide myself from people because I knew they knew what I done and I knew they would only see that. Not the person I have become. But the good thing like her I met Jesus!!!!!
He knew it all…….my sins, my thoughts, my mistakes, my words, my flaws, my hang up, my weaknesses…….and yet He loved me!!!!!!! I loved the verse where she goes to the very people that she tried so hard to stay away from because they would not leave her past behind……..and says “ come see a man who told me about everything I have ever done.” You know they already knew……but she told them. Why???? Because what she was really saying is that he knew and he still loved her.
I think like her I just want to tell some people today in this world that it is okay to mention my mistakes….it is okay to call me out…….but it also okay to still love me. I am not perfect, I am not flawless…..I am a masterpiece in the process of the Lord God. What the world today needs to learn that’s it is ok to love someone with the truth…….actually it is impossible to truly love someone and not deal with their past. We all have a past, we all have imperfections, we all have cracks, and scars……but you know what we are all still loved just the same, and we should all love each other just like Christ.
Heavenly Father, I thank you today that you stopped and spoke to me. That you knew me for who I was and loved me anyways. I thank you that my past did not dictate who I was to you. But most of all I thank you that you forgave me, that you called me out on my sin and still do today and keep me striving for better for a closer walk in you. Lord I pray today that if someone feels like they need to hide like they need to desolate themselves because of their past … Lord speak to them in this very moment and show them I know ….. and You still love them. Also Lord help the people in the world today that holds the things of the past against others…. Let them see that the past is the past…the furture is what is important…the person is who we should be looking at not what they have done or who they were but what they can become. In Jesus name
Forever his servant
