Yesterday, I was thinking about all the struggles that I used to deal with.
God is showing me the thought patterns and the other struggles that were going on in my mind.
I had a bad host of bad believing, simple as that. It really is true, and it really is that simple.
I was not believing the Gospel in its fullest. It takes time to get there, for all of us are transformed from glory to glory as we behold HIM! (2 Corinthians 3:16-18)
The fact is that none of us will ever understand the Gospel to the fullest because there is so much to understand:
"And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." (Ephesians 3:19)
So, another revelation came to me yesterday:
Why did I struggle with temptations, nasty thoughts, bad feelings?
I would fall into this pit of asking myself some really unpleasant questions:
How did I get out of this bad set of emotions last time?
What do I do if I have those bad memories next time?
What will I do tomorrow if I have those illicit desires again?
Those questions are all predicated on this lie: "I have to do something. I have to maintain something" in order to be OK with Daddy God.
That is all wrong. Jesus has completed the work (John 19:30)! There is nothing more that I have to add. If I have a thought, a memory, a painful reflection from the past, it does not matter.
I don't have to do anything about it, because Jesus has already done everything that needs to be done about it! YES! AMEN!
I do not worry about tomorrow or the next day or the next day. He has all those days taken care of. Tomorrow is already cared for because He has promised to be a God to me, based on the New Covenant:
"10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
We can rest assured that He is Our God because "I will be merciful (lit. propitious) to their unrighteousness, and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more."
That is good for good! That is ever in our favor forever! There is nothing more that needs to be added to that. All the questions that used to assault my mind "What are you going to do tomorrow, the next day?" are all answered: "He remembers my sins NO MORE!"
I does not matter if I sin tomorrow, the next day, if I fail tomorrow, the next day.
He is My God, and He is on my side forever ... BECAUSE OF HIS SON JESUS!
BOOM!
All of these verses I have heard and reheard, rehearsed many times over. Now it is made more manifest. It takes time, but He indeed has come through for me. JESUS!
