May 15: WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME REMEMBERING FAILURES

Affirmation: It’s OK not to be OK. I allow myself to feel what I feel.

I suggest that you add journaling to your daily habits. Studies indicate that when you write ✍️ it down, it is much easier to move forward. You can use your journal as your to do list and just jot down what you are feeling. Some days my journal entry is short, other days it may be longer. Just make it your own.
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Ponder, Personalize, Practice: Today read through the verses and focus on a phrase that stands out to you. My focus is on “Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.”

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians ­4:4-7 NIV

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May 15

WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME REMEMBERING FAILURES GOD SPENT A LOT OF LOVE SAYING WE COULD FORGET.

You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 
1 PETER 2:9 

Memorizing is easy for me. Any lawyer worth his salt has to earn a black belt in remembering stuff just to pass the bar. Too bad it doesn't seem to work for remembering names. If remembering names is hard, why is remembering failures so easy? 


My bar-passing regimen consisted of crafting crazy amounts of flashcards. I cycled through the stacks until recalling them was a reflex. 


Over. And over. And over. And over again. We handle our failures like that. We spend a lot of time remembering failures God spent a lot of love saying we could forget. The Bible talks about God separating our failures from us as far as the east is from the west. If we start thinking of failure like God does, we'll find ourselves saying no when it tries to catch us. 


We live like God's keeping score, like He's watering a garden of our wrongs to make us eat later when the time is ripe. 


God is very familiar with failures; nothing about them intimidates or baffles Him. He's seen it all before, and His policy isn't to feed them to us until we choke. Instead, God wants to bury our failures so He can grow new ways of thinking. 


The next time we find ourselves rehashing our failures over and over, studying them like flashcards, let's create a new set-cards that remind us we're met every morning with love and grace and the names son, daughter, and beloved. 

 

God wants us to memorize those. 


So let's lose the old ones. We don't need them anymore. 

 

What does God say about who you are to Him? 

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