I have personally experienced pain in the last 15 years beyond what I thought I could survive. His pain has become hope for others. Only Gods redemption can take pain and turn it into triumph! He used the heartache and turned it into a testimony to help so many other people. He took his bad choices, horrible decisions and their consequences, and forged him into who is currently is. Since that day, God had taken every horrible thing he went through and has used it for his good. It’s funny how that suddenly seems to come out of nowhere, but the journey feels like an eternity in the moment. After many heartbreaking years “suddenly” he gave his life to Jesus and began the journey to his calling. So as parents we did what every good parent does, we prayed our heads off. We had to trust God to turn it around for his good. God says go left and dang it if that right turn doesn’t look more appealing! We knew he had a call from God on his life and he was running in the opposite direction of that call. He had made many bad choices which as a parent broke our hearts for him. We had a serious situation with one of our sons when he was a teenager. He is able to take what seems lost, irreparable or damaged and use or make it turn in our favor for good. When situations go awry we often think, “How can this ever be made right again?” Things can look hopeless but God’s redemption can turn it completely around. Redeem means, to recover ownership of something by paying a specified amount, to set free by providing compensation, to restore the honor, worth or reputation of. Christs blood bought back our freedom, secured the payment due for our sin thus redeeming us back to himself. God immediately set a plan in motion to gain back man’s authority and to redeem him back from the hands of the enemy through the sacrifice of Jesus. Rule over it …” They gave that authority over to Satan when they sinned. When God created man, he gave him authority to rule this planet, Genesis 1:28a “So God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number fill the earth and subdue it. Hello Doc Brown, I need to borrow your DeLorean! Unfortunately, time only runs forward, so we must always be looking forward. To go back…rewind means to wind back to the beginning, reverse to a previous event, or to return to an earlier time. What we would like to do is to simply rewind time. It’s the most powerful concept in God’s word. That may sound like a religious word we may not use much anymore but I can assure you it’s far more than a dusty religious relic. Thankfully we have a God who can still do something about our situations, he can redeem it. Don’t you wish that were possible? I sure do sometimes.īut sadly, we don’t have a time machine lying around to whisk us back to fix things…dang it. Many people have such deep regrets they longingly wish they could turn back time and make a better choice or change an outcome. So much of life can be spent wishing we could go back for a do-over. To appreciate the hard times because they only make the good ones sweeter.God doesn’t rewind he redeems. To relish this life and help others relish theirs too. To start each day with a new chance to love and be loved. I’m glad there is a Live Now button in life, that gives me an opportunity to be better one moment at a time. To tell him I wish I had sat and listened more. I wish I could tell him, “thank you”, for so many reasons. I wish I could tell him every time I see a beautiful sunset I think of him and miss him. I wish there was a rewind button so I could tell my Dad how much I love him again. To relish their sweet scent that only babies have. I wish there were a pause button to feel the tiny soft hands and cheeks of my babies as I held them in my arms. To sink into those moments of love or joy that seem to disappear too quickly. I wish there were a pause button to laugh more and be irritated less. I wish there were a pause button to allow myself to look in from a different perspective and tell myself, “everything will all be ok”, to be more gentle on myself and to those around me. I wish there were a pause button to take in all the moments that seem too good to be true, to relish them a little longer to sit with the feelings of peace and accomplishment of times of inner success. I wish there were a pause button in life… To give them a better chance to be loved and understood. I wish there were a rewind button to take back all the negative thoughts or words we had about people. If we could dream a little bigger and fearlessly. If we could sit still and listen a little more intently. If we could tell the people we love just how much they mean to us a little more thoroughly. If we could rewind and live life a little more fully. I wish so badly there was such a thing as a rewind button in life.
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