May 5: GOD KNOWS WE'LL GET IT WRONG SOMETIMES.

Affirmation: I am not less for making mistakes. I am more because I am learning.

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Ponder: I am finding that I need to review the scripture I have pondered since January. So I am going back to review the past 16 scriptures. This is the first. I have been starting each day with this verse. 
“Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.” Psalm 143:8 NIV


I start each morning with Psalm 143:8…then as I appreciate this beautiful world in which we live, I repeat it again. 

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Reading for Today
Walk in Grace. Live in Love. by Bob Goff

May 5

GOD KNOWS WE'LL GET IT WRONG SOMETIMES. LOVE FORGIVES AND THEN LOOKS AHEAD. 

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. 
PSALM 103:12 

I have a friend who has this condition she calls the ''Angel Complex." She feels so driven to perfection that any slip is like a deadly sin. In about five seconds she'll forget the thankless way she helped or did a random act of kindness. But it will take her five years to forget the little mistake that caught her boss's attention or caused disappointment with her spouse. She's stuck in the past and can't move on. Her mistakes have become like links in a chain that bind her heart. It makes me so sad, and I try to remind her about all the good she's done and how wonderful she is. But she simply can't hear the words. 


Then it occurred to me God knows the feeling I get when I try to encour­age her-because I'm just as hard to reach sometimes too. He knew we would get it wrong before He came to be with us, but He came anyway because that's what love does. Love forgives and then looks ahead. Love leaves old failures in the past. God doesn't keep score, and we don't need to either. 


God said our sins are as far from Him as the east is from the west. You don't need a tape measure to figure out that's a long way. They're erased from our history as far as He's concerned. But shame keeps bringing them back up. It says we're disqualified. We're unworthy. Shame tries to shackle us to who we were to keep us from becoming who we are.


Don't take the bait and waste your energy rehashing things God said you can forget. You lost a little time when you made the mistakes; don't lose more by dwelling on them now. What do you need to let go of? What's in your past that you keep dragging into the present? Let it go. 


What past mistake are you still allowing yourself to hold on to? 

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