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It’s Sunday and my page is a day late. Usually, I wake up on Saturday morning with a topic or more in my mind to begin my teaching page with and the Lord adds to the topic as I type but yesterday morning I had nothing and didn’t get anything all day.
I questioned God about that but didn’t really give Him all of my attention. I just kind of casually asked Him then went on with my day doing the things that I wanted to do. This morning, I realize that He gave me this heading yesterday but, I got caught up in my day and didn’t get back to the computer to type anything.
I also learned that He had made my pages come so easy that I had become spoiled and started to take them for granted that they would always come that easy and that I would not have to do a whole lot of work to get them.
In my conversations with Him, this morning, He made me realize that I had missed doing the page yesterday so, in staying home from church today, I had also missed a day to gather with His people and worship Him. [I missed doing two things that He loved for me to do]
I had become complacent. Any other time, I would have come into the office, sat at the computer and started something while I waited for Him and it would not be very long before He would give me something and I would get it faster than I could type, [like right now.]
I did NOT start so God let me mess up and miss His blessing. He waited, patiently, while He watched me do my own thing, saying nothing and doing nothing; knowing that I would come to this place of understanding and regret with only one option left. Ask His forgiveness and get back to the task that He has given me. [I have long since made the decision to stay with Him, no matter what, so, continuing to do my own thing and ignoring God from then on was not an option for me; even though I have seen others that have chosen to do this.]
Having lost out on those blessings that I should have enjoyed yesterday and today and can only continue on today and hope for His blessing and enjoy His presence now.
He loves us but He will not force Himself on anyone. We have to do it His way if we want to be His friend. When we make a mistake, He requires us to go to Him [trusting Him] and apologize; then receive His forgiveness and continue on with the love relationship that we started at our first acceptance of Jesus and our first repentance for our sins that put Jesus on the cross in payment for them.
Any blessings and successes that we missed are gone and should not be brought back into our minds to continue to beat ourselves with. God considers this to be an abuse of ourselves and is not allowed to be done to someone that He loves. However, the lessons that we have learned from our failures should remain to teach us how to handle a similar situation in the future and teach us how to help others that need the correct knowledge to deal with that situation in their lives.
This page is written today, showing my failure and shame so that others can see how to handle failure and shame before their God and how to take the proper actions to restore their right relationship with Him and how to get back into His good graces.[and how to stop beating yourselves with your old past mistakes and trust Him to renew a right spirit in you.]
May God bless you one and all.
