You do not have to be behind bars to be imprisoned. Our own thoughts can keep us in bondage. Yet there is freedom for everyone no matter where you are. Take the regrets, mistakes, failures all of it and get rid of those heavy weights and receive forgiveness, lay it down at the foot of the cross. One thing I ask myself, no matter how big the situation I am dealing with, “Can you change it? Can you go back and change anything?” This very question can be paralyzing but it is meant to help put it into perspective. The answer is no. So, now what do I do? Look to God’s Word first. Paul says in Philippians is, “But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead.” We must keep our focus on forward. This may become a daily choice and it will be hard, but we have to take control of our thoughts and choose to think on what is before not what is behind. I know this struggle well. Good messages come from big messes. I wish I were just gifted with ideas to share in a lovely manner that would inspire people. Instead, He uses the muck and the difficult circumstances to craft real life examples. So, you can know if He can do it for me, He will do it for you. Letting it go is not easy, its in the surrender. I cannot wrap my head around some of the choices I made in life, but its done. Somehow this feels like where a brick wall should be inserted, but with God all things are possible. Take the weights of the losses and mistakes, all the shoulda, coulda, wouldas and lay them at the cross. This means we are taking all those burdensome weights and giving them to Jesus, acknowledging and accepting what He did on the cross. He paid the price for our sins giving us His grace and mercy. Jesus says in Matthew 11:29-30, 29 “Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Walk in the mercy He has given you and do not let your minds relive the wrongs and the hurt it will be like taking up those heavy burdens again to lug around through life. When dealing with grief there are many things we go through but keeping God as a priority in our thoughts will keep us on the right path.
Our new perspective on loss, in this circumstance, it is a good thing. Loss can be good. I am not talking about those ten pesky pounds you want to lose. However, the burden of loss is a heavy weight to carry. This is a reason people write books about the war in our minds. The enemy uses thoughts to move us off what God’s Word says. The Word of God tells us to take captive those thoughts and cast down imaginations. We are to think wholly on the Word of God. His warfare on our minds can be worse after we take it to Jesus because the enemy wants to convince you otherwise. He doesn’t want you to take your healing or deliverance, he wants you bound. God loves you so much He sent His son to set you free!
Our new perspective on loss, in this circumstance, it is a good thing. Loss can be good. I am not talking about those ten pesky pounds you want to lose. However, the burden of loss is a heavy weight to carry. This is a reason people write books about the war in our minds. The enemy uses thoughts to move us off what God’s Word says. The Word of God tells us to take captive those thoughts and cast down imaginations. We are to think wholly on the Word of God. His warfare on our minds can be worse after we take it to Jesus because the enemy wants to convince you otherwise. He doesn’t want you to take your healing or deliverance, he wants you bound. God loves you so much He sent His son to set you free!