When you are reviled for past ugliness, and you know you deserve it, it's hard to go on. It's hard to be forward thinking and not consumed by a dull, background hum of defeat. Apologies done, now the solution is to shed the power of the accuser by faith, through belief in One Greater who promises restoration. By that faith, you become more than your past. THEN you SHOULD be able to put on love. But there is the rub. He does restore and He does forgive and heal. People, on the other hand, are not Him. When you don't get the same message from your betters, what then?
Heading to church in an hour. Think LOVE, not fear of judgement. PUT - ON - LOVE (Colossians 3:14 (New International Version, ©2011) ...
"And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity."
"My goal is that their hearts, having been knit together in love, may be encouraged, and that they may have all the riches of understanding of the knowledge of the mystery of God, namely Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." - - Colossians 2:2-3
LORD, keep me from feeling small over a past I cannot change, focused instead on your mandate to plan acts of love, and be about building a future I can change.
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