8 Tools for Starting Over
Everything can’t be fixed in the middle. A new year means a
new start and you have to be willing to begin again in order to get things
right. It’s easy to say things are going to be different from here on out but
it takes strength and courage to find out why they went wrong. Life is full of
lessons learned and strength obtained. We mature in Christ when we take the new
knowledge and strength that we have to start over, to begin again. A New Year
is not just new because the calendar, it’s new because you make it new. When I
decided to truly surrender to God, I had to give up the ideas of what I thought
my life should be so I could make room for what God had created me to do. I had
to start over!
For my 1st blog of 2014, I’ve decided to provide
you with a few tools to help you do the same:
1. Give God a real “YES”: This will change the
direction of your life. When you start living for God, you can appreciate the
sacrifice He made for you to do so. A yes to God is not about the denomination
you claim but about the surrender in your heart. When you’ve given Him all of
you, the rest of these steps become part of your relationship with Him.
2. Live like you’re dying: Choosing to let God love
you is your second opportunity at living. You no longer have to live a life
with regrets when you become sold out to Him. There is nothing you won’t do for
your life to bring God glory.
3. Love without limits: The greatest commandment
gives us is for us to love Him above else and then it’s to love others the same
way we love ourselves (Mark 12:30-31). The mistakes we’ve made in life are
because we weren’t living from a place of love. I dare you to take the limits
off of who and how you love.
4. Forgive yourself: God didn’t make you perfect,
but He perfectly made you. The decisions you made led you RIGHT HERE, to this
point, where you’re looking for Him. A mistake is only a mistake if you didn’t
learn anything from it. Even those bad things in your life led you straight to
the feet of Jesus. Loose yourself from the chains of condemnation.
5. Forgive others: You cannot start new carrying
around old baggage. Your future is too omportant to hold yourself hostage by
the hurt of your past. The only person being held captive by your unforgiveness
is you.
6. Open your eyes: God is always doing a new thing
in us and for us. We just have to open our eyes to see it (not just naturally,
but spiritually too). He’s been waiting for us to start over so He can show us
why He created us.
7. Walk in purpose: God doesn’t clean you up and remove
the scales from your eyes just for you. There is a purpose that He has in mind
just for you (Ephesians 1:11). There is a need the world has that only you can
fill. You can’t walk in purpose pretending to be someone else, you have to be
yourself…unapologetically.
8. LIVE: God didn’t send Jesus to die for your sins
for you to crawl into a hole and die. He sent Him so that you could have a more
abundant life. You should be living so loudly that are other people are drawn
to Christ solely by watching you live for Him.
There is no cookie-cutter formula to happiness, wealth, or
marriage. But you always have an opportunity to start over when you get it
wrong. When you serve a God who pursues you, He will allow you to get to a
place where your surrender is what will change your life. More than anything
God wants your heart, and if He has to get you start over to get it…He’ll take
that.
Mrs. Truscott
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