July 15, 2024
There is indescribable freedom in letting go of a painful past!
We may have been a victim of a terrible injustice, such as abuse, but we don’t need to view ourselves as a victim. We don’t want to let what happened to us in the past dictate how we live our life in the present. We have a choice!
To overcome what happened to us we need determination, looking forward and not back, at how we can use the trials we have been through to bring good that will benefit not only ourselves but others.
God allows us to go through trials for a reason. View them as challenges. Try to figure out what the reason is. See if you can recognize God’s purpose and benefit to your relationship with Him.
Remember, we are not defined by what we’ve been through, or by who we used to be. We are defined by who God says we are now. If we have surrendered ourself to the Lord, then we have been made new in Christ! (2 Corinthians 5:17 ). We are no longer victims. We are victors and we are wearing His robe of righteousness.
Are you choosing to become the man or woman God made you to be?