constantly on repeat will continue to reveal what you need to change or let go.
Breaking up with someone
that you care a lot about is very hard to do. Whether you’ve been together
six-months or six years, letting go is not something that comes naturally to
most of us. We live in a world that encourages us to cling to what is comfortable
and easy—and this includes relationships, even when we know in our hearts that they’re
not good for us. “Moving on” is a process, and many of us have yet to
learn it, but it is incredibly important that we do. Life is a very dynamic
entity, and it doesn’t just do away with lessons simply because we refuse to
learn them. All of us must open our eyes and recognize when we’ve made
decisions that were unwise. Owning our mistakes and learning from them isn’t a
downer; it’s one of life’s rewards, because it allows God the room to bless us
even more.
Jesus Christ is our burden-bearer. We do not have to carry the struggles of life upon ourselves, because we don’t have the strength to do it. Moses and God’s people sang in Exodus 15:2(NIV), “The LORD is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.” We are here on this earth to build our relationship with God through the Lord Jesus Christ. Life was not intended to be lived through anyone other than our wonderful Redeemer and Savior. We can’t allow our dependence or comfortability to become an idol that we worship and serve.
We must open our eyes when we’re doing this, when we’re trying to cling to a person because we feel our lives will not be good without them. This is a lie that the devil wants us to believe, so that he can continue to steal our authority and dominion. We must not allow it to happen. We must surrender our discomfort and dependency issues to Jesus, because he will break every chain of bondage in our lives.
Isaiah 26:3 says that God will keep in perfect peace everyone whose minds are stayed on Him, because they trust in Him. Having God’s peace, allowing it to saturate your heart—this is where you want to get to. The way to get there is to focus your mind on the Lord Jesus Christ and continue to keep this focus. He’s our source of strength, and he will give us rest for our souls, but we can’t forget the instruction he gave us in Matthew 11:29. He said we must learn about him by studying God’s Word. The Bible is a living Word, and when we take it into our minds and hearts, it feeds us. This is the food we are truly looking for. We are tricked into believing a person can feed our souls, but it is the living Word of God that we are truly hungering after.
Don’t continue to allow the vital nutrients of joy, peace, and enthusiasm to be continually sucked from your life. Do yourself the greatest favor and feast on God and His Word. Now is the time to press into Him. Pray that He will help you surrender every piece of emotional baggage that hinders your relationship with Him, because if it hurts your relationship with God, then it is hurting you. Understand that when you have God, you will always have more than enough. So, be confident that He loves You, and with His love, you have all you need. ■
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A friend shared how devastated
she was after recently coming out of a long-term relationship with her
boyfriend. They’d been together for a couple of years, and she said to me, “If
I could only make this pain go away.” I could sympathize, remembering saying those
exact words once myself. A broken heart can make us go through all kinds of
emotional pain, but sometimes it isn’t so much about losing the person that has
betrayed, abandoned, or mistreated us. It’s about the fear we have of being
alone, of not feeling as though we can depend on something that we’ve grown accustomed
to. Whether we realize it or not, this fear is the thing that is causing misery,
not a broken heart. The fear is the thing that keeps us spiritually immature.
It can paralyze our lives if we don’t take authority through the Lord Jesus
Christ, so we can begin to walk in the liberty he extends.
God designed life in such a
way that learning to surrender is a spiritual lesson all of us must learn. Jesus
Christ teaches by way of an invitation in Matthew 11:28-30(NIV). In this
passage, he says, “28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I
will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle
and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is
easy and my burden is light.” This is packed with so much good stuff that it
must be read repeatedly throughout our lives. We need to keep going back to chew
on it some more, and we’ll come away with a brand-new beautiful revelation of the
beauty and love of Christ every time.Jesus Christ is our burden-bearer. We do not have to carry the struggles of life upon ourselves, because we don’t have the strength to do it. Moses and God’s people sang in Exodus 15:2(NIV), “The LORD is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him.” We are here on this earth to build our relationship with God through the Lord Jesus Christ. Life was not intended to be lived through anyone other than our wonderful Redeemer and Savior. We can’t allow our dependence or comfortability to become an idol that we worship and serve.
We must open our eyes when we’re doing this, when we’re trying to cling to a person because we feel our lives will not be good without them. This is a lie that the devil wants us to believe, so that he can continue to steal our authority and dominion. We must not allow it to happen. We must surrender our discomfort and dependency issues to Jesus, because he will break every chain of bondage in our lives.
Isaiah 26:3 says that God will keep in perfect peace everyone whose minds are stayed on Him, because they trust in Him. Having God’s peace, allowing it to saturate your heart—this is where you want to get to. The way to get there is to focus your mind on the Lord Jesus Christ and continue to keep this focus. He’s our source of strength, and he will give us rest for our souls, but we can’t forget the instruction he gave us in Matthew 11:29. He said we must learn about him by studying God’s Word. The Bible is a living Word, and when we take it into our minds and hearts, it feeds us. This is the food we are truly looking for. We are tricked into believing a person can feed our souls, but it is the living Word of God that we are truly hungering after.
Don’t continue to allow the vital nutrients of joy, peace, and enthusiasm to be continually sucked from your life. Do yourself the greatest favor and feast on God and His Word. Now is the time to press into Him. Pray that He will help you surrender every piece of emotional baggage that hinders your relationship with Him, because if it hurts your relationship with God, then it is hurting you. Understand that when you have God, you will always have more than enough. So, be confident that He loves You, and with His love, you have all you need. ■
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