Reflect Our Past with God
The realization of Gods love while
reflecting on our past life is the perfect way to get strong faith in
our dear Lord. But this has to be done walking with God. Whenever we
try to think of our past life, we may sometimes feel bad, we may be
purposely forgetting our past due to a bitter experience that we had,
or the past experiences may brood in us making us guilty and doomed
to life. The past can bring frustrations or a sense of loss. If these
are the feelings that we get while reflecting our past, then beware,
realize the truth that we are not guided by Gods love.
This is can be said for a fact that,
Our dear God never ever wants His children to be fed up of life. He
never points us to loose life at any cost. He never brings guilt to
His child’s mind.
‘The
Lord God says: By my life, I swear that I don’t
enjoy seeing people die—not even evil people! I don’t want them
to die. I want them to come back to me. I want them to change their
lives so that they can really live. So come back to me! Stop doing
bad things! -Ezekiel 33:11
Hence
if our past brings anger or sadness or guilt or depression to us,
always realize that we are then guided by satan, who always wishes
our destruction. He gives a feeling of pretend repentance but it will
pierce our heart and make us feel, we are not good at all, we are not
righteous at all, this may inturn give a hatred to life. Never let
this happen. This is how satan mocked Judas, who betrayed Jesus.
Judas
betrayed Jesus and returned with the reward. Suddenly the feeling of
guilt came to his mind for cheating his own dear master. His
reflection of the past wrong deed was taken over by Satan who made
him hate himself and commit suicide. But St Peter who did the same
wrong by rejecting Jesus three times, repented on his past reflection
by walking along with Lord. He prayed and repented in front of Lord,
who then raised him with the eternal love and made him the strong
rock.
Hence
there are two consequences of reflecting our past for Gods love. If
this reflection takes us away from God then it is not right. Come
back under the wings of Lord. Always go to our past along with Lord.
Let not our selfish pride guide us, let not our guilt envelop our
past all these will take us away from Lord. Reflect our past
thinking,'how God guided us and shielded us from all our trials and
temptations through His Love'
Sometimes our past may bring pride to
us for gaining many things. In this case, it is not Gods love but it
is our selfish love towards ourself, that is guiding us. This will
perish and bring us to a stand still in progressing in life. Let our
selfish love be melted in Gods mercy.
God
is love. Everyone who lives in love lives in God, and God lives in
them. If God’s love is made perfect in us, we can be without fear
on the day when God judges the world. We will be without fear,
because in this world we are like Jesus.
Where
God’s love is, there is no fear, because God’s perfect love takes
away fear. It is his punishment that makes a person fear. So his love
is not made perfect in the one who has fear.
We
love because God first loved us.- I
John 4:16-19
God never lets us down, God never lets
us to boast in pride. He wants us to be humble as He is. He wants us
to love Him unconditionally and strives His maximum to keep us under
His everlasting love and mercy forever.
Lord Oh my Father, hold our hands while
walking through our life, let us be able to realize the depth of Your
unshakable love and mercy, let not our thoughts be directed to guilt
of destruction or pride which can destroy us, let it be enveloped in
Your Love so we get the strong Faith to be with You forever. Amen.
Reading
John 14
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