Isaiah 43:18-19 - “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. (NIV)
The civil rights movement of your life
With many people struggling because of the recession which prompts other issues to appear. However, there are many people just struggling because of life from spiritual to personal to relational to career to just coming to peace with who we are. What I am talking about? The civil rights movement itself was about fundamental issues of freedom, respect, dignity, and economic and social equality. While the civil rights movement of your life is characterize with similar things – freedom to live your truth, fundamental respect we all desire (from self and others), and to own we have worth. Many are fighting to sustain. As we battle the old not working any longer for you, and to progressively move forward but not sure. One season has past, and much of what is connected to it is past its usefulness; yet we do not see it. Do not get me wrong there is an order for discarding - things, people, habits, and mindsets. However, I want you to know it is okay to say, I moved on and although I am appreciative of all I gained here, I am done here. It is okay, and I am okay for being done. We do not perceive the way because our fear of what societal and tradition norms dictate. But God tells us over and over again and we fail to believe – Phil. 1:6 -being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus (NIV). So, never be uncomfortable being thankful but saying goodbye. Because some experiences that look like failure and disappointments are actually lessons learned for your future progression. This is just a glimpse of what is yet to come. And no, it has nothing to do lack but growth as the art of forgiveness is learned and science of faith embraced.
For too many times, we do not let go because it is difficult. We are not willing to let go what God has already said was over, or for it or them to be gone. We won't let go, so we struggle. We fail to see we have done this very thing our entire life sometimes unintentional, other intentional, while still other times it is part of our seamless unconscious habit. It seems to part of the natural progression we had no control over, thus it was accepted; but it is not. But what is required is a competence of God that allows us to move forward by trusting and obeying, even when it is one of the most difficult things we must do. Why!? He sees life in its totality, the beginning, the middle, the end, and knows our faults and weakness. He creates an individualize chronological timeline for each of our life. We choose, the relationships with God, or relation- slips with man. The latter has a slippery slope void of absolute true promise guarantees, while the former is the direct opposite. Going through, submitting, only way of going thru to get to with the least amount of mistakes.
So, if you don't have the best answer, then the right question to find your way always yields direction. But remember, you do not get to be offensive, be intrusive to others as you grow through this. Your civil rights movement for your life requires you to do so without violence, unforgiveness, or retaliation, and act in the defensive but the focus should be love because it draws…Choose this day, who you will serve….
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