
WOULD HAVE
&
COULD HAVE
&
SHOULD HAVE,
the words of
THE PAST.
THE PAST that has already PAST
and can not be relived again,
unless you continue to
relive it in your mind.
But RELIVING the PAST
is
REGURGITATING the PAST
which brings
THE PAST into the PRESENT,
which means that you are not
LIVING IN THE PRESENT.
Now that was a mouthful.
So what if you
WOULD HAVE done ___________ instead of ___________,
and
COUD HAVE done ___________ instead of ___________,
and
SHOULD HAVE done ___________ instead of___________?
Hmm.
Yes, things could be different,
but would things be better?
Only GOD knows.
For there is only
ONE
regret of
THE PAST
that is definitely the
BIGGEST
"if only"
that you wish you
WOULD HAVE
COULD HAVE
SHOULD HAVE
done,
if you haven't already done,
that has ETERNAL CONSEQUENCES.
It is so Christian-ese
but it is SIMPLY TRUTH~
"If you openly declare that JESUS IS LORD
and BELIEVE in your heart that GOD raised HIM from the dead,
you will be saved"
(Romans 10:8-9).
Can't you breathe easier
when you KNOW that you not only KNOW
but you
REALLY BELIEVE
that
JESUS IS YOUR SAVIOR.
I can't even imagine my life without JESUS.
I wasted so many SECONDS of my life
that wish I
WOULD HAVE KNOWN JESUS
as my SAVIOR,
when I just knew HIM as a man on a cross who was at church.
I wasted so my SECONDS of my life that
I COULD HAVE
followed JESUS
instead of following my own self.
I wasted so my SECONDS of my life that
I SHOULD HAVE
listened to my aunt,
as she kept telling me about JESUS,
but I blew her off as I thought I had JESUS,
when I only had religion and not a relationship.
But I finally did HEAR her words, at the age of 32,
when GOD took me to the end of myself
so that I KNEW I NEEDED HIM.
Oh GOD is so GOOD,
that HE wants NO ONE TO PERISH,
that HE never gave up on me,
as HE never gives up on any of HIS CHILDREN,
for EVERY PERSON that has ever been born is
HIS CHILD.
FOR GOD is the CREATOR of ALL.
Can you imagine how GRIEVED GOD
must have been in the garden,
when HIS first two kids disobeyed HIM
and took the bite of the forbidden fruit.
Ouch!
Oh GOD had to be so GRIEVOUS,
that HE made a PROMISE
that HE WOULD
send a
REDEEMER
to right all wrongs,
when
HE
COULD HAVE
stopped humanity in that second.
BUT because
GOD is GOOD
HE sent JESUS to
erase every
COULD HAVE
WOULD HAVE
SHOULD HAVE
with the
GIFT OF FORGIVENESS
that covers
every
REGRET of THE PAST.
What if this very SECOND you took this MOMENT
to
RECEIVE
HIS FORGIVENESS for
a WOULD HAVE
COULD HAVE
SHOULD HAVE
that is keeping you stuck in the PAST.
What if in this very next SECOND you took this very MOMENT
to
GIVE HIS FORGIVENESS
to someone who you wish you
WOULD HAVE
COULD HAVE
SHOULD HAVE
FORGIVEN in THE PAST.
What if in this very next SECOND you took this very MOMENT
to
FORGIVE GOD
for what you wish
HE WOULD HAVE
HE COULD HAVE
HE SHOULD HAVE
done for you that HE hasn't done for you,
in the way you wish HE WOULD.
Oh THREE NEW SECONDS of pure JOY
that you will no longer have any
REGRETS
because
FORGIVENESS springs forth
a NEW BEGINNING
to LIVE LIFE as GOD intended.
For when you make
JESUS your
WOULD HAVE
COULD HAVE
SHOULD HAVE
you have nothing to lose,
but
the weight of THE PAST.
Therefore,
"Brothers and sisters,
I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.
But one thing I do:
Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead" (Philippians 3:13-14)
because
FORGIVENESS makes
this very SECOND
and the next SECOND
am every SECONF after that
A HAPPY NEW JOYFUL MOMENT
that takes you into
FOREVER,
because
if you and I
"GOT JESUS"*
we have it all!
*(listen to the song below)
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