Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Day #13
Acts 3:19 "Repent and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord." One of the things the Lord has been teaching me, as He has been taking me through a process of healing, is that I have such a part in the emotional pain I have suffered. When yucky stuff happens to us, we are extra vulnerable to responding in sinful ways, and unfortunately for us, that sin causes already painful things to be even more painful. I am seeing that most of the healing God does in my heart is when I allow him to show me my part in it (the part I have control over), take responsibility (admit that I was wrong) and ask for forgiveness. Wow, it is amazing the relief I have experience... TIMES OF REFRESHING.
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I had to confess with this lesson that I don't think of repentence as a refreshing thing. If I am gut-level honest with myself, I think of it in humbling, loss-of-control terms. Had some dialogue with Jesus about that and asked Him to get my heart in line with HIS idea of repentence instead of my skewed version.
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