What if… If only… Do thoughts that
begin with those phrases keep you awake at night, tossing and
turning? Do they disturb your thoughts through the day?
Regrets… mistakes… missed
opportunities…. longing for a second chance… worrying about the
impact of yesterday on today….
We can give the past so much of our
present, carrying the burden of it with us… letting it control… even
paralyze…
When my days and nights are consumed,
even dominated, by the what ifs of yesterday, I am setting myself up
for more of the same… that today will be tomorrow’s regret filled with what if…
What if my focus changed… what if I
lived today with what is my promise for today?
What if I listened to a different
voice… to the One who will not only “repay you for the years
the locusts have eaten…” (Joel 2:25) but is in fact willing
to blot out my transgressions … (Is. 43:25), removing
them as far as the east is from the west… (Ps. 103:12). What if
I believed that… what if I walked in that?
What if instead of reliving those
moments of rejection and hurt, I believed that I am loved with an
everlasting love… (Jer. 31:3). Think on that!
Everlasting… always was… always will be…
What if instead of focusing on
mistakes, missed opportunities and missteps, I believed that there
is mercy for me… everyday… every morning because He is faithful and
that mercy doesn’t depend on me… or on my faithfulness…(Lam.
3:22-24).
What if I believed that my steps are
directed… (Prov. 20:24) even that the way is prepared for me… (Ps.
85:13)?
What if I believed that my worrying was
pointless because the One who cares for the ravens and the lilies
of the field sees my need and will provide… (Luke 12:22-30).
What if I believed that there is
Someone who has carried my sorrows so that I don’t have to… (Is
53:4)?
What if today I listened to the One
who loves me, who died for me, who doesn’t condemn me instead of to
the one who accuses me… (John 3:16,17)?
What if I listened to the One who
had the final word instead of to the one who has only words, and none
of them true… (Rom 8:31)?
What if I choose life over
death… every day… (John 5:24)?
What if…???
Ruth
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