I hear the words
PRESS FORWARD
and sometimes I cheat
and do the opposite,
and instead
PRESS BACKWARDS,
regurgitating old wounds
as I am trying to make sense of them.
For what if I did this differently
or what if I did that differently
would the things that I want to be different
be different
or would things be the same?
And then I hear the words
PRESS FORWARD.
The two words of action,
that at times,
take a lot of energy
to take the first step
because my other step
is trying to
PRESS BACKWARDS.
So as I take a moment to stop
to be STILL enough,
I know what I have to do.
We were not created to walk BACKWARDS,
because BACKWARDS is where you have already been.
We can learn from the PAST.
We can try to right the wrongs.
We can cherish the JOY of memories.
But we can't get back what we never had
or redo what we had already done.
BUT GOD CAN.
HE REDEEMS.
HE FORGIVES.
HE HEALS.
HE was in your PAST
as HE is in your PRESENT,
and HE is in your FUTURE,
but where are you?
GOD stopped me in my tracks,
as I starting sliding BACKWARDS,
as HE gently reminded me
of my life when I was
LIVING BACKWARDS~
thinking I
"had" GOD
and
I "had" JESUS,
when I just left them at church
because I wasn't doing life with THEM.
Now that is BACKWARDS
Oh I am so GRATEFUL that
GOD never stopped pursuing me,
because HE never stops pursuing
ALL who HE CREATED,
which is
you and me and everyone else.
I am so glad that HE stopped me in my
BACKWARD LIVING,
the moment
I WANTED HIM
because
HE so WANTED me.
Who PURSUES someone
with such PATIENCE and GRACE,
just so
HE can whisper
I LOVE YOU?.
Oh the sweet spot of
FAITH
is what makes you
PRESS FORWARD,
when you feel like your life is going
BACKWARDS.
Because our
GOD is a FORWARD GOD
who is
always LEADING us to spaces and places
where we have never been before,
but oh so much
BETTER
than we can ever imagine
because
GOD
"is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine,
according to HIS power that is at work within us" (Ephesians 3:20).
GOD IS ALWAYS A GOOD GOD
who ALWAYS wants
BETTER for HIS CHILDREN,
for
"The LORD compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. HE will not always accuse, nor will HE harbor HIS anger forever; HE does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities" (Psalm 103: 8-9).
Oh our GOD is so PATIENT
that HE does not force anyone
to COME TO HIM,
because HE WANTS HIS CHILDREN
to WANT HIM,
because GOD WANTS you.
FREEDOM of CHOICE,
To PRESS FORWARD or to PRESS BACKWARDS~
"Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but
I press on to make it my own, because CHRIST JESUS has made me HIS own.
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own.
But one thing I do:
forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of
GOD in CHRIST JESUS"
(Philippians 3:12-14).
I choose PRESSING FORWARD
with JESUS
because
"THERE IS NONE LIKE YOU"
(listen to the song below)
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