Daily Devotions

Maybe your past isn’t much to brag about. Maybe you’ve seen raw evil. And now you have to make a choice. Do you rise above the past and makes difference? Or do you remain controlled by the past and make excuses?
Many choose the convalescent homes of the heart. Healthy bodies. Sharp minds. But retired dreams. Back and forth they rock in the chair of regret, repeating the terms of surrender. Lean closely and you will hear them say: “If only.”
“If only I’d been born somewhere else…”
“If only I’d been treated fairly…”
“If only I’d been born into a different family…”
“If only I’d had different friends…”
“If only I’d married someone else…”
Maybe you’ve used those words yourself, “If only…” Maybe you have every right to use them. If such is the case, go to John’s gospel and read Jesus’ words in chapter 3, verse 6. There Jesus is talking to Nicodemus. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
Paul the apostle wrote in Galatians 4:7, “Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.”
If that’s true of you, you no longer have to live in the “If only’s” of your past. Live in the new life you have in Christ.