Day 23: Unregret

LOVE drives you to what is unnatural in the moment~

To say NO when you want to say YES

so you won't

receive the ARROW OF REGRET.

Oh

"For I do not understand my own actions [I am baffled and bewildered by them]. I do not practice what I want to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate [and yielding to my human nature, my worldliness—my sinful capacity]" (Romans 5:17 AMP).

Those times when

I FALL SHORT

of my own expectations & of GOD's EXPECTATIONS~

when I do what I know I should NOT do.

I am talking about

the little silly stuff that appears to be so trivial

like

gossip

unwholesome talk

complaining

judging

old habits

&

__________,

yet are really not that trivial

as they

actually PIERCE THE HEART OF GOD

because HIS HEART HURTS when we leave HIM out of the picture~

"Against YOU, YOU only, I have sinned" (Psalm 51:4).

When my heart says go and GOD says stop

I have to stop because of my LOVE for GOD

because my GOD does not like it when I do this or that

because my GOD LOVES me

and LOVE always wants the best for you & me.

A LOVE that is so perfect

because it is wrapped in the

PEFECT LOVE of JESUS.

JESUS~

who was thinking about me & you & everyone else

when HE chose to get on the cross.

So when I want to do that which I know I don’t want to do

I will take a breath

and remember that it isn't about me

as it is about GOD.

Because I know whatever the "it" is

"it" will pierce the heart of my GOD

with great sorrow

because I am HIS and HE is mine

and LOVE wants the best

because LOVE covers all~

"for there is no condemnation in those who are IN JESUS" (Romans 8;1)

IN JESUS~

WRAPPED in the scars from the nail holes that JESUS wears on HIS HANDS.

HIS SCARS that are a reminder of

HIS PEFECT LOVE

that drives out punishment,

because HE took my punishment & yes yours

for all those times we FALL SHORT of PERFECTION~

for when we strive

to do the impossible that only JESUS can do for us.

So when we do what we know we don't want to do,

whatever the "it" is

becomes an open wound that keeps bleeding,

that keeps pouring REGRET upon our souls.

BUT LOVE is right there

ready to receive us

with HIS FORGIVING BLOOD

that binds up our wounds

and leaves a permanent scar

that

becomes more like a tattoo of LOVE

that says "JESUS LIVES HERE".

Oh ________

you are NO LONGER AN OPTION

because

___________ HURTS my GOD

who LOVES you & I beyond our comprehension

and HE does not want anything messing with HIS CHILDREN

whom are HIS PRIZED POSSESSION.

“I’ve loved you the way my FATHER has loved me. Make yourselves at home in my love.

If you keep my commands, you’ll remain intimately at home in my love.

That’s what I’ve done—kept my FATHER'S commands and made myself at home in HIS love"*

Oh when you are IN LOVE with someone

and when HE is IN LOVE with you,

doing what HE desires you to do

becomes a WANT TO & not a HAVE TO. So why do what do what you know you don't want to do,

because LOVING GOD so deeply

just says NO

because

IN JESUS __________ is NO LONGER AN OPTION.

"I’ve told you these things for a purpose: that MY joy might be your joy,

and your joy wholly mature" *(John 15:9-11 MSG).

Therefore

"I HAVE DECIDED TO FOLLOW JESUS" (listen to the song below)